Mercy health promoter: A paradigm for just health care

Mercy health promoter: A paradigm for just health care

The foreign-born population in the United States, according to the "Current Populations Report" published in 2010, is estimated to exceed 39.9 million, or "12.9 percent of the U.S. population." The increase in foreign-born peoples and their need for health care is a complicated issue facing many cities, health systems and hospitals. Over the course of the past few years Mercy Hospital of Philad...

Mobile Health Services: A New Paradigm for Health Care Systems

Today, information and communication technology (ICTs) are influencing health system development across many developing countries, particularly through the application of mobile communications. As such, there has been an initiation of a new paradigm of mobile health services which has made healthcare delivery more accessible, affordable and effective. However, such service delivery platform has...

Toward a more just health care system.

Mental Health Care and Mental Health Legislation in Pakistan: No Mercy for Losers

John W. McArthur, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Guido SchmidtTraub Amir Attaran’s Policy Forum [1] raises important points on the poor quality of data for some indicators used to measure progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but, sadly, uses these fi ndings to draw the wrong conclusions. The evidence he presents on a small number of indicators is partial, and does not justify his conclusion ...

Catholic Health Care and the Jubilee of Mercy.

hen Pope Francis announced the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy in March 2015, I must confess I placed that piece of information on the back burner. The beginning of the jubilee was several months away, and details were forthcoming. I knew it would be a special time for reflection and renewal, but at the time I was not thinking of the jubilee’s broader implications for the Catholic health mi...