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Employers and the Future of Public Health

Bill of Health

By Sharona Hoffman As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health. In the future, they may frequently take the lead in implementing public health measures. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

Bill of Health

This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. population , a troubling reality not only for COVID-19 mitigation efforts, but also health equity writ large. To address the paucity of sleep research in U.S.

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Is Preemption the Cure for Healthcare Federalism’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion?

Bill of Health

State pharmaceutical bans and restrictions — which are often medically unnecessary and instead based largely on policymakers’ moral and political views — impede the FDA’s mandate to protect and promote the public health. In appropriate circumstances, states could seek an exemption to address a state-specific public health need.

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Ensuring That Humanity Retains Control of Connected Things: A Message from Microsoft at CES 2021

Health Populi

Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to play a role in health care for predictive analytics, personalization, and public health. On 26th January, I’ll moderate a tweetchat at 1 pm Eastern time, brainstorming the current and future state of and opportunities for AI in health care.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis.

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Branding Dreams

Bill of Health

To begin, consider three recent examples of dream advertising: Molson Coors ran an experiment in connection with its 2021 Super Bowl advertising campaign. When TDI is hijacked by advertisers for commercial purposes, however, serious bioethical issues emerge. Indeed, it has been estimated that U.S.

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Litigation Challenges Prioritization of Race or Ethnicity in Allocating COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

Public health and policy experts have published commentaries on the challenging issues underlying New York’s COVID treatment guidelines and others have offered more detailed guidance, including on this blog, on what criteria should be used in allocating scarce COVID treatments. New York’s Policy.

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