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Community Health Workers Spread Across the US, Even in Rural Areas

KFF Health News

The programs are often based at hospital systems or community health centers. Patients are typically referred to programs by clinicians who notice personal struggles or frequent visits to hospital emergency departments. The workers have a median pay of $23 an hour, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Exclusive: Emails Reveal How Health Departments Struggle To Track Human Cases of Bird Flu

KFF Health News

“[REDACTED] does not feel that they need MSU Extension to come out,” she added, referring to outreach to farmworkers provided by Michigan State University. . “[REDACTED] feels that this may have started [REDACTED] weeks ago, that was the first time that they noticed a decrease in milk production,” she wrote.

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Are States Keeping Their Promises on Opioid Settlement Transparency?

KFF Health News

G-9 refers to “school-based or youth-focused programs or strategies that have demonstrated effectiveness in preventing drug misuse.” But in reality, it reads like this: In fiscal 2023, the city of Chubbuck spent about $39,000 on Section G, Subsection 9. Cracking that code requires a separate document. Learn more about KFF.

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Mental Health Crisis in Miscarriage–an Unrepresented Patient Population

The Health Care Blog

This is a stark contrast to the multitude of OB and infant visits where screening for perinatal mental health disorders can be easily completed. We don’t follow up, we don’t refer, and what we do explain-they can’t even digest. It is a day they will never forget, and we already have.

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Vaccine Myocarditis Update

The Health Care Blog

There are a number of problems using this reference. To start, given the massive COVID age risk gradient, the vast majority of deaths in an 18-49 year old category cluster towards the top of the category.

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#WNTD Blog: Tobacco and Mental Health - Untangling the relationship and identifying opportunities to progress policy

Institute of Public Health

The policy analysis outlined the current policy landscape in relation to smoking and mental ill health in the UK and Ireland. We used the READ approach * (Dalglish et al, 2020) to collate and compare relevant health policies at local and national level. Health Policy and Planning 35 (10) 1424–1431.

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Defanging HIPAA: How Your De-identified Data Was Re-identified For Profit.

The Health Care Blog

IQVIA took the data from GE’s MQIC database and merged it with Truven’s MarketScan with an aim of re-identifying your health data, thus vastly expanding its commercial value. As an internal GE memo later revealed, the cross-reference with Tureen data allowed re-identification of the original patient source with “95% accuracy.”As