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New CHIR Report Assesses the Effectiveness of Policies in Improving Access to Primary Care for Underserved Populations

Center for Health Insurance Reform

It is hard to overstate the importance of primary care in ensuring robust health outcomes at the population level. Continue reading → The post New CHIR Report Assesses the Effectiveness of Policies in Improving Access to Primary Care for Underserved Populations appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Organ Transplant Candidates Who Use Medical Cannabis Face Discrimination

Bill of Health

face discrimination in seeking health care services, including restrictions against obtaining solid organ transplants. Legal strategies to prevent discrimination Further research on cannabis use and post-transplant health outcomes will be important to generate a stronger evidence base to inform transplant policies.

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Rethinking How We Treat Dually Diagnosed Patients

HIT Consultant

The Role of the Health Care Continuum To improve the behavioral health outcomes of dually diagnosed patients, a paradigm shift is imperative. The entire healthcare continuum, from payers to primary care providers to specialty behavioral health services, must come together to address this crisis comprehensively.

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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand

Health Populi

Until sweeping health care reform changes the employer-based health care system in America, this relationship between worker and company will continue to be values for health — physical, financial, and mental/behavioral.

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What John Mackey of Whole Foods Said at the 2022 HIMSS Conference – and Why This is Important for the Whole Health Ecosystem

Jane Sarashon

Health Populi’s Hot Points: John Mackey has held this view on food for a long time. ” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. .”

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

These determinants, such as economic stability through universal services like unemployment benefits, paid parental leave, paid sick leave, or social support systems, like family-friendly policies and child care, remain mostly unavailable. health system continue to exacerbate poor health and disparities. COVID-19 and 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

Because of this, many states fell back to public order policing of the pandemic and/or states of emergencies, using security tactics, techniques, and legislation as a public health tool to the obvious detriment to both human rights and public health outcomes.