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Health and Loneliness Journal of Ethics American Medical …

Loneliness deserves attention from health policy, technology, and cultural standpoints, with critical analysis of how our built environments contribute to social isolation. …

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On Health and Loneliness Journal of Ethics American Medical …

This essay connects loneliness with health problems and argues that both are comorbid with authoritarian politics. Although an old idea from Plato and Aristotle, this problem takes an …

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Health Equity and the Circle of Human Concern

The boundary of the circle of human concern is shaped by those within via the lens of othering and belonging. Interactions and contestations around this boundary have bearing on the …

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How Medicaid and States Could Better Meet Health Needs of …

Abstract. An estimated 580 000 people experienced homelessness on any single night in the United States in 2020. This article argues that, to address these persons’ unmet needs, …

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Piloting and Scaling a Good Health Equity Evidence Base From Big …

Stephen Lockhart, MD, PhD is the chief medical officer of Sutter Health, a not-for-profit integrated health care system in Northern California. He is the founding director of the Sutter Health …

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Force and Compassion in Health Care Journal of Ethics American

Force and Compassion in Health Care. I began synthesizing this theme issue and writing this letter amidst the reality of mandatory physical distancing, enforced mask wearing, and …

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How Should We Better Manage Human and Planetary Health in a …

Abstract. Health care generates a lot of waste that enters landfills, oceans, and incinerators and adversely affects the health of persons and communities close to waste processing and …

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What Are “Social Prescriptions” and How Should They Be …

Abstract. Health consequences of social isolation and loneliness include worsened morbidity and mortality. Despite wide recognition of this fact, little is understood about how to intervene …

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Should Clinicians Be Activists

A social medicine skill set of structural competency, allyship, accompaniment, and activism is required to best serve patients and communities and should be widely regarded as core …

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How Should Health Care Organizations and Communities Work …

Abstract. In the past few decades, scholars have begun to establish ethical principles for public health engagement. A key tension has been how to reconcile public health improvement with …

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Effects of Lifestyle on Health Status Journal of Ethics American

It has become increasingly clear in recent decades that lifestyle factors contribute significantly to the ever-growing burden of chronic disease. Two behavioral patterns in particular, diet and …

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How Economic Decision Modeling Can Facilitate Health Equity

Logan Trenaman, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Public Health Sciences and the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research at the University of California, Davis. His …

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What Critical Ethical Values Guide Strategic Planning Processes in

Matthew Kucmanic, MA, MPH is a recent graduate of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, with degrees in bioethics and public health. As a student, Matthew …

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Visibility and Measurability in Health Care Journal of Ethics

Questioning Biomedicine’s Privileging of Disease and Measurability. Camille Kroll, MA. Adhering too strictly to biomedical thinking about diagnosis can prevent clinicians from empathically …

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An Architectural History of US Community Hospitals

Presbyterian Hospital New York City. Medical center bulletin. October 27, 1925. Miscellaneous Folders, Medical Center Bulletins, 1925-1928: Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

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Humor in Health Care Journal of Ethics American Medical …

Humor in Health Care. Reflecting upon my medical school experience in my final year, I realized that my last two have been very different from the first two. The first 2 years were not much …

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Social Epidemiology: How Socioeconomic Risk Factors Become …

Lu N, Samuels ME, Wilson R. Socioeconomic differences in health: How much do health behaviors and health insurance coverage account for? J Health Care Poor Underserved. …

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Pro/Con: Outpatient Commitment for the Severely Mentally Ill

Many communities struggle with how to care for people with severe mental illness, a population often poorly served by existing mental health services. 1 The problem gained public attention …

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Wellness Through the Lens of a Medical Orchestra

Matthew J. Brooks, DMA is the director of orchestral activities in music and medicine at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he is an assistant professor in the School of …

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Arts-Based Research in Health Care Journal of Ethics American

Visual, musical, and poetic forms of creative expression have embodied healing in many cultures for millennia. Research methods based in these artistic forms have grown in prominence as …

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