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We Hold These Truths

The Health Care Blog

It makes achieving health a matter of random chance, or size of pocketbook. It takes a narrow definition of health and pours tremendous amounts of effort and money into trying to achieve that, for brief periods, for some people. We can do better. The status quo is not working, and has never worked, not for most people.

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Telehealth and Medical Education

Exploring Health

Teaching Medical Students to Use Telehealth Can Reduce Rural Health Inequities Telehealth use has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic. Teaching skills for future health professionals is a proactive approach, especially while providers triage how to better serve their patients through telehealth in the present.

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Professor Receives $29M NIH Grant to Study Dementia Risk Factors, Prevention, and Treatment

BU School of Public Health Blog

September 27, 2024 0 Jillian McKoy Twitter Facebook Up to 45 percent of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) cases could be prevented by modifiable risk factors, but current research is limited to observational studies that make it difficult to establish definitive causes.

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Voting from the ER: How health care workers are driving civic engagement

HEALTHBEAT

Researchers have also found a link between voting and health, noting that a vicious cycle can develop where poor health can reduce voter turnout, which can result in electoral outcomes and policies that worsen health inequities. There were definitely patients who were like, ‘No, I’m not interested,’” she said.

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What Is a Global Health Professional?

Tulane Public Health Blog

While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity.

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School-based telehealth expands further in North Carolina

NC Health News

Early data shows that 70 percent of patients reported improvement with depression, 86 percent improvement for anxiety issues and 69 percent improvement for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, said Charissa Gray, program director of virtual care and integrated behavioral health at UNC Chapel Hill.

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Proposing a new indicator to assess health disparities: measuring inequalities in causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

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.