Bill of Health

AUGUST 23, 2022

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were justified by some public health pundits as “ meet[ing] where most Americans are.” Regarding the significance of “meeting people where they are” in public health, the underlying premise of the argument here is sound. support mask mandates during surges, for example.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. Indeed, legislators must heed this scholarship, not only for its potential benefit to inmates, but also for the welfare of the broader American public health.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 22, 2022

Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. She is the author of over 70 articles and book chapters about health law and civil rights issues.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 16, 2023

Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. By Minsoo Kwon The legalization of cannabis has raised ethical, regulatory, and scientific questions. This article highlights key points made during the conversation.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Others have focused on a variety of goals, from increasing students’ awareness of ethical issues , to learning fundamental concepts in bioethics , to instilling certain virtues.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 11, 2022

A plausible explanation for these contrasting scenarios centers on the role that experts in medical law and health care regulation play in establishing a functioning and ethically-grounded health system.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Disability-inclusive climate decision-making and solutions are not only essential for safeguarding the lives and dignity of persons with disabilities, but may also enhance the equity and effectiveness of the global transition to climate-resilient and low-carbon societies.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Health Pol’y, Law, and Ethics 1 (2023). Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. The post Key Considerations for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures first appeared on Bill of Health. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 19, 2023

Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. This article highlights key points made during the conversation. First, BJ Casey , Christina L.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 13, 2023

8] All forms of child abuse determinations are subject to misuse of the power of the examining physician, and it is suggested that similar to bioethical determinations, child abuse considerations should be evaluated by committee and not vested in the hands of a single physician. [9] City of Chicago. [4]

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Bill of Health

MARCH 28, 2022

Public health and policy experts have published commentaries on the challenging issues underlying New York’s COVID treatment guidelines and others have offered more detailed guidance, including on this blog, on what criteria should be used in allocating scarce COVID treatments. less likely to receive the treatment than whites.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

2025) is Assistant Professor at Brown University’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and a master’s candidate at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics. Department of Health & Human Services and the Louisiana Department of Health. MPH 2025) is a third-year dual degree law and public health student.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. Health disparities, continued digital divide, health inequities, are unsustainable if we prioritize advancing public health.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville. The post California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19 appeared first on Bill of Health. Rothstein is the Herbert F.

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Bill of Health

MAY 4, 2022

The same goes for the health workers assaulted while trying to save lives, and the patients who could not live because care was undermined by violence against them and their caregivers. Attacks on them can be prosecuted as war crimes and must be.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2023

is a visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. The post What the Supreme Court’s Expected Ruling on Affirmative Action Might Mean for US Health Care appeared first on Bill of Health. Gregory Curfman , M.D.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The post COP29 and the UNFCCCs Health Turn: Progress or Peril? Alicia Ely Yamin J.D.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

But allocation among patients under scarcity is a public health and public policy decision, not a clinical one: we should not place clinicians facing patient care pressures in the position of spending a “ weekend poring over the charts of Covid patients to figure out who should get scarce treatments.”

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Jane Sarashon

AUGUST 14, 2022

We start with key lessons from the pandemic, confront the supply-side challenges we’ve already seen the start of, confess to our thorny sub-optimal solutions to the opioid crisis and mental health epidemic, and deal with the scourge of health equity that mars U.S. health care outcomes, bioethics, and moral imperatives.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Giant corporations such as Apple and Facebook have offered funding for social egg freezing to their female employees while provoking ongoing bioethical and public debates regarding their implications, including; medicalization , (dis)empowerment , “appropriate” motherhood , medical risks, and success rates.

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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

JUNE 13, 2022

By Leah Pierson. I recently argued that we need to evaluate medical school ethics curricula. Here, I explore how ethics courses became a key component of medical education and what we do know about them. The rise of ethics education.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2022

When TDI is hijacked by advertisers for commercial purposes, however, serious bioethical issues emerge. TDI has been found by sleep and dream experts to have various potential benefits , such as improving sleep quality, stimulating creativity, and treating addiction.

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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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

By Aparajita Lath. The Truth Pill , authored by Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy , is a monumental work that convincingly shows that drug regulation is but a myth in India. In their investigative style, the authors explain drug regulation in India through the lens of history, both Indian and global.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She is the author of over 70 articles and book chapters about health law and civil rights issues. Now is the time to begin implementing lawful strategies to address this vital matter.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2024

Baban At present, there is a population of patients who would physiologically benefit from transplantation but are rejected based on pre-determined non-medical criteria: the presence of psychotic disorders. An upcoming opportunity for reform provides a chance to rectify this injustice.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Ashley Shew Far too often, when people write and talk about technology and disability, stories are deeply shaped by ableism. Often when devices are painted as “solving the problem of disability” or “empowering disabled people,” they suggest that being disabled is itself a problem, and that people should try to be as nondisabled as possible.

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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

(Photo: Sign at the central train station in Berlin (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) that offers free support for pet owners coming from Ukraine. Courtesy of Kristin Sandvik.). By Kristin Bergtora Sandvik. Introduction. The care for animals rapidly became a part of the humanitarian narrative of the attack on Ukraine.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 29, 2022

The coronavirus pandemic changed the world in countless ways, and for a moment it challenged the pre-pandemic separation of — in Hannah Arendt’s terms — the Private and the Public. To Arendt , the Public is defined as the sole realm where a human can live in full, as a person integral and part of a community as an equal. By Xochitl L.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

In a recent report on ESG in the health care sector, S&P called out “social exposure” as the most important ESG risk for health care. ” On the downside, health care companies are in the public’s bulls’ eye regarding pricing, and this gets to lack of transparency and access challenges.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them. With fast growth in the public health crisis comes evolving and growing risks that, in the midst of the pandemic hurricane, have gone unattended.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 4, 2024

The application of luck egalitarianism to health inequalities has some value when allocating health care resources, but it often conceptualizes health too narrowly and risks exacerbating existing unjust disparities.

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