Search results for "Public Health"
Evidence-based medicine
Cochrane is a global leader and resource in evidence-informed health decision-making. ... in interpretation of Cochrane Reviews; and raising general awareness of the Cochrane evidence available to make well-informed health and health care decisions.
June 2019
Expanding Medicaid is the right thing to do for public health
In a study published in the Sept. 13, 2012 New England Journal of Medicine, ACP Member Benjamin Sommers, MD, PhD, and his colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health provided ... the strongest evidence yet that expanding Medicaid has major positive
November 2012
Resources
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2014/03/11/7.htm. A new tool to integrate primary care and public health called “A Practical Playbook: Public Health & Primary Care Together” is now ... A new tool to integrate primary care and public health
March 2014
Leadership Day offers advocacy in action
care and the physician workforce, and public health and pandemic preparedness, Shari M. ... Erickson, MPH, ACP's Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs and Public Policy and Chief Advocacy Officer, told attendees in her May 17 presentation.
July 2022
Alcohol use
The results support including adults who drink moderately on average in public health efforts to reduce binge drinking, the authors said. ... These results substantially broaden an increasing recognition that binge drinking is a public health concern
June 2022
Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
ACP is concerned by reports that public health officials and experts across the country are being harassed due to their recommendations on combating the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Health officials should not be subject to threats for merely doing their jobs,
September 2020
Health equity
back into primary and preventive care, as well as into social and public health services. ... 4. ACP recommends that the Secretary of Health and Human Services be authorized to address the inadequacies within the Quality Payment Program.
June 2022
Managing superbugs in your community
They also need to have good links with the public health system for reporting and surveillance.". ... The WHO received pushback from the public health community for leaving TB off its priority list.
May 2017
Opioids
They highlighted the need for continued public health and clinical actions, including greater adherence to evidence-based prescribing guidelines, more patient education, and alternative pain-management options, adding that there is
June 2022
A new vision for health care
A: We have certainly undervalued public health and primary care over the past two decades. ... The COVID crisis has pointed out and underscored the total underinvestment in public health.
July 2020