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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

Health Populi

Today, 7 April, is World Health Day. With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As

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Climate Change and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Key Takeaways from the WHO-WIPO-WTO Trilateral Symposium

Bill of Health

By Aparajita Lath* The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), hosted the 10 th Trilateral Symposium on Human Health and Climate Change in Geneva this November.

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Unseen Scars: The Devastating Impact of Corruption on Mental Health Systems in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Bill of Health

Yet, funding for mental health is grossly inadequate. According to the World Health Organization , “annual [global] spending on mental health is less than US $2 per person, and less than US$0.25 The mental health sector is further burdened by systemic discrimination and human rights violations.

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HC3 Report Reveals Cyberattack Trends and Provides Insights to Improve Healthcare Cybersecurity

HIPAA Journal

That incident saw Biologist Joseph Popp distribute 20,000 floppy disks at the World Health Organization AIDS conference in Stockholm. The report shows how adversaries stepped up their attacks on the healthcare industry from 2014 through 2017. When used, the disks installed malicious code which tracked reboots.

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COVID-19: An integrated healthcare system is the way forward

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Government & Policy Network Infrastructure Telehealth Workflow With dozens of healthcare facilities across the UAE, the country’s healthcare system is evolving faster than elsewhere in the world says Christian Schuhmacher, CEO of King’s College Hospital London in Dubai.

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Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2

Health Populi

APA published the report, Stress and Health Disparities, in 2017, and the learnings resonate even louder today than when the Association launched the paper. The World Health Organization identified stress as one of the top ten determinants of disparities in health in 2008.

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AI’s Ability to Manipulate Decision Making Requires a Moratorium on Its Use in Obtaining Consent for Biomedical Research

Bill of Health

In 2017, Congress acted again to update the Common Rule and strengthen the provisions related to consent. The World Health Organization supports this ban and in particular describes it as making informed consent impossible in the health care setting. While the U.S. These warnings echo those of the U.S.