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Good Mental Health Care: What It Is, What It Is Not & What It …

WEBA person walks into a consulting room (or into a family encounter, clinic, or community mental health center) looking for help with difficult feelings, ideas, or relationships. Their problem may come with a widely agreed upon label, or may at first seem more amorphous. It may not fit neatly into any available category.

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Introduction: How Mental Health Matters Daedalus MIT Press

WEBAbstract. The underpinnings of today's mental health crisis include both social structural inequities and neurobiological vulnerabilities. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded and escalated a long-standing problem, rendering the mental health crisis and its dangerous consequences visible and exigent. We now possess a clearer and more …

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Trust in Medicine, the Health System & Public Health

WEBA discussion of trust in medicine, the health system, and public health needs to recognize as context the exceptionally low trust the American public currently has in institutions, especially government. As many scholars have noted, trust in the federal government has declined sharply over the past decades. 1 In 1958, nearly three-fourths …

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Patients Are Humans Too: The Emergence of Medical Humanities

WEBAbstract. This essay describes the origins, growth, and transformation of the medical humanities over the past six decades, drawing on the insights of ethicists, physicians, historians, patients, activists, writers, and literature scholars who participated in building the field. The essay traces how the original idea of “humanizing physicians” …

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Health, Longevity, and Welfare Inequality of Older Americans

WEBAbstract. We estimate the distribution of well-being among the older U.S. population using an expected utility framework that incorporates differences in consumption, leisure, health, and mortality. We find large disparities in welfare that have increased over time. Incorporating the cost of living with poor health into elderly welfare substantially …

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Introduction UnderbellyChildhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local

WEBRachel Hall-Clifford is Assistant Professor of Human Health and Sociology at the Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health, and In-Country Director of …

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The Biology of Kindness

WEBImmaculata De Vivo is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research focuses on how genetic variants interact with the environment to influence susceptibility to hormonal cancers, especially endometrial cancer.

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The Biology of Mental Disorders: Progress at Last

WEBAbstract. Mental disorders are common, complex, highly morbid conditions for which basic underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Despite the utility of many existing treatments, there remains vast unmet need for more effective and safer therapeutics. Most current medicines for mental disorders are based on chemical …

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COVID-19 publications in top-ranked public health journals during …

WEBWe aimed to examine the quality of COVID-19 research articles published in top-ranked generalist public health journals according to Google Scholar (Delgado López-Cózar & Cabezas-Clavijo, 2013).This journal ranking system is based on citations and allows assessment of the number of times articles have been cited in other publications, …

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UnderbellyChildhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of …

WEBRachel Hall-Clifford is Assistant Professor of Human Health and Sociology at the Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health, and In-Country Director of …

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Rebel Health : A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in …

WEBISBN electronic: 9780262378062. Publication date: 2024. An action-oriented and radically hopeful field guide to the underground, patient-led revolution for better health and health care. Anyone who has fallen off the conveyer belt of mainstream health care and into the shadowy corners of illness knows what a dark place it is to land.

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The Story of Indian Health is Complicated by History

WEBEvery so often, the “story” of Indian health is told by a news organization. For example, The Wall Street Journal reported the death of several Native American patients in Pine Ridge and Sisseton, South Dakota, and Winnebago, Nebraska: “In some of the nation's poorest places, the government health service charged with treating Native …

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Information Streams in Health Facilities: The Case of Uganda

WEBAbstract. With the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, the lack of digitally-recorded and connected health data poses a challenge for analysing the situation. Virus outbreaks, such as the current pandemic, allow for the optimisation and reuse of data, which can be beneficial in managing future outbreaks. However, there is a general lack …

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Curriculum Reforms and Infant Health

WEBAbstract. This paper examines the effects of high school curriculum reforms on infant health by exploiting sharp and staggered changes across states in core course requirements for graduation. Our results suggest that curriculum reforms significantly reduced the incidence of low birthweight and prematurity for black mothers. For white …

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American Gun Violence & Mental Illness: Reducing Risk, Restoring …

WEBAbstract. Intentional injuries claimed nearly two hundred lives every day in the United States in 2020, about two-thirds of them suicides, each a story of irretrievable human loss. This essay addresses the complex intersection of injurious behavior with mental illness and access to firearms. It explores what more can be done to stop gun violence while …

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Global Population Aging: Facts, Challenges, Solutions & Perspectives

WEBAbstract. The rapid aging of populations around the world presents an unprecedented set of challenges: shifting disease burden, increased expenditure on health and long-term care, labor-force shortages, dissaving, and potential problems with old-age income security. We view longer life spans, particularly longer healthy life spans, as an …

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Water Scarcity & Health in Urban Africa Daedalus MIT Press

WEBAbstract. Water is the cornerstone of public health. Yet many people living in Africa's cities face serious challenges obtaining an adequate supply of clean water. This situation, which poses significant public health concerns, promises only to grow in magnitude in the coming years as rapid urbanization and climate change meet head-on …

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Financial Constraints & Collegiate Student Learning: A Behavioral

WEBAbstract. Gaps in college completion persist between low- and high-income students. These disparities can be attributed in large part to a lack of college affordability and information asymmetries about the process of accessing financial assistance as well as other campus-based resources and supports. While substantial policy investments have …

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Possibility of Enhancing Digital Health Interoperability in Uganda

WEBAbstract. The digital health landscape in Uganda is plagued by problems with interoperability and sustainability, due to fragmentation and a lack of integrated digital health solutions. This can be partly attributed to the absence of policies on the interoperability of data, as well as the fact that there is no common goal to make digital …

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Humanitarian Health Responses in Urban Conflict Zones

WEBAbstract. War has long tested the design, capacity, and protected status of health care personnel and systems. In recent years, however, urban conflict zones have come to exemplify many of the most intractable humanitarian dilemmas around the delivery of medical care. In this essay, I examine several recurring dilemmas concerning …

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