publichealthhist.bsky.social
Exploring how societies around the world have addressed public health issues throughout history.
PHH is a collaborative project compiled by Dr Albie Sharpe, School of Public Health@UTS.
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And then there’s the global academic publishing industry, in which many people from the global south cannot read the very same publications to which they contributed their data, experiences, and insights.
All provided for free for the enrichment of others.
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Actually they forgot to include a dozen or so cancers and other NCDs that vaccines also help to prevent.
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Marida’s response significantly underplays the broader misinformation that RFK spreads about vaccines, including polio and measles, which are crucial.
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Despite being non-binding and the result of an internationally negotiated process, many countries – including Australia, Italy, Hungary and the United States - have refused to sign on.
Calling on governments to support the agreement would be a good way to acknowledge IMD.
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The Global Compact calls on countries to integrate migrants' health needs into healthcare policies by enhancing services for physical and mental health, ensuring equitable access, reducing communication barriers, and training providers in culturally sensitive care.
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Since 2000, there have been important initiatives to protect migrants at the point of departure, during migration and in their host countries. This includes the Global Compact for Migration. Despite this, more migrant deaths and disappearances were reported in 2023 than in any previous year.
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20159872/
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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But what about the less notable? A study by AL-Khafif and colleagues found 56% prevalence of malaria in a study of bones from the Giza bone collection, with no real differences between samples from high officials or ordinary workers. Beer containing tetracycline may have helped alleviate symptoms.
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Genetic testing of mummified remains of Epygtian pharaonic dynasties shows the presence of malaria in 18th dynasty Egypt (1550 to 1292 bc), with some sources suggesting that Tutankhamun himself may have died as a result, and was buried alongside an "afterlife pharmacy" (Hawass et al. 2010).
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www.unaids.org/en/2024-worl...
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The theme of this year's Day, 'Take the rights path,' focuses on remaining human rights challenges related to HIV/AIDS - areas such as gender equality, fostering inclusion of all communities, removing laws and policies that discriminate, ensuring that progress continues. #EndAIDS #HealthForAll 🏳️🌈✊
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From the outset, World AIDS Day was important in remembering those who lost their lives to HIV, promoting prevention efforts, building public awareness and combatting stigma. It also helped to focus advocacy efforts on the right to health: ensuring access to life-saving medications around the world.
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JB Bury’s A History of Greece. I have long been parted from the object of my love, but it was an older edition, if not, the first.
I took it everywhere. What a marvellous writer he was.
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Historically, shorter-termclimate changes due to volcanic eruptions have been cataclysmic for major civilizations. Going back further, they are linked to mass extinction events. It would be much easier and cheaper to pay the bill now than later.
So yes, we do have a pretty good idea.
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Mine’s a video project launching in January.
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Correction: November 26 was Cook’s first siting of Maui. Didn’t land until weeks later.
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Disease is the vanguard of colonisation, and using it to blame the colonised for their situation an important part of the strategy.
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Sounds really interesting. I have a series coming up too.
Let’s be friends!
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See: evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/c...
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www.smithsonianmag.com/history/shut...
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The legacy of this catastrophe for Hawai'i impacted its response to COVID, with calls to ban outside travel to the islands and many local people—and Native Hawaiians in particular—publicly (and not always gently) encouraging visitors to go home & stay away.
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However, others blamed the Hawai'ian Indigenous people for their own misfortunes, citing God's divine judgement: "the heathen around us are wasting away by disease, induced not by the climate, but by their imprudence and vices” - until, of course, they also started getting sick.
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Even at the time, some contemporary commentators recognized that Europeans had brought contagion with them, lamenting that " ...many of their diseases are of European extraction: nay, the natives remark, that with every ship they received a cargo of new diseases..."
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The other crucial factor for public health is exploring the complex interactions between the social determinants and biological ones: the compounding effects of social hierarchies, inequities, colonisation, and access to education on health outcomes.