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  1. Zero-Sum Thinking, Major Roadblock to Achieving Optimal US Population Health

    New Nature Medicine paper details how health inequities harm everyone, counters 4 fallacies of zero-sum health thinking, urges…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #Health #healthinequities #healthoutcomes #healthcarereform #populationhealth #socialdeterminantsofhealth
    newsbeep.com/us/101837/

  2. Big Picture Science for Mar 10, 2025: Preventable

    Two infectious diseases that we’ve been able to prevent for a half-century are re-emerging. One of the most contagious viruses in the world, measles, is spreading in the United States. Anti-vax sentiment has driven vaccination rates down leading to outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico. The U.S. has also seen an uptick in cases of tuberculosis which has reclaimed its position the deadliest infection globally. The author John Green shares how his travels to Sierra Leone inspired his new book about TB. Through the story of a young patient, Henry, he highlights the health inequities that contribute to over a million and a half tuberculosis deaths annually despite the existence of a cure.

    Guests:

    * Adam Ratner – Pediatric infectious disease doctor in New York City, and author of Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
    * John Green – Author of The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection

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    #BigPictureScience #SETI #News #Podcast #Science #Measles #Tuberculosis #Virus #Vaccines #Healthcare #HealthInequities #MedicalResearch

  3. #HealthInequities & #Genetics: “Genetic endeavors undertaken with even the best of intentions can miss their mark and, in the process, distract from the actual causes of health disparities, with harmful consequences.” latimes.com/opinion/story/2023

  4. Interesting story on the causes of #healthinequities - all the determinants mentioned below are caused by #racism so if we are serious about #inequities, why don’t we start by identifying and eliminating #racism at all levels? That is what we need. @ushamcfarling statnews.com/2023/07/27/health

  5. By having a gate-keeper for Black and Hispanic students is how inequities are perpetuated as education is the main main of economic mobility and a path to health and well-being. #Racism #HealthInequities nytimes.com/2023/06/02/nyregio

  6. “The Health Inequality Data Repository is the largest global collection of disaggregated data about health and determinants of health – with nearly 11 million data points across more than 2000 indicators.”

    There's a WHO webinar introducing the repository this Thursday 20 April 2023, 13:00-14:15 CET

    who.int/news-room/events/detai

    cc @dataisplural

  7. The biological embodiment of #racism expresses itself as race as we see it. #healthinequities
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    RT @doc_thoughts
    One of the challenges to writing and teaching about racism is getting people to understand that what we see is not race. Rather, it's how power via laws (racism) gives meaning to phenotypical features producing what we see as "race."
    twitter.com/doc_thoughts/statu

  8. Another example of how problematic race-based algorithm for risk assessment are: “Current high-density lipoprotein cholesterol–based risk calculations could lead to inaccurate risk assessment in Black adults.” #racism #healthinequities jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.20