We’ve used our unhealthy obsession with Twitter to give you some of our highlights on health from the past seven days.
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Making a busted brand work. Two perspectives on fixing care.data from National Voices and Reed Elsevier (NB Reed Elsevier is a client). - Unhealthy superpowers? Spot the outliers on this graph of life expectancy versus health expenditure.
- System alignment or system conflict? It looks like NHS England and Monitor are still at odds over the Choice and Competition Framework.
- This is a great story of how a combination of Twitter and curry is bringing social workers together.
- This shows the stark impact of austerity on HIV diagnoses in Greece.
- Result. Finding out whether it's good or bad. Life or death. This is a raw and revealing blog on living with advanced cancer.
- Self-management: mapping the strategies used by people with depression.
- A thoughtful, balanced piece on what other countries can learn from the NHS.
- Caring is about giving comfort and that can take many forms, as demonstrated by this great photo.
And from America:
- A lack of listening and the need for more primary care physicians. This blog on the situation in America mirrors debates in the UK.
- This article summarises some of the best disruptive writings on health in 2013. Well worth a read.
- Contrary to common belief, obesity rates are plummeting in young American children.
- Rewarding value not volume. This is an interesting blog on how patients and the public can champion reforms to fee for service payment arrangements.
And finally…
- Does ice cream cause polio? A great example from the 1940s of why correlation does not mean causation.
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