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How do we integrate training in Generalism in medical education?

Better Health For All

An ageing population with multiple long-term conditions highlights the need for training tomorrow’s doctors with skills such as Generalism, leadership and an interprofessional approach to patient care. COVID-19 has further emphasised the significance of public health as a speciality and rekindled wider interest in health inequalities [1].

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BCHC supports recommendations to improve Child Tax Credit and reduce child poverty

Big Cities Health Coalition

In a letter to the Chair, Vice Chair, and Members of the Working Families Tax Team, 92 national organizations (including Big Cities Health Coalition) and 154 state and local organizations signed a letter to encourage the Working Families Tax Team to meaningfully and permanently improve the Child Tax Credit (CTC) during the 2025 tax negotiations.

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High Blood Pressure Is a Growing Problem Among Children and Teens

Mercola

High blood pressure is a health concern that middle-aged adults and the elderly usually contend with, however, new research suggests that this silent killer is now affecting the lives of American children at an alarming rate. These include "low education, low income, no health insurance, food insecurity and no or limited employment."

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MedPAC Got It Wrong (pt 3)

The Health Care Blog

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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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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Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

Once the federales blocked the health insurance company mega-mergers, it was only a matter of time before alternative approaches to rearranging the three-dimensional chessboard of the healthcare-industrial complex would emerge. Health insurance, pharmacy and urgent care all under one roof. The approach du jour is the vertical merger.

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Will Vertical Integration Kill the Primary Care Practice?

Health Blawg

Once the federales blocked the health insurance company mega-mergers, it was only a matter of time before alternative approaches to rearranging the three-dimensional chessboard of the healthcare-industrial complex would emerge. Health insurance, pharmacy and urgent care all under one roof. The approach du jour is the vertical merger.