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

Health Populi

But there are also climate-related risks to health care institutions — think Hurricane Katrina and the images of patients having to be air-lifted out of urban New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes. Existing vulnerabilities enable those climate-related risks to more negatively impact health outcomes.

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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. Words do matter.

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