Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And, as detailed in my book, Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow , the American population is aging. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Cognitive decline becomes more common as individuals age.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digital health technology blurs into everyday healthcare the way “e-business” and the Internet melted into our daily work and personal life-flows.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. Dowling pointed to the benefits of being a large integrated health care system with multiple hospitals, ambulatory care services and a broad portfolio of capabilities that enabled Northwell Health to be responsive to the needs of the pandemic and deal with the crisis.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This is technoableism as I describe it in my book, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. Disability is often appealed to as a justification for technological development, and as a moral imperative toward investment in technological research.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 8, 2024

I added Wi-Fi as a basic human need on Maslow’s Hierarchy, included in my book Health Citizenship , with digital connectivity and privacy rights a pillar of being a full-on health citizen. all, through videoconferencing sites like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, and FaceTime and WhatsApp on smartphones.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

Kudos to the editors at JAMA for curating and publishing the August 17th issue addressing many facets and roots of health disparities in the U.S. As I continue to evolve my own health citizenship, I am reading a book by Minouche Shafik of the London School of Economics called What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society.

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Bill of Health

JULY 27, 2023

face challenges in court, the legal, public health, medical, and bioethics communities have an essential role to play both in properly framing the legal issue, as well as explaining what is truly at stake in these cases to minimize the chances of similarly harmful rulings for the transgender community moving forward.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If you were involved with writing a business plan from the earliest days of digital health (in the so-called “Health 1.0 or Health 2.0” I often eat dessert first, and in this book the 2.5 Susannah will be on a book tour in person, as well as convening virtual talks that will be livestreamed.

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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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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

These bromides reflect the Biden administration’s evaluation of its own efforts; a recent White House report professes to have “successfully put equity at the center of a public health response for the first time in the nation’s history.”. We have learned nothing from COVID.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

State pharmaceutical bans and restrictions — which are often medically unnecessary and instead based largely on policymakers’ moral and political views — impede the FDA’s mandate to protect and promote the public health. In appropriate circumstances, states could seek an exemption to address a state-specific public health need.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The first is a scene from the film “And The Band Played On,” based on the book of the same name, about the AIDS epidemic. As I repeat the unpleasant realization that help is not on the way from above, and attempt to think my way out of the assumptions that set me up for future unpleasant astonishment, I keep returning to two works of art.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: “We all benefit from the robust sharing of our data, because insights that may benefit all of us can be garnered,” I quoted a Stanford faculty study in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

” The phrase, “your ZIP code is more important than your genetic code” has become the common mantra for public health people communicating the concept of the social determinants of health : those factors outside of medical services that shape peoples’ overall health and well-being.

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Health Populi

MARCH 24, 2020

The book is discussed in a World Economic Forum essay discussing the economists’ consensus to “act fast.” 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. . ” As the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report. The book is intelligently critical of what was done during the pandemic, but at all points it remains within the confines of what is “politically respectable.” Some have also served as public health officials and/or professors.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Already, abortion bans that are on the books in some states punish the abortion provider, making it a felony to provide an abortion. Additionally, pregnant immigrants have faced additional structural barriers to accessing necessary abortion care. This article explains how these injustices are likely to be exacerbated by the Dobbs ruling.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Most health citizens, hoping for a way out of the public health crisis, are counting on science to liberate both lives and livelihoods. In my book Health Citizenship: how a virus opened up hearts and minds , I discuss how the pandemic has moved more patients as health consumers toward their health citizenship.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

He is the author of the book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era and teaches in the Program in Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University. . The post Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on Bill of Health.

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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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