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New York City officials plan to remove mentally ill people from streets and subways. Here's a quick look at how other cities and countries approach the issue of support for homeless people. When Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced on Tuesday a major push to remove people with severe, untreated mental illness from the streets, he waded into an issue that has for years been driving policy — and frustrating policymakers — in cities around the United States and the rest of the world. Here is a snapshot of a few places where the authorities have been trying to recalibrate their support services for homeless people, including those with mental illnesses. California Mental health care for homeless people has been a legal quandary for more than a half-century in California, dating to a national shift toward deinstitutionalization and a 1967 law — signed by Ronald Reagan, then the state's governor — that was intended to safeguard the civil rights of Californians who were mentall...

For 150 years, 37 degrees Celsius, or 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, was thought to be the average body temperature for a healthy human being. But that number is wrong. But for at least the past two decades, researchers have known that the average body temperature is actually colder, about 37.5 degrees Celsius (°C) – 97.8 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) – and that anywhere between 35.7 °C (96.3°F) and 37.3°C (99.3 degrees °F) is within a normal range for the human body. Yet 37°C, or 98.6°F, has endured as the magic number among concerned parents and doctors alike, displayed on everything from pharmacy thermometers to medical centres' webpages. "Doctors are no different from anybody else," says Julie Parsonnet, an infectious disease doctor at Stanford University. "We've been raised with that as the normal value since we were little." Every person is different, and many factors can affect body temperature, including age, body type...

Staying on schedule can do wonders for staff satisfaction and revenue. Advertisement Welcome to Five Minute Practice Fix, featuring instructional videos by physician and business of medicine expert Neil Baum, M.D. These videos are 5 minutes (this one is a bit longer) in length and will provide practical ideas and suggestions that have been tested in his practice or used by other physicians that significantly improve the efficiency and productivity of their medical practices. Today's episode focuses on how physicians can stay on schedule at their practice and see their last patient of the day on time. About Neil Baum, M.D. Dr. Baum is Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Baum is the author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice-Ethically, Effectively, and Economicall y, which is in its 4th edition, has sold over 175,000 copies and has been translated into Spanish. He has also written The Complete Business Guide to a Successful Medical Pr...

A robust primary health care (PHC)-oriented health system is the most equitable and efficient approach for achieving universal health coverage and health security. To accelerate PHC-oriented transformation of health systems, Member countries of WHO South-East Asia Region, WHO, and Partners today launched the South-East Asia Regional Forum for Primary Health Care-Oriented Health Systems. The importance of PHC-oriented health systems was brought to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic challenges. "Amid the ongoing COVID-19 response and recovery, demands on health systems across our Region have increased, demands that must be met amid significant resource constraints, even as we advocate for countries to not just sustain but even increase expenditure on health," said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia, addressing participants at the launch of the PHC forum. The Regional Director emphasized the importance of coordinated and ...

Halfpoint Images | Moment | Getty Images Some 70% of people want to age at home, yet only 10% have long-term care insurance, a recent HCG Secure/Arctos Foundation study found. Furthermore, about half of respondents had no idea how much in-home care would cost. With the median annual cost of a home health aide nationally estimated at $61,776, how are folks going to fund this? "The need for help at home is much more common than you think, but people don't plan for it," said certified financial planner Chris Chen , wealth strategist with Insight Financial Strategies in Newton, Massachusetts. Scoping out the insurance option landscape People with long-term care insurance will usually have home health care covered under the same eligibility conditions as for long-term care facilities — the inability to perform two of six so-called activities of daily living, Chen said. According to the Administration for Community Living, this situation typically lasts an average of two year...

Japan Data Politics Society Lifestyle Nov 7, 2022 The government recently announced plans to abolish the current system of health insurance cards around autumn 2024 and switch completely to using My Number ID cards. A survey shows that only 3.3% of holders so far use the cards to verify health insurance. A survey on attitudes toward the My Number Card by Kioichō Strategy Institute Inc. in mid-October show that 68.2% of respondents understood fully or to some extent the national identification system and the basics of the card itself. Among respondents, 59.4% said they have a My Number Card, which roughly corresponds to the 55.7% of Japanese as a whole, or 70.11 million people, who have been issued a card as of October 2. By contrast, 18.4% of respondents said that they had no in...

Allegan County is "making connections that help our community thrive" through its new Community Links program. "It's designed to be an extension of existing community services and bridge gaps for individuals to help the community thrive," says Liz Healy, public information officer for the Allegan County Health Department. The department used funding from the Michigan Rural Health Center to create this program, which bridges the gap between individuals, communities, and the health and social service systems.  Improving access The Health Department uses referrals to connect community members to services they have had difficulty locating. "The goal of this program is to address social determinants of health, such as housing, access to care, or food security that affect individual health outcomes," Healy says. "The community health workers will also work with local agencies to help meet individuals' needs." Community health workers...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Public coronavirus testing in Illinois is now available to anyone at 11 locations, while those with symptoms or doctor's referrals can tested at many other public and private sites. RELATED: Latest news and updates on Illinois coronavirus cases, Chicago area impact IDPH COVID-19 testing at drive-through and community-based facilities The state of Illinois is operating several drive-thru COVID-19 testing facilities in the Chicago area, in downstate Bloomington and in Rockford. The first to open was on Chicago's Northwest Side in a former emissions testing facility. An additional facility opened on April 14 in Markham. A third site opened April 22 in Aurora and a fourth opened on April 24 in Rockford. Eleven community-based testing sites are open seven days a week to test anyone, regardless of symptoms or doctor's referrals. Aurora: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m., while daily supplies last 1650 Premium Outlet Blvd, Aurora Chicago (Auburn Gresham, Chatham): 8 a.m. - 4 p.m....

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