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APHA works to improve access to care, bring about health equity and support public health infrastructure. Public health is a broad field. We focus on the most important problems and solutions of our time. Check back often to see what topics and issues we're working on.
Dec 20, 2022 · We turned to our IHME experts for their takes on the most critical health issues to watch in 2023. Entering our fourth year grappling with COVID-19, most of our experts pointed to issues that were impacted in some way by the pandemic, like long COVID and mental health.
Oct 18, 2021 · Public health agencies have seen a staggering exodus of personnel, many exhausted and demoralized, in part because of abuse and threats.
Dec 20, 2022 · COVID-19 in 2022: A Year-End Wrap-Up. Looking back at the biggest public health headlines of the year, from gun violence and reproductive rights to humanitarian and environmental crises. Plus: What to expect in 2023.
Nov 16, 2023 · Our Biggest Health Challenges. Thanks to decades of research, Americans are living longer. Yet Chronic diseases still affect large swaths of the population and are unevenly distributed creating health disparities. These chronic illness are common and costly, and many are preventable.
Dec 24, 2020 · 10 global health issues to track in 2021. 2020 was a devastating year for global health. A previously unknown virus raced around the world, rapidly emerging as one of its top killers, laying bare the inadequacies of health systems. Today, health services in all regions are struggling to both tackle COVID-19, and provide people with vital care.
CDC is the nation's leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public's health. CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S.
Aug 28, 2024 · 07:24 - Source: CNN. CNN —. Parents in the United States are overwhelmed and burned out with the “dizzying pace” of the world, and it’s a public health concern, according to a surgeon ...
Dec 21, 2022 · Famine and conflict threaten the lives and health of millions. In the greater Horn of Africa and the Sahel, climate-related drought and flooding are supercharging a food crisis, and driving outbreaks of cholera, yellow fever, measles and vaccine-derived polio.
Nov 29, 2021 · Public health must strengthen the basics and acknowledge that current failures are the result of broken and underfunded public health systems. We must redefine public health to be more than public policies, but a robust community led effort to detect and suppress emerging outbreaks.