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. Wood served as a Visiting Researcher with the Petrie-Flom Center from 2020 through 2024.

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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

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.

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COVID-19 Health Care Inequity COVID-19 Vaccine Medicare 139

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. In the article to which this assertion ties , Harris Meyer talks about the growing push for price regulation in the U.S.

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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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