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A Call for Engagement Outside of the Exam Room

Physician's Weekly

However, a less examined aspect is patient and community engagement outside traditional healthcare settings. Physicians can often literally meet patients where they are and address the broader social determinants of health, such as housing, education, and income, which significantly impact patient well-being and illness prevention.

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Power to the Patient with Patient Generated Health Data

FDA Law

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) recently partnered with the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) to host a two-day workshop to help advance the use of patient-generated health data (PGHD) to support improved clinical trials, medical device development, and regulatory science.

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How MIT Sloan’s Climate Interactive Tool Sheds Light on the Global Impact on Health from Climate Change

My Green Doctor

This increased disease burden hits hardest in areas with limited healthcare infrastructure, compounding the human and economic toll. These conditions not only increase the risk of malnutrition and dehydration but also exacerbate mental health issues and force displacement, triggering a cascade of socio-economic and health challenges.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health. We do talk about healthcare policy. Alex 33:17 Yeah, we had to workshop this. If clinicians ask about it, safety, mental health, well being, then I think that helps alerts elders.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. I’m workshopping what I’m going to say at the “Congress du caretive” [speaking in French]. Was that the same at MGH for. Is that fair to say?