Tag Archives | Public Health

Institutional COVID denial has killed public health as we knew it. Prepare to lose several centuries of progress.

Originally published: The Gauntlet on January 24, 2024 by Julia Doubleday (more by The Gauntlet) (Posted Feb 03, 2024)

Public health cannot be individualized. Abandoning collective approaches to disease mitigation is a recipe for disaster.
Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems

Originally published: Mongabay on October 9, 2023 by Claire Asher (more by Mongabay) | (Posted Oct 10, 2023)

An estimated 12 million metric tons of plastic currently enters the ocean each year.
How Cuba is eradicating child mortality and banishing the diseases of the poor

Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 8, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch) |

The drastic reduction in infant mortality rates is yet another testimony to the Cuban Revolution’s attention to the health of the country’s population.
Capitalism, Climate Change, and Pandemic: Rob Wallace, Mike Davis, and Sabrina Fernandes

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Join us and Fórum Popular da Natureza on Friday, June 5, at 6 pm ET/5 pm CT, for a conversation with Monthly Review author Rob Wallace, Mike Davis, and Sabrina Fernandes about capitalism, climate catastrophe, and pandemics. The event will be in English with simultaneous translation in Portuguese. To find out more, check out the Facebook […]