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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

My mother was busy raising four children, and I watched her try to navigate and manage the health needs of my great grandmother and saw firsthand how difficult it was to get services in the home, how difficult it was to get her out to see the doctor.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

What is the doctor of the future? What should doctor’s and nurse’s competencies be ten years from now?” Dowling asked, something I’m charged to think about a lot in my scenario planning work. “What do we mean by ambulatory and outpatient care?

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. This is not your typical edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. health care.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

Jane Sarashon

From consumers’ homes and workplaces and running routes to the research bench, doctor’s offices, and hospital beds, this graphic from the report illustrates scenarios of Apple’s research flows. This makes for a much more robust clinical conversation that can lead to more refined diagnoses and treatment recommendations.

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Q&A with PFC Director of Global Health and Rights Project, Alicia Ely Yamin

Bill of Health

My approach to human rights advocacy, as well as my thinking about international human rights law and comparative law has certainly been shaped by living and working for so many years in Latin America and doing a doctorate in law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina, where I have family. Alicia Ely Yamin J.D. 1991), M.P.H.

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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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The Unsurprising Surprise of Social Determinants in COVID-19 Mortality

Health Populi

In this moment, doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists, and peer clinicians on their teams, are fighting hard to save all C19 patients on COVID wards and in ICUs, in field hospitals and nursing homes. As African-American patients have been admitted to U.S. They’ve passed away.

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