"The risks and benefits of common screenings, procedures, and drugs add up differently at advanced ages, and research continues to point out fresh examples of some that may become unnecessary."
#healthcare #PrimaryCare #aging #prevention #screenings #medications
#Frailty and #IntrinsicCapacity are not competing constructs
Their complementary use supports delivering integrated, person-centred #care for older people, grounded in a holistic, capacity-focused, #multidisciplinary approach
"In letters dated May 11, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. notified the two doctors who chaired the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that he was terminating their appointments immediately, before the end of their multiyear terms."
#healthcare #PublicHealth #HHS #USPSTF #PrimaryCare #insurance #ACA
The Trump administration has fired the two leaders of an influential health group that determines when insurance must provide free preventive care like mammograms for millions of Americans. In letters dated May 11, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised the service of the leaders of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force but said he was ending their appointments immediately. The panel sets guidelines for cancer screenings and other preventive care, and those it deems supported by strong enough scientific evidence must be covered by insurance without a co-pay.
Dangit, I got eight mosquito bites inside my home over a 1.5 hour span last week.
https://abcnews.com/Health/texas-reports-states-1st-human-case-west-nile/story?id=133117711
#PublicHealth #mosquitos #WestNile #IDmastodon #healthcare #PrimaryCare #texas #HarrisCounty #houston
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#HauoraTaiwhenua #RuralHealthNZ #RuralLeadership #HealthEquity #PrimaryCare ##RuralWorkforce #HealthyRuralCommunities
Clinical and #Care Coordination Predictors of Adverse Outcomes in a Geriatric #Emergency Department
"...The existence of an established #PrimaryCare relationship significantly predicted lower in-hospital mortality..."
https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610%2826%2900117-9/fulltext
"According to a new evidence review conducted by the Vaccine Integrity Project, an initiative of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (publisher of CIDRAP News), HPV vaccines have reduced the risk of cervical cancer by 80% in women vaccinated by age 16 and by 66% in those vaccinated after 16."
#PublicHealth #HPV #vaccines #immunizations #CervicalCancer #prevention #PrimaryCare #ChildrensHealth
"New data from the Commonwealth Fund shows how low Texas healthcare has sunk below national averages on multiple measures. The dire conditions help explain why my doctor of 18 years, along with hundreds of others, is switching to a concierge model to buck a system that prioritizes churn over people."
#healthcare #insurance #concierge #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine #ACA #obamacare #medicaid
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