Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Eduardo Arenas Catalán The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles), entail a notable attempt to consolidate lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. The critical notion of shared but differentiated responsibilities is thus strengthened within global public health.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Though the government has learnt lessons in the past, and though it has codified some aspects of these lessons into our laws and policies relating to public health, it has always used a disease lens in the application of the lessons learned as opposed to a human rights lens.

Public Health 274

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Health Care Law Brief

JANUARY 20, 2023

The address featured a number of health care reform initiatives—a strong indication that New York will prioritize health care issues and spending in the year ahead. Below is a summary of Governor Hochul’s big-ticket health care agenda items. The full State of the State book can be found here.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Hannah Rahim Food is Medicine interventions aim to prevent and treat diet-related chronic health conditions and reduce food insecurity by providing food to individuals and communities, in connection with the health care system.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

A similar macro-focused regulatory regime, we contend, could redress the American hospitals’ glaring failures to mobilize against a common health disaster; a wholesale transition to nationalized health care is not required. We also recognize that policymakers, specifically the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2023

As a recent article in Annals of Internal Medicine explains, universal masking remains beneficial in health care because health care personnel often report to work when they are ill, a practice known as presenteeism. The evaluation of reasonable modification and accommodation requests must be context specific.

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