Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 33 of 2023.
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“Countries worldwide need to reexamine the evidence and make community health workers a more central and sustainable part of their health systems,” write Chen Chen and
“Despite spending far more in health care per capita than any other country, life expectancy is falling in the U.S. This is NOT inevitable – many of these deaths are preventable.”
About a quarter (24%) of adults say that they use social media at least weekly to find health information or advice. But fewer than one in ten say they have a lot of trust in health information if they saw it on any of the social media sources listed below.
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