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Mashup Score: 21Planetary Health Aims to Help Humans by Helping Earth | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 10 day(s) ago
The damage humans have done to the Earth is coming back to harm us.
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Mashup Score: 28Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 11 day(s) ago
Protecting Health, Saving Lives—Millions at a Time
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Mashup Score: 0Study Finds Inequalities in Acute-Care Hospital Admissions of Black Medicare Patients | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 12 day(s) ago
The analysis suggests racial sorting in U.S. hospital admissions exists independent of neighborhood demographics.
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Mashup Score: 4Michelle Ogunwole Aims to Rectify Disparities in Black Maternal Health | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity - 18 day(s) ago
Serena Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD thinks the fact that Black women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women is an injustice worthy of outrage. The internal medicine physician and faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity is devoting her career to channeling that anger into her research to find solutions. “A lot of people probably know by now that there are stark disparities in maternal health outcomes in the United States,” Ogunwole said,
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Mashup Score: 23What’s Happening With Dairy Cows and Bird Flu | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 21 day(s) ago
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been found in dairy cows, raising concerns among scientists about what the spillover could mean for humans—and whether the virus has pandemic potential.
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Mashup Score: 198
The School has held the #1 spot since the rankings began in 1994. The School has also been named by peers as a leader in five specialty areas within public health also rated this year.
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Mashup Score: 1Why is Syphilis Spiking in the U.S.? | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 1 month(s) ago
A decline in screening and spending is driving the rise of this potentially devastating STI.
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Endemic in over 127 countries, dengue poses a significant threat to public health in many regions of the globe—particularly those with an abundance of mosquitoes and a scarcity of health care access.
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Mashup Score: 8Addressing Alcohol Use as Risk Factor for Gun Violence | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - 1 month(s) ago
Few policy attempts have been made to address alcohol use as a risk factor for gun violence. A new report provides recommendations that could help.
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Mashup Score: 31
Researchers analyzed results from nearly 40,000 households participating in a voluntary tap-water test program run by the city.
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"Planetary health is a cross-disciplinary field that has emerged in the last eight or nine years. It focuses on how our transformation of nature—our degradation and alteration of all of our planet's natural systems—is coming back to affect our health." https://t.co/V2bq4LlcqN