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COVID-19 Testing Is Supposed to Be Free. Here ’s Why You Might Still Get Billed
Jena Starkes is pretty realistic about the challenges she faces when confronting COVID-19: it could get rough. The 45-year-old lives with her 81-year-old mother in Brooklyn, and in recent days, as the outbreak has worsened, she felt there was not much they could do.
“If I get it and I give it to her, it is unlikely that she would survive,” Starkes says. But, she adds, because she doesn’t have insurance for herself — and can’t afford out-of-pocket hospitalization — her own health is hardly secure either.
“If I get it bad, I would probably just die,” she says. “What...
Source: TIME: Health - March 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Can telehealth help flatten the curve of COVID-19?
Telehealth, the virtual care platforms that allow health care professionals and patients to meet by phone or video chat, seems tailor-made for this moment in time. Also known as telemedicine or digital health, it’s often touted as a convenience for patients who are busy or far away, or when travel isn’t feasible due to severe weather or an urgent condition like a stroke. The current crisis makes virtual care solutions like telehealth an indispensable tool as COVID-19 spreads across US communities. As director of the Center for TeleHealth at Massachusetts General Hospital and vice president of virtual care for Partners ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lee H. Schwamm, MD Tags: Health Health care Infectious diseases Managing your health care Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Without Universal Health Coverage We Are Sitting Ducks When the next Pandemic Strikes
The usually busy UN Avenue in Nairobi, Kenya where traffic is bumper to bumper on the best of days, is almost empty as people stay at home to avoid spreading the coronavirus. Credit: UN Kenya/Newton KanhemaBy Siddharth ChatterjeeNAIROBI, Kenya, May 14 2020 (IPS) We live in a different world to the one we inhabited six short months ago.
With more than 4 million people infected and over 280,000 dead globally by mid May 2020, Covid-19 has ruthlessly exposed the vulnerability of a globalised world to pandemic disease. People are slowly coming to terms with the frightening and heartbreaking death toll, and we are still not out ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Siddharth Chatterjee Tags: Africa Economy & Trade Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Tech Companies Are Transforming People ’s Bedrooms Into ‘Virtual Hospitals.’ Will It Last Post-COVID?
When Curtis Carlson started having back pain this spring, he tried to put off seeing a doctor. The COVID-19 pandemic was raging, his job at a transitional housing organization in Ukiah, Calif. was busier than ever amid the economic collapse, and a hospital seemed like the last place he wanted to be.
But when he finally took himself to the emergency room and he was diagnosed with a kidney infection, Carlson figured he would have no choice but to stay. Instead, his doctors told him about a new program that would allow him to finish the rest of his hospital care at home, with a medical team monitoring him virtually around th...
Source: TIME: Health - August 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
IJERPH, Vol. 18, Pages 9622: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policy and Practice Implementation
Conclusions: Policy implementation during the pandemic provided important lessons for planning and preparedness for future public health emergencies. Successful policy implementation requires ongoing collaboration among policy makers and with providers.
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - September 13, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Lawrence A. Palinkas Jessenia De Leon Erika Salinas Sonali Chu Katharine Hunter Timothy M. Marshall Eric Tadehara Christopher M. Strnad Jonathan Purtle Sarah McCue Horwitz Mary M. McKay Kimberly E. Hoagwood Tags: Article Source Type: research
Psychology Around the Net: February 8, 2020
This article offers tips for those struggling with severe health anxiety.
The Environmental Burden of Generation Z: Kids today are terrified, anxious and depressed about climate change. In this article, the author discusses why this is so: “As climate change continues unabated, parents, teachers and medical professionals across the country find themselves face-to-face with a quandary: How do you raise a generation to look toward the future with hope when all around them swirls a message of apparent hopelessness?”
Students Shouldn’t Have to Choose Between Groceries and Therapy: In this article, the author expresses ho...
Source: World of Psychology - February 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Traci Pedersen Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens College Depression Disorders General Green and Environment Mental Health and Wellness OCD Policy and Advocacy Professional Psychiatry Psychology Psychology Around the Net Psychotherapy Stu Source Type: blogs
Why Peak Viral Load makes temperature screening alone insufficient for COVID-19
By TONY ESTRELLA
And how South Korea and Taiwan’s approach to diagnosis and tracking is leading to positive results
By now, the sight of people wearing surgical masks, flinching at the sights and sounds of someone coughing or sneezing, governments restricting large gatherings, and sports leagues suspending or cancelling matches is familiar across the world.
Even though this newest coronavirus we now call COVID-19 is not the deadliest disease as measured by daily deaths, the concern over the outbreak is forcing urgent actions.
Daily deaths from COVID-19 compared to other diseases. Source: informationisbeautifu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Source Type: blogs
Strengthening China's Public Health Response System: From SARS to COVID-19.
Abstract
Today, the world is experiencing a pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus. COVID-19 is the third disease from a coronavirus to cause a global outbreak, after severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and the second that emerged from China. During the 17 years between the SARS and the COVID-19 outbreaks, China has quadrupled its share of the world economy, lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and established a national health insurance system covering 95% of its 1.4 billion people. Will China's public heath response to a coronavirus epidemic be d...
Source: Am J Public Health - March 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bouey J Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: research
COVID-19 requires gender-equal responses to save economies
Gender equality concept as woman hands holding a white paper sheet with male and female symbol over a crowded city street background. Sex sign as a metaphor of social issue.By External SourceGENEVA, Apr 2 2020 (IPS-Partners) Globally, women are more vulnerable to economic shocks wrought by crises such as the coronavirus pandemic.
Why are women so at risk?
Firstly, women are more likely to lose their jobs than men. In many countries, women’s participation in the labour market is often in the form of temporary employment.
Across the world, women represent less than 40% of total employment but make up 57% of those work...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Gender Health Source Type: news
On World AIDS Day, Those Who Fought the 1980s Epidemic Find Striking Differences and Tragic Parallels in COVID-19
More than three decades after the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 1988, the world’s leading global health organization faces another public health crisis in COVID-19. On this World AIDS Day, those who raised awareness of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, find devastating similarities and haunting differences in America’s response to both crises.
In 1981, scientists recorded the first cases of a rare pneumonia, usually found among immunosuppressed patients, among a group of gay men in Los Angeles, and noticed more cases appearing among gay men in San Francisco and New ...
Source: TIME: Health - December 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Olivia B. Waxman Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature HIV/AIDS Source Type: news
We ’re Ready for Mamala
By DEB GORDON and ROSEMARIE DAY
With the long-awaited inauguration day behind us, America is finally getting something we desperately need: an elected woman in the White House.
On the heels of chaos and violence at the Capitol and after four years of the Trump Administration, we are ready for strong female leadership in the executive branch to help put the country on the right course. In fact, it is long overdue.
Kamala Harris didn’t just need our votes to make history as America’s first female Vice President. To be successful, she’ll need every ounce of our ongoing support as she steels herself to direct th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Politics Deb Gordon feminism rosemarie day Source Type: blogs
How COVID-19 Adds to the Challenges of Leprosy-affected People
Participants from organisations focused on assisting Hansen’s disease-affected people from Asia, Latin America and Africa with World Health Organisation (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, Yohei Sasakawa (centre pink shirt) pictured in 2019. Participants were attending the Global Forum of People’s Organisations on Hansen’s disease in Manila, Philippines, which was sponsored by the Sasakawa Health Foundation and The Nippon Foundation. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS
By Stella PaulHYDERABAD, Jan 29 2021 (IPS) Lilibeth Evarestus of Lagos, Nigeria doesn’t like the concept of handouts — she is against the idea ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 29, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stella Paul Tags: Aid Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Sasakawa Health Foundation World Leprosy Day Yohei Sasakawa Source Type: news
COVID-19 Exposed the Faults in America ’s Elder Care System. This Is Our Best Shot to Fix Them
For the American public, one of the first signs of the COVID-19 pandemic to come was a tragedy at a nursing home near Seattle. On Feb. 29, 2020, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State announced the U.S. had its first outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Three people in the area had tested positive the day before; two of them were associated with Life Care Center of Kirkland, and officials expected more to follow soon. When asked what steps the nursing home could take to control the spread, Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer for Seattle and King County, said he was working w...
Source: TIME: Health - June 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized Aging COVID-19 feature franchise Magazine TIME for Health Source Type: news
Delta Air Lines Is Charging Unvaccinated Employees $200 Insurance Fee. Will It Work?
As the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, more companies are starting to require coronavirus vaccines for their employees. But this week, Delta Air Lines chose a different tactic when it became the first major U.S. company to say it will charge more for health insurance if employees do not get vaccinated.
Some may see this as a compromise between vaccine mandates and more positive incentives, but experts say it could be complicated to execute and that there’s no way to tell how effective it will be.
The move represents the tricky calculus employers are being forced to make as they try to keep employees s...
Source: TIME: Health - August 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Biden Pivots to Home Tests to Confront Omicron Surge
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting the omicron variant surging through the country, President Joe Biden announced the government will provide 500 million free rapid home-testing kits, increase support for hospitals under strain and redouble vaccination and boosting efforts.
At the White House on Tuesday, Biden detailed major changes to his COVID-19 winter plan, his hand forced by the fast-spreading variant, whose properties are not yet fully understood by scientists. Yet his message was clear that the winter holidays could be close to normal for the vaccinated while potentially dangerous for the unvaccinated.
His pleas are n...
Source: TIME: Health - December 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AP/ JOSH BOAK, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and COLLEEN LONG Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
