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Policing Is a Public Health Issue: The Important Role of Health …

(3 days ago) WEBLaw Enforcement Practices as a Public Health Issue. Policing practices have profound implications for death and illness, including direct and indirect physical and mental harm, and violent practices that disproportionately target and harm Black, Indigenous, and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8807347/

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Policing with a public health lens – Moving towards an …

(3 days ago) WEBAs a final point, when adopting a public health model, this will also allow policing organizations to offer health-oriented strategies …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0032258X211009577

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Policing and Public Health - International Association of Chiefs of …

(6 days ago) WEBThese threats are driven by complex and interwoven societal problems. Police and public health practitioners are responding to many of the same issues: violence, mental …

https://www.theiacp.org/publichealth

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Decoupling Crisis Response from Policing — A Step Toward …

(1 days ago) WEBPolice responses to psychiatric crises harm patients far too often, especially in minority communities, where a long history of institutional racism informs warranted …

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2035710

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The role of police enforcement in public health emergencies

(3 days ago) WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic, which has lasted for nearly 3 years, has killed millions of people worldwide. Globally, during this public health emergency of international concern, the …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00218-0/fulltext

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Law Enforcement With a Public Health Lens

(7 days ago) WEBThis summer, the department began a pilot program diverting behavioral health-related 911 calls from police to a 24-hour hotline staffed with clinicians. …

https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/law-enforcement-public-health-lens

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Why police brutality is a matter of public health

(6 days ago) WEBPhysicians’ responsibility to act. Dr. Maybank argued that police brutality is a public health issue. “People are dying. That’s our business, whether they are dying through a slow violence, such as …

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/why-police-brutality-matter-public-health

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Neighborhood Police Encounters, Health, And Violence - Health …

(Just Now) WEBRacial/ethnic disparities in the use of lethal force by US police, 2010–2014. Am J Public Health. Unfair police treatment and sleep problems among a national …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01428

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Police Research and Public Health SpringerLink

(4 days ago) WEBThe crossover between law enforcement and public health, termed as LEPH , is attracting academic and practitioner interest in recent years (Punch and …

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-10-5251-4_138

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Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue

(6 days ago) WEBPrevalence, impacts, and inequities: Law enforcement violence is a critical public health issue. Consistent with domains of violence defined by the World Health …

https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2019/01/29/law-enforcement-violence

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APHA calls out police violence as a public health crisis

(4 days ago) WEBContact APHA Media Relations, 202-777-3913. A statement from APHA Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD. The American Public Health Association …

https://www.apha.org/news-and-media/news-releases/apha-news-releases/2020/apha-calls-out-police-violence

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Fighting Police Trauma: Practical Approaches to Addressing

(2 days ago) WEBTherefore, stress or trauma-related issues may become detrimental for male police officers mental and physical health (Addis & Mahalik, 2003; Lindinger …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244018794794

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Mental crisis calls to police can be deadly. Cities try new ways to

(4 days ago) WEBAbout 1 in 5 people killed by police since 2015 were having a mental health crisis. Like other cities, Philadelphia is trying a new approach: sending along social …

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/11/09/1203342875/cities-know-the-way-police-respond-to-mental-crisis-calls-needs-to-change-but-ho

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Police, violence, and social justice: A call for research and

(2 days ago) WEBObjective: Black people compose 13% of the U.S. population but 23% of fatal police shootings (McLeod et al., 2020). Numerous studies have documented the negative …

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2022-82060-001.html

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Public health and police: Building ethical and equitable opioid

(8 days ago) WEBThe opioid overdose epidemic remains a profound public health crisis in the United States, killing more than 500,000 people between 1999 and 2020 (1, 2).The …

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118235118

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Why Public Health Faces a Crisis Across the U.S. - The New York …

(8 days ago) WEBThe Times interviewed more than 140 local health officials, public health experts and lawmakers, reviewed new state laws, analyzed local government …

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/us/coronavirus-public-health.html

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Issues in Law Enforcement Reform: Responding to Mental …

(2 days ago) WEBIssues in Law Enforcement Reform: Responding to Mental Health Crises Congressional Research Service 1 aw enforcement officers1 are frequently the first …

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47285

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Violence, Stress, Scrutiny Weigh On Police Mental Health

(Just Now) WEBLast year’s events have left another mark. Early data suggest that burnout and depression are rising among police officers, says John Violanti, a professor of …

https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/06/14/violence-stress-scrutiny-weigh-on-police-mental-health

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Why Police Brutality Is a Public Health Issue SELF

(3 days ago) WEBPolice brutality directly causes death and injury. The most direct connection between police violence and public health is the fact that police violence kills people. …

https://www.self.com/story/police-brutality-public-health-issue

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Rethinking How Police Respond to Homelessness RAND

(Just Now) WEBThe National Institute of Justice funded the research as part of its multiyear contract with RAND to study issues in criminal justice. It responded to the findings by …

https://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2021/rethinking-how-police-respond-to-homelessness.html

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Judicial Decisions Constraining Public Health Powers During …

(Just Now) WEBThe legal infrastructure—the laws that empower public health officials—is a critical dimension of the public health system. 1, 2 During the COVID-19 pandemic, …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2024.00073

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The problems, risks facing the U.S. government, according to GAO

(7 days ago) WEBThe latest list, released in early 2023, has 37 recommended action items with three added since 2021: management of public health emergencies, the potential …

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/16/federal-government-accountability-office-high-risk-list/

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About Adverse Childhood Experiences Adverse Childhood …

(1 days ago) WEBOutcomes. ACEs can have lasting effects on health and well-being in childhood and life opportunities well into adulthood. 9 Life opportunities include things …

https://www.cdc.gov/aces/about/index.html

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North Carolina lawmakers push bill to ban most public mask …

(Just Now) WEBThis strikethrough would return public masking rules to their pre-pandemic form, which were created in 1953 to address a different issue: limiting Ku Klux Klan …

https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-masks-covid-protests-gaza-7da0c5dd3ee1a59f9482e709bf4b3300

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Mental health leaders discuss importance of telemedicine services

(5 days ago) WEBBLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - May is Mental Health Awareness Month and mental health leaders are encouraging more people to reach out for telemedicine …

https://www.wvva.com/2024/05/24/mental-health-leaders-discuss-importance-telemedicine-services/

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Alabama Department of Public Health announces implementation …

(5 days ago) WEBMONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The Alabama Department of Public Health(ADPH) has announced that they are implementing a new maternal autopsy …

https://www.wsfa.com/2024/05/21/alabama-department-public-health-announces-implementation-maternal-autopsy-program/

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Whales Have an Alphabet - The New York Times

(Just Now) WEBFor more audio journalism and storytelling, download New York Times Audio, a new iOS app available for news subscribers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/podcasts/the-daily/whales-song.html

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