It’s September! That means it’s our blogiversary =) This month marks the 10-year anniversary (blogiversary) of The Medical Care Blog, where we focus on the intersection of public health and medical care. To celebrate this milestone, we are dedicating this month’s podcast to a blog-focused episode featuring special guests Greg Stevens and Ben King, co-editors… Read More » Author information Lisa M. Lines Senior health services researcher at RTI International Lisa M. Lines, PhD, MPH is a senior health services researcher at RTI International, an independent, non-profit research institute. S ..read more

This post was originally published on KFF Health News. It is published with open permission by that site. Measles is on the rise in the United States. In the first quarter of this year, the number of cases was about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each of the four… Read More » The post 4 Ways Vaccine Skeptics Mislead You on Measles and More appeared first on The Medical Care Blog ..read more

*This post was originally published on KFF Health News. It is published with open permission by that site.* When Vice President Kamala Harris walked across the debate stage Tuesday night to shake the hand of former President Donald Trump, it was the first time the two had met in person. But that was the rare… Read More » The post Trump, Harris Spar Over Abortion Rights and Obamacare in Their First Face-Off appeared first on The Medical Care Blog ..read more

Caring about the environment can feel like an uphill battle, where our individual efforts can seem small against the colossal issue of climate change. But working together–being just a little less of an individual in this battle–can feel uplifting and make a more significant difference. Environmental activist and author, Bill McKibben, joined Cal State LA’s… Read More » Author information Naeomi Chin Naeomi Chin is a recent graduate at the California State University of Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health. She is a former Cancer Research Intern at the Computational Biom ..read more

“Love your community” was the overriding message from East Side Los Angeles-based community environmental activist mark! Lopez. mark! [spelled as written] was the third guest of the Cal State LA Public Health Department’s annual Book Read project. Love, he said, is the first concrete step that anybody can take to help protect and support their community.… Read More » Author information Jade Hernandez Jade Hernandez (She/Her) is a former undergraduate student at California State University, Los Angeles, where she earned a B.S. in Public Health, served as treasurer for the Public Health ..read more

How can we understand the local impact of climate change on our communities, now and in the future? All year, we are keeping up our focus on the climate crisis here on the blog and podcast. One of the biggest issues with understanding the impact of climate change is that the data on climate-related deaths… Read More » Author information Lisa M. Lines Senior health services researcher at RTI International Lisa M. Lines, PhD, MPH is a senior health services researcher at RTI International, an independent, non-profit research institute. She is also an Assistant Professor in Population and Qu ..read more

Every little bit helps.  That is one of the key messages from our conversations on public health, climate change and hope with climate journalists Sammy Roth and Caleigh Wells. Each visited California State University Los Angeles as part of our Department of Public Health’s annual book read. All faculty and students in the department received… Read More » Author information Evelyn Alvarez Professor at Cal State LA Dr. Evelyn Alvarez, MPH is a first generation college graduate who recently completed a PhD in environmental health science at UCLA where she focused on the hospital enviro ..read more

Climate change is a global killer, contributing to over 5 million deaths annually. Extreme temperatures and weather not only worsen chronic health conditions but can lead to new physical and mental health issues. Primary care providers are already facing challenges with managing climate-driven health problems, and are certain to face more. For my primary care… Read More » Author information Chrystal Pristell Dr. Chrystal Pristell is currently a Robert L. Phillips Health Policy Fellow at the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). She is a ..read more

Consolidation, broadly, and private equity, specifically, is threatening the survival of primary care. Because of its life-extending, quality-improving, cost-reducing, and equity-promoting benefits, primary care has been declared a common good, worthy of the public stewardship and investment provided to the justice system, highways, and public schools. Through its core functions – coordination, comprehensiveness, access, and… Read More » Author information Winston Liaw Winston Liaw is a family physician, health services researcher, and the Chair of Health Systems and Population Health Scie ..read more

Summer is here, and what summer is complete without some time at the beach? But there’s a catch: our health and the ocean’s health are connected in some surprising ways. Beach closures in summer — from algal blooms and red tides, for example — are just one of the ways that the ocean’s health can affect human health. Another is evident this summer, as we see extremely warm ocean temperatures for a second year. Now we have just witnessed Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-forming Category 5 Atlantic hurricane on record. This month, we talk with Emily Parker, a marine scientist and advocate with Heal ..read more