BU School of Public Health Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The core of epidemiology is understanding why some groups of people are healthier or sicker than others, so we can use that evidence to improve everyone’s health. Epidemiologists work on a huge range of health concerns, from infertility to healthy aging and everything in between. Consider the environment of the program overall.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

For example, let’s assume that one of your buyer personas is male, between the ages of 30 and 55, interested in health and fitness, and needs to have the latest technology gadgets no matter what they cost. In summary, data driven marketing is critical to the success of marketing and communications teams globally.

Media and Health Communication 140

Media and Health Communication Ageing and Health 140

Frontiers

APRIL 27, 2022

Cazalis and her collaborators used an online questionnaire to survey the experiences of 225 autistic women who volunteered to participate (of all ages over 17). Because of the young age of most victims at the time of first assault, the authors suggest that education strategies may not be the most effective means of prevention.

Ageing and Health 128

Ageing and Health 128

The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. BY ERIC LARSEN and TOMMY IBRAHIM. Eric Larsen.

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Telemedicine and Digital Health Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Rural Health Telemedicine and Virtual Healthcare 85

Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You should check out his blog at HIStalk , called CIO Unplugged , and you should follow him on Twitter: @marxtango. We kicked off our chat with Ed noting that while in the digital age we can be engaged in rapid innovation and improvement, there is no particular endpoint. Health Care Law and Consulting. The Harlow Group LLC.

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Health Insurance Companies Ageing and Health 113

PHIG Partners

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The Seattle and King County Department of Public Health hosted its second annual Public Health Camp from August 5-9, 2024, with a clear mission: to uplift in the next generation of public health and community leaders. Learn more about the camp on Public Health – Seattle and King County’s blog, the Public Health Insider.

Ageing and Health 52

Ageing and Health 52

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Her work focuses on food engineering and food technology of new functional foods for human health. Nutritional science is part of the way that we consume our food, manage our health, but also control our economy and manage our finances across the world. There needs to be more investment in its promotion to women, and from an early age.

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Academic and Research Institutions Ageing and Health 116

Frontiers

JULY 18, 2023

The blog, Five traits to look for in a Systems Leader , explains more about what this concept is and represents. The Villars Symposium unites high school-aged youth and sustainability experts worldwide to address urgent global challenges.

Climate Change and Health 98

Climate Change and Health Ageing and Health 98

The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By JEFF GOLDMSITH As health systems struggle to emerge from the post-COVID financial crisis, the importance of the clinical enterprise to these systems has dramatically increased. This commitment has a direct financial consequence for health systems. A roll-up is not a credible foundation for a system, but merely a holding action.

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Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Ageing and Health Health Policy 69

Frontiers

DECEMBER 27, 2021

They show that the pharaoh was around 35 years old, 169cm tall, circumcized, and in good physical health when he died, apparently from natural causes. His was a kind of golden age: Egypt was prosperous and safe, while the pharaoh ordered a religious building spree and led successful military expeditions to Libya and northern Sudan.

Ageing and Health 122

Ageing and Health 122

The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I’m old enough that I remember when the Boeing 707 took airline passenger travel from the prop age to the jet age. In fact, there is an American Society of Healthcare Engineers , which says is “dedicated to optimizing the health care built environment. It turns out that there is something called a healthcare engineer.

Healthcare Systems and Hospitals 59

Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Ageing and Health Health Policy 59

BU School of Public Health Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Research Flavonoid-Rich Fruit Consumption in Midlife May Ward Off Late-Life Dementia A new study found that higher intake of flavonoid-rich fruits in middle-aged adults was significantly associated with a lower risk of dementia, compared to a low intake of these fruits.

Ageing and Health 71

Ageing and Health Health Policy 71

The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Between May 12, 2021 and October 31, 2021 within a population of 32 million persons aged 12-50 years, 21 million first doses of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer) vaccine and 2.86 The highest risk of myocarditis is in women aged 18-24 after the second dose of the Moderna vaccine at a rate of ~ 1/18,700.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Yet, Offit has publicly questioned the practice of giving third doses to young people with no health risk factors, and thinks that a case of COVID-19 probably should count as a dose. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine also comes in two different doses, so far, one for ages 12 and up, the other for children ages 5-11.

Maternal and Child Health 105

Maternal and Child Health Ageing and Health Health Metrics and Evaluation Risk Factors 105

Frontiers

JULY 28, 2021

Yet the role that glucose plays in the progression of the disease and the importance of managing glucose levels in the aging population, people with diabetes and the general public, was unclear. Unless otherwise noted, you can republish articles posted in the Frontiers news blog — as long as you include a link back to the original research.

Climate Change and Health 145

Climate Change and Health Ageing and Health 145

Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

Ageing and Health 60

Ageing and Health 60

Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

Ageing and Health 60

Ageing and Health 60

APHL

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Disease detectives get to work Six of the people sickened with Listeria monocytogenes last summer lived in Maryland, which prompted public health officials there to spring into action. Epidemiologists at the Maryland Department of Health (MDOH) interviewed patients and their families to try and detect common denominators.

Environmental Health and Safety 98

Environmental Health and Safety Media and Health Communication Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Ageing and Health 98

Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

Ageing and Health 60

Ageing and Health 60

Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

Ageing and Health 60

Ageing and Health 60

Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

Ageing and Health 60

Ageing and Health 60

Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Our October Lunch and Learn focused on building a niche beat as a freelance health care journalist. Seegert has been covering aging since about 2010. She recognized that Obamacare was emerging and there was a need for health reporters to explain the nuances. Almost anything can be an aging issue,” she said.

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Ageing and Health 52

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Now, one of those leading the breakthrough research, Dr Emmanuelle Logette, reveals as part of the Frontier Scientists series how even at a very young age she knew she wanted to be a researcher in the fascinating world of genetics. For many years, fat was the enemy of health, before realizing that the actual ‘devil’ is probably sugar.

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Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention Ageing and Health Global Health 111

UNC Epidemiology Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Shawna (at far left) stands with other Gilings School students who planned Black Maternal Health Week, plus an event panelist. Shawna Howard wants to bridge gaps using digital health tools. What’s your role in public health? My focus area within maternal health, specifically, is Black maternal health.

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Maternal and Child Health Health Education and Training Organizations Ageing and Health Social Determinants of Health 111

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At the tender age of 12, Mary was already helping her mother “The Doctoress” treat sick and injured soldiers. Later Years – Mother Seacole After the Crimean War, Mary returned to London with very little money and poor health. Thousands of soldiers reached out to newspapers about her tremendous work.

Ageing and Health 97

Ageing and Health 97

Sheffield DPH

OCTOBER 5, 2023

“public health need to do more to prevent illness and is failing to control demand into acute care” So a few have said to me recently, or similar. We discussed the ageing population. Probably true. But with caveats. Here are the things I often bring up in the conversation We talk about 25% cuts to budget. This is often a surprise.

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Ageing and Health 40

APHL

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By Donna Campisano, specialist, Communications, APHL Public health has a personnel problem. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the public health workforce has shrunk dramatically. It’s projected that there will be a shortage of 100,000 public health professionals by 2025, up from 80,000 in 2021. It’s being proactive and reactive.

Ageing and Health 69

Ageing and Health Health Equity 69

Gideon

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This highly contagious virus is a leading cause of gastroenteritis worldwide and affects people of all ages and in various settings. Understanding the ins and outs of norovirus is crucial to reduce the risk of getting infected and minimize its disruptive effects on public health. Learn more in our blog: [link].

Ageing and Health 52

Ageing and Health 52

Frontiers

MAY 10, 2022

Besides BMI trajectory group and season (fall or spring), the authors used the school, the child’s age in months, gender, race or ethnicity, and relative body weight or height compared to peers as explanatory variables to model seasonal changes in height, weight, and BMIz, as well as their modifying statistical interactions.

Ethnicity and Health 105

Ethnicity and Health Ageing and Health 105

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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Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Ageing and Health Health Policy 76

The Health Care Blog

JULY 5, 2022

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, health, and the pursuit of Happiness. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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Ethnicity and Health Food Security and Safety Ageing and Health Health Inequalities 105

BU School of Public Health Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Maria Glymour Maria Glymour , chair and professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health; Jacqueline Torres, associate professor of epidemiology & biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco; and Paola Gilsanz, research scientist II at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, have received a $28.8

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Risk Factors Socioeconomic Status and Health Mental Health and Public Health Ethnicity and Health 70

BU School of Public Health Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The core of epidemiology is understanding why some groups of people are healthier or sicker than others, so we can use that evidence to improve everyone’s health. Epidemiologists work on a huge range of health concerns, from infertility to healthy aging and everything in between. Consider the environment of the program overall.

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Health Education and Training Organizations Biostatistics Health Equity Ageing and Health 52

National Council on Urban Indian Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

SDPI provides culturally informed care, funds life-saving efforts to fight diabetes at Indian Health Service facilities (including 31 Urban Indian Organizations) and is critical to improving long-term health outcomes in Indian Country. We greatly appreciate your recognition of these considerations.

Ageing and Health 98

Ageing and Health 98

The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

He wrote a piece in Health Affairs last year arguing with the stance of Medicare Advantage of Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan (Here’s their piece pt1 , pt2 ). Too many people have been damaged at multiple levels for multiple years by various social inequities and by basic disparities in health. We also published his criticism (Part 1.

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Ageing and Health 111

The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).

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Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Mental Health and Public Health Climate Change and Health Ageing and Health 98

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ursula Gazeley According to the most recent data from the World Health Organization , the lifetime risk of maternal death for a girl in Chad is a staggering 1 in 15, compared with 1 in 43,000 in Norway. The number of maternal near misses can only come from health care facilities. Int J Epidemiol 2023; 18 December.

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Ageing and Health Maternal and Child Health 52