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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic within prisons. Like these earlier carceral pandemics, the over 620,000 COVID-19 infections and 3,100 related deaths among incarcerated individuals to date simply expose how U.S. health law and policy fails to protect people in custody. By Andrea C.

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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Health Populi

He decides, as the text quotes him, “to start to be twice as careful and be twice as smart… aiming my eyeballs in different directions.” along with health disparities and inequities. Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S.

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CVS Finds Differences in Mental and Behavioral Health Among Men Vs. Women in the Pandemic

Health Populi

As the COVID-19 pandemic shifts to a more endemic phase — becoming part of peoples’ everyday life for months to come — impacts on peoples’ mental health will persist, according to new research from CVS Health in the company’s annual Health Care Insights Study.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

in the first near-year of the pandemic, we’ve learned a lot about the science and clinical aspects of the very tricky COVID-19 virus. Ultimately, the Community PPE Index could be considered, “the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Index,” the authors believe. Why redefine, really re-imagine, PPE? In the U.S.,

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How the Coronavirus is Reshaping Consumer Trust – The Edelman Trust Barometer Lens and Health Impacts

Health Populi

consumers said how well a brand responds to the COVID-19 pandemic will have a “huge impact” on the likelihood to buy that brand in the future–and at the same time, 69% of Americans believe brands that people believe put profits before people during the pandemic would lose their trust “forever.” In the U.S.,

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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – January 21, 2022

Hall Render

20 hospitals, health systems that provide the most ‘unnecessary’ care: Johns Hopkins. 3 Population Health Trends to Watch in 2022. 5 states facing highest, lowest weekly nursing home COVID-19 positivity rates. AMDA releases COVID-19 vaccine medical exemption request forms, guidance.