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

Health Populi

.” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity. Why redefine, really re-imagine, PPE? In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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

Health Populi

66% say hearing from brands they use about their response to the coronavirus pandemic is comforting and reassuring, and 83% say issuing public statements showing empathy and support for people most affected by the pandemic bolsters consumer trust. In the U.S., Finally, 61% of U.S. Finally, 61% of U.S. But the situation still gets worse.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

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A newer category of personal health information, social determinants of health, garners well over one-half of Americans’ interest in access that data. ” The Pew asserts that this survey, “can inform federal policies to expand use of electronic health records, protect patient privacy.”

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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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What Do John Deere, L’Oreal and MedWand Have in Common? -> Human Security For All

Health Populi

This year, MedWand launched the Urban-Rural Healthcare Alliance , having known where the virtual care puck has been going since the company’s inception. That’s cross-industry collaboration, the kind required to solve thorny big challenges like health equity and access to care for all health citizens.