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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

Financial health is part of peoples’ overall health. As Americans approach November 3, 2020, the day of the real-time U.S. bill-paying households in late September 2020. Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

In May 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) re-visited the acronym, “PPE.” ” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity.

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2020

Health Populi

We must guard against exacerbating health disparities with these sorts of AI applications in health and medical care. District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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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

Some people remark about 2020 being a “lost year” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. life expectancy at birth fell by one full year over the first half of 2020 compared with 2019, to 77.8 years in the first half of 2020, up from 5.1 If you were born black in 2020, you would on average have lost 2.7

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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. urgently needs a rights-based approach to health.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

And we know that our prisons, jails, and detention centers employ doctors with suspended and limited licenses as the exclusive source for health care for incarcerated people. Carceral health care occurs within a regulatory vacuum.

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Thinking About Health Care One Year From the 2020 Presidential Election

Health Populi

Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S. Note the Business Roundtable’s latest statement supporting stakeholders’ interests beyond shareholders…this includes community health and sustainability.

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