“People living in poverty are significantly more likely to suffer an injury than the wealthy”, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The health sector has a major role in addressing these health inequities and in preventing injuries and violence, through collecting data, developing policies, providing services and programming for prevention and care, building capacities, and advocating for greater attention to underserved communities”. Injuries overview In Preventing injuries and violence: an overview, WHO reveals that road traffic injuries, homicide and suicide, are three of the top five causes of death among people aged five to 29. …
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At Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, the psychiatric unit is “usually at capacity,” according to a resident doctor. At Interfaith Medical Center in northeast Brooklyn, where the electronic medical records system has been offline for more than two weeks, the psychiatric unit is “almost full” of patients on a daily basis, according to a nurse. That was before Mayor Eric Adams last week announced measures to make it easier for emergency responders to bring people with serious mental illness to the hospital involuntarily. Psychiatric nurses and medical residents who spoke with THE CITY say the number of nurses and other workers…
SAN DIEGO — If it were any other year before this one, the Washington Nationals would have entered the offseason knowing they held the top pick in next year’s MLB draft. But for the first time — unluckily for the Nationals — MLB instituted a lottery, under the terms of the new collective bargaining agreement, in an attempt to reduce the incentive for teams to tank.On Tuesday, the Nationals landed the No. 2 pick in the 2023 draft instead. They lost out to the Pittsburgh Pirates who, despite finishing this past season with the third-worst record in the major leagues,…
The Pentagon is preparing to resume full ground operations alongside Kurdish partners in northern Syria, officials said Tuesday, a move that risks further inflaming relations with NATO ally Turkey, which blames the Kurds for a deadly bombing in Istanbul last month and has threatened a ground assault in retaliation.U.S. commanders restricted such movements after Turkey unleashed air and artillery strikes on the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which in tandem with American military personnel have kept a check on the Islamic State’s lingering presence in the region. The two groups have carried out only limited joint movements in recent days, to…
Jim Stewart, a part-time fiddle player who became a soul music hitmaker as the co-founder of Stax Records, the trailblazing Memphis label that helped launch the careers of 1960s and ’70s artists including Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave and the Staple Singers, died Dec. 5 at a hospital in Memphis. He was 92.His death was confirmed by Tim Sampson, a spokesman for the Soulsville Foundation, which operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis. He said that Mr. Stewart had been ill but did not cite a specific cause.As an executive, producer and engineer, Mr. Stewart…
Thousands of delegates have gathered in Montreal, Canada, for a once-in-a-decade chance to address the accelerating pace of species loss and the dangers of ecosystem breakdown. COP15 brings together parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) with a goal of negotiating this decade’s biodiversity targets and a new global framework for biodiversity protection. The summit risks being overshadowed by the recently concluded COP27 on climate change, but the issues are linked and the importance of biodiversity protection cannot be overstated. About one million plant and animal species are at risk of extinction. Not only are our activities driving…
Progressive U.S. lawmakers joined climate activists for a Tuesday rally in Washington, D.C. to oppose to Sen. Joe Manchin’s proposed industry-friendly fossil fuel permitting modifications, the so-called “dirty side deal” the West Virginia Democrat and his party’s leaders want to include in the next military spending bill.”I refuse to allow our residents in frontline communities to continue to be sacrificed for the fossil fuel industry’s endless greed.”The Washington Post reported Monday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has discussed attaching a version of Manchin’s bill to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith…
SAN DIEGO — Around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, just as San Francisco Giants Manager Gabe Kapler finished his winter meetings session with reporters, word started to spread through the lobby of the Manchester Grand Hyatt that the star of this year’s free agent market had made up his mind. It started with a tweet, quickly retracted, that suggested Aaron Judge was bringing the New York Yankees’ worst-case scenario to bear by signing with the Giants.It persisted despite repeated assurances from Giants CEO Larry Baer, cornered in the hotel driveway, that he had “nothing to report,” despite Kapler insisting he hadn’t heard…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit was expected to remain leader of the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica after snap general elections Tuesday that the main opposition party and its supporters boycotted.Twenty-one of 32 seats in the House of Assembly were up for grabs, with several automatically going to Skerrit’s Dominica Labor Party since the opposition parties did not submit candidates. The remaining nine members are chosen by the assembly or president and two other positions are ex-officio, held by the speaker and attorney general.As of late Tuesday, Skerrit’s party had won 15 seats, according to preliminary…
Disinformation is the common denominator to many of the problems facing our democratic society. Disinformation is the wicked sister of misinformation: the latter happens when someone spreads false information, perhaps unwittingly; the former is a deliberate attempt to deceive by propagating misleading or fabricated facts. We’ve all encountered both in our daily lives, especially over the last three years. Facts matter. Science matters. Expertise matters. The mission of The Conversation is simple: Share knowledge in order to help people make informed decisions. Our team of editors work with hundreds of academics from universities across Canada to tap into their research…