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are ravaging bodies in Eastern and Southern Africa, a region already containing 25 percent of the world’s malnourished population. Human-made environmental catastrophes disproportionately harming bodies of color are not unusual; for instance, nearly four thousand U.S. areas—mostly poor and non-White—have higher lead poisoning rates than Flint, Mich
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In the end they estimated that the “nasty pest,” as they called it, caused at least an additional seven respiratory and seventeen cardiovascular deaths per year for every 100,000 adults in the affected counties. This translated into roughly 21,000 additional deaths per year—a staggeringly high number. The study team found no relationship between as
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developmental psychology
rob hardy • 2 cards
Ferguson mentioned the age differences. But he didn’t emphasize them. Despite all his charts and graphs, his report never provided the actual number of deaths he expected for people of different ages. Those figures would have shown that the epidemic was hugely concentrated in older people. One person who understood where the real dangers lay was Dr
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Generalist
“All people are of equal worth and the individual should be free to act . . . all people should have an equal chance to realize their efforts. For this to be possible, it is necessary that the major differences between the health of different groups should be reduced. The Committee has chosen not to define what health means. Health is a subjective
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illness, nearly one hundred million people, 25 to 30 percent of the US population, have a mental illness during any one year (Frank & Glied, 2006, pp. 10–11),
Stuart A. Kirk • Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs: 0
Gaslighting
Tara McMullin • 1 card
For a significant percentage of people with mild or transient symptoms, SSRIs are nothing more than very expensive, potentially harmful placebos.