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Patient brokers prey on those struggling with addiction; new campaign works to stop them

NC Health News

Patient brokering, sometimes called body brokering, can take several forms, according to the Dayspring Foundation formerly the Eleanor Health Foundation which supports addressing the social determinants of health within the recovery ecosystem.

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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

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. Shifting the policy focus has the potential to secure a healthier economy, healthier communities, and a healthier future for all.”

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The Pivot with Rotimi Kukoyi

UNC Epidemiology Blog

Rotimi Kukoyi wants to be a bridge builder in public health. What’s your role in public health? Im a junior studying health policy and management at the Gillings School. I want to be a physician and a policy maker, and I chose public health because its highly interdisciplinary.

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Could doulas improve maternal health outcomes in the U.S.?

Association of Health Care Journalists

These disparities highlight the urgent need for innovative approaches to maternal care that address not only clinical needs but also the social determinants of health that contribute to these disparities. Doula care may not be a panacea, but it is a solutions-focused tool in the larger effort to achieve maternal health equity.

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Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part one)

The Health Care Blog

A significantly large number of health policy people in settings like MedPac carefully avoid mentioning, discussing or even considering those additional benefits and those direct member savings because, they say, those benefits in Medicare Advantage happen for individual people.

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PHAB Names Joneigh Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP, As New President and CEO

PHAB

As Detroits Health Director, she aligned multiple academic, hospital, and public health stakeholders in an effort that in 2019 resulted in Detroit having the lowest infant mortality rate in history. She obtained her B.S. from the University of Michigan, M.D. from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, M.P.H.

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MedPAC Got It Wrong (pt 3)

The Health Care Blog

We have a lot of people in this country who have been damaged for too many years in too many ways by social determinants of health (SDH) factors that have created inequities and disparities in both health and care. Many of these people are now eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. MedPac exists to advise Congress.