Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Zione Ntaba Malawi is not a stranger to public health crises in the last number of years, having faced a severe HIV epidemic and several cholera outbreaks continuing into 2023. It is with this context in mind that I turn to reflecting on the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (“Principles”).

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2023

However, the deep wounds of the pandemic remain, compelling those concerned about this pandemic and future health emergencies to account for catastrophic failures by those in power. Public health emergencies aren’t entirely preventable. That has created deep inequities in access to health products that can save lives.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a public health emergency, pharmaceutical manufacturers’ liability concerns can slow the deployment of urgently needed vaccines and other medical countermeasures (MCMs). Products used during public health emergencies raise unique issues either because of their novelty, scale and type of proposed use, or regulatory pathway.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Colombian case reinforces that human rights and public health are not mutually exclusive. Importantly, this is reflected in the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies (2023). Can age and disability be considered in triage decisions in the face of public health emergencies?

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

The legal and institutional regime aimed at preventing and controlling the spread of infectious diseases, grounded on the International Health Regulations (IHR) was heavily criticized. The alarm mechanism based on the declaration of Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), in particular, has been severely tested.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Commenting on these revelations, the Deputy Director-General of South Africa’s Department of Health has conceded that South Africa was “screwed” by the global Covid-19 vaccine procurement process and that the government is “very unhappy with the way in which this all happened”. This, critically, could have helped save lives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

Almost all of the healthcare implementations of Geographic Information System (GIS) being discussed at the 2022 Esri User Conference would not be possible if GIS data was not shared so readily by government organizations. Some government organizations even offer an API so that their GIS information can be used in near real-time.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 12, 2023

In 2005, they published their research and insights in a series of research papers and also filed a patent application disclosing this modification (which eventually issued as patent no. Indeed, as made public, the U.S. government committed more than one billion dollars to Moderna for development of its COVID-19 vaccines.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

It is an intersectional movement, theory, and praxis initially conceived in 2005 by queer, trans, gender non-conforming, and racialized disabled people. Moreover, replacing existing safety net programs, like SSI, with universal basic income would simplify the administration of these programs and shrink government spending.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 27, 2022

Many governments have welcomed Ukrainian pets with or without their owners, and without documentation, rabies vaccine, and/or microchip. Disaster studies has a relatively longstanding focus on pets in the context of emergency planning, evacuations, and shelter, in part ushered in by singular disasters such as the 2005 US Hurricane Katrina.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

Next year the federal government is unleashing billions for broadband, telehealth, and healthcare, so now is a good time to formulate some telehealth- and broadband-driven disaster recovery strategies while there’s money, even as pilot tests. Urban low-income residents seem to be easily forgotten when disaster strikes.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Taken together, my trend-weave opens the over-arching umbrella of ESG goals – for Environmental, Social, and Governance pillars have become strategic and impactful talking points in C-suites across all industry sectors. This includes health care. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.

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AIHC

MARCH 21, 2023

PSQIA - the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act PSQIA established a voluntary reporting system with the government’s intent to enhance the data available to assess and resolve patient safety and health care quality issues. Malicious cyber-attacks targeting the health care sector continue to increase.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

MARCH 5, 2020

Travel is being restricted, large scale public events are likely to be cancelled, and schools and businesses may be closed to contain the spread of the virus. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has declared a public health emergency. There is now an FDA policy released on 29 Feb.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

health care system that existed before the public health crisis. What lessons can be learned from the COVID-19 stress-test to build American health care back better? recognizing and re-committing energy and resources to social determinants of health and health justice.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In 2005, these medicines were added to the WHO’s Essential Medicines List. In India , abortion has been legal since 1971 and should, according to Ministry of Health guidelines, be provided for free at public health facilities. An “abortion debt” is therefore both a debt owed by governments and experienced by individuals.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

lá rightly characterizes as the slipperiness of both the terms “decolonizing” and “global health,” these calls speak to the need to reimagine governance structures, knowledge discourses, and legal frameworks — from intellectual property to international financial regulation.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 3, 2023

In particular, a national abortion advocacy campaign founded in 2005 incorporated providers within and beyond the health system, as well as labor movements, human rights groups, and feminist activists. Onerous bureaucracies within the health system also pose obstacles. . “Social decriminalization” is key.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 14, 2024

Eswatini reduced restrictions on abortion through its 2005 constitution, broadening access in cases in which there is a danger to the mother’s life, a serious threat to the mother’s health, and on the grounds of rape, incest, or fetal impairment.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Some children may be unvaccinated by no choice of their own, but instead because of decisions made by parents, guardians, or state or local government officials. 325, 338 (2005). [21] In this post, I argue that young people should have the opportunity to consent to vaccines. Barnette , 319 U.S. 624, 63 S.Ct.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

BACKGROUND The Proposed Rule is the latest in a long line of federal legislation and rulemakings governing the conscience rights of healthcare providers and entities. The Church Amendments In the 1970s, the federal government enacted the Church Amendments, 42 U.S.C.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Some scholars have interpreted this to mean that the federal government has the right under the Commerce Clause to regulate all medical licensure. Gupta cites the Dormant Commerce Clause doctrine, a court-invented principle which allows the federal government to strike down state laws deemed excessively burdensome to interstate trade.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 14, 2023

By María Natalia Echegoyemberry and Francisco Verbic This article looks at the COVID-19 pandemic response in Argentina, with a particular focus on the judicial control of public health policies. There, too, single judges decided on important social and health issues.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Biden’s calls for bipartisanship to extend health programs like pandemic-era subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans are expected to clash with conservative demands to slash federal government spending. They rebuffed calls from activists to declare a public health emergency for abortion. Baicker: Yes.

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