Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action. Heat-related illness.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 27, 2022

Focusing on a wide range of events ( flooding , fires and hurricanes ), these perspectives offer important practical insights for how we can make policies for pets at war. Reforms are motivated by the recognition that people will protect their pets, even at the expense of their own security. Yet, disasters are not wars.

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Bill of Health

JULY 17, 2023

Yet, in the face of extreme weather events, the needs and priorities of disabled people have been repeatedly overlooked in the provision of evacuation warnings, emergency transport, shelters and health care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2019

This is a tragic and avoidable public health fail in my work-world, and something that’s part of a larger context of trust, information flow, and human tribal culture — ironically, the subject of one of my breakout sessions this week that was highly relevant to my own career space and clients’ challenges.

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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

MARCH 7, 2022

thus has reverberating repercussions: it strips away not only necessary public health precautions, but also hard-won adaptations, such as remote work and more generous sick leave policies. This premature and at times exclusive push to “normalcy” in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. During the pandemic, inpatient hospital beds have been in short supply in various communities across the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2021, racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare are a top patient safety issue, according to ECRI’s annual list of major concerns facing healthcare consumers’ risks to adverse events that can harm them.

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Health Populi

JUNE 19, 2020

” Among her many roles, Dr. Galarneau teaches at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics. First, what we in public health circles have been coining the social determinants of health have revealed themselves to be the “moral determinants of health.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Artificial intelligence and health equity were two key themes discussed during #HIMSS21, and Dr. Halamka’s concerns echoed through the week-long event. To build a digital health ecosystem that delivers timely access to information to inform public health decision-making, and.

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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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Bill of Health

JULY 24, 2023

In measuring the specific additional deaths added by a particular bad set of events, we should not let our focus on those additional deaths make us numb to the other deaths, the ones that are not “excess.” That reality is outrageous; the pandemic is an especially intense and nightmarish example of that reality.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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. In a recent comparison of health system performance in 11 high-income countries, the U.S. rated last , owing in part to our lack of universal coverage provision.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

First, he places depoliticization in a larger theoretical and social context by stressing that governments must manage the potential political consequences of problems that are fairly predictably generated by capitalism.

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