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A Comprehensive Approach to the Opioid Crisis in Caldwell County, North Carolina [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

County governments are struggling to manage the opioid crisis. The homeless population has tripled with over half of this population suffering from untreated drug addiction and mental health issues. to a three day workshop and also invited an expert on community based opioid treatment programs to moderate the program.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

primary care is posing a grave threat to the wellbeing of communities nationwide. State Highlights: Montana provides 65% of its medical training in community-based settings, far surpassing the national average of 16%. North Dakota has the highest percentage of new physicians entering primary care, at 46.6%, double the national average.

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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

A multilayered view of stigmatizing discourses lays the foundation for eliciting a series of suggestions for quelling stigma, to be implemented at the individual, community, and national levels, as suggested by the WHO. Yet, as Tenkorang 7 made the point, it is simply not enough to only implement approaches at the community level.

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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

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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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Johnson, actually.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Like, these are challenging things.