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    Health Care Should Be A Team Sport

    Health Care Should Be A Team Sport

    When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise as a medical tech specialist together to suggest a bold idea for reinventing health care -- by putting the patient at the center of a treatment team.

    Subjects:
    Management of Health Care Services
    Keywords:
    Medical care Health services administration
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    Our Unhealthy Obsession with Choice

    Our Unhealthy Obsession with Choice

    We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher Renata Salecl asks: Could individual choices be distracting us from something bigger—our power as social thinkers? A bold call for us to stop taking personal choice so seriously and focus on the choices we're making collectively.

    Subjects:
    Psychology and Philosophy
    Keywords:
    Medical care Choice (Psychology)
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    Will Healthcare Embrace Digital Or Will We Die Waiting?

    Will Healthcare Embrace Digital Or Will We Die Waiting?

    Using a mobile app to check glucose levels, sending selfies to receive diagnoses and receiving text reminders to take pills. Is this what the future of healthcare will look like? Karalee Close believes it should, considering that medical mistakes are the fourth leading cause of death in the US. She argues that a closer marriage of technology, big data and healthcare can improve today's system -- especially when it comes to mitigating human error.

    Subjects:
    Health Technology and Informatics
    Keywords:
    Medical technology Public health -- Data processing
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    How Do Carbohydrates Impact Your Health?

    How Do Carbohydrates Impact Your Health?

    The things we eat and drink on a daily basis can impact our health in big ways. Too many carbohydrates, for instance, can lead to insulin resistance, which is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes. But what are carbs, exactly? And what do they do to our bodies? Richard J. Wood explains.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Food Science
    Keywords:
    Carbohydrates Nutrition
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    Your Words May Predict Your Future Mental Health

    Your Words May Predict Your Future Mental Health

    Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how our words hint at our inner lives and details a word-mapping algorithm that could predict the development of schizophrenia. "We may be seeing in the future a very different form of mental health," Sigman says, "based on objective, quantitative and automated analysis of the words we write, of the words we say."

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Mental health Mental illness
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    A Smarter, More Precise Way to Think about Public Health

    A Smarter, More Precise Way to Think about Public Health

    Sue Desmond-Hellmann is using precision public health -- an approach that incorporates big data, consumer monitoring, gene sequencing and other innovative tools -- to solve the world's most difficult medical problems. It's already helped cut HIV transmission from mothers to babies by nearly half in sub-Saharan Africa, and now it's being used to address alarming infant mortality rates all over the world. The goal: to save lives by bringing the right interventions to the right populations at the right time.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Biology
    Keywords:
    Medicial informatics Big data Public health
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    The Taboo Secret to Better Health

    The Taboo Secret to Better Health

    Our poop and pee have superpowers, but for the most part we don't harness them. Molly Winter faces down our squeamishness and asks us to see what goes down the toilet as a resource, one that can help fight climate change, spur innovation and even save us money.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Recycling (Waste etc.) Excretion
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    How To Do More With Less in Healthcare

    How To Do More With Less in Healthcare

    As medicine advances, so does the complexity and price of healthcare. For inspiration on ways to keep healthcare affordable, Jan Denecker shares three simple, yet effective innovations from the developing world, where constraints on resources have caused the healthcare industry to adopt a mentality of doing more with less.

    Subjects:
    Management of Health Care Services
    Keywords:
    Medical care Health services administration
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    There's No Shame in Taking Care of Your Mental Health

    There's No Shame in Taking Care of Your Mental Health

    When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn't take care of their mental health. In a personal talk, Delle shares how he learned to handle anxiety in a society that's uncomfortable with emotions. As he says: "Being honest about how we feel doesn't make us weak -- it makes us human."

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Mental health
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    Talk About Your Death While You're Still Healthy

    Talk About Your Death While You're Still Healthy

    Do you know what you want when you die? Do you know how you want to be remembered? In a candid, heartfelt talk about a subject most of us would rather not discuss, Michelle Knox asks each of us to reflect on our core values around death and share them with our loved ones, so they can make informed decisions without fear of having failed to honor our legacies. "Life would be a lot easier to live if we talked about death now," Knox says. "We need to discuss these issues when we are fit and healthy so we can take the emotion out of it -- and then we can learn not just what is important, but why it's important."

    Keywords:
    Death
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    Video