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

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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

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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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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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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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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The Health Care Blog

JULY 19, 2022

I read the Stat News investigative piece “ Health care’s high rollers ,” by Bob Herman and colleagues, with interest but not much surprise. As Kaiser Family Foundation’s CEO Drew Altman told them, “Health care has become big business. As Kaiser Family Foundation’s CEO Drew Altman told them, “Health care has become big business.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Its workforce is aging and burnt out. Our power plants and transmission lines are aging badly, we have a phobia of nuclear that is also starting to apply to coal as well, climate change is throwing more extreme weather at us, and many of the renewable options (solar, wind, geothermal) are not quite ready for prime time yet.

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Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Climate Change and Health Ageing and Health Health Policy 98

The Health Care Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Spring migrations are now taking place earlier, with age classes, species and flyways significantly altered. Extreme climatic events, more common in an age of “global weirding” of weather, are also more common. Both spell greater mixing and exchange of viruses across avian species.

Health Policy 111

Health Policy 111

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

To illustrate this, researchers highlighted the impact that overadjustment would have on their total effect of interest ( educational inequalities in health among people with chronic kidney disease ) by building various models with different levels of adjustment and explicitly comparing the results.

Health Education and Training Organizations 52

Health Education and Training Organizations Health Inequalities Ageing and Health Social Determinants of Health 52

The Health Care Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

Putin’s aging dreams of conquest likely are Napoleonic in scale. Mike Magee, MD is a Medical Historian and Health Economist, and author of “CodeBlue: Inside the Medical Industrial Complex.“. Putin likely feels a similar love for Mother Russia, but ultimately the Russian people may choose not to return the affection.

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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.)

Health Policy 105

Health Policy 105

The Health Care Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

The capitation levels that are paid to the plans are affected very directly by the health status levels of the actual enrollees. That initial payment process has evolved very intentionally into having diagnosis-based cost factors that attempt to link the health status of the members and a fair payment level for the plans.

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Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 1, 2024

I must stress these are my views as a jobbing public health professional and just that. There is going to be a crisis in the next 20 years in health care delivery. We mostly ignored the recommendations of the 2 nd (Public Health) and 3 rd (social care) reports. We all live in hope. I am (very) often asked what my views are.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Young college age men are a high-risk demographic for vaccine associated myocarditis mRNA vaccine associated myocarditis/myopericarditis is an uncommon, but well-documented issue with COVID vaccines in young adults, particularly after 2nd or 3rd doses, and particularly in otherwise healthy males.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

That’s not the American Dream many of us grew up believing in. We’ve got a winner-take-all economy, and it’s leaving behind more and more people.

Health Policy 59

Health Policy 59

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

AUGUST 10, 2022

A recent CNN article discusses approval of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for people ages 6-17. The CDC director acted after its vaccine advisers on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously to support the two dose Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for kids in this age group.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

When he died in 2018 at age 85, his memoriam read : “For over 50 years, Dr. Slack conducted pioneering research on the use of computers in the medical world and was one of the founders of medical informatics. Clearly, not all health technology innovators share this narrow focus. She died at a Pinellas Park hospice on March 31, 2005.

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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.

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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.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Judging by other parts of the interview, ‘they’ means government health agencies, big pharma, mainstream media. million to five institutions (Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Oregon Health and Science University [OHSU]) to study vaccines and the menstrual cycle.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

markets, overseeing large physician networks and other health systems, including so-called Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that oversee the care of tens of thousands of attributed patients. Many of those individuals are between the ages of 20 and 40. Yet, given the trends, these starting ages might still be too high.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the Congressional Research Service , the average age of House Members is 58.4 OK, about that: Statista tracked average age at hire of CEOs from 2005 to 2018, and the average age of CEOs rose from 45.9 Fortune confirms that the average age of Fortune 500 CEOs is 57; again, Baby Boomer territory.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For seniors seeking health insurance coverage for 2025, open enrollment comes with new risks. One of the first problems seniors will face this year is that health insurers will charge more for prescription drug and medical care in 2025 than they charged this year, wrote Bob Herman and Tara Bannow at STAT News. Health System.”

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 12, 2022

She is currently Dean Emeritus and Professor of Health Policy and Management at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, but also spent years in government, and was on President Obama’s Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health. Linda Rosenstock has an M.D. per 1000 to 11.4

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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. Early on, it had a mortality rate that was multiples of the flu virus for almost every age group (even though the absolute risk to the young and healthy was always very low).

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 1, 2022

The Marshall Plan answered the question above, and its success in choosing health services as a starting point was well documented by many in the years to come, including the RAND Corporation. The AMA should pull all financial support for all Republican candidates through the 2022 elections.

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. Taxpayer money is going to “pregnancy crisis centers” that flat out lie to vulnerable patients about the impact of abortions on their health. They’re short and usually not too sweet! Matthew Holt.

Ageing and Health 98

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This was the adrenaline-infused decade of blockbuster pharmaceuticals focused squarely on chronic debilitating diseases of aging. In 1992, the IOM served notice with the publication of “Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in The United States.” Our health care system remains porous and highly variable.

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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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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 5, 2022

Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. For my health care tidbits this week, I think we need a new vaccine. But as someone who had shingles long before the recommended age for the vaccine, let me tell you, you’ll wish you had the vaccine should you get it. They’re short and usually not too sweet! Matthew Holt.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Pornography, contraceptive equipment, reproductive health literature, and books deemed risque’ or suggestive all fell into his crosshairs. If “privacy” at the intersection of health and intimacy resided in the protective shield of “penumbra”, how about health itself? It was not power but time that overtook Comstock.

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Fitness and Wellness Industry Ageing and Health Reproductive Health Health Policy 98

The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In a prior age the social institutions were used to censure Jews and those with too much melanin. After all, the goal of the CDC now isn’t just to maximize benefits versus harms, it is to also mitigate health inequities as the ethics table from that document makes clear. Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization. We’re being reminded that HIPAA only goes so far , and, in our digital age, that isn’t very far. But, of course, I say “women” and I’m talking about pregnancy/abortion, but in 2022 all of us should be wondering who might be accessing our health information, for what purposes.

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