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Calling for Holistic Maternal Care to Address Racial Disparities: The Role of Midwives and Doulas

Bill of Health

By Jordan Brooks and Tamar Ezer Expanding access to midwives and doulas in the United States is a vital and often overlooked way to increase access to culturally-congruent birthing options during pregnancy and improve health outcomes for birthing individuals and their children. The Maternal and Infant Health Crisis The U.S.

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Report: How Apple Is Advancing Digital Healthcare Transformation

HIT Consultant

Offering features that enable Apple Watch to act as an intelligent guardian for users’ health. Offering features that help users improve their everyday health and fitness for better health outcomes, 4. Fueling innovative third-party health and fitness apps with developer tools. Keeping Privacy in Mind.

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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. For decades, the U.S.

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

Health Populi

said the government’s response to COVID was a significant source of stress: in first place, the Federal government response (felt a significant stressor among 84% of U.S. adults), followed by States (72% of consumers), and local governments (64% of people feeling the stress). Two in three people in the U.S.

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Leveraging Connected Solutions for Improved Patient Care

Healthcare IT Today

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the global population aged 60 and over will double by 2050. This capability enables tailored treatments and interventions, fostering more accurate diagnoses and better health outcomes. This shift presents a complex dilemma for both caregivers and medical professionals.

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

HIT Consultant

Health resources are unevenly distributed and often of poor quality. The World Health Organization estimates that in the majority of African countries, there is one hospital per one million people, one doctor per 10,000 people and one hospital bed per 10,000 people. Governments cannot do this alone.

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Value Comes to Healthcare: But Whose Value Is It?

Health Populi

Another global view on value is offered in the report, Delivering quality health services: A global imperative for universal health coverage , from the World Health Organization, the World Bank Group, and the OECD.