Public Health

How we protect the UK from vector-borne diseases – UK Health Security Agency

Vector-borne diseases - illnesses transmitted to humans by organisms such as mosquitoes and ticks - account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases...

Proposed Legislation to Boycott Opioid Manufacturers Would Undermine the Public Health Response to Opioid Overdose

Over the past year, several bills that would impose novel restrictions on the purchasing of naloxone and other opioid antagonists (medications that reverse opioid...

Racial Equity Impact Assessments: A Valuable, Yet Underutilized, Tool to Address Structural Racism

Structural racism and other forms of discrimination are deeply embedded in laws, policies, and government actions. However, law can also be used to confront...

How factors like your location, job or ethnicity can damage your health – UK Health Security Agency

Health inequalities are avoidable differences in health across our populations. You can suffer health inequalities because of where you were born or live, your...

‘I woke to find a rash all over my body’ – UK Health Security Agency

Saijal Ladd, Prescribing Advisor - Medicines Planning and Operations, NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (ICB), shares her experience of contracting measles at...

What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and how can you help combat it? – UK Health Security Agency

Imagine a world where common infections became life-threatening, because our medicines no longer worked. It might sound like the plot for a dystopian film,...
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