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How Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Black Women’s Health & Well-Being

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The experience took a toll on her mental health. She was put on medication and had to take a few weeks off from work. There’s a lot of research that shows that Black women who are encountering discrimination problems in the workplace experience poor health outcomes that hurt their overall health and well-being,” Frye says.

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How Employers Can Better Serve Neurodiverse Employees in 2023

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After surviving a major medical event and a surgery that almost killed her, she found herself reevaluating her trajectory. “I According to 2020 research published in the British Medical Bulletin , “a reasonable estimate of all neurominorities within the population is around 15–20%.” But things only got more complicated. Be proactive.

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Feel Guilty for Taking a Sick Day? You’re Not Alone, but It Shouldn’t Be the Norm

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A Softworks study conducted in May and June 2023 found that, of 614 responses, a whopping 79% of participants felt obligated to work when they were sick. As an essential worker, despite constantly advising patients to stay home when sick and rest, our seemingly health-centric field always falls short of looking out for their own.

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Katie Blomquist’s Nonprofit, Going Places, Ensures Kids Living Below the Poverty Line Can Go the Distance

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Going Places provides a necessary social component “Joy is a piece of our social-emotional health that is often overlooked when people think about charities,” Blomquist explains. “We We tend to think about our other basic needs such as food, clothing, water, shelter and medical support.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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When she was a junior in high school, Arrington founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS, an organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring, mental health support and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents. Dr. Rajinder Atwal Medical Director, CEO, Founder, Family Physician, M.D.,

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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It made history in 2023 with the first consumer sale of cultivated meat, which required approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Flipboard Photo courtesy of Flipboard Who they are: From health care to fashion, getting news you care about without looking up dozens of individual media sources can be daunting. Seed Health Inc.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

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They are in abundance as developers jump on the corporate wellness train: there are mental health apps with therapists in your pocket. A 2023 report from Gitnux reveals that more than half of U.S. In addition, with mental health conditions rising during and after the pandemic, Fleischman says these should always be included.

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