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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Bill of Health

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.

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Countercyclical Aid Is Not Enough to Fix the Broken US Approach to Public Health Financing

Bill of Health

If the pandemic has taught us anything about public policy, it is that the model of countercyclical federal aid — which expands at the onset of an economic crisis but abates as that crisis is resolved — is fundamentally inadequate when applied to the realm of public health. public health expenditures fell by 30 percent.

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Doctor Burnout Levels Increasing as a Result of the Pandemic

American Medical Compliance

In a release, Murthy stated that “the health of the country depends on the wellbeing of our health workforce.” ” More than half of public health professionals reported experiencing signs of at least one mental health disorder, according to the surgeon general’s guideline.

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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – February 25, 2022

Hall Render

How 5 health systems are spending their innovation investment dollars. The 55 hospitals penalized by Medicare 8 years straight over patient complications. U of California, Irvine to Launch Institute for Precision Health. Pandemic’s mental health crisis shows California needs to reinvent health care.