Few physician practices and hospitals in the United States screen patients for all five key social needs associated with health outcomes. That’s the finding of a cross-sectional study conducted by The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Researchers leveraged national survey data from 2,190 physician practices and 739 hospitals to assess the prevalence… Read More »
Phoebe Wall Howard Detroit Free Press Published 8:13 PM EDT Sep 18, 2019 DETROIT – Within 36 hours of the United Automobile Workers strike against General Motors, the Detroit automaker announced a decision to shift worker health care payments to the union immediately – a strategy that risks dragging out the strike, labor negotiators say. “They’re… Read More »
Editorial pages focus on the health care topics and others. Stat: Why It’s A Mistake For Medical Schools To Ignore Social Justice During my first days as a supervising resident physician at a large urban hospital, two questions were constantly on my mind, the key drivers of any medical decisions that I would make: How… Read More »
A new study by the charity Privacy International (PI) claims that popular health websites in Europe routinely share users’ mental health information with advertisers, data brokers and large tech companies. The charity analysed more than 136 popular web pages related to depression in Germany, France and the UK, using the open-source tool webxray to identify… Read More »