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Youngkin’s veto threatens public health progress, by Vivienne Pierce McDaniel
When we discuss health care, we often think of physicians, hospitals and medications. However, my day-to-day work as a nurse and professor of nursing teaching health policy and advocacy to nurse practitioner students makes it clear that our community and environment have so much more to do with health outcomes than what happens in a health care provider’s office. It’s time to fully acknowledge this reality and address the health disparities and inequities in our communities.
