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Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

Though the government has learnt lessons in the past, and though it has codified some aspects of these lessons into our laws and policies relating to public health, it has always used a disease lens in the application of the lessons learned as opposed to a human rights lens.

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. America is the only wealthy nation to lack universal health coverage.

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Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Adds Scoring for Health Disparities

Hall Render

Background Congress mandated the Hospital VBP Program in 2010 to reward acute care hospitals for the quality of care provided in the inpatient setting. Set to begin in the FFY 2026 payment year, CMS will be using data on inpatient stays from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024.

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Managing Healthcare Compliance in New Jersey

MedTrainer

New Jersey Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) oversees various departments and initiatives aimed at ensuring public health, such as disease control, environmental health, emergency preparedness, and health equity.

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Americans Lost Future Life-Years in 2020: How Much Life Was Lost Depends on the Color of One’s Skin

Health Populi

It took years to narrow the life expectancy gender gap: NCHS notes that in the decade between 2000 and 2010, the gap between the sexes declined from 5.2 For insights into that trend of growing male mortality, search for my posts on the Deaths of Despair here on Health Populi). The differences between males and females was 5.4

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Healthcare Access and Cost Top Americans’ Concerns in Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

The Gallup Poll , fielded in the first week of March 2018, found that peoples’ overall economic and employment concerns are on the decline since 2010, at the height of the Great Recession which began in 2008. While 70% of Americans were worried about economic matters in 2010, only 34% of people in the U.S.

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