New York – US Health Secretary Robert F. The key to Kennedy Jr. “Make America Heal again”, but it can make the government cuts more difficult to know if it is happening.
More than a dozen data collection programs that track death and disease are eliminated in the trim tornado, and the proposed budget cuts spread on the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
The Associated Press talked to more than a dozen current and former federal staff to determine the programs of programs by examining the preliminary information about the health of the Americans and tracking the preliminary information about Americans’ health.
AP has been found, among those who are exhausted in disease control and prevention centers, were abortion, pregnancy, job-related injuries, lead poison, sexual violence and smoke of youth.
Patrick Bries used to oversee the CDC’s environmental health program, “If you don’t have workers, the program goes away.”
Federal officials did not give a public accounting of a specific surveillance program that was being eliminated.
Instead, a spokeswoman for the US Health and Human Services Department points to the AP on a budget proposal from the Trump administration on Friday. There is a lack of precision in it, but the CDC’s original budget has been proposed to cut more than half and the CDC has promised to focus only on emerging and infectious diseases.
Kennedy says that some other CDC works will be transferred to a healthy American administration of a healthy American administration. He also said that these cuts were made to get rid of waste in a category that has been seen in recent years.
“Unfortunately, these extra expenses and workers could not improve our country’s health as a country,” Kennedy wrote in the New York post last month. “Instead, it simply made more waste, administrative blat and duplicate.”
Nevertheless, some health experts say that the elimination programs are not duplicate and the erased will leave Americans in the dark.
“If the United States is interested in making itself healthy again, how can it know if it cancel programs that help us understand these diseases?” John Hopkins University Public Health historian Graham Muni says.
The country’s health surveillance is completed by the Health Statistics Center for the CDC National Center. Depending on the birth and death certificate, it produces birth rates, death tendencies and life expectancy. It also conducts chronic health surveys that provide preliminary information on obesity, asthma and other health problems.
The center has just been touched on the trim and seems to be intact under the current budget plan.
However, many other efforts were targeted by cut, AP was found. Some examples:
Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Monitoring System, which surveyed women across the country, lost its entire staff – about 20 people.
It is the most widely collected collection of health behavior and results before the child’s birth, before and after the birth. Researchers are using its data to investigate the maternal mortality problem in the country.
Recent trunks have also wiped out the staff of Vitro fertilizer and abortion data collection staff.
These cuts are especially surprising that President Donald Trump said he would like to expand IVF access and to his administration the Heritage Foundation project 2025 PlayBook has called for more abortion surveillance.
CDC eliminates its program related to lead poisoning in children, which through local health departments – through funds and skills – lead to the lead toxic clusters investigate and help find the maximum risk.
Lead poisoning in children usually comes in contact with old paint bites, contaminated dust or drinking water that passes through lead pipes. However, the staff of the program also played an important role in the lead-stagnant apples investigation that affects 500 children.
Last year, Milwaki Health Officer became aware that the peeling paint of elderly of local primary schools was endangering the children. The Urban Health Department started working with the CDC to test thousands of students. This assistance was closed last month when the CDC lead program workers were completed.
City officials are particularly concerned about losing skills to help track long -term effects.
“We don’t know what we don’t know,” said the city’s health commissioner Mike Totoritis.
There are also 23 -year -old environmental public health tracking programs staff, which had information on potential cancer cluster and weather -related illness.
“The loss of this program is going to greatly reduce the ability to connect between what can happen in the environment and what can affect the health,” said Brees.
In some cases, it is not a matter of leaving the staff, but the completion of certain types of data collection.
Hijra status on health-tracking systems, including focusing on violent deaths and focusing on risky behavior by children, is no longer recorded in the Hijra status.
Experts know that Hijra people are more likely to suffer violence, but now “CDC’s Violence Prevention Prevention Department recently retired senior director Tomas Simon said,”
The staff and funds seem to remain intact for collecting any CDC data that provides the insights of killings, suicide and accidental deaths associated with weapons.
However, the CDC’s violence-resistant programs that worked on that information were stopped. So, it was also working on a system that collects hospital data on nonfatal injury from causes like shot, crash and sinking.
Obviously, the CDC’s national intimate partner and sexual violence survey are also gone. The system is designed to pick up information that is not available in law enforcement statistics. Health officials see that work as important, because all sexual violence victims do not go to the police.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which seeks job -related illnesses and deaths and recommends how to prevent them, were stuck by these cuts.
Kennedy says that the agency has surpassed 20% of people trying to correct the mistake.
This seemed to happen last month, when the American Federation of Government employees said that NIOSH staff involved in a black lung disease program for coal minerals was temporarily called.
However, HHS officials did not answer the question about the restoration. Afzi’s Maika Nimimier-Walsh later said that the workers continued to end the June and “We are concerned that these programs are still implementing, this presence should be given even if they are not effective.”
There was no talk about the recovery of some NIOSH programs, including a research project on how to concentrate on workplace deaths in the oil and gas industry or how to reduce hearing in that industry.
HHS cuts have eliminated a 17 -member team responsible for drug use and health -related national surveys, which is one of the main ways to measure the use of drugs.
CDC staff also worked in the National Youth Tobacco Survey.
There are some other surveys to smoke youth and the use of drugs, including a survey of the “Future Observation” survey of the Federal University of Michigan University.
However, Federal Studies saw both adults and adolescents and provided the use of drugs by high school dropouts. The CDC also delivered to specific steam and tobacco products as other surveys do not do and the electronic cigarettes were federal push drivers to better control.
Richard Mitch, who led the Michigan research, said, “The surveys had an overlap, but everyone had their own specific focus that others had not kept the cover.”
The work of modernization of data collection has been derailed. A 22 -year -old system includes an upgrade that helps local public health departments track diseases and allow the CDC to combine a national image.
Another accident was the center of prediction and outbreak analysis, which tries to predict the disease trends.
The center, which was built during the Covid -19 epidemic, was working to predict the prevalence of current multi -state ham. This forecast was not partially released because two CDC officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, because they are not allowed to discuss it and talk to the press.
Trump has not always supported the extensive test of health problems.
In the spring of 2021, when the Covid -1 diagnoses were exploding, the President had the graouses that the country’s ability to test the country showed the United States in such a way that it was worse than other countries. He called the test “a dual sword”.
Johns Hopkins’ Ian Tihasik Muni is surprised to find out how much the new administration is interested in reporting health problems.
“You may think it’s deliberate,” he said. “If you keep people from knowing they are less likely to be worried” “
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