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Health care is about so much more than medical tests or treatments. But, too often, health care providers forget to ask patients what they think would make them feel better.
Community health workers can help people take charge of their own health. Often living in the same communities and coming from similar backgrounds, they are able to share life experience with their clients and engender trust.
On this episode of The Dose, we talk about one community health worker program, IMPaCT, that is helping some of the poorest and sickest Americans meet their health and social needs.
As the COVID-19 pandemic upends all our lives, this idea of putting patients in charge — rather than telling them what to do — has particular resonance. Listen to our conversation with guest Shreya Kangovi, a primary care doctor and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and then subscribe wherever you find your podcasts.
Getting and staying healthy depends on more than just medical care. In some instances, a patient also needs legal services. What if doctors could "refer" their patients to lawyers for help in dealing with a housing dispute, immigration status, or any number of legal issues?
On this episode of The Dose, we hear from Norma Tinubu and Emily Foote about how attorneys from the New York Legal Assistance Group work with health care providers at NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health care system in the U.S.
Through this medical-legal partnership, some of the city's poorest patients can get the support they need to resolve legal problems that, if ignored, could take a toll on their health.
Earlier this week, Germany became one of the first countries to start easing COVID-19 restrictions. That's because its initial response to the pandemic helped keep the death rate low. Germany:
As the pressure mounts to reopen economies across the globe, other countries may have something to learn. On this episode of The Dose, Michael Laxy, a health economics researcher at the Helmholtz Center in Munich, talks about the German approach.
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