Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Different Takes: US Physicians Are Burned Out; Abuse Victims Suffer High Rate Of Undiagnosed Concussions
The life expectancy of Americans has dropped for two consecutive years. The first year, attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, was consistent with other countries. The second year was not. (Sheldon Jacobson, 10/31)
Research at Ohio鈥檚 domestic violence agencies has shown that over 80 percent of survivors accessing services have experienced some type of abuse that could lead to concussion or another type of brain injury. (Rachel Ramirez, Luke Montgomery and Julianna Nemeth, 10/31)
Amanda Zurawski was losing her baby. Nothing would change that.Still, she had to wait three days to become sick enough, under Texas law, for doctors to intervene. (Bridget Grumet, 10/30)
If you watch the news or follow current events, stories about the youth mental health crisis shape how you think about young people鈥攁nd how young people think about themselves. (Nat Kendall-Taylor and Andrew J. Fuligni, 10/28)
It would be anathema for a health care facility in the U.S. to have a main entrance that鈥檚 not physically accessible to all people. Yet many of their digital front doors block people with disabilities. They need to change that. (Amanda Krupa, Jill B. Roark and Kirsten Barrett, 10/31)
The care that I received is just one small example of the gender-affirming care that cisgender folks receive regularly. We just call it 鈥渉ealth care.鈥 (Justin T. Brown, 10/30)