North America

The rights of all citizens are designed to be protected by laws. It is important that all health care professionals understand the relationships that they have with their patients, under the law. This chapter supports WHO SDG3.
Threats from mining to the biodiversity and ecological services of boreal forests are increasing as demand for minerals increases globally. This paper examines how mines affect understory communities
Elsevier,

Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Health Security

COVID-19 and Ensuring Future Pandemic Preparedness in Ireland and the World

2023, Pages 3-17

Future global health crises should, wherever possible, be managed in a bipartisan way, mindful of the divides they create, supporting SDG3.
This article ties to SDG 3. This study aimed to identify assessment and referral practices of emergency departments at rural community hospitals related to care for suicidal veterans and explore the feasibility and acceptability of identifying veterans in need of postdischarge aftercare.
Abortion access is of utmost importance to community health. It is important to elicit data to support medical education in this topic.
This article supports SDGs 11, 6, and 13 by analyzing the impact of Denver Water's annual energy use and water use alongside local precipitation over a 20-year period from 1995 to 2014 and highlighting the implications for altered energy footprints as water utilities respond to new precipitation patterns in a changing climate.
This Article supports SDGs 3, 5, 10 and 16 by assessing changes in stillbirth rates overall and for Black and White women, finding that there was a substantial racial disparity and suggesting that targeted health and social policies are needed to address this issue.
This is a really interesting paper of the risks that Northwest Atlantic poses on the leatherback turtle, such as plastic bags and rope.
Chen and Holtzman review the emerging roles of both innate and adaptive immunity, their alterations, their interplay, and their contributions to the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. They proposed that targeting dysregulated innate and adaptive immune responses in both brain parenchyma and border structures could lead to important therapeutics for preventing and treating the disease.
Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 17, January 2023, 100408

This viewpoint supports SDGs 3, 5, 10 and 16, focusing on the drivers of Black maternal mortality and advocating the collection of disaggregated data to support improvements in Black maternal health.

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