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Against American Public Health Exceptionalism

Bill of Health

Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises. In both contexts, these reporting failures make it difficult to mount a competent public health response to prevent unnecessary mortality. By Jennifer D. Just as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.

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The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents

Bill of Health

Article 6 of the TRIPS states that “the exhaustion of intellectual property rights” is left to “each Member free to establish its own regime for such exhaustion without challenge,” a topic that was front and center of the 1998 to 2001 litigation between drug companies and South Africa.

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Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah: A Pioneer in Safe Abortion Law Reform

Bill of Health

She then served as Ghana’s Minister of Health from 1996 to 1998 and as Ghana’s Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1998 to 2001. From Minister to Advocate Dr. Brookman-Amissah returned to Ipas in 2001, where she served as Vice President for Africa until 2014.

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4 Key Ways QHINs Will Improve Healthcare Interoperability

HIT Consultant

“QHINs are the pillars of TEFCA network-to-network exchange, providing shared services and governance to securely route queries, responses, and messages across networks for eligible participants including patients, providers, hospitals, health systems, payers, and public health agencies,” according to ONC.

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Access to Reproductive Technology May Be Impeded by Workplace Law and Policy in South Africa

Bill of Health

Treatments are available almost exclusively in the private health care sector only, with only certain health insurance providers funding treatment. This leaves individuals who are out of pocket, or who have access to only public health care facilities without access to treatment.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. In 2001, Sonia was appointed to the West Virginia Health Care Authority (WVHCA).

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Reproductive Governance in a Post-Roe US: The Weaponization of Health Systems

Bill of Health

I was living and working in Peru in 2001, when Karen Noelia Llantoy discovered she was pregnant with an anencephalic fetus. By Alicia Ely Yamin. Llantoy, a minor at the time, became profoundly depressed.