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Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | Latisha Thompson, MSW, MPH
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2021-10-19 12:00:00
2021-10-19 13:00:00
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Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | Latisha Thompson, MSW, MPH
Do healthcare systems have a role in reducing social and economic inequities?
Latisha Thompson, MSW, MPH
Licensed Social Worker, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Article: https://hphr.org/30-articles-thompson/
Abstract: The link between individual social and economic needs and health outcomes is well-known and investigated in the field of public health (Braveman et al., 2011; Evans et al., 1994; Galea et al., 2011; Link & Phelan, 1995; Marmot, 2004; Marmot & Wilkinson, 2005)). As a result, screening for social needs and implementing interventions are becoming a mainstay value-based strategy among many US health systems (L. M. Gottlieb et al., 2017; Horwitz et al., 2020). However, in the year-long presence of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, recent studies have suggested that social risk factors, such as financial, housing, and food insecurity, may have worsened, leading to a burgeoning social and economic crisis in the United States (Bartsch et al., 2020; Dunn et al., 2020; Sharma et al., 2020). Especially among vulnerable populations, these consequences have had a critical impact on national rates of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality (Van Dyke et al., 2021).
Health care systems must universalize social needs screening and response programming in order to meet the complex social and health needs of patients, during and beyond this public health emergency. This editorial aims to highlight the essential role of healthcare systems in mitigating unmet social needs during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we will describe how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates existing social and economic inequities, highlight the current role of the health-care system in responding to individual and population-level health outcomes, and examine two large health-care systems’ social needs referral and response programs piloted before and during the current public health emergency. Lastly, we will conclude with possible implications and future directions for public health, and other stakeholders, in addressing these dual crises during and beyond the pandemic.
For more information, please contact Mary.Pham@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
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Penn Medical Ethics
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Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | Ian Peebles, PhD Candidate
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2021-10-26 12:00:00
2021-10-26 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | Ian Peebles, PhD Candidate
To race or not to race: Guidelines for the use of biological racial classifications in medicine
Ian Peebles, PhD Candidate
Department of Philosophy, UPenn
Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Abstract: To be shared.
For more information, please contact Mary.Pham@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
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Penn Medical Ethics
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Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) | Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, M.Bioethics
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2021-11-01 12:00:00
2021-11-01 13:00:00
America/New_York
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) | Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, M.Bioethics
Paying patients to participate in clinical trials: Undue, Unjust, or Understudied?
Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, M.Bioethics
John M. Eisenberg Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Monday, November 1, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Abstract: For decades, providing patients with financial incentives for research participation has been controversial and variably regulated due to uncertainty regarding whether financial incentives serve as undue inducements by blunting peoples’ sensitivity to research risks, or unjust inducements by preferentially increasing enrollment among disadvantaged persons. Emerging normative analyses and a small number of empirical studies of how hypothetical offers of payments influence trial enrollment decisions have increasingly suggested that concerns with incentivizing research may be overblown. But without evidence of how real incentives influence participation in real trials, investigators, research sponsors, and regulatory bodies have rarely modified their practices or norms. This year, we published the results of two randomized trials of real incentives for participating in two real parent trials. This talk will review these trials’ designs and results, interpret these findings in the context of prior knowledge and theory, and identify the remaining unanswered questions.
For more information, please contact Mary.Pham@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
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Penn Medical Ethics
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Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | Jessica Fishman, PhD
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2021-11-09 12:00:00
2021-11-09 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | Jessica Fishman, PhD
Validated causal models, methods, and messages for predicting and changing behavior
Jessica Fishman, PhD
Director of the Message Effects Lab, PSOM and Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Abstract: To be shared.
For more information, please contact Mary.Pham@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
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Penn Medical Ethics