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Tufts Medical Center to pilot nutrition screening in EHR

Healthcare It News

Proponents say food-based interventions could address one aspect of social determinants of health and improve health equity while they address chronic diseases. At the international level, the World Health Organization focuses on food security and other challenges to address global health equity.

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Psychedelic Inequities and Unexplored Risk: Colonization, Commercialization, and Regulation

Bill of Health

By excluding diverse contributions to the psychedelic field, we risk establishing psychedelic practices that exacerbate racial health inequities (disparities) in which people of color experience worse health outcomes as compared to whites on a population level.

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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

Health Populi

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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Why Innovation Management Matters in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Embracing Innovation Innovation is a key goal for the World Health Organization. Since 2017, the WHO Innovation Network , a digital and in-person network of global colleagues, has been engaged in learning and sharing events exploring “new ways of applying innovation in WHO’s work to accelerate health impact.”

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Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2

Health Populi

“This event set off weeks of protests over police violence and racism both aross the country and around the world,” APA’s report on Wave 2 research for this report begins. The World Health Organization identified stress as one of the top ten determinants of disparities in health in 2008.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

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. Heat-related illness.

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A Nutrition Label for Health IT

Health Populi

Artificial intelligence and health equity were two key themes discussed during #HIMSS21, and Dr. Halamka’s concerns echoed through the week-long event. Building a nutrition label for health equity – learning from MITRE . Questions about the ethics and governance of AI in health are being posed globally.

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