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COVID-19: An integrated healthcare system is the way forward

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Government & Policy Network Infrastructure Telehealth Workflow With dozens of healthcare facilities across the UAE, the country’s healthcare system is evolving faster than elsewhere in the world says Christian Schuhmacher, CEO of King’s College Hospital London in Dubai.

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Using Open-Source Technology to Transform Healthcare and Housing for the Homeless

Healthcare IT Today

cities, including Berkeley California, tightening restrictions on homeless encampments after a Supreme Court decision this year that allows government-imposed restrictions on outdoor sleeping. The potential impact of open-source solutions like OPAL extends beyond individual health outcomes.

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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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Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2

Health Populi

said the government’s response to COVID was a significant source of stress: in first place, the Federal government response (felt a significant stressor among 84% of U.S. adults), followed by States (72% of consumers), and local governments (64% of people feeling the stress). Two in three people in the U.S.

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Psychedelic Inequities and Unexplored Risk: Colonization, Commercialization, and Regulation

Bill of Health

By excluding diverse contributions to the psychedelic field, we risk establishing psychedelic practices that exacerbate racial health inequities (disparities) in which people of color experience worse health outcomes as compared to whites on a population level. For decades, the U.S.

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Value Comes to Healthcare: But Whose Value Is It?

Health Populi

Another global view on value is offered in the report, Delivering quality health services: A global imperative for universal health coverage , from the World Health Organization, the World Bank Group, and the OECD.

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Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

HIT Consultant

Health resources are unevenly distributed and often of poor quality. The World Health Organization estimates that in the majority of African countries, there is one hospital per one million people, one doctor per 10,000 people and one hospital bed per 10,000 people. Governments cannot do this alone.