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Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

Bill of Health

This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. population , a troubling reality not only for COVID-19 mitigation efforts, but also health equity writ large. To address the paucity of sleep research in U.S.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis.

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Litigation Challenges Prioritization of Race or Ethnicity in Allocating COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

Public health and policy experts have published commentaries on the challenging issues underlying New York’s COVID treatment guidelines and others have offered more detailed guidance, including on this blog, on what criteria should be used in allocating scarce COVID treatments. New York’s Policy.

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Misplaced Skepticism on Accountability for War Crimes Against Health Care in Ukraine

Bill of Health

Leonard Rubenstein is a Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and author of Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War (Columbia University Press 2021). Attacks on them can be prosecuted as war crimes and must be.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. In the U.S., The percentages of people in the U.S. population).

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Ensuring That Humanity Retains Control of Connected Things: A Message from Microsoft at CES 2021

Health Populi

Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to play a role in health care for predictive analytics, personalization, and public health. On 26th January, I’ll moderate a tweetchat at 1 pm Eastern time, brainstorming the current and future state of and opportunities for AI in health care.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

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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