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Could Amtrak’s Quiet Car Be a Model for COVID-19 Travel Policies?

Bill of Health

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this same approach could be taken in relation to masking. A recent study compared COVID-19 spread in Boston-area school districts that dropped mask mandates earlier this year (the majority), with the two much less-resourced school districts that maintained mandates.

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Remote patient monitoring can help address the maternal mortality crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Ayalasomayajula, a public health professional with a background in epidemiology, is the president and founder of Reach, whose mission is to improve health experiences for both patients and providers. "I'm glad that now, after ten years, we have new data. Meanwhile, today somewhere 900 women are dying.

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Coronavirus is Deregulating Healthcare One FDA Guidance At a Time

VW Health Care Law Blog

One unintended consequence of COVID-19 has been the paradigm shift within the healthcare industry which has turned to prioritize value-based, patient centric remote monitoring solutions and non-contact technologies.

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Doctor Burnout Levels Increasing as a Result of the Pandemic

American Medical Compliance

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an influx of doctor burnout. A recent study published in the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that physician burnout increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic following a six-year drop that ended in 2020. doctors was 62.8%. in 2020, 43.9%

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Countercyclical Aid Is Not Enough to Fix the Broken US Approach to Public Health Financing

Bill of Health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s failed responses to COVID-19, ranging from “testing to data to communications,” have prompted a call to reorganize the agency. Yet restructuring the CDC will have little effect on pandemic preparedness if the decentralized American approach to health finance remains in place.

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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Bill of Health

Teaching political action and advocacy Some of our leaders have started to argue that every public health professional ought to understand the country’s political decision making processes and how to be an advocate within them. Don’t we have a moral responsibility to our progeny for the world we have passed on?

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The Burden of Depression in the Pandemic – Greater Among People With Fewer Resources

Health Populi

symptoms of depression were three-times greater in April 2020 in the COVID-19 pandemic than in 2017-2018. adults during the coronavirus pandemic compared with pre-COVID-19, and what are the risk factors associated with depression symptoms? In the U.S., population. population.