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1 John 1:1-2:2 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We write this to make our joy complete. 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us. 2 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. 5/12/24 – Pastor Darrell L. Delaney

First Reading: Psalm 133:1-3  Second Reading:  I John 1:1-2:2    Sermon: Christ Makes Us Children of Light  Preaching: Rev. Darrell Delaney  

A new study adds to evidence that obesity is becoming more common in young children in America.一项新的研究进一步证明肥胖在美国幼儿中变得越来越普遍。 The study appeared in the medical publication Pediatrics. 该研究发表在医学出版物《儿科》上。 The findings are similar to other national data, which suggests around 2.5 percent of all preschool-aged children were severely obese during the same period. 研究结果与其他国家数据类似，表明同期所有学龄前儿童中约有 2.5% 患有严重肥胖。 One of the study's writers, Heidi Blanck of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said “We were doing well and now we see this upward trend....We are dismayed at seeing these findings.” 该研究的作者之一、美国疾病控制与预防中心的海蒂·布兰克 (Heidi Blanck) 表示：“我们做得很好，现在我们看到了这种上升趋势……我们对这些发现感到沮丧。” Dismayed is a term that means very worried or disappointed. 沮丧这个词的意思是非常担心或失望。 The study looked at children ages 2 to 4 who took part in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. The program gives healthy foods and other services to preschool-aged children in low-income families. The children were weighed and measured. 该研究以参加妇女、婴儿和儿童 (WIC) 计划的 2 至 4 岁儿童为对象。 该计划为低收入家庭的学龄前儿童提供健康食品和其他服务。 对孩子们进行了称重和测量。 The researchers found that 2.1 percent of kids in the program were severely obese in 2010. Six years later, the rate had dropped to 1.8 percent. But by 2020, it was 2 percent. That amounts to about 33,000 of more than 1.6 million kids in the WIC program. 研究人员发现，2010 年该项目中有 2.1% 的儿童严重肥胖。六年后，这一比例下降至 1.8%。 但到 2020 年，这一比例已降至 2%。 这相当于参与 WIC 计划的超过 160 万儿童中的约 33,000 人。 The study showed major increases in 20 states. California's was the highest at 2.8 percent. There also were large increases in some racial and ethnic groups. The highest rate, about 2.8 percent, was among Hispanic children. 该研究显示 20 个州出现大幅增长。 加利福尼亚州最高，为 2.8%。 一些种族和族裔群体的人数也大幅增加。 比例最高的是西班牙裔儿童，约为 2.8%。 Experts say severe obesity at a very early age is nearly irreversible – meaning the damage is nearly impossible to undo. 专家表示，很小的时候就严重肥胖几乎是不可逆转的，这意味着这种损害几乎无法挽回。 Severe obesity is strongly linked with health problems and an early death. 严重肥胖与健康问题和早逝密切相关。It is not clear why the increase occurred, Blanck said. 布兰克说，目前尚不清楚为什么会出现这种增加。 When WIC obesity rates dropped, some experts suggested 2009 policy changes might be responsible. Those changes took out juice from infant food packages, provided less saturated fat, and tried to make it easier for people to buy fruits and vegetables. 当 WIC 肥胖率下降时，一些专家认为 2009 年的政策变化可能是原因。 这些变化去掉了婴儿食品包装中的果汁，提供了更少的饱和脂肪，并试图让人们更容易购买水果和蔬菜。 The package has not changed. But “the daily hardships that families living in poverty are facing may be harder today than they were 10 years ago, and the slight increases in the WIC package just weren't enough,” said Dr. Sarah Armstrong, a Duke University childhood obesity researcher. 包没有改变。 但杜克大学儿童肥胖症研究员莎拉·阿姆斯特朗博士表示，“贫困家庭如今面临的日常困难可能比 10 年前更加困难，WIC 计划的小幅增加还不够。” 。 The researchers faced difficulties. The number of kids in WIC declined in the past ten years. And the study included 2020, the year the COVID-19 pandemic hit. At the time, fewer parents brought their children in to see doctors. That reduced the amount of complete information available. 研究人员面临着困难。 过去十年，WIC 的孩子数量有所下降。 该研究涵盖了 2020 年，即 COVID-19 大流行爆发的那一年。 当时，带孩子去看医生的家长越来越少。 这减少了可用的完整信息量。 Despite its limitations, it was a “very well done study,” said Deanna Hoelscher, a childhood obesity researcher at the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health. She added, “It gives you a hint of what's going on.” UTHealth 休斯顿公共卫生学院的儿童肥胖研究人员迪安娜·霍尔舍 (Deanna Hoelscher) 表示，尽管存在局限性，但这仍然是一项“非常出色的研究”。 她补充道，“它可以让你了解正在发生的事情。” What has happened since 2020 is not yet known. Some small studies have suggested an increase in childhood obesity — especially during the pandemic. During the pandemic, kids were kept home from schools. Their eating and bedtime schedules were changed and physical activity decreased. 2020年以来发生了什么尚不清楚。 一些小型研究表明，儿童肥胖症有所增加，尤其是在大流行期间。 疫情期间，孩子们被留在家里不上学。 他们的饮食和就寝时间发生了变化，体力活动也减少了。 “We are thinking it's going to get worse,” Hoelscher said.“我们认为情况会变得更糟，”霍尔舍说。

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 As the parent of a 12-year-old child, I know that raising a child is one of the most profound and rewarding experiences of a person's life. It is also shockingly expensive. The high cost of child rearing is particularly difficult for families with limited resources. To help us think through this issue, it is my great pleasure to welcome a colleague here at Duke: Dr. Christina Gibson-Davis, Professor of Public Policy. Christina studies economic inequality, and particularly how it affects families with children. Interview Summary So, let's do a bit of level setting. We often hear words like poverty and wellbeing. For our conversation today, what is poverty in the US and what do we mean by wellbeing? In the US we have a definition of poverty that relies on a certain threshold. Every year the US government publishes a set of thresholds for families that say - if you are below this threshold, then you are poor. If you're above this threshold, then you're not poor. The thresholds are actually based on data from 1963, when the federal government decided it really needed a way to count the number of poor people in this country. Prior to 1963, we really didn't have any way to do that. They looked at how much money people spent on food, and from that number, they derived these poverty thresholds. In 2022, the poverty threshold for a family of four, just to give your listeners some idea, was about $22,000. This means that if you earned $21,999, you were considered poor. But if you earned $22,001, you weren't considered poor. That's what I mean about the threshold and about falling either above or below that threshold in order to determine whether or not you're poor. Thank you, Christina, that's really helpful. It is interesting that the measure of poverty really is centering on food, or at least traditionally has. We'll get back to that in a moment. I want to go back to the question of wellbeing. Could you tell our listeners what you're talking about when you talk about wellbeing? When we talk about wellbeing, we mean things like how healthy kids are, or how they get along with peers, or how they do in school. Basically, it's the way we measure how kids are functioning and whether they're functioning to the best of their ability. It sounds like it's a broad notion that represents all the ways a child is a child, how they move in this world. That's exactly right. It's going to cover a whole bunch of different areas. Everything from health and education to social relationships, to behavior, to delinquency, to how far they get in school. All of that goes into our definition of wellbeing. Great. Thank you for that. I want to now focus a little bit more on children themselves. What does childhood poverty look like in the US? We can have a technical definition of poverty, which is what I alluded to before, but really, that technical definition I don't think paints a very illustrative portrait of what it looks like to be poor in the US. To be poor in the US as a kid means you're growing up in an environment with very low levels of economic resources. You're probably growing up in a household where you're not sure if those economic resources are going to be enough for your family to maintain their home or pay their bills or get enough food. It's a very sort of unstable situation for kids because they may be worried that their parents just don't have enough money. It also sort of affects the kids' outlooks. We know that poor kids tend to have sort of lower aspirations or hopes for the future. Not that they're not hopeful, but they sort of also know that some of the things that they see may be depicted on TV that are open to other kids may not be an option for them; because they simply don't see a path between where they are and how they're going to get there. That is actually pretty sobering. I'd like for you to explain something about households with children, and I noticed that a lot of our conversation is going to not focus on an individual child but about children in household context. So, how does poverty look different for households with children than households without children? Is there a difference? Yes, there's a difference in poverty rates. One of the things that distinguishes poverty in the United States relative to poverty in other Western or developed countries is that we have very, very high rates of child poverty. And one of the biggest risk factors, in fact, for being poor in the United States is being a kid. Kids tend to have higher poverty rates than other groups. Why is that? Well, obviously kids aren't out making money. They're relying on their parents for their financial wellbeing. But it really has to do with the public policy choices that we've made. Your listeners have probably heard of Social Security and Medicaid, and those are two huge programs that make huge differences in the lives of say, people over the age of 65. We really don't have those kinds of corollaries for kids who are poor. And so, when you look at our policy priorities over the past, say half century, they've really been oriented more towards elderly people rather than kids. That's just a policy choice that we have made. Thank you for sharing that. I know in some of the work that you've done, you've also looked at these issues through an equity lens. Can you tell us a little bit more about the wealth inequalities of households with children. And how does that work shape how we should look at child wellbeing? We've been talking up until this point primarily about income, which for most people is the money that they earn through their job. We think about income as the money that flows into your house. There's also this really important concept, which is called wealth. Wealth is a household's assets minus its debts. So, for most households, their primary asset is their house. And then they might have debts because they owe money on their house, or they have medical loans or education loans or things like that. So, wealth in the US is distributed far more unequally than income. In particular, the racial gaps in wealth are staggering. So, in the US, for every dollar of wealth that is held by a white family with children, a black family has less than 1 cent. Again, that's a $1 to less than 1 cent ratio. When you have those kinds of inequities, it's really hard for some families to make a difference in the lives of their kids. We know that wealth really helps, for example, for kids to go to college or to make a successful transition to young adulthood. And when we have these kinds of race-based inequities, it really hampers some of these kids from realizing their full potential. I know we have a number of colleagues like Sandy Darity who work on this racial wealth gap. So, this is a critical topic that has influence on how we need to think about these issues. And that's going to connect a topic that I have worked on, and that's a great interest of our center. It's the topic of food insecurity. Christina, can you help connect childhood poverty to food insecurity? Food insecurity, as many of your listeners may know, is the ability to have enough food for a healthy, active lifestyle. Not surprisingly, being poor puts you at increased risk of being food insecure. It's probably the predominant risk factor for being food insecure. The reason we care about that is because we know that food insecurity has all kinds of detrimental consequences for children. So, we were talking earlier about wellbeing covering a wide range of outcomes. Food insecurity really diminishes kids' wellbeing in many of those areas that we were talking about. Kids who are food insecure are less healthy, they do less well in school, they may have more behavior problems. So, food insecurity is really something that can undermine the life chances of children. I'm interested in now turning our focus to this issue of policy. We're at a policy school and I would like for you to talk a bit about what our current policies are for addressing food insecurity. For children, there are a number of food programs in the US. I would say the three most relevant ones for children are SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Benefits, and WIC, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women and Children. And then there is a free and reduced lunch program. Those programs together really try to address food insufficiency among children. The evidence suggests that they work pretty well. None of them by themselves are going to reduce all food insecurity among kids, but they definitely lessen the levels of food insecurity that kids experience.  There was an article in the "New York Times" about a year ago, the Fall of 2022, and it talked about readjustments to the measure of poverty, and they followed the family out of West Virginia. One of the things they did was they looked at the income that this family received, and it showed that 25% of the total, if you will, resources that came into this family were food-based programs, WIC, SNAP, and School Lunch Program. So, it's an important part of how families with limited resources are able to meet some of their needs. I'm appreciative of you sharing that. I think it's absolutely vital, particularly when you think about families that may be living in places with really high rents. There's been a lot of talk lately about how the cost of housing has gone up, and really these sources of food assistance that they get from the government is just absolutely critical to helping them meet the basic needs of their families. So absolutely, these food assistance programs are just a linchpin of how these families survive. It's interesting now that we're in this moment of debating the Farm Bill, which is the federal program that supports SNAP, how it's important for us to keep in mind that beneficiary of the SNAP program are children and children whose wellbeing can be affected by a program like this. I'm grateful for this conversation. Now, how effective are these policies at reducing food insecurity and addressing child wellbeing? These programs work fairly well. They're not, I would say, large enough or convey enough resources to eradicate levels of food insecurity. I think it's also important for your listeners to know that there is no such thing as a federal food policy. So, we let states set the limits, for example, as to how much they're going to spend on SNAP. This leads to large variations in like the SNAP limits. So, for example, if you live in New York, you get about $100 more in SNAP benefits than if you live in Oklahoma. So, what does this mean? It means that these programs are going to be more effective in some states than in others, simply because of the amount of resources that people may get based on where they live. As we wrap up, I wonder if you have any other points of consideration about policy and how policies that we currently have can actually help us address child wellbeing more effectively. One of the other things that distinguishes the US food policy landscape, if you will, is we also have a relatively large private sector. So, people may be familiar with food banks or other places where they distribute food. And, you know, that's sort of the best and the worst that America has to offer, right? The best is that charitable organizations recognize the importance of providing food for people. And these organizations are very effective at providing meals and groceries, and it's a really important source for these families. But I say it's also the worst because there's a giant need for these private sector places. And because the provision of these private sector food goods can vary depending on where you live or how much money the nonprofit organization has, it can be a very variable source of support for food. So, in some ways, our food policy landscape is kind of a crapshoot, if you will. And that I think that makes it hard for us really to get a handle on childhood food insecurity. Bio Christina M. Gibson-Davis is a professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, with a secondary appointment in sociology. Her research interests center around social and economic differences in family formation patterns. Her current research focuses on the how divergent patterns of family formation affect economic inequality.  

JAMA Pediatrics Editors' Summary by Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH, Editor in Chief, and Alison A. Galbraith, MD, MPH, Associate Editor, for the May 1, 2023, issue. Related Content: Effectiveness of Structured Care Coordination for Children With Medical Complexity Out-of-Pocket Spending for Non–Birth-Related Hospitalizations of Privately Insured US Children, 2017 to 2019

Steven Woolf, MD, MPH (Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine), discusses the ominous implications of the largest increase in US all-cause pediatric mortality rates in at least 50 years (up 20% in 2019-2021). A nation that begins losing its most cherished population—its children—faces a crisis like no other. Also, Sergio Giralt, MD, reviews results from the MarMMa-3 trial, which investigated the safety and efficacy of idecabtagene vicleucel for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. The findings were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. How will this change the treatment landscape for patients with multiple myeloma? Enjoy listening! Additional reading:Woolf SH, Wolf ER, Rivara FP. The New Crisis of Increasing All-Cause Mortality in US Children and Adolescents. JAMA. 2023 Mar 28;329(12):975-976. Rodriguez-Otero P, Ailawadhi S, Arnulf B, Patel K, Cavo M, Nooka AK, Manier S, Callander N, Costa LJ, Vij R, Bahlis NJ, Moreau P, Solomon SR, Delforge M, Berdeja J, Truppel-Hartmann A, Yang Z, Favre-Kontula L, Wu F, Piasecki J, Cook M, Giralt S. Ide-cel or Standard Regimens in Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma. N Engl J Med. 2023 Mar 16;388(11):1002-1014. Let us know what you thought of this week's episode on Twitter: @physicianswkly Want to share your medical expertise, research, or unique experience in medicine on the PW podcast? Email us at editorial@physweekly.com! Thanks for listening!

Deaths in children have increased 20% as a result of lockdowns and so called safety measures 'to flatten the curve. Support your Intermittent Fasting lifestyle with the updated Berberine Fasting Accelerator by MYOXCIENCE: Use code podcast to save 12% Video and Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3JqFft4 References: Woolf SH, Wolf ER, Rivara FP. The New Crisis of Increasing All-Cause Mortality in US Children and Adolescents. JAMA. Published online March 13, 2023. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.3517 Time Stamps: 00:21 There has been a dramatic increase in the death rate of children and adolescents. 01:45 COVID had little to do with the surge in death rates. 02:30 An increase of nearly 20% in all-cause mortality for children ages 1 to 19 years old between has taken place between 2019 and 2022. 03:30 All cause mortality for children 9 and under increased in 2021 by 8.4%. 04:10 Significantly more children died from suicide, homicide, overdoses, and injuries, than died from COVID. 06:45 Injury mortality for ages 10 to 19 rose 22.6% between 2019 and 2020. 06:55 Homicides for ages 10 to 19 rose 39.1% and drug overdose deaths increased by 113.5%. 07:45 Transportation-related deaths increased by 15.6%.

Join me as I interview Katy Faust who is the co-author of Them Before Us and founder of the organization by the same name. We touch on: 1. Why children need a mother and father 2. Gay parenting 3. Surrogacy 4. IVF 5. And how all the above affect child outcomes

AP correspondent Jennifer King reports children's hospitals are seeing a worrying surge in a respiratory illness.

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FBI Director Christopher Wray announced yesterday that the FBI learned of and subsequently thwarted an Iranian-sponsored planned cyberattack on Boston Children's Hospital. Wray described the attack - which was intended to harm children and cause chaos - as “one of the most despicable cyberattacks I've seen.”  Jay, Jordan, and the rest of the Sekulow team break down Wray's statements and what it means for U.S.-Iran relations and Biden's nuclear negotiations with Iran.

Devin makes time from his day to fill Ray in with what's been happening with Donald Trump's new Truth Social in which he is the CEO. He also discusses what he describes as the "hostile take over" of twitter by Elon Musk. Guns became the leading cause of death among children and teens in 2020, killing more people ages 1 to 19 in the U.S. than vehicle crashes, drugs overdoses or cancer. It was after watching the sports film "Facing the Giants" that Joseph Kennedy, then a new coach for the Bremerton High School football team in Washington state, was inspired to pray. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Happy Easter! Lindsay, Lino, and Caroline discuss Mary Coloe's explanation of how St. John's Gospel shows we are children of God; get an update on the James Webb Space Telescope; and discuss what's been entertaining them lately. The post Easter Makes Us Children of God appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Guest Allie Crenshaw discusses cancel culture in the literary and publishing world and her new book Frogs Don't Need Floaties, out now. https://www.amazon.com/Frogs-Dont-Need-Floaties-Standing/dp/B09QF44TPRLinks to articles and data:More than 600 health professionals have signed the Open Call to Restore Normalcy for US Children, which includes removing mask mandates in schools: https://www.urgencyofnormal.com/our-statementhttps://news.yahoo.com/doctors-urge-health-is-about-more-than-the-absence-of-covid-19-for-children-233952971.htmlOregon considers and will likely pass a permanent, general mask mandate: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oregon/articles/2022-01-20/oregon-residents-decry-proposed-permanent-mask-mandateOregon makes masking permanent in schools: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/02/02/oregon-health-authority-extends-masking-rule-in-schools/Dr. Monica Gandhi calls for an end to all mask mandates on Dr. Peter Attia's podcast: https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/Risk of Covid to unvaccinated kids lower than risk to vaccinated adults: https://www.newsweek.com/vaccine-children-covid-england-deaths-1627885When an eviction moratorium backfires: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/nyregion/rent-landlord-eviction-moratorium.htmlComparison of US death rates for kids, including death from Covid: https://twitter.com/PeterAttiaMD/status/1486024120743743489Brown University study re negative effects of masking and other measures on children: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.10.21261846v1.full.pdfCloth masks never worked, Dr. Leana Wen, CNN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCyVR9SRJxYDr. Michael Osterholm, U Minn. and Biden's Covid transition team, Aug. 2021: Cloth masks are useless: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/do-masks-provide-much-protection-we-think-bglhwy/

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With the talk of the pseudo-pandemic dominating the headlines for the last 2 years, other important health topics have been brushed aside (and the O:H team have been guilty of this as well). But recently the CDC quietly released their regularly updated autism prevalence numbers to the public. By their estimates, autism now affects 1 in 40 US children. Remember autism? Remember how the numbers have been dramatically rising for years, yet researchers interested in maintaining the status quo...

With the talk of the pseudo-pandemic dominating the headlines for the last 2 years, other important health topics have been brushed aside (and the O:H team have been guilty of this as well). But recently the CDC quietly released their regularly updated autism prevalence numbers to the public. By their estimates, autism now affects 1 in 40 US children. Remember autism? Remember how the numbers have been dramatically rising for years, yet researchers interested in maintaining the status quo...

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Katy Faust is a children's rights advocate, she is the founder and director of Them Before Us, an organization that equips adults to defend the rights of all children. In this episode, Katy talked about her roots from growing up in a non-traditional family setup to being a children's rights advocate, her book "Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement" and subjects that sprung from her book, like the daily "Nutrients" every child needs, why the biological parents are the best adults to take care of the child, and of course, since it's a hot topic in the country now, we talked about divorce, specifically the dangers of its No-Fault variant. You can help support this podcast when using these links for your online shopping! Lazada -> podlink.co/rgs Shopee -> podlink.co/ufj Amazon -> podlink.co/1sd Sign up for The Jay Aruga Show Newsletter where you will have direct access to behind the scenes stuff, more detailed stories about an episode, and where we can write to each other as well. -> https://sendfox.com/thejayarugashow Episode Music: 'Vaikuntha' by Spacebar --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejayarugashow/message

We were joined for this discussion by Jerry Milner, former head of the US Children's Bureau; Kelley Fong, a researcher who has done some amazing work on abuse and neglect reporting; Brian Blalock, head of New Mexico's child welfare system; Sixto Cancel, the founder of the nonprofit Think of Us; and Barret Johnson of the child welfare tech company Binti, who discussed how improved technological infrastructure can help usher in such endeavors. 

It's Children's Day and we had to make it special for the kids. We hosted a couple of children on the show for interesting conversations, riddles, games and a lot of fun. Winners of the writing challenge were also awarded their prizes Happy Children's Day with love from all of us at Praiseworld Radio. Host: Olufunke Aderogba

Listen NowThis past June 4th the 9th Circuit Court heard oral arguments concerning Juliana v. the US, a case filed in 2015 by 21 children seeking a jury verdict on whether the US government, by failing to address the climate crisis, is protecting the plaintiff's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  In its defense the US is arguing these children, now young adults, have “no fundamental constitutional right” to a “climate system capable of sustaining human life.”  In a May 30th essay published in The New England Journal of Medicine Dr. Salas and two colleagues agreed with the plaintiffs concluding , “As the Juliana plaintiffs argue - and we agree - climate change is the greatest public health emergency in our time and is particularly harmful to fetuses, infants, children and adolescent.” (Listeners may be aware this is my 7th climate crisis related interview since October.)During this 26 minute interview Dr. Salas discusses her related research work, the amicus brief she and her colleagues forwarded in support of Juliana plaintiffs and other related litigation filed world wide.  Moreover, Dr. Salas explains the numerous adverse health effects children are suffering via the climate crisis including various birth defects, heart, lung and neurodevelopment illnesses, vector-borne diseases, harms from high heat and wildfire exposure, cognitive, behavioral and mental health effects, contaminated water, and numerous others.  She discusses what parents need to know or can do to protect their children and the extent the health care industry needs to (better) address its own contribution to greenhouse gas emissions/pollution or global warming. Dr. Renee Salas is Affiliated Faculty and a Burke Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute.   Her research addresses how climate change is impacting the healthcare system and developing evidence-based adaptation.She is also a practicing physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and on faculty at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Salas served as the lead author on the 2018 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Brief and will again in 2019.   She lectures on climate and health nationally and internationally, has published in numerous scholarly journals and is the founder and past Chair of the Climate Change and Health Interest Group at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.  Dr. Salas received her Doctor of Medicine from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine with a Master of Science in Clinical Research from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.  She also holds a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a concentration in environmental health.Renee Salas, Wendy Jacobs and Frederica Perera's New England Journal of Medicine essay, "The Case of Juliana v US - Children and the Health Burdens of Climate Change," is at: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1905504 The video of the 9th Circuit Juliana v the US oral argument is at: https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_video.php?pk_vid=0000015741&fbclid=IwAR3K3vnHCO4M2KlcMZ1NSQ4ua1ZZhpdyA-hONwyj6N7uS0u1X5ojmuVVkCcThe amicus brief filed in support of the Juliana plaintiffs by 13 medical societies and over 65 medical professionals is at: http://clinics.law.harvard.edu/environment/files/2019/03/Juliana-Public-Health-Experts-Brief-with-Paper-Copy-Certificate.pdf. Again, my related essay, "Can the Climate Crisis Continue to Go Begging?" is at: https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/06/can-the-climate-crisis-continue-to-go-begging.html. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com