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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

In the developing world, "mHealth projects are launching at an exponential rate," declared a recent issue of Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine. We debated the types of policies that would be most likely to encourage innovations that make a positive difference for individuals and populations.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. And so now for March, 2024, the government still has said they’re planning to expand it for mental illness conditions. All of the evidence shows that for mental illnesses in individual cases of mental illness, we cannot make those predictions.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. I like crafting sentences, I like thinking through things in the way I can. When I write, I learn a ton from that. And I tend to think of writing as my version of public health. So sometimes I don’t write.

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