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Bolstering Health Literacy in a Little Book: Burn Prevention and Care With “The Family Oops”

Jane Sarashon

About 180,000 deaths are attributable to burns each year, according to the World Health Organization. This mighty little book, all of 28 pages and measuring 5.5 This mighty little book, all of 28 pages and measuring 5.5 Non-fatal burns are a leading cause of morbidity.

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

Bill of Health

Importantly, most of the commitments made under the Open COVID Pledge were designed to expire at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as determined by the World Health Organization (WHO) or January 1, 2023, whichever occurs first (the 2023 date is now in the process of being extended). Moderna’s Pledge.

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Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

Health Populi

On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”. My new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , launched this week. You can access my book on Amazon Kindle here. In it, I track these events and the many forces transforming U.S.

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Nurses Hacking for Health and Compassionomics

Health Populi

At this hackathon, we were all winners: we shared, we learned, we rolled up sleeves together to envision a better, more equitable, safer health/care system for our brother and sister health citizens and provider colleagues the world over. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Why support nurses for health care innovation?

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Better Health Care Tests, Faster

Healthcare IT Today

Virax Biolabs uses data from the World Health Organization and others to develop tests quickly. They also plan to offer APIs to labs and public health organizations, delivering test results securely through an app along with advice about how to handle the risk. Still, the service can be worthwhile for convenience.

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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports

Health Populi

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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What the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Health

Health Populi

The trio then tested different combinations of factors adding into different groups remedial tutoring, access to credit (especially microcredit programs), technology, and health care services, along with new models for teacher accountability and school governance.