Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In July 2020, when Mrs. Kuciemba tested positive, exposures were relatively discrete, and the dominant strain of the virus was not nearly as transmissible as later variants. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

But allocation among patients under scarcity is a public health and public policy decision, not a clinical one: we should not place clinicians facing patient care pressures in the position of spending a “ weekend poring over the charts of Covid patients to figure out who should get scarce treatments.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For the 2020 launch of its Xbox Series X video game console, Microsoft partnered with dream scientists and the McCann Worldgroup marketing agency to create “Made From Dreams.” When TDI is hijacked by advertisers for commercial purposes, however, serious bioethical issues emerge.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Giant corporations such as Apple and Facebook have offered funding for social egg freezing to their female employees while provoking ongoing bioethical and public debates regarding their implications, including; medicalization , (dis)empowerment , “appropriate” motherhood , medical risks, and success rates.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

If pre-COVID era regulations that were dismissed in the pandemic revert back, Dowling is concerned the progress made for telehealth in 2020 will slow or return to pre-pandemic levels of uptake. Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. We must address the poor state of the public health infrastructure.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. 2020 changed everything, the W2O team asserts, now issuing its latest look into the issue through the Relevance Quotient. This includes health care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

In the future, he envisions the mesh of the food system with the health system. The pandemic has stretched the food system to its fragile limits, dependent on corporate food conglomerates whose supply chains were broken in the public health crisis.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 8, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

For context, over the entire year of 2020, about 385,000 COVID-19 deaths were recorded. is still recording nearly 2,000 COVID-19 deaths per day. Collectively, in just the first two months of 2022, over 95,000 people have died from the virus.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Frequently labelled a scholar-activist, she combines academic research and scholarship that bridges law, development, and public health with grassroots work and policy advocacy. Although I’m the only Senior Fellow focusing on global health work at PFC, affiliated researchers also contribute enormously to GHRP. 1991), M.P.H.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs. Reflecting on my many conversations during CES last week, I’m evolving the concept to our homes morphing into health delivery platforms.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. I wrote about this challenge in 2014 in my report for California Health Care Foundation, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Information Is Being Tracked and Used. The Harris Poll conducted the study among 2,065 U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

in the first quarter of 2020. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S. and around the world.

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Health Populi

JUNE 19, 2020

” Among her many roles, Dr. Galarneau teaches at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics. It’s Juneteenth 2020 in the United States of America, and we find ourselves at a moment of convergence of these three issues. ” On Juneteenth 2020, there are people coming together in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s,

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

“Covid-19 exposes America’s racial health gap,” asserts The Economist , the weekly news magazine based in London, UK, in an advanced essay dated 11 April 2020. The subtitle of the piece: “African-Americans appear more vulnerable to the virus.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

We must guard against exacerbating health disparities with these sorts of AI applications in health and medical care. District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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Health Populi

MARCH 24, 2020

curve adds new American patients testing positive for the coronavirus, the book and essay illustrate the tension between health consumer versus the health citizen in the U.S. . For clinical context, as I write this post on 24th March 2020, today’s U.S. .” As the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

Some have also served as public health officials and/or professors. The pandemic response in the United States, and its attendant hospitalization and death rates, represents a failure of public health. They also present good ideas on the “how” side of public health. 209), and the like.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

health care. Dr. Saini and his colleague Shannon Brownlee released the annual Lown Institute 2020 Shkreli Awards this week, highlighting their ten most egregious examples of the worst events in U.S. health care that happened in the past year — 2020, the year the coronavirus changed our lives and livelihoods.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

In America, trust truly crashed by December 2020, falling to a low Richard Edelman said he had never seen in the 21 years conducting this study. Last year in January 2020, Edelman found consumers’ trust in healthcare was fairly flat at 67, barely changing in this year’s study. specific findings here.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry gained a “whopping” 30 points between January 2020 and February 2021, based on the latest Harris Poll in their research into industries’ reputations. This became to be expected by more patients in 2020, our Year of COVID as Dr. Osterholm has called it.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

From spring 2020 through the present day, Americans have endured levels of sickness and death that are outliers among not only wealthy democracies, but around the world. From early moments in 2020, the concept of a right to health — and indeed, even a right to life — has been discounted in American policy, discourse, and practice.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2022

have felt and dealt with since long before the public health crisis emerged in early 2020. There is a direct connection between people lacking faith in the U.S. medical system and the rate of resignations and level of burnout clinicians in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

And though evidence is mounting that the risk of hospitalization and death is lower for each person infected compared to Delta, Omicron’s extremely high transmissibility means that a large fraction of the population will become infected in a short time period, particularly in the absence of additional public health measures.

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