Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. Indeed, legislators must heed this scholarship, not only for its potential benefit to inmates, but also for the welfare of the broader American public health.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

State pharmaceutical bans and restrictions — which are often medically unnecessary and instead based largely on policymakers’ moral and political views — impede the FDA’s mandate to protect and promote the public health. In appropriate circumstances, states could seek an exemption to address a state-specific public health need.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 19, 2023

Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. This article highlights key points made during the conversation. First, BJ Casey , Christina L.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. She is the author of over 70 articles and book chapters about health law and civil rights issues.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Disability-inclusive climate decision-making and solutions are not only essential for safeguarding the lives and dignity of persons with disabilities, but may also enhance the equity and effectiveness of the global transition to climate-resilient and low-carbon societies.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 11, 2022

A plausible explanation for these contrasting scenarios centers on the role that experts in medical law and health care regulation play in establishing a functioning and ethically-grounded health system.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 22, 2022

Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

These bromides reflect the Biden administration’s evaluation of its own efforts; a recent White House report professes to have “successfully put equity at the center of a public health response for the first time in the nation’s history.”. We have learned nothing from COVID.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. Instead, the administration mostly adapted by shifting its messaging.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The risks inherent to leaving matters of public health in the hands of private actors during public health emergencies; and. The drawbacks associated with relying on systems of decentralized governance and federalism to address health and public health crises.

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Bill of Health

MAY 17, 2022

Her areas of interest include health equity, bioethics, and patient-centered clinical care. The post Misleading, Coercive Language in Bills Barring Trans Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care appeared first on Bill of Health. Arisa Rei Marshall is a senior at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Others have focused on a variety of goals, from increasing students’ awareness of ethical issues , to learning fundamental concepts in bioethics , to instilling certain virtues.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 28, 2022

Public health and policy experts have published commentaries on the challenging issues underlying New York’s COVID treatment guidelines and others have offered more detailed guidance, including on this blog, on what criteria should be used in allocating scarce COVID treatments. less likely to receive the treatment than whites.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

We start with key lessons from the pandemic, confront the supply-side challenges we’ve already seen the start of, confess to our thorny sub-optimal solutions to the opioid crisis and mental health epidemic, and deal with the scourge of health equity that mars U.S. health care outcomes, bioethics, and moral imperatives.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Carroll , PhD, MPH, is a medical anthropologist, research scientist, and subject matter expert on substance use and public health. . Taleed El-Sabawi , JD, PhD, is an assistant professor at Florida International University College of Law. . Jennifer J.

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Bill of Health

JULY 28, 2022

JLB contains original and response articles, essays, and commentaries on a wide range of topics, including bioethics, neuroethics, genetics, reproductive technologies, stem cells, enhancement, patent law, and food and drug regulation. The journal is always looking to publish new, exciting work.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville. The post California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19 appeared first on Bill of Health. Rothstein is the Herbert F.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. Health disparities, continued digital divide, health inequities, are unsustainable if we prioritize advancing public health.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2023

is a visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. The post What the Supreme Court’s Expected Ruling on Affirmative Action Might Mean for US Health Care appeared first on Bill of Health. Gregory Curfman , M.D.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 7, 2022

thus has reverberating repercussions: it strips away not only necessary public health precautions, but also hard-won adaptations, such as remote work and more generous sick leave policies. This premature and at times exclusive push to “normalcy” in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2022

When TDI is hijacked by advertisers for commercial purposes, however, serious bioethical issues emerge. TDI has been found by sleep and dream experts to have various potential benefits , such as improving sleep quality, stimulating creativity, and treating addiction.

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Bill of Health

MAY 4, 2022

The same goes for the health workers assaulted while trying to save lives, and the patients who could not live because care was undermined by violence against them and their caregivers. Attacks on them can be prosecuted as war crimes and must be.

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Health Populi

JUNE 19, 2020

” Among her many roles, Dr. Galarneau teaches at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics. First, what we in public health circles have been coining the social determinants of health have revealed themselves to be the “moral determinants of health.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. Dowling pointed to the benefits of being a large integrated health care system with multiple hospitals, ambulatory care services and a broad portfolio of capabilities that enabled Northwell Health to be responsive to the needs of the pandemic and deal with the crisis.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Within both eras, such actions have fueled stigma, propagated misinformation, and encouraged scapegoating in the middle of public health crises. . Such refusals dangerously parallel instances of diagnostic discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients in the 1980s and 1990s. .

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

But allocation among patients under scarcity is a public health and public policy decision, not a clinical one: we should not place clinicians facing patient care pressures in the position of spending a “ weekend poring over the charts of Covid patients to figure out who should get scarce treatments.”

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She is the author of over 70 articles and book chapters about health law and civil rights issues. Now is the time to begin implementing lawful strategies to address this vital matter.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2022

“Tech giants are the primary forces driving digital transformation forward,” and this is especially the case for health care systems re-imagining how health care services are delivered and “consumed.”

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

The second graphic from the report breaks out the health consumer/health citizen from the health/care industry and ecosystem: Being that intelligent guardian for our health and fitness, including partnering with third parties for digital health tools and apps, and. It will be about health.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

In a recent report on ESG in the health care sector, S&P called out “social exposure” as the most important ESG risk for health care. ” On the downside, health care companies are in the public’s bulls’ eye regarding pricing, and this gets to lack of transparency and access challenges.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These daily losses matter inestimably at a human level, yet they do not matter in any meaningful way at all to the public and private institutions that govern our lives. ­­By Nate Holdren. Every day in the pandemic, many people’s lives end, and others are made irrevocably worse. [1].

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2022

have felt and dealt with since long before the public health crisis emerged in early 2020. There is a direct connection between people lacking faith in the U.S. medical system and the rate of resignations and level of burnout clinicians in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By Chloe Reichel. What is more important: your comfort, or a person’s life? These are the stakes of the move to unmask in the U.S. . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new guidance , which suggests that many people in the U.S.

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