"Treat everybody right": Examining foodways to improve food access

Food and Foodways

Right brain: how to treat the untreatable.

Mr. X came in to the hospital late at night. He initially had left-sided weakness and headache but rapidly progressed to decreased level of consciousness (Glasgow Coma Scale score was 4). From home, I reviewed his head CT, which revealed a large supratentorial bleed that had ruptured into both lateral ventricles, and significant midline shift. Without having seen the patient, I already knew tha...

pharmaceutical strategic purchasing: a key to improve access to medicines

pharmaceuticals are often considered as the most significant cost driver of health care expenditures and at the same time have a major impact on patients’ curative processes and outcomes. other pieces of evidence emphasize that drugs are the input for the production of good health. they are considered as the most important and expensive element in the healthy supply chain and are more associate...

Treat Your Bug Right

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Examining the Effect of Socioeconomic Status on Access to Nutritional Food

America has recently seen an increasing epidemic of diet related diseases in people of all backgrounds. However, the brunt of these health risks, especially those stemming from obesity, seem to disproportionately fall on those of lower socioeconomic status. One contributing factor is that those of lower social status simply do not have the geographic access to food stores whose products are nut...