Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

These bromides reflect the Biden administration’s evaluation of its own efforts; a recent White House report professes to have “successfully put equity at the center of a public health response for the first time in the nation’s history.”. We have learned nothing from COVID.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

What would brain-forward health policy look like? When it comes to our brains and public (health) policy, we need two things as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, apparently interminably. These problems are invisible, but impactful.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has put health care top-of-mind for health citizens the world over. The Pew team also observed that, “The belief that one’s country is doing a bad job of dealing with the pandemic is also linked to a desire for health care reform. public health sector. In the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

The MIEP overburdens county and local jails financially and jeopardizes public health. 2628 would support states and counties in delivering quality health care. Inmates need more health care, with chronic disease rates among inmates being more than double the general public. Legislation like H.R.

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Bill of Health

MAY 12, 2023

McCuskey is a Professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health and School of Law. The post The Infertility Shift appeared first on Bill of Health. Blake is Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research and a Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law. Elizabeth Y.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 3, 2023

To make sense of these developments, leading experts in health law policy analyze Judge O’Connor’s ruling below. This discourse strips away the public health benefits of medical treatment and shifts focus to the patient’s individual behavior. Becerra appeared first on Bill of Health. Doron Dorfman Braidwood v.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2022

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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Bill of Health

APRIL 13, 2022

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) expires at the end of this week, with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra expected to renew the PHE once more to extend through mid-July. By Cathy Zhang.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type. A third report is useful to consider with the KFF tracking poll and the Urban Institute/RWJF study on delaying care due to chronic conditions. electorate is in favor.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

We recognize there already is significant investment in the control and containment of infectious disease, primarily through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes for Health, and assorted local public health departments. We also recognize that policymakers, specifically the U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 5, 2022

Many public health and addiction experts, though, promote the rapid testing devices as what’s known as a “harm reduction” tactic to help prevent overdose deaths from illicit drugs that users may not know are laced with fentanyl.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For several decades, health care reformers have been advocating “fee for value” or value-based care, which supposedly rewards long-term results instead of individual encounters. ” Remote patient monitoring. The premise of this article embraces an irony. If the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Three-quarters of Americans believe that hospitals, clinics and physicians should look beyond patients medical/clinical needs into root causes like access to healthy food, transportation, and safe/clean housing — the social determinants of health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

GDP share for health care expected in 2027 based on CMS’s current projections of the current state would shift well above 20% were Americans, say over 50 years of age, allowed to buy into Medicare as envisioned by some of the Presidential candidates’ platforms for health care reform.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 3, 2022

The issue of the high and increasing costs of clinical negligence (medical malpractice) in the National Health Service ( NHS ) in England has long been a contentious one. By John Tingle and Amanda Cattini. There are common themes in the debate.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. By Timothy Bonis. It is not just state boards’ political obstructionism standing in the way.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Good record keeping and communication practices are essential prerequisites for safe and proper patient care. A fundamental issue in England’s National Health Service (NHS) patient safety culture development, however, is whether health care staff implement the necessary communication changes in light of adverse health care events.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

And the maldistribution of physicians — with far too few pursuing primary care or working in rural areas — is arguably an even bigger problem. By Leah Pierson. Recently, Derek Thompson pointed out in the Atlantic that the U.S. has adopted myriad policies that limit the supply of doctors despite the fact that there aren’t enough.

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

How Nonprofit Hospitals, Health Systems Compensate Executives. Encompass Health’s home health unit attracts acquisition interest-sources. COVID-19 cases dwindle, but Alabama lawmakers continue push for public health reform. State health officer reflects on progress 2 years into pandemic.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 16, 2022

The future of work will largely be the future of care work. Health care is rapidly becoming the largest employer in the U.S., By Andrew Milne. expanding to serve the fastest growing demographic, aging seniors.

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Hall Render

MARCH 24, 2023

grant for public health response Hawaii Gov. Mary’s hospital names new president and CEO; starts April 24 HAWAII Maui healthcare workers remain on strike, no clear end Hawaii gets $14.2M Noem signs $7.4B liver transplant policy is sending organs away from Tennessee Blount Co.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

conservative movement, convened by the Council for National Policy, organized a campaign to fight against public health measures nearly a year before vaccines or outpatient treatments were available to the general population.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Health care will be a key issue driving people to their local polling places, so it’s an opportune moment to take the temperature on U.S. voters’ perspectives on healthcare reform. Nurses held majority trust across all three political positions for health care reform.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They fought to erode key elements embedded in the law meant to protect health consumers’ rights: among them, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health; and the assurance that sick people would be covered by health insurance plans without prejudice. In their poll of 487 likely U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2019

“The solution for how to achieve health care coverage for all may be uniquely American, but it is an exceedingly important and worthy goal, emblematic of a fair and just society.”. We are at a moment in America which most Democrats, Independents and Republicans recognize as health-insecurity-for-all.

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