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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

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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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

This wonderful and fiercely independent person who never wanted to live in a facility, spent the last year of life in a nursing home. Ultimately, the demands of my great grandmother, as her illnesses progressed, became so much that we couldn’t keep her at home.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

Jane Sarashon

The second graphic from the report breaks out the health consumer/health citizen from the health/care industry and ecosystem: Being that intelligent guardian for our health and fitness, including partnering with third parties for digital health tools and apps, and. It will be about health.”

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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

Health workers are needed to benefit people and prevent harm, merit reciprocity in view of their contribution to stemming the harms of the pandemic, and provide benefits that are especially needed by people on the short end of health disparities.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

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.

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Q&A with PFC Director of Global Health and Rights Project, Alicia Ely Yamin

Bill of Health

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

Health Populi

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. The nurses will conduct a 13-question SDoH survey and assess risk factors that compromise the good management of patients’ MS conditions.

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