Joanna Burke-Bajaj discusses the health equity of quality improvement and reliability
Health with Humanity By Joanna Burke-Bajaj High Reliability in Healthcare: Creating Reliable Health Equity through Quality Improvement and Patient Safety You may not have heard the term High Reliability Organization (HRO) before, but you have probably been interacting with HROs and trusting them with your safety for most of your life. HROs operate at the nexus […]
Edition 33 – Covid-19 and Workplace Policy Re-Imagined: What Is Health and Safety Without Equity?
How can one piece of legislation, drafted over 50 years ago, remain relevant in the modern workplace?
Edition 33 – Utilizing Employer Created Social Support Programs to Assist Frontline Nurses to Cope with the Psychological Symptoms of Trauma-Induced Stress and Burnout Connected to Patient Death During the COVID-19 Healthcare Crisis in the United States
The term pandemic has received multiple definitions in the medical literature on infectious disease.
Edition 33 – Mobilizing Public Health Professionals to Support Journalists and Fact-Checkers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an infodemic- a flood of epidemic-related information- that encompasses a plethora of misinformation that has arisen from rapidly evolving science, uncertainty, information gaps, and special interests.
Edition 33 – Healthcare Workers’ Situation Amid the COVID-19 Response in Afghanistan
This disruption and unsafe workplace for health workers, reflects the detrimental effect of decades of war, insecurity in the country, and illiteracy among people that has also resulted in the surge of COVID-19 cases, overwhelming the existing facilities.
Edition 33 – Is “Enough” Really Enough? How Protected Are Our Most Vulnerable Workers—Those That Support Our Country’s Economy and Infrastructure?
In March 2020, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and U.S. Department of Labor’s Acting Secretary Al Stewart voiced their concerns about the CDC’s recommendations on workplace aerosol exposure protection.
Edition 33 – Why the Hero Narrative Is Problematic for Health Care Workers Like Me
As a first year internal medicine resident in New York City, the physical and emotional toll the pandemic has placed on me is unmeasurable.
Edition 33 – The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Highlighted a Severe Healthcare Staffing Shortage
The COVID-19 pandemic has successfully highlighted the shortcomings within the U.S. healthcare system.
Edition 33 – Occupational Lead Exposures among University Police Officers and Instructors at an Outdoor Shooting Range in Southcentral Kentucky
The increased use and applications of lead in numerous industries is due to its abundance and unique physical and chemical properties …
Edition 26 – Pandemic of Racism: Public Health Implications of Political Misinformation
Pandemic of Racism: Public Health Implications of Political Misinformation By Ans Irfan, Ashley Bieniek-Tobasco, and Cynthia Golembeski Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn Citation Irfan A, Bieniek-Tobasco A, Golembeski C. Pandemic of racism: public health implications of political misinformation. Harvard Public Health Review. 2021; 26. DOI:10.54111/0001/Z6 Pandemic of Racism: […]
