Dr. Joshua Liao explains how public health officials can harness behavioral science to decrease the rising rate of Covid-19 transmission.
Category: healthcare
Platforms And Pandemics: Embracing Digital Health Platform Disruption In The COVID-19 Era
Of the key lessons that COVID-19 has served up on a silver platter, one of the clearest takeaways is that the U. S. healthcare system is not set up to handle a public health pandemic like the novel coronavirus.
Pandemic Turns Physician Job Market To Dire From Demand
The ability of a U.S. physician to land a job has been easy until a surge of U. S. cases of the coronavirus strain Covid-19 “flipped” the job market and reduced the demand for doctors during the pandemic, a new report shows.
The Dangerous Link Between Our Search For A Coronavirus Cure And Bloodletting
The oft-cited timeline for a coronavirus vaccine is “12 to 18 months,” an estimate based more on optimism than evidence. This article examines the role denial plays in medicine’s never-ending quest for cures.
Why 32% Of Young Adults Are Vulnerable To Severe Covid-19 Coronavirus Infections
The study found that nearly one in three 18-to-25-year olds have these risk factors that make them “medically vulnerable.”
To Succeed In Global Health, We Need To Find The Outliers
To succeed in global health, we need to learn from positive and negative outliers (exemplars). Recently, the Exemplars in Global Health project was launched to broadly share lessons from positive outliers in global health.
California Rolls Back Reopening, Closing Bars And Indoor Operations Of A Range Of Businesses
‘We’ve made this point on multiple occasions and that is we’re moving back into a modification mode of our original stay-at-home order,’ Newsom said at a press briefing, adding, ‘This continues to be a deadly disease.’
It Is Time To Stop Stigmatizing Mental Health Among Healthcare Workers
Over the weekend, healthcare professionals took to twitter to disclose their own mental health histories. This was unprecedented, but barriers to care still remain, including stigmatizing questions on licensing applications. Can we finally change the c…
Abortion Pill Available By Mail During Pandemic, Court Rules
Women seeking abortions can now do so without physically seeing a doctor.
Covid-19 Coronvairus May Be Transmitted Via The Womb During Pregnancy
Here are the precautions to take while you are pregnant.
