The Health Policy Exchange
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
One popular mHealth initiative is the text4baby program, a public-private partnership launched in 2010 that sends free text messages to expectant and new mothers containing appointment reminders, safety alerts, and general prenatal and postpartum health advice. How can we avoid creating "digital divides" that could worsen health disparities?
Tiny Physician
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Nevertheless, PG doctors have to work 80 to 100 hours a week without any holidays and this tiring schedule does affect their physical and mental health. Incompetent government The doctor-patient ratio of India is one of the worst in the world; we have 1 doctor for 1456 people against the WHO recommendation of 1:1000 [5].
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GeriPal
MARCH 6, 2025
They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case? Government is not the 51st state. They want to feel like they’re supported.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 20, 2022
On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). We talk about: .
GeriPal
AUGUST 15, 2024
We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. So we actually included that in our survey.
FDA Law Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Incentives to motivate better nutritional choices and increase physical fitness would be welcome. Wise government officials will modulate their views as they learn new facts. This seems like a reasonable goal, as most people can probably agree that America is not healthy. Rates of chronic disease are high, as is obesity.
GeriPal
JULY 20, 2023
And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.
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