Doctors underestimate 2 m social distancing more than other health care workers

Do GPs know more than other doctors?

In this issue of the European Journal of General Practice, Barais et al., present their glossary of diagnostic reasoning terms [1]. COGITA is a European group of general practitioners (GPs) reflecting on diagnostic reasoning and decision making, perhaps more widely known under their popular name ‘The Gut Feeling Group’. References of their publications can be found on http://www.gutfeelings.eu....

Life Expectancy Changes for Each Subway Station: Taking Social Determinants of Health Seriously More Than Ever

Life Expectancy Changes for Each Subway Station: Taking Social Determinants of Health Seriously More Than Ever Reza Esmaeili 1* 1Assistance Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Medicine, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran Abstract Nowadays, health inequalities are emerging at short geographic distances, even ...

More doctors or better care?

The Canadian Medical Association's More Doctors, More Care campaign seeks to align physician supply targets with policy decisions elsewhere in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Using OECD data for 19 countries to assess the relationship between physician supply and healthcare outcomes, we have determined that there is no association between avoidable mortality a...

Public health is more important than health care.

PUBLIC health practitioners seem to be suffering an identity crisis. Perhaps they have felt ignored and under-funded for so long that they are eager to latch onto anything that includes the word "health." Or perhaps some public health practitioners understand that health care receives 94% of the health services dollars with only 3 % going to public health, so they mistakenly think they should b...

More than ramps: accessible health care for people with disabilities.