Tag: public health

June 28, 2024

One of the major concerns for public health in the United Kingdom, and certainly around the world, is the impact of climate change on healthcare. In the United Kingdom, various aspects of climate change threaten the population’s well-being, including direct […]

June 24, 2024

The American Medical Association (AMA) gathered physician and medical student leaders from all corners of medicine at its Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates to shape guiding policies on emerging health care topics. The new policies adopted on the […]

March 1, 2024

If you were vaccinated for measles in the 1970s or ’80s, there’s a chance the protection has worn off by now, some doctors are warning. Amid the current measles outbreak in Florida, USF College of Public Health associate professor Jill […]

November 6, 2023

Disenrollment rates have been rising steadily since this summer, as more states start rechecking their Medicaid members’ eligibility for the program. The Biden administration enticed states to put those checks on hold during the COVID-19 public health emergency in exchange […]

May 9, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the urgent need to modernize the nation’s public health system. Despite success in rapidly developing vaccines, the unprecedented public health emergency also exposed significant gaps in U.S. public health infectious disease data collection […]

March 13, 2023

Public health crisis communications plans have the power to improve outcomes, reduce long-term healthcare costs, and save lives. These plans should convey crucial health information to impacted groups with recommendations on how and when to seek care and reduce spread. […]

February 10, 2023

A number of pandemic-era policies tied to the federal public health emergency will soon expire on May 11, affecting providers, payers and others in the industry that have relied on some of those flexibilities over the past few years. Waivers […]

February 10, 2023

When covid-19 vaccines became available, Colorado public health officials initially relied on mass vaccination events publicized through Facebook, email, and texts, and required Coloradans to book appointments online. But when that go-big strategy drove large disparities in who was getting […]

January 4, 2023

By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department here, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against covid-19 slipping after an initially robust response. With doubt, fear, and misinformation running rampant nationwide […]

October 28, 2022

When a case of monkeypox was reported in Nevada’s Humboldt County in August, it was the state’s first detected occurrence of the virus in a rural area. Soon, cases were found in other rural counties — Nye, Lyon, and Elko […]

September 23, 2022

The American Diabetes Association announced a new initiative designed to address the urgent public health challenge of preventable amputation called the Amputation Prevention Alliance. Over 135,000 amputations occur every year in the United States, with the majority of those procedures […]

September 12, 2022

The AHA is concerned that worsening economic conditions will put more rural facilities out of business and leave patients with fewer options for quality care close to home. Already, nearly 46 million people living in rural areas, or 14% of […]

August 18, 2022

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is planning to reorganize the agency amid rising criticism of the its response to the coronavirus pandemic, rising monkeypox cases and other public health crises. The shakeup includes the […]

August 15, 2022

COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed the way people around the world think about diseases, and it also changed the way policymakers, scientists, and health authorities respond to new outbreaks. After more than two years of fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a recent […]

August 9, 2022

Telehealth usage surged early in the pandemic, embraced by both consumers and providers as an alternative to in-person care and supported by expanded reimbursement and other policy changes intended to boost adoption during the public health emergency. Fair Health has […]

July 28, 2022

States are mixed on how to address Medicaid uncertainty once the COVID-19 public health emergency expires, according to a panel that advises Congress on the program. During the PHE, states that received a 6.2 percentage point increase in federal funding […]

July 19, 2022

Wearable movement-tracking devices may someday be useful in providing early warnings of cognitive decline among older adults, suggest new findings from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers analyzed data from ActiGraph activity monitors, which […]

July 15, 2022

A ballot initiative that would have raised taxes on California millionaires and billionaires to fund public health programs and pandemic prevention is dead — at least for this year. The Silicon Valley tech executives who bankrolled the measure, which had […]

July 14, 2022

Just over two years since the coronavirus pandemic began, society presses forward, seeking normalcy. Restrictions have lifted, severe cases and deaths from COVID-19 have plummeted thanks to rapidly developed vaccines and therapeutics. The United States government has played an important […]

June 13, 2022

A multi-country monkeypox outbreak is causing concern around the world, as more and more people get infected with the virus. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 23 United Nations (UN) member states, across four different regions that are not […]