Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Though the government has learnt lessons in the past, and though it has codified some aspects of these lessons into our laws and policies relating to public health, it has always used a disease lens in the application of the lessons learned as opposed to a human rights lens.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. First, while the U.S. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Three-quarters of Americans believe that hospitals, clinics and physicians should look beyond patients medical/clinical needs into root causes like access to healthy food, transportation, and safe/clean housing — the social determinants of health.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The spending typically includes charity care — broadly defined as free or discounted care to eligible patients. But it can also include underpayments from public health plans, as well as the costs of training medical professionals and doing research.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By Elizabeth Weeks The most promising path forward in public health is to continue recognizing federal authority and responsibility in this space. Historically, public health law primacy resides with states via their core, Tenth Amendment reserved police powers to address residents’ health, safety, and welfare.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 24, 2023

The latest round of rules and legislation comes as the ACA — passed in 2010 — is now cemented in the system. The real fight comes down to defining “short-term,” said John McDonough, a professor of public health practice at the Harvard T.H.

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