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United Way panel discussion tackled health equity, pushing health care workers to higher standard

UPMC Lititz doctors take a knee against racism, honor anniversary of George Floyd s death | Health

Others wiped away tears. And still others made phone calls to senators imploring them to support the U.S. House-passed George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. All did so in Lancaster County to remember George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man murdered by a white police officer. Tuesday marked one-year since former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck, setting off a summer of international outrage and protests. “George Floyd is not a martyr,” Dr. Sharee Livingston, chair of the OB-GYN department at UPMC Lititz, told the dozen or so doctors who gathered on the hospital’s front lawn Tuesday afternoon. “He wanted to go home to his family that day.”

5 takeaways from women in health having a conversation about public health

Here are five takeaways: — A Franklin & Marshall College survey found 90% of Lancaster County adults in every group polled — regardless of political affiliation, racial or income attainment — support forming a local health department. Jennifer Meyer, a government and public health professor and F&M researcher who presented the results of the public opinion poll called the support “universal and “high levels of demand for a public health department. — Support for a public health department was not a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and having a local authority could provide data on pressing health issues such as child lead poisoning, which can damage the brain and nervous system, lower IQs. A 2017 Princeton University and Brown University study found increased blood lead levels raised the probability of incarceration by 27% to 74%.

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