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

Health Populi

During the three years prior to her death, she was admitted to the hospital 30 times. 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.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics.

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The Unsurprising Surprise of Social Determinants in COVID-19 Mortality

Health Populi

hospital emergency rooms with symptoms of COVID-19, a greater number of these patients per capita haven’t been discharged from hospitals. As African-American patients have been admitted to U.S. They’ve passed away. But we must be capable, in the U.S.,

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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

Bill of Health

The pandemic response in the United States, and its attendant hospitalization and death rates, represents a failure of public health. They fail to discuss and analyze the actions of nurses and other health care workers to organize care, to support each other when sick, and to force hospital managements to procure PPE like masks.