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The Health Benefits From Tackling Climate Change Could Be Wasted Due To Inequality

The Horizons Tracker

“Emerging markets like China and India contribute to less than half of the global carbon emissions, but they suffer from 60% of the world’s health damage due to air pollution,” the researchers explain. “If you couple that with an aging population, death rates go up. .”

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WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement

Engaging Leader

Workforce health engagement: improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational leaders to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and enhance workplace productivity. The post WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement appeared first on Engaging Leader.

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Research: Perhaps Market Forces Do Work in Health Care After All

Harvard Business Review

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Poorly performing hospitals do not feel pressure from patients to improve quality because standard market forces do not apply to health care.

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Should a Leader’s Spouse Stay Out of the Limelight?

Great Leadership By Dan

Dennis Thatcher had significantly less influence on his wife’s policy than Eleanor Roosevelt had on FDR’s. Raisa Gorbachev had more of an influence still on Mikhail Gorbachev’s thinking. About the author: Richard Hytner is Adjunct Professor of Marketing, London Business School, and Deputy Chairman, Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide.

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Health Care Is an Investment, and the U.S. Should Start Treating It Like One

Harvard Business Review

health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. spends nearly 7–10% more of its national income on health care than other similar countries and yet life expectancy at birth remains, on average, two to three years lower. Yet, investments in the U.S.

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Telemedicine Is Vital to Reforming Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

Health care remains one of the few services that require people to have a face-to-face interaction to obtain access. In January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new provider reimbursement code for non–face-to-face health care services for patients who have chronic medical conditions.

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What the Cost of a Trip to the Vet Tells Us About Why Human Health Care Is So Expensive

Harvard Business Review

health care system is in deep trouble. We spend more per capita than any other country and have poor health outcomes to show for it. Health care spending as a share of the economy is growing faster than in any other country. pet health care system has followed a similar trajectory over the last two decades.