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Health Care Reform And Women: A Comparison Of The ACA And The AHCA
By Susan Blumenthal, M.D. and Alexandrea Adams
The recent commemoration of National Women’s Health Week provided an important time to mark the progress that has been made in advancing women’s health over the past two decades and to highlight what more needs to be done to achieve women’s health equity in America. Historically, women have experienced discrimination in health care despite making 80 percent of health care decisions for their families, using more medical services than men, and suffering greater disability from chronic disease. Before the mid 1990’s, women were often excluded as subjects ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Ambulance Science Podcast: Make Up Your Own Mind About the Vaccine
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Where I’m coming from (compared to most of my colleagues):
Master’s in Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy from Yale Medical School.FT Faculty at GWU School of Medicine & Southern Connecticut State University MPH Program, and long-time adjunct faculty at NYMC MPH program in Health Policy.Assistant Commissioner of Health at the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene during the first SARS outbreak.Served as State EMS Director, Consultant to Public Health ...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - December 14, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Podcasts Ambulance Science Source Type: news
Ten-point plan to tackle liver disease published
"Doctors call for tougher laws on alcohol abuse to tackle liver disease crisis," The Guardian reports. But this is just one of 10 recommendations for tackling the burden of liver disease published in a special report in The Lancet.The report paints a grim picture of an emerging crisis in liver disease in the UK, saying it is one of the few countries in Europe where liver disease and deaths have actually increased rapidly over the last 30 years. It concludes with 10 recommendations to tackle the burden of liver disease.The media has approached the recommendations from many different angles, with many sources only ...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 27, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Lifestyle/exercise QA articles Source Type: news
Eliminating hepatitis B vaccination disparities for West African immigrants
Vaccine. 2023 Sep 3:S0264-410X(23)01012-5. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.08.058. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is endemic in West Africa. There has been a significant increase in the Bronx West African (WA) community. To achieve HBV elimination, vaccination of non-immune individuals is important. Unfortunately, vaccine uptake in immigrant populations is at this time very limited.METHODS: An educational program was conducted by medical providers of WA origin in collaboration with local faith-based organizations, after which free HBV screening was offered. Non-immune individuals we...
Source: Vaccine - September 5, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Jessie A Birnbaum Daniel Guttman Mugdha Parulekar Fatima Omarufilo Emmanuel U Emeasoba Julie Nguyen Oluwadara Tokunboh Jared Coe Matthew J Akiyama Samuel H Sigal Source Type: research
What Immunizations Can Pregnant and Postpartum Women Receive?
Discussion
Pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women along with their infants are at higher risk for infectious diseases. Pregnant women have altered immune, cardiac and respiratory systems that contribute to the increased risk. It is thought that postpartum immunological recovery can be up to 1 year. For the infant, breastfeeding provides some immunity to infectious diseases. Cocooning, where others in close contact are immunized against common infectious diseases is also another strategy to help infants who are not yet old enough to be vaccinated.
Recent guidelines for treatment of influenza with antiviral medication...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 27, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Here’s how many are opting out of measles, other vaccinations in Missouri
As measle outbreaks continue to pop up around the country, records show the number of immunization exemptions in Missouri have risen for three consecutive years — and not just for measles.
Records from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services show a steady increase in requests for exemptions for four major vaccines: diphtheria, polio, measles and hepatitis B. The majority of the requests were made on religious grounds as opposed to medical reasons.
Measles tops the list of most-requested…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 6, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Corey Noles Source Type: news
How Common Are STIs?
Discussion
Of the 30 different microbes which can be transmitted by sexual contact, 8 have the greatest incidence of transmitting disease. Four are curable (Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis and Trichomoniasis) and 4 are incurable at present (Hepatitis B, Herpes simplex virus (HSV), Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Human papillomavirus (HPV)).
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are important as they can cause:
Increased rates of acquisition of other STIs (ie HSV and syphilis increase the rate of HIV infection acquisition)
Pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility
Stillbirth and neonatal death
Neonatal morbidity i...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - July 17, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
More than 3,000 Patients Possibly Exposed to HIV and Hepatitis At New Jersey Surgical Center, Officials Say
A New Jersey surgical center may have exposed more than 3,000 patients to HIV and hepatitis, state officials said.
People who received a procedure at the HealthPlus Surgery Center in Saddle Brook, New Jersey between Jan. 1 and Sept. 7 have been requested to take a blood test for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C after “deficiencies in infection control” in the medical center’s cleaning and medication injection processes put them at risk.
No infections or illnesses have been reported so far, HealthPlus Surgery Center administrator Betty McCabe said in a statement. Even so, health officials recommend patient...
Source: TIME: Health - December 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mahita Gajanan Tags: Uncategorized New Jersey onetime public health Source Type: news
Test to Protect Family and Self-A Hepatitis B Screening and Care-Linkage Initiative in the Coastal Mississippi Vietnamese Community
J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2020;31(3):1228-1247. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2020.0091.ABSTRACTAlthough Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders represent less than 5% of the U.S. population, they represent approximately half of all people living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV). Harrison, Hancock, and Jackson counties are home to the largest portion of Vietnamese individuals in Mississippi, and have high prevalence rates of HBV. Most people living with HBV do not know they are infected. In 2015, Mississippi State Department of Health began a five-year initiative to implement system-level, evidence-based, community-informed str...
Source: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - January 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tanya T Funchess Danielle Fastring Victor Sutton Victoria Walker Daniel Le Source Type: research
