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A Health Care Betrayal: The Ethical Crisis Surrounding Steward Health and the Demise of Community Hospitals

Bill of Health

by Stephen Wood In an era where health care inequities already burden marginalized populations, the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care culminating in the closure of several hospitals in Massachusetts, represents an unconscionable ethical failure.

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

These determinants, such as economic stability through universal services like unemployment benefits, paid parental leave, paid sick leave, or social support systems, like family-friendly policies and child care, remain mostly unavailable. health system continue to exacerbate poor health and disparities. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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Ready to Change Your Pharmacy Strategy? It’s Time for Analytics, Data, and AI

HIT Consultant

And for health care providers globally, pharmacies are the stockroom by which they rely on to treat patients. By offering personalized support and timely interventions, pharmacies can enhance patient satisfaction and adherence, leading to better health outcomes.

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Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care

Health Populi

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. The authors suggest that investing more in prevention and health promotion for these groups could improve health outcomes and get to more equitable spending levels.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing.

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Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Health Populi

These are people in want and need of education, a good and secure job, food, safe and clean housing, health care access, and clean water, air, and stable climate (that would be Greta Thunberg holding her sign for a “school strike for the climate”).