by Rebecca Laes-Kushner | Jun 3, 2020 | criminal justice, jail, mental health, mental illness, prison
Jun 3, 2020 Recidivism dropped from 80% to 25%. Arrests have fallen from 118’000 to 56’000 a year. Jails are closing. The Miami-Dade (Florida, US) Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP) works with people who have committed crimes and have a mental...
by Rebecca Laes-Kushner | May 19, 2020 | health care, policy, public health
19 May 2020 This blog is an excerpt from my new article, Public Health Priorities: the importance of public health. You can also see my presentation for European Public Health Week 2020 on this subject. COVID-19 has focused attention on global public health...
by Rebecca Laes-Kushner | Apr 18, 2020 | rape, Vergewaltigung
18 April 2021 Vergewaltigung ist eine erfolgreiche Straftat in der Schweiz, laut Kriminalitätsstatistiken. Und wie der Tages Anzeiger beschreibt1, wurden in der Schweiz durchschnittlich nur 22,8 Prozent der Beschuldigten verurteilt. Der Unterschied zwischen Kantonen...
by Rebecca Laes-Kushner | Feb 18, 2020 | health care, health insurance, SDH, social determinants of health
Taken from my article on social determinants of health: Sicker people cost more in health care resources. How do we equitably pay for their care? It would be immoral (not to mention illegal in many places) to charge people premiums based on their actual costs. One...
by Rebecca Laes-Kushner | Feb 11, 2020 | climate change, environment
What are you willing to sacrifice for the environment? Your time? Money? Convenience? Choice? If environmentally-friendly options were as cheap, convenient and attractive as non-sustainable choices, we’d be choosing the better options without a fuss. Instead, we...
