KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Boscán Fauquier, with the National Rural Health Association, said that because community health workers are familiar with the cultures they serve, they can suggest affordable food that clients are familiar with. Others are attracted by rural areas’ lower crime rates and cheaper housing. Learn more about KFF.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

This is not ByteDance’s first foray into healthcare; in 2020 it bought Xiaohe Medical , an internet hospital, as well as a medical information site and a telehealth service. Its health business are under the umbrellas of Xiaohe Health and Xiaohe Health Technologies. . ) or who spend too much money overseas.

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20th International Congress on Infectious Diseases

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In 2017, he was awarded an NHMRC-supported PhD in antibiotic allergy testing in Antimicrobial Stewardship, and in 2020 completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the National Centre for Infections in Cancer exploring antibiotic allergy in immunocompromised hosts.

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PHAB

JUNE 24, 2024

Archer has served as a member of PHAB’s Board of Directors since 2008 and as a member of the Accreditation Committee from 2014 to 2020 and from 2023 to 2024. He served as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors from 2018 to 2020 and as Chair of the Board of Directors from 2020 to 2022.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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. In 2020, U.S.

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Institute of Public Health

MAY 30, 2023

The policy analysis outlined the current policy landscape in relation to smoking and mental ill health in the UK and Ireland. We used the READ approach * (Dalglish et al, 2020) to collate and compare relevant health policies at local and national level. Health Policy and Planning 35 (10) 1424–1431.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In 2020, the number surpassed 180. In fact, the article says, “Utility customers on average experienced just over eight hours of power interruptions in 2020, more than double the amount in 2013.” The Wall Street Journal reported : Large, sustained outages have occurred with increasing frequency in the U.S.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) COVID-19 public health campaign, revealing it was fraught with miscalculations that set the stage for widespread public distrust. 1 In December 2020, the U.S. However, by April 2020, the CDC had completely reversed its stance, recommending masks for everyone outside the home.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“Estamos mucho mejor preparados para responder a una pandemia que en 2020”, declaró Amy Palmer, vocera de la Oficina de Servicios de Emergencia del Gobernador de California (Cal OES). Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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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.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

With a jobless rate at 3.5% , and with millions of people who left the job market in 2020 opting to not return to work, employers are having a hard time finding workers. BY KIM BELLARD. Things are tough all over the job market. Your favorite restaurant or retail store probably has a “Help Wanted” sign out.

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PHAB

DECEMBER 16, 2024

in Health Policy from George Washington University, and completed her emergency medicine residency at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital Center, where she also served as Chief Resident. She obtained her B.S. from the University of Michigan, M.D. from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, M.P.H.

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The Network for Public Health Law

AUGUST 1, 2024

Workforce inequities in industries such as agriculture and construction mean people of color in these occupations often face disproportionate risks – Hispanic workers accounted for about 1/3 of heat related deaths between 2010 and 2020 but make up only 17% of the United States workforce.

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 18, 2022

He’s since moved on to do many other things, and is a potent voice that may have been instrumental in the FDA delaying approval of the mrna vaccines until after the 2020 election. (I vaguely recall feeling like I was starting to understand Cardiology at the age of 36.)

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International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Despite this limitation, cause of death heterogeneity indicators can inform effective health policies and the promotion of social and preventive medicine, especially if used in conjunction with other population health indicators, such as life expectancy and lifespan inequality. Int J Epidemiol 2024; 14 February.

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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.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A 2020 study found e-waste from discarded electronics includes “14 rare earth elements, six platinum group metals, 20 critical metals, and 16 other elements, including some precious metals.”.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The vaccine efficacy data for the original data was from thousands of patients and I certainly felt given the devastation wreaked on many of my patients in 2020 that the vaccines were the best chance of avoiding morbidity and mortality.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Driven by this and the legislative mandate that juveniles be housed separately from adults, the number of juveniles admitted to detention centers has increased 33 percent since 2020, according to the division's 2023 annual report.

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

In a time of digital health, where are our smart toilets to help us track changes in our health? . As I wrote in 2020 , microplastics are everywhere: in the air, in the ocean, in the land, in the water we drink, in the food we eat, and, at this point, probably in our cells. ———-.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

DECEMBER 9, 2024

A lot of decisions about health policy and practice get made based on epidemiological data. Federal funding priorities and shortfalls have led to insufficient focus on critical health issues beyond infectious disease. Im proud of our department for its work to contain the outbreak so quickly.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Ashwin Vasan, NYC Health Commissioner and FPHNYC Board Chair The “HealthyNYC” plan aims to address the life years lost during the COVID-19 pandemic to the virus and other causes and surpass life expectancy from what it was pre-pandemic. Between 2019 and 2020, overall life expectancy across demographics fell to 78 years.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 1, 2021

RS: As Director of Aging Research at King’s (ARK), my vision has been to establish an international academic-industry hub to promote healthy longevity innovation and to better inform government health policy decisions.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Cone objected to state officials, saying it would bring higher health care costs, add no medical services not already available close by and would not serve people living in areas needing more health care options. Cone lost that fight.) Not that the system hasnt considered growth. Does the patient end up healthier?

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Thus, in telling Rogan about his own case of COVID-19 in early 2020, Malone said,my lungs were burning, until I took famotidine and that relieved that.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This is because the shutdown of routine care in hospitals during 2020 produced a multi-hundred billion $$ windfall in cash flow for health plans including Uniteds. In the war between Skynet Medical and the RCM industry, patients and physicians have been reduced to mere datapoints.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A resilient, well-funded, and equitable public health infrastructure is essential to addressing health disparities and improving overall health outcomes for urban populations nationwide. To do its work well, the public health workforce should be protected from undue partisan political influence.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Because value-based care focuses on avoiding chronic disease and helping patients recover from illnesses and injuries more quickly, it has the promise to significantly reduce overall costs in the United States, where nearly 18% of gross domestic product was spent on health care before the pandemic — significantly more than comparable countries.

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The Network for Public Health Law

AUGUST 7, 2024

The term and language defining “divisive concepts” stems from a Presidential Executive Order issued on September 22, 2020. The data were developed using scientific legal mapping techniques and published to the Network’s website with support from the Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

For the past three years, Catalyst has been involved in the IDIH Project, which has recently concluded (you can read more about the overall project findings here ).

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Its predecessor, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) of 2020 enhanced Medicaid funding and required states to provide continuous Medicaid coverage. Rosemarie Day is the Founder & CEO of Day Health Strategies and author of Marching Toward Coverage: How Women Can Lead the Fight for Universal Healthcare (Beacon Press, 2020).

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

In a 2020 Vogue article , University of California, San Francisco professor Diana Greene Foster Greene presciently warned about the failure to discuss abortion “as a personal issue and instead view it as an abstract political debate.”. My family came from Wife ? Like the abortion, this branch of the family tree was a tightly kept secret.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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. These found that many health care workers weren’t given masks in 2020.

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The Hill

DECEMBER 2, 2024

President-elect Trump has vowed to “save vaping,” though his administration in 2020 attempted to restrict flavored vaping products. Twinamatsiko, a director of the Center for Health Policy and the Law at Georgetown University Law Center, said the Tobacco Control Act has very strict criteria for authorizing marketing of a product.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In winter 2020, we were losing ~3,500 people per day. But pretending that most public health policies were largely failures isn’t helpful either. In October 2020, the GBD advocated for a distinct approach: isolate the vulnerable while allowing infections to spread among lower-risk members of the population.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

In the case of ablations, surveys of electrophysiologists executed by professional organizations in the fall of 2020 demonstrated notable reductions in procedure times. Because the amount of time taken to do a procedure isn’t stable over time, Medicare performs a yearly assessment via surveys of physicians.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In a 2020 interview at the University of Rochester, Barry holds strong to his messaging. With Covid came Trump and his sycophants, and Barry’s theory (that mistrust can destroy societal order) was put to the test. Those in authority must retain the public’s trust.

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