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alwaysbewoke · 5 days

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#life expectancy #healthcare disparities #Black doctors #primary care #racial disparities #healthcare access #racial health disparities #healthcare equity #access to healthcare #minority representation #healthcare workforce #community health #social determinants of health

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spartanmemesmedical · 2 months

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Access to Abortion Care: A Human Rights Perspective

Introduction:Abortion remains a contentious issue globally, with complex implications for public health, human rights, and social justice. This assignment delves into the multifaceted aspects of abortion care, emphasizing its significance in promoting comprehensive healthcare, human rights, and gender equality. Overview:The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a state of complete…

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fiercemillennial · 2 months

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Telemedicine Reshapes Abortion Access: What You Need to Know

Breaking news: 16% of abortions in the US now happen via telemedicine. What does this mean for women's healthcare? #abortionaccess #reproductivehealth #womensrights #fiercelife #fiercemillennial

A new report highlights the rise of virtual abortion care, prompting important discussions for women’s health. The landscape of abortion access is shifting. A new report reveals that 16% of all abortions in the United States are now conducted via telemedicine. This marks a significant rise in virtual abortion services, raising important questions about women’s reproductive rights, healthcare…

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#abortion access #FIERCE FORCE #FIERCE MILLENNIAL #healthcare equity #reproductive rights #telemedicine #virtual healthcare #women&039;s health

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syrahealth · 2 years

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https://www.syrahealth.com/population-health-management/health-equity-solutions/

Health Equity Solutions | Healthcare Equity | Mental Health Equity - Syrahealth.com

Syrahealth provides broad assistance for healthcare Equity solutions that serve the underserved by delivering comprehensive fact-based patient education. https://www.syrahealth.com/population-health-management/health-equity-solutions/

#Health equity solutions #Health equity services #Mental health equity #Healthcare equity #Health equity

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perrysoup · 4 months

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Am I a radical because I think people should be paid fairly? Am I a radical because I think Heathcare is a right ? Am I a radical because I think the unhoused are from a failure by the state to provide them housing and support?

Am I a radical because I think all people should be treated equally?

Am I a radical because I realize equality don't mean the same thing for everyone, it means giving people what they need to be on the same level?

Am I a radical because I think that food and drink are a right?

Am I a radical because I want peace?

Am I a radical because jobs should be what you love, not what you are forced to do?

Am I a radical because I think colonization is bad?

Am I a radical because I don't ignore the benefits I have had from being a White, Straight, Male?

Am I a radical because I don't ignore the benefit I have the totalitarian policies of the US in relation to the world?

Am I a radical for speaking up against the horrors of capitalism?

Am I a radical for thinking that a single country should not determine the worlds safety?

Am I a radical for think war is bad?

Am I a radical for thinking civilians shouldn't be killed?

If that's what defines a radical, then that's what I am. And I'm proud to be one.

#radical #rights #human rights #trans rights #disabled rights #equality #equity #housing #universal healthcare #anti colonialism #anti capitalism #anti war #peace #unhoused #perryrants

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feminist-space · 4 months

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December 27th, 2023

Hospitals owned by private equity firms riskier for patients, study says

"(CNN) - Health care is more hazardous for patients at hospitals purchased by private equity firms, financing models designed to make money for investors.

That conclusion comes from a new study published Tuesday in the journal Jama.

The study looked at the rates of 10 serious adverse events associated with medical care at 51 hospitals, before and after they were purchased by private equity firms.

Researchers then compared those results with the rates of the same complications at more than 250 hospitals that were not owned by those entities.

The study revealed that, in those private equity firm-purchased hospitals, there was a 25% increase in patient complications.

The rates of patient falls inside the facility, central line infections and surgical site infections all increased.

The study author said treating fewer patients eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits is one trend the research found.

Previous research has shown cuts to staffing and replacing more highly paid workers with those paid less Is often tied to private equity firm acquisitions.

Those firms have been acquiring large chunks of the U.S. health care delivery system in recent years, including hospitals, nursing homes, behavioral health systems and private physician practices.

Earlier this month, the Senate Budget Committee announced its bipartisan investigation of the impact of private equity purchases on health care facilities.

#for profit hospitals #healthcare capitalism #private equity damage #hospitals

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mitchipedia · 4 months

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Private equity is coming for healthcare. Make sure your elected officials fight back.

#private equity #enshittification #healthcare #politics #business

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ivygorgon · 24 days

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AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS

Put the Good Jobs for Good Airports standards in the FAA reauthorization bill!

104 so far! Help us get to 250 signers!

I’m calling on you to stand with working people, passengers and our communities by supporting Good Jobs for Good Airports standards (GJGA) in the FAA reauthorization bill. Airports should and can be strong, vibrant drivers of good jobs in every part of our country. The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards are central to that mission and our nation’s future prosperity. Billions of our public dollars are invested in our nation’s aviation system every year, and we must ensure that our public resources serve the public good. That includes ensuring airports better serve the needs of our families, our passengers, our communities and the airport service workers who make it all possible.

It is evident that our air travel industry is in crisis. From record flight cancellations during summer travel peaks to mountains of lost luggage during the holiday travel season. Airports are critical publicly-funded infrastructure vital to the health of our local communities and global economy, but right now airports aren't working the way they should for travelers or airport service workers — a largely Black, brown, multiracial and immigrant service workforce. These working people, including cleaners, wheelchair agents, baggage handlers, concessionaires and ramp workers, keep airports safe and running smoothly even through a global pandemic, climate disasters and busy travel seasons. Yet many are underpaid and underprotected--even as some major airlines rake in record profit and billions of our tax dollars are invested in our national air travel system.

Domestic passenger numbers increased by 80% between 2020 and 2021, total industry employment fell by nearly 14%, leaving airport service workers to sometimes clean entire airplanes in as little as five minutes as many take on additional responsibilities outside of their typical job duties. Meanwhile, wages have barely budged for airport service workers in 20 years. The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards has the power to transform workers’ lives by ensuring airport service workers have the pay and benefits they need to care for their families.

The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards would help build a stronger, safer, more resilient air travel industry by making airport service jobs good jobs with living wages and benefits like affordable healthcare for all airport workers. Airport service workers at more than 130 covered airports would be supported through established wage and benefit standards, putting money back into hundreds of local economies and helping families thrive. If passed over 73% of wage increases will go to workers making $20 or less, estimates show.

I urge you to include the Good Jobs for Good Airports standards in the FAA reauthorization bill, and help ensure our public money serves the public good.

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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A national physician group this week called for the complete termination of a Medicare privatization scheme that the Biden White House inherited from the Trump administration and later rebranded—while keeping intact its most dangerous components.

Now known as the Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) Model, the experiment inserts a for-profit entity between traditional Medicare beneficiaries and healthcare providers. The federal government pays the ACO REACH middlemen to cover patients' care while allowing them to pocket a significant chunk of the fee as profit.

The rebranded pilot program, which was launched without congressional approval and is set to run through at least 2026, officially began this month, and progressive healthcare advocates fear the experiment could be allowed to engulf traditional Medicare.

In a Tuesday letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) argued that ACO REACH "presents a threat to the integrity of traditional Medicare, and an opportunity for corporations to take money from taxpayers while denying care to beneficiaries."

The group, which advocates for a single-payer healthcare system, voiced alarm over the Biden administration's decision to let companies with records of fraud and other abuses take part in the ACO REACH pilot, which automatically assigns traditional Medicare patients to private entities without their consent.

CMS said in a press release Tuesday that "the ACO REACH Model has 132 ACOs with 131,772 healthcare providers and organizations providing care to an estimated 2.1 million beneficiaries" for 2023.

"As we have stated, PNHP believes that the REACH program threatens the integrity of traditional Medicare and should be permanently ended," Dr. Philip Verhoef, the physician group's president, wrote in the new letter. "Whether or not one agrees with this statement, we should all be able to agree that companies found to have violated the rules have no place managing the care of our Medicare beneficiaries."

Among the concerning examples PNHP cited was Clover Health, which has operated so-called Direct Contracting Entities (DCEs)—the name of private middlemen under the Trump-era version of the Medicare pilot—in more than a dozen states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and New York.

PNHP noted that in 2016, CMS fined Clover—a large Medicare Advantage provider—for "using 'marketing and advertising materials that contained inaccurate statements' about coverage for out-of-network providers, after a high volume of complaints from patients who were denied coverage by its MA plan. Clover had failed to correct the materials after repeated requests by CMS."

Humana, another large insurer with its teeth in the Medicare privatization pilot, "improperly collected almost $200 million from Medicare by overstating the sickness of patients," PNHP observed, citing a recent federal audit.

"It appears that in its selection process [for ACO REACH], CMS did not prevent the inclusion of companies with histories of such behavior," Verhoef wrote. "Given these findings, we are concerned that CMS is inappropriately allowing these DCEs to continue unimpeded into ACO REACH in 2023."

While the Medicare pilot garnered little attention from lawmakers when the Trump administration first launched it during its final months in power, progressive members of Congress have recently ramped up scrutiny of the program.

Last month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) led a group of lawmakers in warning that ACO REACH "provides an opportunity for healthcare insurers with a history of defrauding and abusing Medicare and ripping off taxpayers to further encroach on the Medicare system."

"We have long been concerned about ensuring this model does not give corporate profiteers yet another opportunity to take a chunk out of traditional Medicare," the lawmakers wrote, echoing PNHP's concerns. "The continued participation of corporate actors with a history of fraud and abuse threatens the integrity of the program."

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majaurukalo · 4 months

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I had a discussion on Reddit (I know, I should avoid seeking discussions with people online) about how some dreams and opportunities are unreachable or very difficult to reach for some people because of external obstacles like class, money, health, family, etc and it is so wild to me that certain people do not see — or do not want to see — the inbuilt obstacles that some people face and that they are not in control of.

What we, as human beings, have control over are our time, energy, skill. What we do not control is money, health, gender, origin background (and sure some other stuff I can’t come up with now).

Some people would tell you to just “do whatever it takes” or to “leave everything and move to the place where your dreams come true” because “the only obstacles are in your mindset”. Hahaha I wish that was true. This is straight up classism and whoever says that has had certain privileges that isn’t probably aware of. And it’s putting blame to the individual only, whereas there are so many external factors that hinder a person’s dream. Life is not like in The Greatest Showman.

“Where there’s a will there’s a way” is true to a certain point.

This is not to say “oh then, everything is unfair, the World is just a big discriminating mess and no one is offered any opportunity unless they have money and power”. No. Society has evolved and it certainly offers more chances even to the most discriminated minorities than it did only 20 or 30 years ago. Internet and globalisation offer us a lot of means and ways to go from point A to point B, even with less privilege.

Some people have to fight more though and not because they are unskilled or unprepared. The problem maybe is that we have normalised this and maybe we shouldn’t have.

Some people cannot just leave and move to places as if it costs nothing because they lack money (and no, money isn’t easily available as some might think) or support or they have poor health and a disability and need assistance which they can’t find available in other places. So they are stuck home or wherever they have that. Or, if they manage to achieve that success, it comes after years of money spending (most probably), tears, defeat, failure, suffering… And yes, you made it, but you probably went through a lot of trauma and people who didn’t believe in you and didn’t help you at all.

And sure, even in the most equal World someone will remain outside and that’s what saddens me and makes me angry.

The point of this entire post is just to acknowledge that we live in a system that is unfair and where you come from, how much money your family has and if you are healthy and abled play a big role in whether you achieve your dreams easily without trauma and heavy falls.

Just acknowledge it and shut up. You don’t need to put the blame on the single individual who has less privileges than you.

If we don’t acknowledge it, we normalise it. And I think we have already normalised a lot of fucked up things.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

#cripple #cripple punk #discrimination #privilege #healthcare #money #class #poverty #health privilege #able bodied privilege #achievements #dreams #equity #inequality #I’m sure I missed other tags

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raffaellopalandri · 22 days

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World Health Day 2024: My Health, My Right

Every year on April 7th, the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates World Health Day, a global event dedicated to raising awareness of a specific health issue. This year’s theme, “My health, my right”, shines a light on the fundamental principle that everyone, regardless of background or circumstance, deserves access to good health. Why is Health Essential? Our health is one of the…

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#2024 #equitable society #equity #free education #free healthcare #health #healthcare #illness #justice #Medicine #Raffaello Palandri #right #right to health #Social Injustice #society #World Health Day #World Health Organization

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alwaysbewoke · 23 days

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impactofhealth · 26 days

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7 Steps to Health Equity: Addressing Root Causes Now in 2024

Health equity is more than just equal access to healthcare services. It means giving everyone a fair chance to be as healthy as possible, no matter their background or circumstances. This includes addressing the social and economic factors that can create barriers to good health. Read More...

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dyingroses · 1 month

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Me, deciding not to keep my mouth shut when my peers were saying queerphobic shit:

#queer #queerphobia #fuck queerphobes #order does not peace #peace and order #trans rights #stop oversexualizing queer people #biphobia #homophobia #transphobes #nursing school #healthcare #diversity equity and inclusion #stand up #channing tatum #post #my life

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samijami · 9 months

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inclusiveleadersgroup22 · 9 months

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Join the Inclusive Leader Group in an insightful exploration of how embracing diversity, fostering equity, and nurturing inclusion within healthcare systems can lead to improved patient outcomes, innovative solutions, and a more compassionate and effective healthcare ecosystem.

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#healthcare #inclusive leaders group #health #diversity #inclusion #equity

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