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The Right Tool for the Job: Supporting Vaccination Rates with Universal Paid Sick Leave

Bill of Health

Since the start of the pandemic, our team has found large neighborhood-level disparities in COVID-19 testing, positivity, cases, and mortality. When COVID-19 vaccines became widely available, we again saw a stark pattern of inequities by neighborhood. Credit: COVID-19 Health Inequities in Cities Dashboard.

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Against American Public Health Exceptionalism

Bill of Health

In fact, the most striking similarity between our failed public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the drug overdose crisis is our resolute refusal to learn from our mistakes and the rest of the world and make overdue adjustments. Just as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. While the U.S.

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries. One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so.

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The Biden Administration’s Whole-of-Government Approach to Equity – in Health and Beyond

Health Populi

the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed disparities in housing, food, and job security, and the role that one’s ZIP code and social determinants play in health outcomes. But these have disproportionately hit non-white people, who are nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 than white Americans.

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Scarcity Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate: Age and Disability in Health Care Rationing

Bill of Health

By Silvia Serrano Guzmán On July 4, 2023 the Constitutional Court of Colombia handed down a landmark decision on one of the most difficult dilemmas faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: the rationing of intensive care in situations of scarcity. On the contrary, human rights-compliant responses lead to better public health outcomes.

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Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

HIT Consultant

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic and its destructive impact was central to many of the discussions that took place. Among them, was the issue of vaccine hesitancy around the world, especially in underdeveloped nations such as those in Africa. Hesitancy: a convenient scapegoat.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan. As CMIO of Urban Health Plan, a Bronx-based Federally-Qualified Health Center, Connelly-Flores has worked to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates via texting campaigns, online vaccine registration and other patient engagement projects focused on one of the areas in the U.S.