
July Recap: What We’re Reading at Health & Medicine
August 4, 2022
Each month, Health & Medicine staff gather articles and other readings we find important, helpful, and informative to our work. Read below for a recap of July’s resources:
- WBEZ Chicago: From police raids to reproductive justice, abortion history in Illinois is long and bumpy
- Chicago Tribune: Gov. J.B. Pritzker calls special legislative session on reproductive rights as Roe decision reverberates through Illinois politics
- JPHMP Direct: What should public health and health department professionals do in preparation for Roe v. Wade falling?
- Crain’s Chicago Business: Crain’s Forum on Climate Migrants
- The Guardian: We Americans are dancing on the Titanic. Our iceberg is not far away
- Ford Foundation: Our response to the reversal of Roe v. Wade
- HuffPost: The Fall Of Roe Will Hurt Abortion Access In Blue States, Too
- New York Times: Illinois Abortion Clinics Prepare for Rush of Patients After Roe
- Academia: The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society
- The Nation: Warning: This Supreme Court Is Hazardous to Your Health
- Chicago Sun Times: Lightfoot vows to expand paid parental leave for city workers, conduct ‘pay equity’ audit
- Chicago Mag: Op-Ed: Chicago’s Bitter Pill of Violence
- ProPublica: Ken Griffin Spent $54 Million Fighting a Tax Increase for the Rich. Secret IRS Data Shows It Paid Off for Him.
- Better Government Association: The Failures Before the Fires
- New York Times: How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
- medRxiv: Missing Americans: Early Death in the United States, 1933-2021
- Block Club Chicago: Violent Crime ‘The Top Health Concern’ For Surveyed South Siders, UChicago Study Finds
- Chicago Sun Times: Boom, not bust? Illinois undercounted in 2020 census, actually grew to 13 million — largest population ever
- The Guardian: Revealed: US cities refusing to replace toxic lead water pipes unless residents pay
- New York Times: Endemic Covid-19 Looks Pretty Brutal
- The Atlantic: America Was in an Early-Death Crisis Long Before COVID
- The Atlantic: Of Course Biden Has COVID
- NPR: Conservative blocs unleash wave of litigation to curb public health powers
- New York Times: What Will Happen if Doctors Defy the Law to Provide Abortions?
- New York Times: After New Abortion Laws, Some Patients Have Trouble Obtaining Miscarriage Treatment
- New York Times: Why a Middle-Class Lifestyle Remains Out of Reach for So Many
- New York Times: Who Gets Abortions in America?