Healthcare

• [New] Chinese people are more likely to face high blood pressure and other health risks as a result of higher body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference than people from other racial and ethnic groups.
• [New] The smoking of tobacco has become one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever encountered, and cigarettes kill more than eight million people a year.
• [New] Precision technology which can map soil health, predict potential yields and make the most efficient use of inputs could all help UK farmers compete on a global stage.
• [New] Next week, vaccines are set to be administered to high risk groups, including in indigenous communities beset with mistrust of the Australian healthcare system due to decades of systemic racism.
• [New] There will be an indoctrination of navigation principles into the core healthcare fabric: We think we will see a world where health plans and health systems incorporate navigation as a feature, product or service.
• [New] Biden will encourage G-7 partners to make good on their pledges to COVAX, an initiative by the World Health Organization to improve access to vaccines.
• [New] The use of AI in healthcare presents clinicians and patients with opportunities to improve care in unparalleled ways.
• [New] North Carolina, plans to vaccinate farmworkers and other frontline essential workers in the state's Group 3, following healthcare workers and people 65-years old or older, which belong to Groups 1 and 2 respectively.
• [New] Making health information more congruent with and relevant for lower SES individuals who tend be more interpersonally oriented will help to encourage behavior change and close the gap in SES health disparities.
• [New] Perceived risk for getting a disease and the perceived severity of chronic diseases may shape how health information is processed and applied to behavior within a lower SES population.
• [New] A higher sense of control may be particularly protective for lower SES individuals, and could impact the likelihood that individuals engage in healthy behaviors, as they believe that their actions can influence their outcomes.
• [New] Future studies are needed to explore how neural activity within the VS and sub regions of the MPFC in response to a variety of social-focused health messages predict future behavior change among lower SES individuals.
• [New] Future work could explore if neural activity in response to messages that focus on others' disapproval of unhealthy choices or failing others' expectations predicts future behavior change among lower SES populations.
• [New] Social-focused health messages will be more effective for lower SES people, and self-focused health messages will be more effective among higher SES people.
• [New] Compared to higher SES individuals, lower SES individuals will show greater neural activity in the VS and sub regions of the MPFC in response to social-focused health messages (relative to self-focused messages).
• [New] Integrating the unique values and beliefs about the self and close others observed among lower SES individuals could facilitate the design of messaging campaigns that are more equitable, relevant, and more likely to give rise to behavior change.
• [New] There is a critical need to develop more effective health behavior change messaging campaigns that will specifically resonate with lower SES communities in an effort to promote health equity.
• [New] The United States will pay more than $200 million to the World Health Organization by the end of the month after reversing Donald Trump's plan to withdraw.
• [New] The Biden administration has the opportunity to set a new tone for mental health care in America and lead in creating a system that works.
• [New] Mexico's concern for the health of its citizens has triggered fear in the United States for the health of agricultural exports, especially Bayer's glyphosate products.
• [New] When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in India, there were fears it would sink the fragile health system of the world's second-most populous country.

Last updated: 21 February 2021