{"id":8824,"date":"2012-05-24T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=8824"},"modified":"2012-05-24T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T18:07:58","slug":"health-risks-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/05\/24\/health-risks-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Risks Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday I <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/05\/22\/how-much-is-n-h-paying-for-the-freedom-to-take-risks\/#more-8721\" target=\"_blank\">described findings<\/a> in a new report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/healthyamericans.org\/reports\/injury12\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trust For America&#8217;s Health<\/a>, which ranked New Hampshire as having very few injury-prevention laws. You can see on TFAH&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/healthyamericans.org\/reports\/injury12\/\" target=\"_blank\"> nifty map<\/a> below that N.H. stands out in red \u2014\u00a0among its more legislation-heavy neighbors \u2014 with only four injury-prevention policies.<\/p>\n<p>As of yesterday, however, that may no longer be the case. \u00a0Not only did the N.H. Senate approve the prescription drug tracking bill I mentioned at the end of the last post, but the Senate also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article\/20120523\/NEWS06\/705249950\" target=\"_blank\">approved a bill<\/a> requiring that all school boards develop guidelines for preventing and responding to head injuries among student athletes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new bill, a student who shows symptoms of a concussion or whom a coach, trainer or other suspects has sustained a concussion must refrain from participating until he or she has permission from a health care provider.<\/p>\n<p>If TFAH&#8217;s report had come out today, perhaps N.H. would be shaded brown, along with its neighbors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/TFAH-Image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8825\" title=\"TFAH Image\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/TFAH-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/TFAH-Image.jpg 593w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/TFAH-Image-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This map was reproduced from the Trust For American Health website. View the whole report and interactive map <a href=\"http:\/\/healthyamericans.org\/reports\/injury12\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday I described findings in a new report from the Trust For America&#8217;s Health, which ranked New Hampshire as having very few injury-prevention laws. You can see on TFAH&#8217;s nifty map below that N.H. stands out in red \u2014\u00a0among its more legislation-heavy neighbors \u2014 with only four injury-prevention policies. As of yesterday, however, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474,54],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}