C1 · 100 entries · Five themes

Health Systems Wellbeing and Public Communication

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1. Health service organisation (20 entries)
  1. health workforce
  2. organise provision
  3. care coordination
  4. multidisciplinary team
  5. care pathway
  6. capacity planning
  7. funding model
  8. sustain access
  9. promote uptake
  10. evaluate reach
  11. health literacy
  12. community outreach
  13. contextualise a figure
  14. rehabilitation
  15. circulate
  16. duty of care
  17. study population
  18. stamina
  19. sip
  20. tranquil
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2. Prevention and public messaging (20 entries)
  1. tailor a message
  2. risk communication
  3. etiquette
  4. affability
  5. decorum
  6. cordiality
  7. protocol
  8. strike the right tone
  9. rhetorical framing
  10. precaution
  11. reassure
  12. posture
  13. interject
  14. punctuate the silence
  15. gathering
  16. refreshing
  17. drown out
  18. cut someone short
  19. reminder
  20. thankfully
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3. Access and inequality (20 entries)
  1. health inequality
  2. reach underserved groups
  3. vulnerable population
  4. monitor disparities
  5. social determinant
  6. coverage gap
  7. unmet need
  8. continuity of care
  9. acknowledge limits
  10. absolute risk
  11. relative risk
  12. deepen inequality
  13. discourage participation
  14. underrepresented group
  15. distributional impact
  16. financial cushion
  17. encryption
  18. sedentary lifestyle
  19. compulsive checking
  20. ventilation
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4. Evidence and communication (20 entries)
  1. distinguish evidence from opinion
  2. interpret a finding
  3. expert consensus
  4. clinical trial
  5. systematic review
  6. observational study
  7. matter-of-fact
  8. conversational equivalent
  9. for what it's worth
  10. off the record
  11. with reference to
  12. back channel
  13. social distance
  14. form of address
  15. notwithstanding
  16. status marker
  17. hereby
  18. colloquialism
  19. blurt out
  20. so to speak
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5. System pressures (20 entries)
  1. protect capacity
  2. maintain provision
  3. system resilience
  4. manage a backlog
  5. regional imbalance
  6. emergency demand
  7. treatment backlog
  8. build in redundancy
  9. structural reform
  10. transmit a shock
  11. hidden dependency
  12. restore equilibrium
  13. test resilience
  14. critical dependency
  15. stabilise a system
  16. dependence
  17. structural limit
  18. democratic resilience
  19. chilly
  20. die away
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