During epidemics of Ebola, COVID-19, Zika and other public health emergencies, effective communication of public health messages is crucial to control the spread of disease, maintain public trust, and encourage compliance ...
Apr 25, 2024
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While there's a strong determination worldwide to return to a new normal in a post-COVID world, the pandemic is nearly impossible to forget. A large amount of data also provides insight we may not want to move past just yet—how ...
Apr 22, 2024
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"Trust me, I'm a doctor." While this expression has become an advertising slogan and meme, physicians and nurses continually rank among the most trusted professions in the U.S.
Feb 6, 2024
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A shift away from the individual expert as a source of scientific knowledge and authority is proposed by researchers in a recent scholarly paper, published in the open-access journal Social Psychological Bulletin.
Jan 29, 2024
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It took little more than an hour for Deborah Hackler to dispense with the tall stack of debt collection lawsuits that McAlester Regional Medical Center recently brought to small-claims court in this Oklahoma farm community.
Jan 22, 2024
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People are less likely to adopt new health policies if they don't have faith in their government, and a new tool from University of Waterloo researchers aims to fix that.
Dec 13, 2023
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A lack of trust between institutions in Australia is a bigger hurdle to the easy sharing of health and social welfare data than perceived state legislation obstacles—which researchers say largely don't have a detrimental ...
Dec 11, 2023
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The Biden administration has again delayed enacting a ban on menthol cigarettes following intense lobbying from the tobacco industry.
Dec 7, 2023
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Controversial US tech company Palantir has been awarded a £330 million contract to create a new system for sharing data—including patients' medical details—within the NHS in England.
Nov 30, 2023
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While doctors and nurses were hailed as the frontline heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic, their counterparts in public health were experiencing threats. During the pandemic, threats against public health workers reached an all-time ...
Nov 29, 2023
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