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Bolstering Health Literacy in a Little Book: Burn Prevention and Care With “The Family Oops”

Jane Sarashon

About 180,000 deaths are attributable to burns each year, according to the World Health Organization. This mighty little book, all of 28 pages and measuring 5.5 This mighty little book, all of 28 pages and measuring 5.5 Non-fatal burns are a leading cause of morbidity.

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Better Health Care Tests, Faster

Healthcare IT Today

Virax Biolabs uses data from the World Health Organization and others to develop tests quickly. They also plan to offer APIs to labs and public health organizations, delivering test results securely through an app along with advice about how to handle the risk. Still, the service can be worthwhile for convenience.

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Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

Health Populi

On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”. My new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , launched this week. You can access my book on Amazon Kindle here. In it, I track these events and the many forces transforming U.S.

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What the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Health

Health Populi

The trio then tested different combinations of factors adding into different groups remedial tutoring, access to credit (especially microcredit programs), technology, and health care services, along with new models for teacher accountability and school governance.

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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 4 of 5, Letters “P” through “T”

Health Populi

The “P” word was uttered by the Secretary General of the World Health Organization on March 11, confirming that the coronavirus was, technically, a pandemic. The general theme here is that the pandemic is a global phenomenon, and that we humans are very small actors in a very big public health crisis.

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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports

Health Populi

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 5 of 5, Letters “U” through “Z”

Health Populi

That’s public health, for you. X is for Disease “X” In their research into pandemics, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a list of the worst of them ; these include. I used this paper series for a mini-book I made about my mom’s career, so I really do love the series. Lassa fever.