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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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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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The Unsurprising Surprise of Social Determinants in COVID-19 Mortality

Health Populi

” The phrase, “your ZIP code is more important than your genetic code” has become the common mantra for public health people communicating the concept of the social determinants of health : those factors outside of medical services that shape peoples’ overall health and well-being.

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