The effects of primary-level workers on people with mental disorders and distress in low- and middle-income countries
In many settings where access to health care is limited, governments are looking for effective and efficient ways to deliver routine health services. To help with this, the Cochrane EPOC Group is producing a series of reviews on task shifting the delivery of care to healthcare providers with lower levels of training. In August 2021, they published an update to the 2013 Cochrane Review of the effects of engaging community ‐based primary-level workers in helping people with mental health disorders or distress in low and middle-income countries. We asked one of the main authors, Weng Yee Chin from the University of Hong Kon...
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Wellbeing - feeling addicted to your phone?
In the wellbeing podcast, the dread topic of phone usage has come up again - how social media, and an "always on" culture can affect our wellbeing.
But knowing that, and changing our behaviour are two different things - so to give some advice on reducing our reliance on phones, Abi and Cat are joined by Nidhi Gupta, assistant professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who's been using techniques from behavioural addictio n to help with device usage.
For more from Nidhi, visit https://phreedom.net/
Some of the research that Nidhi mentions
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/138/5/e20162...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 26, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update December 2021
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - November 25, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update - November 2021
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - October 29, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
A Continued Focus on Equity Through Pharmacoequity and Digital Health Equity: Two Current Viewpoints
Individuals who experience systemic, structural, institutional, and social barriers within society deserve better and more convenient health care access. This idea should be central when advancing efforts to achieve health equity. JAMA Editorial Board member Raina M. Merchant, MD, speaks with Courtney R. Lyles, PhD, and Urmimala Sarkar, MD, about approaches toward improving digital health equity and with Utibe R. Essien, MD, about enhancing targeted efforts toward realizing pharmacoequity. Related Content: A Policy Prescription for Reducing Health Disparities—Achieving Pharmacoequity Focusing on Digital Health Equity (So...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - October 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Administrative Costs in US Health Care: A Quarter-Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Health care expenses that arise from largely nonclinical functions, such as coding and billing and administration, cost the US health care system almost $1 trillion annually. Michael Chernew, PhD, from Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy, and David Cutler, PhD, from Harvard University Department of Economics, join JAMA Associate Editor Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, from Washington University School of Medicine to discuss some basic fixes and simplifications that could reduce administrative spending by an estimated $265 billion. Related Content: Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Pote...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - October 20, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update October 2021
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - October 11, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 797: COVID-19 clinical update #77 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #77, Daniel Griffin discusses children becoming increasingly infected, virological characteristics of infections in vaccinated health care workers, transmission dynamics among close contacts, licensing of Pfizer mRNA vaccine, cost of hospitalization of unvaccinated patients, 29 times higher hospitalization rates in unvaccinated patients, boost in neutralizing antibody potency and breadth by third vaccine dose, and use of J&J vaccine as second dose. Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this ep...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 28, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update Sept 2021
Diabetes Core Update – September 2021 Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical p...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - August 26, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Care and Medicine
While health disparities have gained growing attention in recent years, much work is still needed, as inequities continue to have a direct and measurable negative influence on patients in historically disadvantaged communities. David Satcher, MD, PhD, Francisco Cigarroa, MD, and Howard Koh, MD, MPH, join moderator Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, to discuss the vital importance of the visibility of all races and ethnicities in research, medical schools, and health care. They propose potential solutions, including the recruitment of and support for more physicians who look like their patients, who care enough, know enough, have the...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - August 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Theme Issue: Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Inequities in Medicine and Health Care
Editor's Summary by Phil Fontanarosa, MD, Interim Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the August 17, 2021 issue. (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - August 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 787: COVID-19 clinical update #73 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #73, Daniel Griffin reviews updated mask guidance from CDC, infections in public school district employees, effectiveness of vaccines against delta variant, antibody response after third vaccine dose in kidney transplant recipients, protection afforded by mRNA vaccines fully vaccinated people with and without prior infections, correlates of protection in nonhuman primates, lack of effectiveness of doxycycline, neurological manifestations of COVID-19, and infection in vaccinated health care workers. Hosts: Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 31, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update – August 2021
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - July 28, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
