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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

Ultimately, the demands of my great grandmother, as her illnesses progressed, became so much that we couldn’t keep her at home. This wonderful and fiercely independent person who never wanted to live in a facility, spent the last year of life in a nursing home.

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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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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

Bill of Health

Some have also served as public health officials and/or professors. The pandemic response in the United States, and its attendant hospitalization and death rates, represents a failure of public health. They also present good ideas on the “how” side of public health. 209), and the like.

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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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