Rare Disease Day is the globally-coordinated movement working towards equity in social opportunity, healthcare and access to diagnosis and therapies for those living with a rare disease.
The article speaks to action points to improving the diagnosis of breast cancer in black women within the UK to achieve greater equity.
Elsevier,
The Thinking Healthcare System: Artificial Intelligence and Human Equity, 2023, Pages 99-129
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by introducing the AI transformation of public health (PubHealth) uniting healthcare systems with the central terms, concepts, and history of PubHealth from ancient quarantines to modern vaccines including milestone developments as successful responses to chronic and infectious diseases, sanitation, workplace safety, poverty, and wars.
Elsevier,
Clinical Decision Support and Beyond (Third Edition): Progress and Opportunities in Knowledge-Enhanced Health and Healthcare, 2023, Pages 715-725
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the components of a technical infrastructure to support PHM, including data sources (registries, electronic health records), data analytics tools, patient outreach and engagement tools, and patient tracking dashboards along with real-world examples of PHM programs focused on chronic disease management, genetic testing for hereditary cancers, colorectal cancer screening, COVID-19 testing and vaccination, and tobacco cessation.
Health for All must include representation of people with lived experience in the research underlying health care: this paper describes a first-person experience of this in mental health.
The frequencies of immune receptors on T lymphocytes varies among African, East Asian, South Asian and European populations.
This falls along the themes of financial burden for cancer patients and discusses innovations and strategies for health care providers.
Emerging Practices in Telehealth: Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field, 2023, Pages 131-140
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by hihglighting low to high technology options, telehealth platform training for support staff and providers, subsidized and improved budgets for telehealth, and improved reimbursement as vital steps to close the digital divide and improve health-care disparities.
This content advances goals 4, 5 and 10 by highlighting diversity, equity and inclusion for women in the world of hand surgery.
This content advances goals 4, 5 and 10 by highlighting diversity, equity and inclusion for women in the world of hand surgery.
