Public health experiences equip future doctors with essential skills to address broader societal health care issues, such as health care disparities, infectious disease outbreaks, health effects of climate change, water sanitation and access to health care. Premeds can also gain...
Today, to the contrary, the U.S. faces a dramatic physician shortage. Across the country,76 millionpeople live in primary care deserts, most frequently in rural areas. The supply of health care workers is lagging woefully behind the demand, in part caused by pressing health care needs of th...
LONDON (AP) — U.K. government advisers have recommended against giving a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home residents and people over 80 because data shows that a third shot offers lasting protection against admission to the hospital.
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by Peter M. SandmanNotes for a presentation to the Leadership Forum, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, Minneapolis MN, October 5, 2016(Links to video and audio recordings of the presentation itself are on this site.) Foreword...
Individuals are often at increased risk of acquiring infectious disease while traveling. We sought to understand knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) regarding Zika virus among travelers from the United States. A total of 1043 study participants were recruited from a probability-based internet ...
Lisa EspositoandElaine K. HowleyMarch 13, 2025 How Are Patients Choosing ASCs? Ambulatory surgery centers, or ASCs for short, are becoming attractive options for common outpatient procedures, and patient reviews and satisfaction scores are one of the main ways people choose whe...
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A foundational education in GH including principles of epidemiology, burden of disease and SDH is thus far more likely to equip the US medical student with critical thinking skills applicable abroad or in the US, compared with a curriculum focusing solely on diseases/treatments of the tropics. As...
A foundational education in GH including principles of epidemiology, burden of disease and SDH is thus far more likely to equip the US medical student with critical thinking skills applicable abroad or in the US, compared with a curriculum focusing solely on diseases/treatments of the tropics. As...