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When Crafting Public Health Policy, the Perfect Shouldn’t Be the Enemy of the Good

Bill of Health

For example, public health officials at virtually every level have resisted implementation or reinstatement of mask mandates in part by arguing that either some percentage of the population will not mask or that mask mandates alone will be ineffective. Sound familiar? It’s one justification for pandemic policy inaction in a nutshell.

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The Pandemic Policy Excuse of ‘Meeting People Where They Are’

Bill of Health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were justified by some public health pundits as “ meet[ing] where most Americans are.” Regarding the significance of “meeting people where they are” in public health, the underlying premise of the argument here is sound. support mask mandates during surges, for example.

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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

Bill of Health

Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs. Impairment vs. disability.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. Healthcare experienced a bounce in the one year 2020-21, rising from 56 points of trust among U.S. By mid-2020, Edelman detected, “a decline in willingness to share personal data to fight the pandemic.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19

Bill of Health

In July 2020, when Mrs. Kuciemba tested positive, exposures were relatively discrete, and the dominant strain of the virus was not nearly as transmissible as later variants. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

In April 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a report featuring evidence that in the month of March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was not an equal-opportunity killer. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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