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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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.

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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.

Health Disparities 52

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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).

Healthcare Systems and Hospitals 98

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

Exploring Health

JANUARY 15, 2025

Teaching Medical Students to Use Telehealth Can Reduce Rural Health Inequities Telehealth use has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic. After the pandemic, health systems in the US have increased the use of telehealth for postsurgical operation follow-ups, consults, and mental health visits, among others.

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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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Fund for Public Health NYC

JANUARY 28, 2025

The NYC Health Department has released a new strategy to address the root causes of chronic diseases, which are the leading causes of death for New Yorkers. This comprehensive report, part of the HealthyNYC initiative, outlines a plan to reduce health inequities and promote healthier lives for all.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 22, 2025

This study builds on previous research by the agency and reported by NC Health News , which found PFAS in pants and jackets worn by firefighters who battle structure fires. Those studies also included stress tests on the garments meant to evaluate how PFAS would react as the protective gear aged and the chemicals coating the gear degraded.

Environmental Health and Safety 120

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Institute of Public Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Set up prior to the signing of the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement in 1998, IPH has been shaping public health policy across the island of Ireland for 25 years. Watch summary video In his address, Professor McKee argued that governments will only achieve the best possible outcomes for their people if they invest in their health.

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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 68

BU School of Public Health Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

The American College of Epidemiology and Society of Epidemiologic Research (SER) have both recently called for greater representation of Latino epidemiologists in public health, noted Pescador Jimenez and her colleagues in their proposal for the educational alliance.

Ethnicity and Health 59

Ethnicity and Health Ageing and Health Health Inequalities Health Disparities 59

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.

Public Health Law and Policy Consulting 40

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Black Health Matters

JANUARY 9, 2025

When it comes to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and social determinants of health (SDoH), it’s clear that these issues go hand in hand, especially for the Black community. These aren’t just numbers; they represent real barriers to accessing care and better health outcomes.

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Sheffield DPH

JANUARY 14, 2023

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.

Mental Health and Public Health 40

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NC Health News

JANUARY 20, 2025

She left behind her career as a health unit coordinator in Florida. But since moving, Drysdale hasn’t been able to find a lasting job near her Eden home in Rockingham County, and shes worried its because of her age. Since Medicaid expansion last year , more than 22 percent of new enrollees are people aged 50-64.

Ageing and Health 131

Ageing and Health Mental Health and Public Health Health Inequalities Rural Health 131

NC Health News

MARCH 23, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural womens health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals cant afford to keep delivering babies and providing other critical OB/GYN services, but their communities cant afford for them to stop.

Maternal and Child Health 52

Maternal and Child Health Public Health Law and Regulation Rural Health Ageing and Health 52

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

MARCH 14, 2025

The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 AMCHP Annual Awards. This combination of skills enables her to provide holistic support, addressing not only the physical aspects of maternal health but also the emotional and mental well-being of her clients.

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Exploring Health

MARCH 12, 2025

Championing Maternal and Newborn Health: The Work of Dr. Sydney Spangler Spangler fights for safe and equitable care for mothers and babies alike, from the classroom to across the world. A Tanzanian nurse on the screen explains the latest results from a hospitals new maternal health information system that Spangler helped implement.

Maternal and Child Health 59

Maternal and Child Health Health Metrics and Evaluation Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Global Health 59

NC Health News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Nearly 6,500 people were told to flee their homes in the middle of the night for their health and safety. The company also violated Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards related to its storage of ammonium nitrate. Did the fire affect health? Businesses in the area were forced to close for several days.

Environmental Health and Safety 66

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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.

Health Inequalities 98

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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 143

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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 59

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention Socioeconomic Status and Health Academic and Research Institutions Ageing and Health 59

NC Health News

DECEMBER 14, 2024

By Arthur Allen The availability of safe, effective COVID vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year history of vaccination, seemingly heralding an age of protection against infectious diseases. Hell make America sick again, said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of public health law at Georgetown University.

Public Health Law and Policy Consulting 98

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NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

If a hospital begins to see declining numbers of births, due to an aging or shrinking population in the area, per-birth costs increase dramatically. Most hospitals in the state are governmental, educational and/or nonprofit, which means their pursuit of health care is supposed to come before the balance sheet.

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Anne Blythe As executive orders and new policy directives come out of the White House at a dizzying pace, many health care workers have found themselves in a quandary. Now many doctors and other health care providers are uncertain what to do if immigration officers, often referred to as ICE, show up in their waiting rooms and clinics.

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