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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

Set up prior to the signing of the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement in 1998, IPH has been shaping public health policy across the island of Ireland for 25 years. Shifting the policy focus has the potential to secure a healthier economy, healthier communities, and a healthier future for all.”

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Nursing Homes Fell Behind on Vaccinating Patients for Covid

KFF Health News

Building Trust Through Relationships One major medical system operating in the Dakotas, Sanford Health , has managed more than two dozen nursing homes since a 2019 merger with the long-term care chain Good Samaritan Society. This article is from a partnership that includes NPR and KFF Health News. Nationally, that share is 32%.

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Medicare Advantage Poses Challenges to Health Care Cost-Effectiveness and Equity

The Health Care Blog

Such measures can complement the 5-star quality ratings, to provide broader contextual insights and a more substantive feedback loop for beneficiaries, providers, researchers and policy-makers. Nirban Singh is an MPH student at Northeastern University with a passion for investigating the role of health policy in creating equitable outcomes.

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Juvenile detention centers in NC under scrutiny for use of isolation

NC Health News

We find that kids that are locked in their rooms, they’re not growing,” Lassiter told CBS17 in a 2019 interview. Despite this acknowledgment, attorneys and advocates told NC Health News that juveniles are being locked in their rooms for extended periods — an uptick they say began during the pandemic. They’re not getting the therapy.

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‘No one can see you now’: What states are doing to boost primary care

Association of Health Care Journalists

Before joining the Fund in 2013, he served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the country’s first health insurance commissioner. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. Koller is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University. with his wife, Colette Cook.

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Whooping cough cases spike in N.C.

NC Health News

cases began to drop from 200,000 annually to fewer than 19,000 in 2019. Health officials said the decrease likely came from people isolating, masking and washing hands more during the pandemic. Once a vaccine was developed in the 1940s, U.S.

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Tick Tock (or TikTok) for US Health Care

The Health Care Blog

Now, just to be clear, I don’t have a TikTok account and don’t think I’ve ever even see a TikTok video, but I’ve been tracking it since 2019. And you were excited about Amazon buying One Medical. . I first wrote about how it could be a harbinger for foreign competition in the U.S.