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Policy Reforms For Dignity, Equality, and Menstrual Health

(9 days ago) WEBCampaigns for tax reforms can, however, broaden public discussion about attitudes and beliefs, helping to raise awareness about menstrual health and eliminate the stigma that surrounds it in many …

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2022/05/25/policy-reforms-for-dignity-equality-and-menstrual-health

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WHO statement on menstrual health and rights

(5 days ago) WEBMenstrual Health is firmly on the global agenda today. Menstrual Health was not on the agenda of the International Conference on the Population and Development or the Millennium Declaration. Nor it is explicitly stated in the Sustainable Development Goals targets for goals 3 (health), 5 (gender equality) or 6 (water and sanitation). …

https://www.who.int/news/item/22-06-2022-who-statement-on-menstrual-health-and-rights

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Menstrual health is a public health and human rights issue

(3 days ago) WEBBefore the COVID-19 pandemic, of the 1·9 billion individuals who menstruate, an estimated 500 million were unable to attain menstrual health.1 Achieving menstrual health is fundamental to the equality, rights, and dignity of all individuals who menstruate. Nonetheless, menstrual health is still not considered a priority by all. As …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(21)00212-7/fulltext

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Menstrual health: a definition for policy, practice, and …

(3 days ago) WEBBox 1. Definition of menstrual health. access accurate, timely, age-appropriate information about the menstrual cycle, menstruation, and changes experienced throughout the life-course, as well as related self-care and hygiene practices. care for their bodies during menstruation such that their preferences, hygiene, comfort, privacy, and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8098749/

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Menstrual health is a public health and human rights issue

(3 days ago) WEBMenstrual health is defined as complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing in relation to the menstrual cycle. 2 This definition reflects the multifaceted nature of menstruation and the many ways the lives of those who menstruate can be affected by their ability to properly manage their menstrual health. Achieving good menstrual …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8552814/

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Menstrual health must be prioritised in global policies

(1 days ago) WEBMenstrual health is the gateway to promoting sexual and reproductive health rights, building body autonomy and self-efficacy, elevating women’s leadership, and improving health literacy. However, its full potential has not been recognised by global leaders, and menstrual health has been omitted from key global conventions. It has …

https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p2109

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Menstrual health is a public health and human rights …

(5 days ago) WEBMenstrual health is defined as complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing in relation to the menstrual cycle.2 This definition reflects the multifaceted nature of menstruation and the many ways the lives of those who menstruate can be afected by their ability to properly manage their menstrual health. Achieving good menstrual health is not

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanpub/PIIS2468-2667(21)00212-7.pdf

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Putting Menstrual Health on the 2030 Agenda United …

(4 days ago) WEBPutting Menstrual Health on the 2030 Agenda. Menstrual Health Management (MHM) is an integral part of every girl's life, but the fact remains that many girls lack access to proper resources to

https://www.un.org/en/academic-impact/putting-menstrual-health-2030-agenda

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High Commissioner for Human Rights statement on …

(1 days ago) WEBHuman Rights Council 50th Session Panel discussion on menstrual hygiene management, human rights and gender equality Excellencies, friends, I am pleased to address you on a topic the Human Rights Council is discussing for the very-first time. In the last decade a vibrant and diverse menstrual movement has emerged across the world. …

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/06/high-commissioner-human-rights-statement-menstrual-health

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Update on Menstrual Equity Policies in the United States

(7 days ago) WEB141 rows · UPDATED 9/2021: When this blog was originally published in January 2021, roughly 20 bills had been introduced to advance period health policies across the United States. There are now more …

https://womensvoices.org/2021/01/11/period-health-policies-is-your-state-working-to-make-menstrual-equity-a-priority/

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The persistent power of stigma: A critical review of policy …

(4 days ago) WEBMenstruation is shrouded in stigma and shame—that is the common refrain in burgeoning initiatives on menstrual health and hygiene. Public policies alone cannot undo stigma and enact social change, but they do interact with social norms. They can reflect and adopt stigmatizing attitudes and, as a result, institutionalize, formalize, and legitimize …

https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0000070

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Guidance on Menstrual Health and Hygiene - UNICEF

(9 days ago) WEBinformed and comfortable professionals, referral and access to health services, sanitation and washing facilities, positive social norms, safe and hygienic disposal and advocacy and policy. A menstruator is a person who menstruates and therefore has menstrual health and hygiene needs – including girls, women, transgender and non-binary persons.

https://www.unicef.org/media/91341/file/UNICEF-Guidance-menstrual-health-hygiene-2019.pdf

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Seeing the colour red: Menstruation in global body politics

(6 days ago) WEBRecent studies of menstrual health document how menstrual activism is bringing menstruation into the framework of sexual and reproductive to the possibility for MAs to develop successful advocacy campaigns to influence policies and tax reforms in the North and South. These actions help to destigmatize menstruation often in public …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2021.2016886

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Period Poverty and Promoting Menstrual Equity Health Policy

(Just Now) WEBInsufficient funding for research on menstrual health has limited our understanding on a range of issues, including the effect of workplace environments that are not conducive to managing periods and improved understanding of adolescents’ experiences seeking care for menstrual disorders. 2 The stigma associated with menstruation perpetuates a

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2783499

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Period poverty and the Equal Rights Amendment: striving for …

(6 days ago) WEBPolicy reforms. The ERA can galvanize policymakers to prioritize initiatives that address period poverty. It can prompt legislation to remove taxes on menstrual products, allocate funding for menstrual health programs, and integrate menstrual equity into broader policies concerning healthcare, education, and labor rights. Education and …

https://www.eracoalition.org/2023/05/25/period-poverty-and-the-equal-rights-amendment-striving-for-menstrual-equity/

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Menstrual Justice Is a Matter of Health Equity: How to Fight Period

(4 days ago) WEBPeriod poverty, as defined by the American Medical Association, is the lack of access to menstrual products and education. Access to menstrual hygiene products is a matter of human dignity. In fact, it is reported that 86% of menstruators have started their period unexpectedly in public without the supplies they need.

https://info.primarycare.hms.harvard.edu/perspectives/articles/fight-period-poverty-and-stigma

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Global Health & Gender Policy Brief: Menstrual Health and …

(6 days ago) WEBOf the 1.8 billion people who menstruate each month, 500 million are unable to adequately manage menstruation, leading to health, economic, and safety concerns. Menstruation remains a taboo topic that is often overlooked within health sectors. But recent attention from global health, international development, women’s empowerment, and …

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/global-health-gender-policy-brief-menstrual-health-and-management

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Menstrual Health and Hygiene Resource Package - World Bank

(5 days ago) WEBWorld Bank Group Instruments for Policy Reforms 28. Tool 4: Examples of Construction Plans for Female-Friendly Sanitation Facilities 29. Examples of Countries with Tax Policy Reforms 27 6.1. What Is Menstrual Health and Hygiene? 40 6.2. Global Monitoring Tools Related to MHH 42. Figures. 4.1. Interior View of Cubicle 29

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/497961622035770181/pdf/Tools-and-Resources-for-Task-Teams.pdf

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Prison Reforms for Menstrual Equity: A Public Health Policy from …

(Just Now) WEBEthan Johanson is the Co-Director of Public Health Policy at the Greater Good Initiative. He is a first-year student at Georgetown University and writes for The Hoya, Georgetown's student newspaper. Ethan enjoys programming, reading, and playing basketball in his free time. Prison Reforms for Increased Menstrual Equity

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The Enabling Environment for Menstrual Health and Hygiene

(7 days ago) WEBthe first countries to have introduced tax reforms on menstrual hygiene products in an effort to make such products more afford-able. Despite momentum at the national policy level, women and girls in Kenya continue to face significant challenges in ade-quately and safely managing their menstrual health and hygiene.

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Why CA sex education needs to include menstrual health Opinion

(4 days ago) WEBDemocrat, State Assembly, District 11 (Suisun City) The first-of-its-kind proposal would update 2016’s California Healthy Youth Act to include age-appropriate facts about periods, giving young people the tools we need to understand our bodies and our development. It addresses period stigma, premenstrual syndrome and pain …

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/05/menstrual-health-california-sex-education/

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Healthy Habits: Menstrual Hygiene Water, Sanitation, and

(6 days ago) WEBMenstrual Hygiene Day – May 28. Each year on May 28, Menstrual Hygiene Day is observed to highlight good menstrual hygiene practices during your period and to raise awareness about the importance of access to menstrual products, period education, and sanitation facilities. What you can do. Everyone can participate in Menstrual …

https://www.cdc.gov/hygiene/about/menstrual-hygiene.html

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The Implications of the Public’s Preexisting Condition—Amnesia

(Just Now) WEBIn a February KFF poll, just 39% of adults said they were aware that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions, and only 31% knew that the ACA also prevents sick people from being charged higher premiums than healthy people.Awareness of the ACA’s consumer …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2819062

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Measuring Primary Care Spending in the US by State Health …

(Just Now) WEBNine states reported estimates of primary care spending as a percentage of total health care spending ().Maine, Utah, Virginia, and Washington used different narrow definitions of primary care; their estimates ranged from 3.1% to 6.1% of total spending.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2818721

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Menstrual health: a definition for policy, practice, and research

(6 days ago) WEBAbstract. The term “menstrual health” has seen increased use across advocacy, programming, policy, and research, but has lacked a consistent, self-contained definition. As a rapidly growing field of research and practice a comprehensive definition is needed to (1) ensure menstrual health is prioritised as a unified objective in global

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2021.1911618

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Private equity in health care: three takeaways going forward

(9 days ago) WEBThree takeaways are: (1) Health care reimbursement is finite. The goal of short-term investments in providers that depend on third party reimbursement is a hard nut to crack and will be watched

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/private-equity-health-care-three-takeaways-going-forward-2024-05-09/

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California health leaders recommend improvements to increase …

(5 days ago) WEBHealthcare leaders met at the 2024 Northern California State of Reform Health Policy Conference to discuss barriers to accessing the state’s behavioral healthcare delivery system, and recommended improvements. Moisés Barón, former president and CEO at the San Diego Center for Children and former president of the California Alliance …

https://stateofreform.com/california/2024/05/california-health-leaders-recommend-improvements-to-increase-behavioral-healthcare-access/

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Biden Signs Sweeping Aviation Safety, Reform Bill Into Law

(4 days ago) WEBWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday signed sweeping aviation legislation to boost U.S. air traffic controller staffing, increase funding to avert runway close-call incidents and

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-05-16/biden-signs-sweeping-aviation-safety-reform-bill-into-law

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Stronger tobacco policies, improved access to CPR mark legislative …

(7 days ago) WEBThe tobacco reform bill raises the cost of licenses to sell tobacco to $300, requires annual compliance checks for every license holder, and 6-month inspections for violators of underage sales with the ability to suspend and revoke licenses for repeat violators. Reforms also require all tobacco and nicotine products be sold from behind …

https://newsroom.heart.org/local-news/stronger-tobacco-policies-improved-access-to-cpr-mark-legislative-wins-for-heart-health-in-maryland

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Association of Race With Urine Toxicology Testing Among …

(Just Now) WEBAmong 37 860 patients (100% female; mean [SD] age, 29.8 [5.5] years), 16% Black, 76% were White, and 8% were other race ().Overall, 11% had a history of substance use; opioid use was more common among White patients (40% of all substance use), whereas cannabis use was most common among Black patients (86% of all …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2803729

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Menstrual health: a definition for policy, practice, and research

(7 days ago) WEBMenstrual health: a definition for policy, practice, and research Julie Hennegan ,a Inga T. Winkler ,b Chris Bobel ,c Danielle Keiser ,d Janie Hampton ,e Gerda Larsson ,f Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli ,g Marina Plesons ,h Thérèse Mahon i a Research Fellow, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia; …

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US overhauls electric grid to make way for more renewables

(7 days ago) WEBThe U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday approved the first major electric transmission policy update in over a decade that aims to speed up new interregional lines to move more

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ferc-overhaul-us-electric-transmission-system-2024-05-13/

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Dutton's reply was everything we should expect: a calculated

(9 days ago) WEBEvery budget week, a chorus of voices urges the opposition leader to "put some meat on the bones" of his alternative policy vision for the nation. This year is no different, writes Annabel Crabb.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-16/federal-budget-reply-speech-peter-dutton/103857214

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