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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right …

WebDespite efforts to increase access to health care and to better incentivize high-quality, value-based care, the United States’ health care system remains fragmented, …

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Vulnerability Theory and Health Justice

WebOne major substantive difference is that health justice centers inequity, whereas vulnerability theory sees inequity as important but collateral to the core project of building a responsive state that fulfills its …

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Can Rights Make Any Difference for Access to Health

WebAlicia Ely Yamin is a Lecturer on Law and Director of the Global Health and Human Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, …

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Reforming How Medicare Pays for Digital Health

WebReforms to how Medicare covers and reimburses digital health and other innovative services can save the program money and increase care quality. Currently, …

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Human Rights Principles in Public Health Emergencies: From the …

WebTowards accountability for human rights violations in public health emergencies. First and foremost, the two legally binding instruments that the World …

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How Community Organizations and Health Departments Can …

WebBy Sarah de Guia, Rachel A. Davis, and Kiran Savage-Sangwan. Health justice is not just a cause or an idea, but the way forward for public health agencies and …

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How Will Health Policy Change After COVID-19

WebBy Abe Sutton. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for health policy reform in the United States. In this piece, I walk through three health policy takeaways from COVID-19, which include …

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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights

WebStill, the right to health is a great starting point to reimagine the provision of services and the resources needed to ensure a functioning health system — without it, …

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What Makes a Bad Public Health Decision

WebBad public health decisions are made in siloes. Good public health decisions require the pooled expertise of a multi-disciplinary, non-hierarchical team. A team in …

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Harms and Biases Associated with the Social

WebBy Artair Rogers. Many health systems have begun using new screening technologies to ask patients questions about the factors outside of the clinic and hospital that contribute to an individual or …

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The Road to Systemic Change: Health Justice, Equity, and Anti …

WebBy Keon L. Gilbert and Jerrell DeCaille The health justice movement helps to marry social justice models with equity frameworks. This critical partnership advances …

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Why We Need a Transformative Right-to-Health Pandemic Treaty …

WebIn this contribution, we outline four core strategies. 1. First and foremost, we ought to relocate the right to the highest attainable standard of health to the center of the …

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Public Health Emergencies and Human Rights Principles: A …

WebThe Principles and Guidelines refer to the principle of solidarity as applying individually and collectively to both state and non-state actors (see article 2). In the …

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The Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums

WebThe Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums. January 25, 2021 dgoldberg Daniel Goldberg, Featured, Health Law Policy, Public Health, Social …

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The Current COVID-19 Surge, Eugenics, and Health-Based …

WebThis implies we are not such a society. Rather, we are a society riddled with healthism — discrimination based on health status — and eugenics — a pseudo-science …

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Health Justice Meets Reproductive Justice

WebHealth justice is a framework that “addresses the social determinants of health that result in poor health for individuals and consequential negative outcomes for …

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Health Justice and the Criminal Legal System: From Reform to

WebBy Aysha Pamukcu and Angela P. Harris. Using health justice to reframe and reshape the criminal legal system. The demand to “defund the police,” circulated by …

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The Filter Effect: What Does Comparing Our Bodies on

WebA systematic review published in 2016 highlighted that photo-based activity on social media was linked to negative body image. In analyzing the roots of negative …

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How Social Movements Shape the Law to Address Health Disparities

WebBy Aziza Ahmed. We are facing a health crisis in America. In thinking through the causes of health disparities, a now well-developed body of public health law …

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Food is Medicine Approaches to Address Diet-Related Health …

WebBy Hannah Rahim. Food is Medicine interventions aim to prevent and treat diet-related chronic health conditions and reduce food insecurity by providing food to …

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COVID-19, Social Movements, and Health

WebCOVID-19, Social Movements, and Health. The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people protested, the issues faced by vulnerable communities, and how people …

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