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Understanding Climate and Disability Justice: Mitigating Structural Barriers to the Right to Health

Bill of Health

The left side boxes provide examples of social determinants of health associated with each of the elements of vulnerability. Increased exposure, increased sensitivity and reduced adaptive capacity all affect vulnerability at different points in the causal chain from climate drivers to health outcomes (middle boxes).

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A Tale of Two America’s for Health

Health Populi

Health citizens living in states in New England, and then those west of Michigan and north of Missouri and Kansas, demonstrate better-than-average health outcomes. The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This new system facilitates the secure transfer of active-duty service members’ health records as they transition to veteran status, improving data analysis capabilities and leading to better health outcomes. CIO, Banner Health. Deanna Wise.

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Why Family Caregivers Need Help from the Healthcare Establishment

HIT Consultant

Our nation has a vital opportunity to unleash the potential of family caregivers to improve health outcomes. The care adviser not only provides support to patients and caregivers but also can elevate the role of the caregiver and empower them to be an important part of the health care team.

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Gaps in Health Equity in America Are Growing

Health Populi

There’s been a “clear lack of progress on health equity during the past 25 years in the United States,” asserts a data-rich analysis of trends conducted by two professors/researchers from UCLA’s School of Public Health. Four measures of health equity were calculated: Black-white disparities.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus. 2014 – Health Care at an Inflection Point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.