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The International Weaponization of Health Data

Bill of Health

The Global Health Data Exchange : “The world’s most comprehensive catalog of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data,” including data from 1990 to 2019 on mortality and morbidity in 204 countries and territories, which spans 369 diseases, injuries, and impairments, and 87 risk factors.

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Public Health Product Hops

Bill of Health

Regulatory and patent exclusivity periods govern the timing of generic entry, and because market share and revenue is often quickly lost upon market entry of generic drugs, extending market exclusivity for any duration can be extremely profitable. Glenn Cohen’s Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop at HLS.

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Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action

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Concluding reflections In July 2019, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on climate change and disability rights, which called on governments to adopt a disability-inclusive approach to climate adaptation.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

With government’s relaxing regulations, health care providers could move staff and resources virtually from place to place, regardless of State licensure or other barriers to providing telemedicine, remote monitoring, and other flavors of telehealth. . ” The hospital of the future is not the hospital of 2019.

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Health Populi

For example, in 2019, some of the big health care issues for consumers were politics (in general), women’s health, the opioid crisis, and vaping/tobacco — for which dots didn’t connect nearly as intimately as the 2020 top 5 topics. This includes health care.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

After her death in 2013, the Southwark Coroner’s Court found that air pollution “made a material contribution” to her death, “a landmark decision” according to a government advisor on air pollution. The coroner concluded that Ella was exposed to excessive levels of pollution.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens? Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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