Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

AI tools can bring transformative changes that enhance the delivery of care and improve health outcomes.” Then there is technology: “There is a need for AI solutions to recognize diversity,” the report asserts. “AI

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2023

patients were uncomfortable if their health care provider relied on AI for their medical care. Patients were split between whether AI would lead to better, worse, or neutral health outcomes, shown in the lower pie chart from the study. In consumer interviews conducted in December 2022, Pew found that 60% of U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

That personal information can get mashed up and analyzed along with data from our electronic health records and health insurance claims to create a fuller picture of us… helpful in personalizing medical treatments and health regimens that are unique to us.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Focusing in through our health/care lens, you can see in the bar chart from the study that solving access to healthcare and improving economic competitiveness were the top two areas that 75% of global citizens said would have positive impacts across eight social issues examined.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The executives who stole from the communities they were meant to serve, the politicians who turned a blind eye, and the health care networks that could have intervened but chose not to all share in the moral culpability for this tragedy.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

But there are also climate-related risks to health care institutions — think Hurricane Katrina and the images of patients having to be air-lifted out of urban New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes. Existing vulnerabilities enable those climate-related risks to more negatively impact health outcomes.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“The idea was to protect the consumer from fraudulent and dangerous ingredients,” wrote Suzanne Junod, FDA historian (who, as an interesting aside, has written a fascinating essay on the history of regulation with a lens on the peanut butter and jelly sandwich).

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

People who are incarcerated already exhibit elevated rates of morbidity , and it is likely that the sleep deprivation associated with corrections only depresses health outcomes. population , a troubling reality not only for COVID-19 mitigation efforts, but also health equity writ large. Jolin is an A.B.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 21, 2025

Even though women comprise one-half of the world’s population, their health outcomes and inputs do not match up to men’s: there’s a women’s health gap on Planet Earth.

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Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

” Part of that data collection in today’s world involves AI-enabled decision support tools, which Tripathi talked about in his interview. He pointed to the potential for algorithmic bias, of which we should all be mindful to avoid and identify.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

For people who are Black and Hispanic, lack of high school degrees, and greater density of people living in homes can contribute to poor outcomes from the coronavirus due to spread or access to resources like broadband or health care insurance (which some working people lost due to job loss, furlough, or cut hours in the pandemic).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The authors suggest that investing more in prevention and health promotion for these groups could improve health outcomes and get to more equitable spending levels. Spending per person for Black and American Indian and Alaska Native people was significantly lower than for other racial/ethnic groups.

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With my ongoing focus on social determinants and drivers of health for health equity and access, the first essay that caught my attention is on Government Obligations and the Negative Right to a Healthy Urban Environment. The authors are affiliated with Case Western Reserve with interests in bioethics and medicine.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

Anthony Iton wrote back in 2008 when he was health director of Alameda County, California. Dr. Iton may have been the first person to coin the phrase about our ZIP codes pre-determining our health outcomes. health care system and how scarce resources get allocated to medical care and social care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries: suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes, albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world.

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