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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

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Today, 7 April, is World Health Day. With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As

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What the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Health

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The three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics — Banerjee and Duflo (both of MIT) and Kremer (working at Harvard) — were recognized for their work on alleviating global poverty.” The post What the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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HIMSS22 Europe: ‘We need to develop eco-friendly digital health’

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of the world’s net greenhouse gas emissions come from the healthcare sector – double those from the airline industry. million deaths worldwide in 2019, making it the third biggest cause of death behind heart disease and stroke. According to a report from the NGO, Healthcare without Harm , around 4.4%

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Difrent and Visionable announce partnership to empower healthcare transformation through video collaboration

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The partnership aims to improve health outcomes and save costs by ensuring that clients maximise their investment in the Visionable platform and helping them to design the most effective ways of working. The adoption of telehealth solutions was one of the key healthtech trends of 2019. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Disability-Inclusive Climate Action in Bangladesh: Gaps and Opportunities

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More specifically, per Bangladesh’s Standing Orders on Disasters, 2019 , local-level disaster management committees are responsible for identifying people at pronounced risk of natural disasters due to disability, disseminating alerts and safety messages, evacuating at-risk groups, and generally ensuring the security of persons with disabilities.

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Calling for Holistic Maternal Care to Address Racial Disparities: The Role of Midwives and Doulas

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The Maternal and Infant Health Crisis The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1,205 women died due to childbirth-associated health complications in 2021, up from 754 in 2019. is the most dangerous place to be born in in the developed world. According to the U.S. Further, the U.S.

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AI: Patients Included

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adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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