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New insights into the complex health economics of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

News Medical Health Sciences

Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR-The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research, announced today the publication of a special themed section of research papers that provide crucial insights into the complex health economics of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), offering a roadmap for future research (..)

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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

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.

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Climate and health: Stories to watch in 2025

Association of Health Care Journalists

While climate coverage often focuses on heat, its health impacts have a broader audience appeal. With primary care doctors ranked as the most trusted source of information on these health effects, medical professionals have a unique opportunity to educate the public about the far-reaching health impacts of our changing environment.

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Nursing Homes Fell Behind on Vaccinating Patients for Covid

KFF Health News

Children younger than that suffer the highest rates of hospitalization of any age group except people 75 or older. adults, age 70 and older. Sanford achieved this by leveraging the size of the health system to make delivering vaccines more efficient, said Jeremy Cauwels , Sanford’s chief medical officer. where some 1.2

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Nursing homes have fallen behind on vaccinating patients for Covid

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Children younger than that suffer the highest rates of hospitalization of any age group except people 75 or older. adults age 70 and older. Loveland’s maternity leave ended in late June, when Maya wasn’t yet 2 months old.

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Moving beyond “vaguely interested”. Wanless 20 years on.

Sheffield DPH

Public Health” in almost all guises won’t deliver results fast enough on the right now issues. In the medium to long term pretty much everybody says “public health” is “the answer” In whole or in part. Some talk about “prevention” or “public health”. Not into health. Of that there is no doubt. This was good.

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Why cutting sign-up days and navigator funds undermines ACA gains

Association of Health Care Journalists

These budget cuts limited the number of navigators available to help enrollees get the most savings from tax subsidies to help them pay their health insurance premiums. Even saying the United States had a health insurance system is a stretch because U.S. President Barack Obama signed that legislation into law on March 23, 2010, 48.6