industryterm:healthcare

Hacker Dumps Sensitive Patient Data From Ohio Urology Clinics
▻http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-dumps-sensitive-patient-data-from-ohio-urology-clinics

A hacker has dumped a huge collection of sensitive patient records and alleged internal documents from a US healthcare organisation for anyone to access. On Tuesday, a hacker or group of hackers using the name Pravvy Sector posted a link on Twitter to over 150 GB of data from the Central Ohio Urology Group. On its website, the organisation says it is the largest concentration of experienced urologists in Ohio, and lists more than 20 (...)

#santé #hacking

##santé

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found in Rio de Janeiro Waterways Ahead of Olympics
▻http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/14/antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-olympics

Two studies have connected five beaches—Copacabana, Ipanema, Leblon, Botafogo and Flamengo—and Rio de Janeiro’s Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon to the superbug bacteria, Reuters reported.

Copacabana, which had microbes present in 10 percent of the water samples studied, will be the site of open-water and triathlon swimming events. Flamengo, which had microbes in 90 percent of the water samples, will host sailing competitions. The lagoon, which is seen by scientists as the breeding ground for the bacteria, will host rowing and canoe events, according to Reuters.

Scientists say the super bacteria can cause hard-to-treat urinary, gastrointestinal, pulmonary and bloodstream infections, which contribute to death in up to half of infected patients. Meningitis has also been linked to exposure to the superbug. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported antibiotic-resistant infections usually “require prolonged and/or costlier treatments, extend hospital stays, necessitate additional doctor visits and healthcare use and result in greater disability and death.”

et le 200 mètres nage libre des #super_bactéries

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#antibiorésistance #Rio #Brésil #JO #eau

Amenable and preventable deaths statistics
▻http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Amenable_and_preventable_deaths_statistics

In the European Union (EU), 1.7 million persons aged less than 75 years died in 2013. Among them, over 577 000 deaths (or 119.5 deaths per 100 000 inhabitants) could have been avoided in the light of better healthcare systems (amenable deaths).

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Google is now involved with healthcare data – is that a good thing?
▻http://theconversation.com/google-is-now-involved-with-healthcare-data-is-that-a-good-thing-58

Google has some of the most powerful computers and smartest algorithms in the world, has hired some of the best brains in computing, and through its purchase of British firm Deepmind has acquired AI expertise that recently saw an AI beat a human grandmaster at the game of go. Why then would we not want to apply this to potentially solving medical problems – something Google’s grandiose, even hyperbolic statements suggest the company wishes to?

The New Scientist recently revealed a data sharing agreement between the Royal Free London NHS trust and Google Deepmind. The trust released incorrect statements (since corrected) claiming Deepmind would not receive any patient-identifiable data (it will), leading to irrelevant confusion about what data encryption and anonymisation can and cannot achieve.

As people have very strong feelings about third-party access to medical records, all of this has caused a bit of a scandal. But is this an overreaction, following previous health data debacles? Or does this represent a new and worrying development in the sharing of medical records?

Noam Chomsky: Young Bernie Sanders Supporters are a “Mobilized Force That Could Change the Country” | Democracy Now!
April 28, 2016
▻http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/28/noam_chomsky_young_bernie_sanders_supporters

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NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, Bernie Sanders is an extremely interesting phenomenon. He’s a decent, honest person. That’s pretty unusual in the political system. Maybe there are two of them in the world, you know. But he’s considered radical and extremist, which is a pretty interesting characterization, because he’s basically a mainstream New Deal Democrat. His positions would not have surprised President Eisenhower, who said, in fact, that anyone who does not accept New Deal programs doesn’t belong in the American political system. That’s now considered very radical.

The other interesting aspect of Sanders’s positions is that they’re quite strongly supported by the general public, and have been for a long time. That’s true on taxes. It’s true on healthcare. So, take, say, healthcare. His proposal for a national healthcare system, meaning the kind of system that just about every other developed country has, at half the per capita cost of the United States and comparable or better outcomes, that’s considered very radical. But it’s been the position of the majority of the American population for a long time. So, you go back, say, to the Reagan—right now, for example, latest polls, about 60 percent of the population favor it. When Obama put through the Affordable Care Act, there was, you recall, a public option. But that was dropped. It was dropped even though it was supported by about almost two-thirds of the population. You go back earlier, say, to the Reagan years, about 70 percent of the population thought that national healthcare should be in the Constitution, because it’s such an obvious right. And, in fact, about 40 percent of the population thought it was in the Constitution, again, because it’s such an obvious right. The same is true on tax policy and others.

So we have this phenomenon where someone is taking positions that would have been considered pretty mainstream during the Eisenhower years, that are supported by a large part, often a considerable majority, of the population, but he’s dismissed as radical and extremist. That’s an indication of how the spectrum has shifted to the right during the neoliberal period, so far to the right that the contemporary Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans. And the Republicans are just off the spectrum. They’re not a legitimate parliamentary party anymore. And Sanders has—the significant part of—he has pressed the mainstream Democrats a little bit towards the progressive side. You see that in Clinton’s statements. But he has mobilized a large number of young people, these young people who are saying, “Look, we’re not going to consent anymore.” And if that turns into a continuing, organized, mobilized—mobilized force, that could change the country—maybe not for this election, but in the longer term.

The sustainable development goals and surgery: Is a ’moon shot’ the answer?, by John Meara & Nakul Raykar - LA Times
▻http://www.latimes.com/world/global-development/la-fg-global-surgery-oped-story.html

Recently in American healthcare politics we have used the metaphor of the “moon shot” for curing disease; a metaphor that, by the way, was actually accomplished in 1969. The majority of the world’s poor do not need a “moon shot.” They need functional infrastructure, a trained workforce, supplies that arrive on time and processes necessary to assure a mother is saved from postpartum hemorrhage, a child from a perforated appendix, or her father from a fractured femur.

#santé_mondiale #chirurgie

#Superbugs a major threat to hospital patients - CBS News
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-superbugs-a-major-threat-to-hospital-patients

The CDC reports that at any given time in the U.S. 1 in 25 patients has at least one healthcare-acquired infection (or HAI). An estimated 722,000 healthcare-acquired infections occurred in 2011, and about 75,000 of these patients died.

According to the new CDC report, 1 in 7 catheter and surgery-related infections are caused by any of six antibiotic-resistant superbugs, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and “nightmare bacteria” carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).

In long-term acute care hospitals that treat very sick patients, number jumps to 1 in 4.

“#Antibiotic_resistance threatens to return us to a time when a simple infection can kill,” Frieden said in a press conference today.

Re-thinking #reading on the Web — Truth Labs — Medium
▻https://medium.com/truth-labs/re-thinking-reading-on-the-web-158e789eddd7

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They wanted to tell these stories in an interactive and visual way. The challenge was to create interactive visualizations based on industry concepts and make them accessible to both healthcare professionals and the a casual audience.
From the beginning we knew we wanted to create an experience that was familiar from an interaction perspective but different from a visual perspective. We aspired to take the traditional editorial content The Atlantic is known for and combine it with a rich digital narrative.

et le résultat : ▻http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/athenahealth

#web_design #opengl

Buy Health Care Coverage Through Health Insurance Exchange Online

One of the best option for many Californians, Kaiser Permanente provides different types of health care plans for individual, family, bussines and groups. The Health Insurance Exchange Online offers vary extensive coverages and information on all these plans including health paln coverages. We are committed to provide the services that can improve individual health and promote healthier populations in local communities. we offering low cost Health Insurance For Kids of low-income families who can not qualify for no cost medical. Besides medical coverage, the program provides inexpensive dental and vision insurance for children who are legally resident in California.

The Kaiser Permanente Health Insurance Company includes the Blue Shield and Blue Cross of California. The Health Insurance Exchange Online is a diversify company in the US healthcare industry and stands out worldwide for helping people to live more healthily and contribute to the health system work better for everyone. Our mission to offer the best solutions for health plans, life insurance, funeral assistance and dental plans to our customers; through personalized service and competitive prices.

We also offer Group Health Insurance that can also buy directly from our insurance providers. If you do not have health insurance, here you find the best health insurance within price list, provider network and among others. To facilitate the choice of cheap health insurance, sign out our website Healthinsuranceexchangeonline.com. Here our qualified consultants and insurance agents assist you in planning and contracting of products benefits to you or the protection of your family.

RIDE TCS - Transunion Car Service
▻http://www.ridetcs.com/#union_difference

Drivers of Transunion Car Service (TCS) are members of United Transportation Alliance of New Jersey (UTA), an affiliate of Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1039. TCS drivers are the owners of the base. By creating their own base and reinvesting their base fees into the membership, ensures all drivers are happy and getting fair treatment at all times, and ensures that our customers are given superior service, with a safe and reliable and fully licensed and background checked driver. Our super clean and sleek black cars can be seen throughout the Newark, NJ area giving our customers an executive car service at an affordable price. Our customers love the safety and security of payment using their credit cards in our cars as well as the convenience of using the free smart phone App to book their TCS ride.

Our drivers are proud union members and professionals. When you support TCS, you are supporting drivers that have organized to create a better work environment for themselves and lead the way on raising the standards for drivers everywhere. Our drivers have a pension, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, healthcare assistance, AFLAC Coverage, representation at the taxi division and a growing network of support from community partners that support hard-working professionals, and many more benefits that union membership brings.

#Anti-Uber #Gewerkschaft

Ingenious: Rachel Yehuda - Issue 31: Stress
▻http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/ingenious-rachel-yehuda

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Although post-traumatic stress disorder is an established diagnosis in psychology, and stressed combat veterans are a cliché in Hollywood, it wasn’t long ago when PTSD wasn’t well understood at all. “There was a time when our lack of knowledge about post-traumatic stress disorder was really harmful and resulted in the fact that a lot of people did not get treated or treated properly by the healthcare system,” says Rachel Yehuda. In the past 25 years, Yehuda has done as much as any scientist to understand the debilitating disorder. Yehuda, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience, is the director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She has worked with war veterans, Holocaust survivors, and other trauma victims to gather insights (...)

Africa has about one doctor for every 5000 people - Quartz
▻http://qz.com/520230/africa-has-about-one-doctor-for-every-5000-people
▻https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/ge_africa_phd_v2.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600

jolie #visualisation mais je me suis fait avoir, j’ai lu l’#infomercial qui suivait :

in February 2015 General Electric was selected by the Kenyan government to serve as a key technology partner in the massive healthcare transformation (...) Large-scale public-private partnerships like these represent the kind of ongoing commitment to healthcare needed to help reduce the sub-Saharan’s worker shortage. (...)
This article was produced on behalf of GE by the Quartz #marketing team and not by the Quartz editorial staff.

#santé #inégalités #publicité #sur_le_dos_de…

Why hackers are more & more interested in heath care data

Health care records can be more valuable because they have a longer shelf life than financial data, which becomes worthless once the fraud is detected and the payment card is cancelled or blocked.
With health care credentials you can get “free” health care as someone else is paying for the insurance. Unlike credit card numbers, healthcare information is non recoverable, and potentially lethal in the wrong hands.
Learning a patient’s medications and diagnoses means that a hacker can order expensive drugs or equipment and resell them.

▻http://www.infoworld.com/article/2983634/security/why-hackers-want-your-health-care-data-breaches-most-of-all.html

Social Security numbers can’t easily be cancelled, and medical and prescription records are permanent. There’s also a large market for health insurance fraud and abuse, which may be more lucrative than simply selling the records outright in forums.

[...]

criminals monetize health care data in a different way than they cash in on financial data. Most forums selling health care data tend to be more specialized than the carding forums where payment card information is sold. Stolen health care data forums operate more like drug cartels, where health records are not sold outright, but rather used to buy and sell addictive prescriptions,

[...]

It makes sense that governments would be interested in getting their hands on this data because it can be useful for building dossiers that reflect a deeper understanding of the target population. Medical and insurance records provide insights about where people live, what medical treatments they had, who their family members are, and who they work for.

▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-05/u-s-government-data-breach-tied-to-theft-of-health-care-records

The disclosure by U.S. officials that Chinese hackers stole records of as many as 4 million government workers is now being linked to the thefts of personal information from health-care companies.

▻http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/hackers-selling-healthcare-data-in-the-black-market

Many healthcare organizations do not perform encryption of records within the internal networks. They also do not use encryption of data at rest and transit. This interest the hackers since the attack surface area is very huge. Health insurance information can be used to purchase drugs or medical equipment, which are then resold illegally, or even to get medical care. The latter can have consequences that go far beyond the financial.

And the Internet of Things with all the quantifying self data is not going to make it any better

#health_care
#hack
#social_security
#identity_theft
#data_breach
#security
#dark_net #darknet #dark_web

( Athem, Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, CareFirst Blue Cross, LifeWise )

What’s the True Cost of Food ?
▻http://foodtank.com/news/2015/09/conventional-agriculture-isnt-cheap

Le #cout de l’#agriculture telle qu’elle est actuellement pratiquée est beaucoup plus élevé qu’il n’est coutume de le dire,

The cost of soil erosion in Brazil, for example, is US$242 million per year in the state of Paraná and US$212 million per year in the state of São Paulo, according to researchers at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

And researchers from the McKinsey Global Institute estimate that excess weight and obesity comes at a price tag of US$2 trillion in global healthcare costs.

These costs aren’t paid for at the grocery checkout counter, but eaters and consumers still bear the brunt of this financial burden through taxes and healthcare costs.

The Lifelong Effects Of The Gender Wage Gap | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/09/03/3698300/gender-retirement-gap

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When men and women’s incomes and retirement savings are stacked up against their projected health care costs and life expectancies, women are much farther behind men. At the same time, women will end up needing to make their money stretch further.

A new report from Financial Finesse found that both genders won’t have enough to replace at least 70 percent of their income in retirement. But 45-year-old men today who will retire at age 65 will fall $212,256 short, while women will be behind by $268,404.

The analysis looked at median incomes, deferral rates, retirement savings, life expectancy, and projected healthcare costs to determine how much the median 45-year-old man and woman would need to save in order to replace 70 percent of their income in retirement. “While both the median man and woman face a significant shortfall, the median woman has a lower lifetime income, has saved less, and yet faces higher overall retirement and healthcare costs due to a longer life expectancy,” it notes.

Thanks to the gender wage gap, men make a median income of $45,292 compared to women’s $37,388. That makes it easier to save for retirement, both because a given percentage of a man’s paycheck that gets put away in an account will be higher than a woman’s, and also because men have more financial cushion to use for savings. Men’s median retirement savings, then, is $63,875, while women’s is $43,446.

But women end up living longer and spending more on their health care. If they both retire at age 65, the average man can expect to live another 19.3 years, but a woman will live for another 21.6. And in that time, a man will spend a projected $275,035 on health care while a woman will spend $294,975.

Add it all up, and women will face a shortfall that is 26 percent bigger than men’s.

A big factor is a longstanding problem for women of all ages: the gender wage gap. Women who work full-time, year-round make 78 percent of what men make, and the gap is far larger for women of color. That means women will make an estimated $530,000 less over their lifetimes. Then they end up getting smaller Social Security checks based off of their smaller payroll contributions. And while men and women participate in retirement plans at the same rate and women even save more of their salaries, since those salaries are lower they end up with less money in their accounts.

Their lower earnings also lead to financial stress that can demote retirement savings on women’s list of financial priorities. While both genders rate it as the number one concern, women are much more likely to follow that up with prioritizing managing their cash flow and getting out of debt.

The gap in retirement savings, coupled with women’s longer lifetimes, puts them in a very tough financial situation in their golden years. Women over the age of 65 have a poverty rate of 11.6 percent, compared to men’s rate of 6.8 percent, and they make up more than two-thirds of all the elderly poor. And the number of elderly women living in extreme poverty has been climbing recently. That leaves them exposed to scams, foreclosure, and other serious financial trouble.

Beyond potential solutions for closing the gender wage gap over women’s lifetimes, there have also been proposals to expand Social Security so that it offers more of a cushion in old age. And some have discussed including Social Security credits for caregivers who have to take time out of the workforce to care for a family member, such as children or elderly parents, and miss out on payroll contributions. Those who take that kind of time off are overwhelmingly women.

#genre #vieillesse #femmes #femme

Transgender Healthcare Equality
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/transgender-healthcare-equality

Transgender healthcare access is crucial for trans people to live and be themselves, but trans people are frequently marginalized in so many ways, including equal access to healthcare. This film...

With Greece’s healthcare system in ruins, people are turning to illegal free clinics - Quartz
▻http://qz.com/473818/with-greeces-healthcare-system-in-ruins-people-are-turning-to-illegal-free-clini
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Vaveloua’s clinic has been organized under a leftist, anti-fascist disobedience movement. It has chosen to not formally register with the state. “It’s an obligation of the Greek state, over any new laws, to take care of all people, independently of whether they have papers,” she said—and indeed, Article 21 of the constitution says so (pdf). “We refuse to ask a state that doesn’t recognize that law to legalize us.”

Haha eux c’est les meilleurs ! J’ai une copine là-dedans, et elle m’a dit, au moment où toutes les ONG grecques étaient (sont peut-être encore d’ailleurs) grave dans la merde avec les contrôles de capitaux, ben eux (thessaloniki) que dalle...

αυτά είναι τα καλά της Αυτονομίας !!

What’s the U.S. Role In the Greek Crisis?
CEPR Economist Mark Weisbrot discusses the role of the U.S.-dominated institutions in the current crisis in Greece. - July 22, 2015
▻http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14312

WEISBROT: Well, the U.S. government, the Obama administration, its main concern is really they don’t want to see Greece leave the Eurozone. And they’re looking at it kind of from an empire point of view, that if Greece leaves the Eurozone the Eurozone could be weaker, it could disintegrate. The whole process could weaken European unity. In worst-case scenarios Greece could leave NATO, Greece could end up borrowing from Russia. So these are the way, this is the way it’s looking at it.

That puts them a little differently from Europe. Europe is a little more divided. They don’t want Greece to leave the Eurozone either. They want to get—their strategy is really to get rid of the current Greek government, the Syriza government, and force them out. And the U.S. is okay with that, but they were more worried about them forcing them possibly out of the Eurozone altogether.

One place where this shows up is through the IMF, because the U.S. dominates the IMF. Now, they don’t usually use all their muscle at the IMF to go against Europe. They would normally let the Europeans decide what happens in Europe. But in this case there was a board meeting before the referendum in Greece on July 5 where the U.S. got the IMF [board] against the wishes of Germany especially, to release a study that the IMF had done showing that Greece’s debt was not sustainable, that there had to be debt relief. And that really angered the Germans and their allies, because this kind of helped Syriza in their referendum on July 5 because Syriza, the government which was pushing for a no vote to reject the last offer that the European authorities had given them, the government was able to cite that study and say look, we need debt relief. This is an unsustainable debt, vote no. And so that was a real point of friction between the U.S. and Germany, and there’s a case where the U.S. used its muscle in the IMF to get that report released before the referendum, and it could have had an influence.

Now, the problem is that this doesn’t really do Greece or the world any good because it’s nice that they want debt relief. But the IMF is still signed on to a program in Greece that will not allow the economy to recover, and the debt relief isn’t going to help that at all.

[...]

So it’s really about power, and using that power, on behalf of the European authorities using that power to change Greece and change Europe into societies that have a smaller social safety net, reduced pensions, healthcare spending, weaker labor movements, more inequality. More like the United States, actually. That’s the kind of transformation they were trying to make in Europe. And they’ve been using the debt crisis and associated vulnerabilities of the more vulnerable European countries to force those changes there. Not only Greece but Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy, and even in the whole Eurozone as a whole, that is their vision. That’s what they are trying to do.

Greece: The EU as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
▻http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2015/07/the-guardian-view-on-the-greek-deal-it-solves-nothing-and-holds-

the EU is consigning millions of Greeks to undeserved poverty, illness, and death—the Greek healthcare system, already in ruins, will be reduced to re-bounced rubble by year after year of no money.

And this in a country where scores of thousands of migrants arrive on the shores of the world’s first democracy, hoping for something better than Syria.

If WHO were not on the defensive over Ebola, I would expect it to declare the EU a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Because it is.

(à partir de ▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/13/guardian-view-on-greek-deal-solves-nothing-holds-many-dangers )

#grèce #santé

Au sujet de l’accès aux soins de santé aux USA, par David Broussard :

In light of the SCOTUS decision, let me (re)state a few things here. Insurance does not equal healthcare. Most if not all of the people who have insurance under the ACA are not getting substantive healthcare because their deductibles are so high. You could make all the current plans FREE for every single person in the United States and you’d still have millions who would not be able to afford access to healthcare. This is why the ACA was flawed from the start. It does nothing to provide access to healthcare. It provides access to INSURANCE. This has lined the pockets of insurance companies (both through individual payments and through subsidies) while actually INCREASING the amount of money it would take to access healthcare for the individual consumer. This is a GREAT deal for the insurance companies because most of the people who have insurance are NOT filing claims since they haven’t met their deductible - they are just getting routine preventative care that they could have gotten WITHOUT insurance pre-ACA and for a better price. The LIE that ACA is built on is that people need insurance companies to access healthcare. It is, in fact, the biggest insurance industry reform dodge in the history of our nation. Rather than addressing the cost of healthcare, this has been another bait and switch by the insurance company lobby.

#santé #assurances

Take Good News on Afghanistan’s Reconstruction With a ‘Grain of Salt’ | Inter Press Service
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/06/take-good-news-on-afghanistans-reconstruction-with-a-grain-of-salt

Among others, official groups like the United States Agency for International Development (#USAID) say that higher life expectancy outcomes, better healthcare facilities and improved education access represent the ‘positive’ side of U.S. intervention.

From this perspective, the estimated 26,000 civilian casualties as a direct result of U.S. military action must be viewed against the fact that people are now living longer, fewer mothers are dying while giving birth, and more children are going to school.

But the diligent work undertaken by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (#SIGAR) suggests that “much of the official happy talk on [reconstruction] should be taken with a grain of salt – iodized, of course – to prevent informational goiter.”

Formed in 2008, SIGAR is endowed with the authority to “audit, inspect, investigate, and otherwise examine any and all aspects of reconstruction, regardless of departmental ownership.”

In a May 5 speech, John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General, called the reconstruction effort a “huge and far-reaching undertaking” that has scarcely left any part of Afghan life untouched.

Poured into endless projects from propping up the local army and police, to digging wells and finding alternatives to poppy cultivation, funds allocated to rebuilding #Afghanistan now “exceed the value of the entire Marshall Plan effort to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.”

“Unfortunately,” Sopko said, “from the outset to this very day large amounts of taxpayer dollars have been lost to waste, fraud, and abuse.

“These disasters often occur when the U.S. officials who implement and oversee programs fail to distinguish fact from fantasy,” he added.

#etats-unis

Vaccine Hesitancy Collection – PLOS Currents Outbreaks
▻http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/perspectives-on-vaccine-hesitancy-and-vaccination-coverage

This series of articles investigates the social discourse surrounding vaccination, global perceptions and outcomes of vaccination, and the general issue of confidence or trust in healthcare or government establishments that can underpin medical decisions.

This PLOS Currents: Outbreaks collection was produced in coordination with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Editorial
Hesitancy, Trust and Individualism in Vaccination Decision-Making
Jonathan E Suk, Pierluigi Lopalco, Lucia Pastore Celentano
►http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/hesitancy-trust-and-individualism-in-vaccination-decision-making

Commentary
Vaccine Hesitancy: Clarifying a Theoretical Framework for an Ambiguous Notion
Patrick Peretti-Watel, Heidi J Larson, Jeremy K. Ward, William S Schulz, Pierre Verger
►http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/hesitancy-trust-and-individualism-in-vaccination-decision-making

Vaccine Narratives and Public Health: Investigating Criticisms of H1N1 Pandemic Vaccination
Sudeepa Abeysinghe
▻http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/vaccine-narratives-and-public-health-investigating-criticisms-of-h1n1

Research Articles

Measuring Vaccine Confidence: Introducing a Global Vaccine Confidence Index
Heidi J Larson, William S Schulz, Joseph D Tucker, David MD Smith
▻http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/measuring-vaccine-confidence-introducing-a-global-vaccine-confidence-

Factors Associated with Intention to Receive Influenza and Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccines during Pregnancy: A Focus on Vaccine Hesitancy and Perceptions of Disease Severity and Vaccine Safety
Allison T. Chamberlain, Katherine Seib, Kevin A. Ault, Walter A. Orenstein, Paula M. Frew, Marielysse Cortés, Lisa C. Flowers, Pat Cota, Ellen A. S. Whitney, Ruth L. Berkelman, Saad B. Omer, Fauzia Malik
▻http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/factors-associated-with-intention-to-receive-influenza-and-tetanus-di

Why Are Young Adults Affected? Estimating Measles Vaccination Coverage in 20-34 Year Old Germans in Order to Verify Progress Towards Measles Elimination
Melanie Schuster, Thomas Stelzer, Florian Burckhardt
▻http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/why-are-young-adults-affected-estimating-measles-vaccination-coverage

#recherche #santé #médecine #société #vaccin

à noter que la notion proposée ici d’"hésitation à vacciner" est plus neutre et constructive que la qualification sans nuance d’#anti-vaccins

The myth of China’s ghost cities
▻http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/04/21/the-myth-of-chinas-ghost-cities

There is hardly a single new urban development in the country that has yet gone over its estimated time line for completion and vitalization, so any ghost city labeling at this point is premature: Most are still works in progress. But while building the core areas of new cities is something that China does with incredible haste, actually populating them is a lengthy endeavor.

When large numbers of people move into a new area, they need to be provided for; they need public services like healthcare and education. Therefore, a population carries a price tag and there is often an extended period of time between when cities appear completed and when they are actually prepared to sustain a full-scale population. This could be called the “ghost city” phase.

[...] It generally takes at least a decade for China’s new urban developments to start breaking the inertia of stagnation. But once they do, they tend to keep growing, eventually blending in with the broader urban landscape and losing their “ghost city” label.

Wade Shepard, Ghost Cities of China
▻http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/node/20816
#ghost_cities #Chine #urbanisation

Ethiopians talk of violence and land grabs as their homes are earmarked for foreign investors | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/ethiopia-villagisation-violence-land-grab

The east African country has long faced criticism for forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people from their ancestral homes to make way for large scale commercial agriculture, often benefiting foreign investors. Those moved to purpose-built communes are allegedly no longer able to farm or access education, healthcare and other basic services.

The victims of land grabbing and displacement are given a rare voice in We Say the Land is Not Yours: Breaking the Silence against Forced Displacement in Ethiopia, a report from the California-based thinktank the Oakland Institute.

Some of the interviewees still live in Ethiopia, while others have sought political asylum abroad, and all remain anonymous for their own safety.

#Ethiopie #déplacements_forcés #villagisation #terres

Most sex workers have had jobs in health, education or charities – survey | Society | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/27/most-sex-workers-jobs-health-education-charities-survey

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More than 70% of UK sex workers have previously worked in healthcare, education or charities, while more than a third hold university degrees, according to one of the largest surveys of the industry ever undertaken.

The academic research, carried out by Leeds University and funded by the Wellcome Trust, also reveals the pressures that lead people to enter the sex industry, with one respondent saying she could not keep up her mortgage repayments while earning £50 a day as an NHS care assistant.

#royaume-uni #prostitution #santé