Theodore Kinni
Nobody really believed that all 47 million uninsured people would suddenly get health insurance under Obamacare, despite the subsidies and penalties. But the fact that five years has gone by and 60% of those who were uninsured are still uninsured seems like another example of incredible government...
When seniors become sick or injured, they can quickly become confused and disoriented. The best way for them to get help is by wearing one of the best medical alert systems to notify emergency responders of their location. This blog post discusses the benefits of these systems in detail, ...
Long-time readers know I have been critical of U.S. healthcare for over a decade.When I use the term sickcare this is not a reflection on the hard work of frontline caregivers–it is a reflection of the financialization incentives that have distorted the system’s priorities and put it o...
Telemedicine and Healthcare Costs The Problem:Healthcare costs are skyrocketing for a variety of reasons. One is that patients often visit expensive facilities, such as the emergency room, unnecessarily. The averagecost of treating nonemergency conditions— such as bronchitis, dizziness, sore throat ...
will recognize the disease and fight it off. The beauty of vaccines is that they help the body develop disease-fighting abilities without making you sick. Vaccines accomplish this amazing feat by tricking the body into believing it already has the full-blown disease. Here are the steps in this...
Karanika-Murray and Biron [11] advance that employees continue working even when they are sick to balance health constraints and performance demands. PRTSM intensifies in a situation where pressures to remain working during illness persist for a longer period [9] such as during pandemics, i.e....
This emphasises the need for organisations to provide managers with prerequisites so they can keep up with behaviours that support employees’ performance and health when office designs and ways of working are changed. Keywords: AFO; ABW; activity-based working; behaviour; flexible work; management;...
Exactly. Families have to weigh many considerations when they seek care for a child, including the stress and expense of traveling to another city with a sick child and staying for days or possibly weeks, as well as an insurer's willingness to pay for care at a hospital outside its ...
Mental fatigue, activities of daily living, sick leave and functional status among patients with long COVID: a cross-sectional study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(22):14739. doi:10.3390/ijerph192214739PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 12. Taniguchi LU, Avelino-Silva TJ, ...