International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Iñaki Permanyer and Júlia Almeida Calazans Policymakers and scholars are increasingly interested in monitoring and curbing health inequalities. Measuring how ‘similar’ or ‘dissimilar’ the different causes of death are can help us understand global health inequalities and patterns of mortality. Read more: Permanyer I, Calazans JA.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Evidence abounds that access to primary care improves health and lowers costs. And yet, only 5% of health care spending in this country goes to primary care, less than in any other Western democracy. Freyer is a health care journalist based in Rhode Island. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

An essay in Aeon had me at the title: The Waste Age. The essay is by Justin McGuirk, chief curator of the Design Museum in London, and accompanies an exhibit there: Waste Age: what can design do ? We live in the Waste Age. In a time of digital health, where are our smart toilets to help us track changes in our health? .

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

More than half of adults 65 and older report taking four or more prescription drugs, compared with one-third of adults 50-64 years old and about one in ten adults ages 30-49, according to KFF , a health policy research and information organization. He was inspired to start GeriatRx in 2020.

Health Policy and Advocacy Organizations 58

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Since no one has thought fit to actually generate any clinical data on boosters in college kids because of the continuous state of COVID emergency we have been in since early 2020, we are left to try to extrapolate from a vast amount of ecological data and surrogate endpoints. Anish Koka is a cardiologist (follow him on twitter @anish_koka).

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 18, 2022

He was responsible for seminal work in Cardiology in the 1980’s on the use of clot busting drugs for patients having heart attacks, and became head of cardiology for the famed Cleveland Clinic at the age of 36! (I I vaguely recall feeling like I was starting to understand Cardiology at the age of 36.)

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Years NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan today unveiled “ HealthyNYC , ” an ambitious plan to improve and extend the average lifespan of all New Yorkers. Read “ Using Law to Advance Population Health Planning ” in Health Affairs.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

By ELIZABETH BROWN, CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0. A Panel Discussion reflected on how the findings of the IDIH Digital Health Transformation Forum around the areas of Interoperability by Design, Data Governance, and Digital Inclusion might be impacted in a post-COVID-19 scenario.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided important lessons regarding the structure and delivery of health care in the United States, and one of the most significant takeaways has been the need to shift to value-based models of care. That figure rose to nearly 20% in 2020 during the pandemic.

Ethnicity and Health 98

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Covering over 20 million more people, it is the single largest health care program created since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. In fact, the overall rate of uninsured people has not increased significantly during the pandemic, thanks to the safety net of these public health care programs.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

After six years of marriage to Annie, he was the only father the youngest siblings (ages three and five when Annie remarried) might clearly remember. As author, activist, consultant and a former Pulitzer-nominated journalist, Michael Millenson focuses professionally on making health care safer, better and more patient-centered.

Ageing and Health 119

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. It was the latest in a drumbeat of health issues that she traces to the first months of 2020, when dozens of veterans died at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, in one of the country’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreaks at a long-term nursing facility.

Mental Health and Public Health 63

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For the most part hospitals and health systems never felt anything like what they dealt with in 2020 when the virus first appeared. There was little question that the virus that emerged in the spring of 2020 in the United States was a bad virus. Mortality rate by age and sex due to COVID in Philadelphia (Accessed 4.2021).

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The Health Care Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Joseph Campbel l, who died in 1987 at the age 83, was a professor of literature and comparative mythology at Sarah Lawrence College. It may have something to do with the fact that Uber has fought tooth and nail to avoid providing health care as a benefit to its drivers. By MIKE MAGEE. market for that type of labor.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 19, 2024

If the credits end, 4 million Americans could lose their ACA health insurance and 7.2 Also, hospitals, physicians and other professionals who deliver health care could see a rise in uncompensated care. million enrolled in 2020, according to this Health Affairs article.

Ethnicity and Health 52

Ethnicity and Health Ageing and Health Health Policy 52

University of Minnesota CIDRAP

OCTOBER 12, 2021

News Scan for Oct 12, 2021 lmclerno_91236 Tue, 10/12/2021 - 13:37 Bullet points Mental health and COVID-19 Politics and COVID public health policies Avian flu outbreaks in 2 nations Body Mental health worsened amid pandemic, especially in women, young adults An estimated 53.2 Women saw greater increases than men (29.8%

Mental Health and Public Health 52

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. But Brown called them “lucky,” with enough health insurance or money to see a doctor. Research shows Black youth ages 1 to 17 are 18 times as likely to suffer a gun homicide as their white counterparts.

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention 142

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 28, 2024

One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. But Brown called them “lucky,” with enough health insurance or money to see a doctor. Research shows Black youth ages 1 to 17 are 18 times as likely to suffer a gun homicide as their white counterparts.

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention 68

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention Socioeconomic Status and Health Academic and Research Institutions Ageing and Health 68

The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2020, it takes a few taps on a keyboard and tagging an employer in a tweet to cancel a life and tarnish a reputation, or organize a violent mob to target a federal building. In a prior age the social institutions were used to censure Jews and those with too much melanin.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On a sweltering afternoon in July 2020, Belinda Ramones got a call that her brother was in the hospital. ” Two days later, her brother, Jose Leandro-Barrera, died at age 45 with acute kidney failure caused by heatstroke, according to a report from the Hillsborough County medical examiner. .” Ramones said.

Occupational Health and Safety 137

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. On a sweltering afternoon in July 2020, Belinda Ramones got a call that her brother was in the hospital. But health policy and occupational health researchers say that worker deaths are not inevitable. Ramones said.

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of celebrity doctor and failed Senate candidate Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) marks the latest potential shakeup of federal health agencies, and adds new uncertainty to the future of Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. John Fetterman (D).

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