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The Public Health Case Against Gas Appliances

Bill of Health

Research demonstrates that — in addition to the health harming air pollutants already mentioned — air toxics like benzene are present in the fossil gas that is piped into homes. There is no shortage of data demonstrating that low income and minoritized individuals suffer disparate health outcomes in the United States.

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How to fight back against public health mis- and disinformation

Healthcare It News

One of the lasting lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is the insidious and corrosive power of mis- and disinformation to undermine public health efforts. These have proven hugely challenging for providers, public health agencies and policymakers trying to communicate critical information to help citizens stay healthy.

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5 Public Health Challenges to Watch in the Post-Pandemic Era

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Public health agencies across the US are at a crossroads, finds the Reimagining Public Health Survey produced by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US). Key Public Health Obstacles Post Covid-19. To move forward, public health leaders should clarify strategy from the top-down.

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Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

Bill of Health

This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. People who are incarcerated already exhibit elevated rates of morbidity , and it is likely that the sleep deprivation associated with corrections only depresses health outcomes.

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Audio-only telehealth benefits patients in need, study finds

Healthcare It News

As more data emerges about the use of telemedicine during the pandemic, stakeholders have highlighted its potential importance in addressing disparities in health outcomes. At the same time, elected officials and industry leaders have flagged the possibility that telehealth could potentially worsen inequity. ON THE RECORD.

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Navigating the intersections of population health and precision medicine

Healthcare It News

While there are myriad definitions out there for both terms, the following provide a good starting point: Population health management refers to the process of improving clinical health outcomes of a defined group of individuals through improved care coordination and patient engagement supported by appropriate financial and care models.

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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.