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    Take Health Care off The Mainframe

    Take Health Care off The Mainframe

    At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all.

    Subjects:
    Management of Health Care Services and Health Technology and Informatics
    Keywords:
    Health services administration Community health services Older people -- Medical care
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    Shh! Sound Health in 8 Steps

    Shh! Sound Health in 8 Steps

    Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Mental illness -- Prevention Noise pollution -- Health aspects
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    The Single Biggest Health Threat Women Face

    The Single Biggest Health Threat Women Face

    Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Heart -- Diseases -- Research Heart diseases in women
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    What If Our Health Care System Kept Us Healthy?

    What If Our Health Care System Kept Us Healthy?

    Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that -- and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated as a college sports team.

    Subjects:
    Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Social medicine Poor -- Medical care
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    Mental Health for All by Involving All

    Mental Health for All by Involving All

    Nearly 450 million people are affected by mental illness worldwide. In wealthy nations, just half receive appropriate care, but in developing countries, close to 90 percent go untreated because psychiatrists are in such short supply. Vikram Patel outlines a highly promising approach -- training members of communities to give mental health interventions, empowering ordinary people to care for others.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Mental health service Mental health personnel -- Training of
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    The Big-Data Revolution in Health Care

    The Big-Data Revolution in Health Care

    Collecting global health data is an imperfect science: Workers tramp through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, write the answers on paper forms, then input the data -- and from this messy, gappy information, countries and NGOs need to make huge decisions. Data geek Joel Selanikio talks through the sea change in collecting health data in the past decade -- starting with the PalmPilot and Hotmail, and now moving into the cloud.

    Subjects:
    Health Technology and Informatics
    Keywords:
    Medicine -- Data processing Medical informatics
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    His and hers ... health care

    His and hers ... health care

    Every cell in the human body has a sex, which means that men and women are different right down to the cellular level. Yet too often, research and medicine ignore this insight -- and the often startlingly different ways in which the two sexes respond to disease or treatment. As pioneering doctor Paula Johnson describes in this thought-provoking talk, lumping everyone in together means we essentially leave women's health to chance. It's time to rethink.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Men -- Health hygiene Women -- Health hygiene Health -- Sex differences
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    How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across A Lifetime

    How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across A Lifetime

    Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Child mental health Psychic trauma in children
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    Imagining a new future for health systems in Africa

    Imagining a new future for health systems in Africa

    How can Africa, a continent that has 54% of the world's communicable diseases but only 2% of the world's doctors, develop a healthcare system that is both efficient and effective? Healthcare consultant Mathieu Lamiuex believes emerging economies could outperform developed nations' healthcare systems by "leapfrogging" over their inefficiencies and deeply embedded mistakes. By creating an innovative and adaptive system based on modern innovations, Lamiuex believes we could do much more with much less.

    Subjects:
    Public Health and Management of Health Care Services
    Keywords:
    Medical care -- Africa
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    How Digital DNA Could Help You Make Better Health Choices

    How Digital DNA Could Help You Make Better Health Choices

    What if you could know exactly how food or medication would impact your health -- before you put it in your body? Genomics researcher Jun Wang is working to develop digital doppelgangers for real people; they start with genetic code, but they'll also factor in other kinds of data as well, from food intake to sleep to data collected by a "smart toilet." With all of this valuable information, Wang hopes to create an engine that will change the way we think about health, both on an individual level and as a collective.

    Subjects:
    Technology and Informatics and Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Medical informatics Human genetics
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