Sleep should be promoted as an essential pillar of health, equivalent to nutrition and physical activity. To improve sleep health across the globe, a focus on education and awareness, research, and targeted public health policies are needed. We recommend developing sleep health educational programmes...
Another comes from identifying populations with a health need a company could address, if only it knew that a treatment that it has already developed could be expanded to help those populations.One useful approach is to think about whose problems a company is looking to solve. Prote...
they can go after various pieces of it and still create an incredibly successful company without addressing the ripple effects outside their domain. If we think of healthcare as a battleship fleet in desperate need of overhaul, think of the tech ...
One aspect of the larger concept of health equity, equity in health care implies fair arrangements that allow equal geographic, economic, and cultural access to available services for all in equal need of care. “Health equity cannot be concerned only with health in isolation. Rather it must co...
Through being a part of this workshop, I have become more aware of the issues of racism in our country, as well as within myself, and the absolute need to become antiracist in order for our country to heal. In sharing her knowledge, experiences, and resources, … Read more“Judy Tr...
Organizations need to establish better structures to promote women and to provide strong advancement opportunities. In our interviews with women who have reached senior leadership in health care, we asked them to consider what measures accelerated or slowed their journey to the top. Their responses hi...
In France, the health equity–focused nonprofit Banlieues Santé, or Healthy Suburbs, partnered with the country’s School of Advanced Studies in Public Health to train COVID prevention ambassadors to promote hygiene and dispel rumours about the virus. The advocacy group regularly sets up healthcare...
Life insurance companies, as equity stakeholders in policyholders’ lives, have incentives to mitigate their health risks. I introduce a framework that enables life insurers to evaluate the financial viability of developing and implementing health engage
challenges that need to be overcome. These relate not only to the development and deployment of low-emissions technologies, but also to the supply chains and underlying infrastructure that need to be transformed, write Mekala Krishnan, Chris Bradley, Humayun Tai, and Tiago Devesa inHarvard Business...
Breaking down the myth that we need competition to make education policy work November 18, 2015BySean LeaverinBehavioural Economics,Economics of EducationTags:Education Policy,Experience Goods Anarticle published in The Australian today‘Push for universities to share students‘ discussed some of my view...