Avian influenza (bird flu)
My local park has notices up about an outbreak. Here are sources of latest official information (for the UK). Travel related information is at the end of the post. In addition to the sites below try your local authority ' s website.Animal and Plant Health Agency reports relating to wild birdsDEFRA and APHA, preliminary outbreak assessment, for Europe, Russia and the UK - includes Weekly disease reportsDEFRA and APHA, guidanceDepartment of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), Avian influenzaHealth and Safety Executive, Avian influenza(PDF) (information particularly for those i...
Source: Browsing - January 26, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: avian influenza Source Type: blogs
I Wonder Why It Is The Federal Health Department Cannot Just Settle Permanent Telehealth Benefit Arrangements?
This appeared a few days ago. Australia makes temporary changes to telehealth amid Omicron outbreak Some subsidised specialist phone and video consultation items are being offered until 30 June. By Adam Ang January 18, 2022 01:26 AM The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak. These include specialist inpatient video and phone consultation items under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, complex specialist telephone consultations and level C or longer telephone consultations for general practitioners. Offered until 30 June, these telehealth items...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Industrial Policy Fails Another (Rapid) Test
Scott LincicomeIt was good to see President Biden finallyacknowledge yesterday what anyone in America with a school ‐age child, job in a front ‐facing industry, or overseas travel plans has known for months: U.S. policy regarding COVID-19 testing has been a piping hot mess. What the president didn ’t mention, however, was that the administration’s most recent plan for at‐home rapid tests — announced in December in response to extreme public frustration about empty drug store shelves and long testing lines — was actually Biden’ssixth promise to subsidize and plan our way to testing ab...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
AusHealthIT Poll Number 614 – Results – 16th January, 2022.
Here are the results of the poll. How Would You Rate The Federal Government's Response To, And Management Of, The Current Omicron Variant of COIVID19 Outbreak? Really Great 0% (0) Acceptable 1% (1) Neutral 0% (0) Poor 9% (6) Appallingly Incompetent And Chaotic 90% (61) I Have No Idea 0% (0) Total votes: 68 A very clear cut poll result, with the Federal Government getting a pretty definite fail The outcome is really suggesting confidence in what the Government is doing has totally evaporated!
Any insights on the poll are welcome, as a comment, as usual! A good number of votes. with a clear outcome, especially for thi...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
January 13 2022 Edition ----- It seems this week that we have seen COVID19 roar back globally with the US and UK now reporting record cases and deaths and things staring to go pear shaped even on OZ. Otherwise globally the issues with Taiwan and the Ukraine seem to be bubbling on with all sorts of other smaller conflicts and disasters popping up! In OZ this week the feature has been the political paralysis on what to do about COVID19 to keep society functioning. It is starting to look a little ominous I have to say,The lack of RATs to help manage the outbreak is a real mess and shows some real planning deficiencies.
----...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
What a Waste of a Healthcare System
By KIM BELLARD
An essay in Aeon had me at the title: The Waste Age. The title was so evocative of the world we live in that I almost didn’t need to read further, but I’m glad I did, and I encourage you to do the same. Because if we don’t learn to deal with waste – and, as the author urges, design for it – our future looks pretty grim.
Healthcare included.
The essay is by Justin McGuirk, chief curator of the Design Museum in London, and accompanies an exhibit there: Waste Age: what can design do? Mr. McGuirk states:
…waste is not merely a byproduct of culture: it is culture. We have produ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Healthcare system Kim Bellard medical waste plastics Source Type: blogs
Epidemics and pandemics (2): AIDS
Just over 40 years ago, in June 1981, a paper appeared in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) describing an opportunistic lung infection in otherwise healthy gay men. The lung condition was pneumocystis pneumonia, and this was the first description of what came to be known as AIDS. That first description, first article, was a case series, of five people, and therefore not evidence from particularly high up the traditional evidence pyramid. I may have pointed this out to students when discussing evidence based practice and that pyramid.There is more about this inthis post from Circulatin...
Source: Browsing - December 29, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: AIDS Source Type: blogs
America Can Still Deliver on Global Vaccine Diplomacy
It is hard to see how science alone can end the pandemic without the rallying power of global diplomacy. The United States has played a leadership role in previous outbreaks, such as Ebola. It could play a similar role now to help consign the current pandemic to epidemic status. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 28, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Krishna B. Kumar Source Type: blogs
Role of Judiciary and Social Welfare to Combat Coronavirus Pandemic in Nepal: A Study with Special Reference to India ’s Epidemic Law
Dr. Alok Kumar Yadav (Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University) Jivesh Jha, ILI Law Review (2020): The competent legislature of Nepal has adopted and enacted an epidemic law regime to curtail the transmission of outbreaks. However, these laws have glaring gaps.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 26, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
In Favour of Universal Design: The Argument for Continued Hybrid Online/In-Person Courses in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic with a Focus on Students with Disabilities
Katherine Benson (University of British Columbia), In Favour of Universal Design: The Argument for Continued Hybrid Online/In-Person Courses in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic with a Focus on Students with Disabilities, SSRN (2021): The global outbreak of the novel... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 22, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Calls To Mental Health Helplines Increased Early In The Pandemic
By Emily Reynolds
From early 2020, concerns were raised about the impact of the pandemic on mental health. The stresses of lockdown, social isolation, financial precarity, and widespread grief were all considered to be potential triggers for poor mental health, along with issues such as increased domestic violence.
A new study, published in Nature, looks at what helpline calls can reveal about mental health during this period. It finds an increase in calls to helplines during the early days of the pandemic, largely driven by fear, loneliness, and worries about physical health.
Marius Brülhart from the Un...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Coronavirus Mental health Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Healthcare Artificial Intelligence News Of 2021
As 2021 is about to wrap up, we are reflecting on some of the most important news revolving around artificial intelligence (A.I.) in healthcare. These range from the principles laying the groundwork for the safe and effective development of A.I.-powered medical devices to a sober look at the technology’s role in the pandemic. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the top 10 healthcare A.I. news of the year that was.
1. The FDA’s list of AI/ML-enabled medical devices marketed in the U.S.
In September 2020, The Medical Futurist Institute (TMFI) had its first research published in the prestigious npj Digit...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 14, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy fda google IBM ibm watson A.I. deepmind Alphabet Source Type: blogs
Ten insights on human well-being and potential from two giants we sadly lost in 2021: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Ed Diener
Many of us suffered terrible losses in 2021. In the field of positive psychology, we lost two of our most influential scholars: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Ed Diener. In their honor, I’d like to remember and appreciate the contributions they made to the understanding of human flourishing.
Csikszentmihalyi was born in 1934 in what today is Hungary. He grew up curious and spirited, but his world changed with the outbreak of World War II and the instability that followed. After attending a lecture by Carl Jung as a young adult, he left for the United States and eventually landed at the University of Chicago, setting out to ...
Source: SharpBrains - December 13, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning behavior happiness human behavior human potential Positive-Psychology Psychological Science well-being Source Type: blogs
More on social and historical perspectives
When the HIV epidemic was first discovered in the U.S., as we have seen, it mostly afflicted stigmatized groups. President Ronald Reagan largely ignored it, as did his successor George Bush the First. The plague devastated gay communities across the country. But pervasive grief and loss turned into anger, and then action. AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power -- ACT UP -- was founded in New York in 1987 and went on to become a national and then an international organization, using direct action tactics to demand action to combat the epidemic, and counteracting false information and bigotry. ACT UP founder Larry ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 10, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
December 02 2021 Edition ----- We are now a little under a week into the Omicron COVID-19 variant outbreak. Hopefully in a few more weeks we will know where we are and how worried we should all be. All over border are going up and travel is closing down.Thus far it really does seem to transmit rather well and most other issues fall into the unknown basket
Otherwise in the US Jay Powell has been re-appointed as Chairman of their Central Bank – hoping for stability as the recovery continues. In the UK summer is in full swing as is the fight with France over the numbers crossing the English Channel! In OZ we have se...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
