Healthcare and incarceration: How can providers help make the justice system more just?
Exploring how every healthcare worker has a role to play in improving the health effects of justice system involvement.
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Social Determinants Digest: Promoting health equity through research
How to define social determinants of health and ways that research can better consider sociological constructs to change perception.
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Health disparities and COVID-19: Preparing for the second wave
Examining the indirect effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable communities and the need for national and institutional policy changes.
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You can’t mask empathy
A reminder that authentic relationships and empathic communication still prevail in medicine during the pandemic.
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Influencing health: How where we live, learn, work and play matters
Learn more about our new blog series focused on social determinants of health and their impact on health, quality-of-life, and risks.
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Make virtual classrooms ‘go the distance’
We outline issues to consider with online education: how to engage learners, create a community, expand opportunities and ensure success.
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Dialogue and respect: Inside the mind of a neuroethics interviewer
We delve into how neuroethics interviews require a distinctive form of respect, which applies to research ethics and any social interaction.
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Cervical cancer screening in the COVID-19 era
In 2018, the World Health Organization launched an ambitious global strategy to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem. The tools for elimination are
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How can we address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began work in April with a committee of outside experts to devise a ranking scheme for rolling
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Social distancing and sadness: The need for human connection
A clinical ethicist describes the impact visitation restrictions and social distancing has had on patients and their families.
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