Bill of Health

JUNE 21, 2023

By Timothy Bonis Premiering tonight on PBS , the film Below the Belt sheds light on endometriosis by documenting four women’s experiences with the disease. Endometriosis is a silent crisis. One in ten women have it, yet, on average, people with the condition see seven doctors before they get diagnosed.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 13, 2022

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) expires at the end of this week, with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra expected to renew the PHE once more to extend through mid-July. By Cathy Zhang.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Hannah Rahim Food is Medicine interventions aim to prevent and treat diet-related chronic health conditions and reduce food insecurity by providing food to individuals and communities, in connection with the health care system.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 3, 2022

The issue of the high and increasing costs of clinical negligence (medical malpractice) in the National Health Service ( NHS ) in England has long been a contentious one. By John Tingle and Amanda Cattini. There are common themes in the debate.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

We recognize there already is significant investment in the control and containment of infectious disease, primarily through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes for Health, and assorted local public health departments. We also recognize that policymakers, specifically the U.S.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

And the maldistribution of physicians — with far too few pursuing primary care or working in rural areas — is arguably an even bigger problem. By Leah Pierson. Recently, Derek Thompson pointed out in the Atlantic that the U.S. has adopted myriad policies that limit the supply of doctors despite the fact that there aren’t enough.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

GDP share for health care expected in 2027 based on CMS’s current projections of the current state would shift well above 20% were Americans, say over 50 years of age, allowed to buy into Medicare as envisioned by some of the Presidential candidates’ platforms for health care reform.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 15, 2023

By Laura Dolbow Merck recently filed a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the Medicare price negotiation program created by the Inflation Reduction Act. Under this program, HHS will select a small number of single source drugs for price negotiation.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: John Mackey has held this view on food for a long time. ” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For several decades, health care reformers have been advocating “fee for value” or value-based care, which supposedly rewards long-term results instead of individual encounters. ” Remote patient monitoring. The premise of this article embraces an irony. If the U.S.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 20, 2023

face discrimination in seeking health care services, including restrictions against obtaining solid organ transplants. By Hannah Rahim Medical cannabis users in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

By Hannah van Kolfschooten and Mirko Faccioli There are currently over 12 million cancer survivors in Europe. Due to improving cancer screening methods and medical treatment, this number is expected to grow every year. Former cancer patients often face multiple forms of discrimination throughout their lives.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Kristofer Smith, MD, MPP is the Chief Medical Officer of Landmark Heath, where he oversees efforts to establish a high-quality and clinically effective home-based medical care model for patients with serious illness.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Three-quarters of Americans believe that hospitals, clinics and physicians should look beyond patients medical/clinical needs into root causes like access to healthy food, transportation, and safe/clean housing — the social determinants of health.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By Hannah Rahim Many mental health provider directories for private and public insurance plans contain inaccurate or outdated provider information , which creates a misleading illusion of accessible care. These ghost networks result in many patients being unable to access essential mental health care.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. By Timothy Bonis. It is not just state boards’ political obstructionism standing in the way.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

The spending typically includes charity care — broadly defined as free or discounted care to eligible patients. But it can also include underpayments from public health plans, as well as the costs of training medical professionals and doing research.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Eduardo Arenas Catalán The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles), entail a notable attempt to consolidate lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. The critical notion of shared but differentiated responsibilities is thus strengthened within global public health.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 2, 2024

As we explain in part three of the project, achieving a transformed state requires rethinking the role of law enforcement and looking beyond the current crisis as one solved by public health strategies. Policy changes must be considered to replace acknowledged failures and reimagine the whole of government response to drug policing.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Though the government has learnt lessons in the past, and though it has codified some aspects of these lessons into our laws and policies relating to public health, it has always used a disease lens in the application of the lessons learned as opposed to a human rights lens.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Recently, I’ve become uncomfortable with the buzzword of health care reform in our time: “value-based care.” Some context: During the 15 years that I’ve been covering health care IT, commonplace terminology has been repeatedly re-examined. Not if we think about its implications.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

health care system, but that are especially present for behavioral health needs like substance use, and are exacerbated by other challenges related to stigma, lack of employment, and fragmented or nonexistent care coordination. This reality reflects structural, policy, and legal misalignments common to the entire U.S.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

At the state level, racially biased algorithms might be framed as a public nuisance , as public nuisance law allows state officials to sue private companies for the negative impact of their products on public health or welfare.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has put health care top-of-mind for health citizens the world over. The Pew team also observed that, “The belief that one’s country is doing a bad job of dealing with the pandemic is also linked to a desire for health care reform. public health sector. In the U.S.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2024

An upcoming opportunity for reform provides a chance to rectify this injustice. 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.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2023

By Katherine A. Macfarlane In May 2023, Mass General Brigham instructed its patients that they “cannot ask staff members to wear a mask because our policies no longer require it.”

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Good record keeping and communication practices are essential prerequisites for safe and proper patient care. A fundamental issue in England’s National Health Service (NHS) patient safety culture development, however, is whether health care staff implement the necessary communication changes in light of adverse health care events.

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 5, 2022

Many public health and addiction experts, though, promote the rapid testing devices as what’s known as a “harm reduction” tactic to help prevent overdose deaths from illicit drugs that users may not know are laced with fentanyl.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

By Katherine Macfarlane Public health in the U.S. This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. It explores how they must negotiate public health measures on their own.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 16, 2022

The future of work will largely be the future of care work. Health care is rapidly becoming the largest employer in the U.S., By Andrew Milne. expanding to serve the fastest growing demographic, aging seniors.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Zione Ntaba Malawi is not a stranger to public health crises in the last number of years, having faced a severe HIV epidemic and several cholera outbreaks continuing into 2023. It is with this context in mind that I turn to reflecting on the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (“Principles”).

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By Elizabeth Weeks The most promising path forward in public health is to continue recognizing federal authority and responsibility in this space. Historically, public health law primacy resides with states via their core, Tenth Amendment reserved police powers to address residents’ health, safety, and welfare.

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Bill of Health

MAY 12, 2023

McCuskey is a Professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health and School of Law. The post The Infertility Shift appeared first on Bill of Health. Blake is Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research and a Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law. Elizabeth Y.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. COVID-19 and the U.S. Applying the Principles in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type. A third report is useful to consider with the KFF tracking poll and the Urban Institute/RWJF study on delaying care due to chronic conditions. electorate is in favor.

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