Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movement may be getting a jolt from a hostile Supreme Court, whose ruling in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services permits the states to place new restrictions on abortion. "Before Webster," says Susan Carroll, a political scientist with Rutgers University's Center for the American Woman in Politics, "there was a very real assumption, especially among college students, that the battle was over." That assumption is no longer valid...
Moreover, public health is damaged by the lack of trained medical detectives. M.E.s are usually the first to sound the alarm about faulty product design, new diseases or social problems like child abuse. Says Dr. Donald Reay, Seattle's chief medical examiner: "Look how much the public knows about cocaine and firearms. That's because people are dying from drugs and gunshots...
According to the 1988 survey on drug abuse commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, the number of Americans using illicit drugs at least once a month dropped from 23 million in 1985 to 14.5 million last year. Even more striking, the number of cocaine users has dropped an estimated 50%. "Illicit drug use remains much too high," said DHHS Secretary Louis Sullivan. "But the dramatic declines ((show that)) attitudes are changing...
There was apparently no movement on the issues that prompted the strike--chiefly a NYNEX plan to require workers to begin contributing to their health insurance costs--and the two sides were unable to agree on a negotiating format...
White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low in standards of living, health, education, manners and morals. This, in its turn, gives support to white prejudice...