Public Health

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/11903715

Prague's elderly mayor coughs and splutters during a public meeting as authorities battle increase.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/0Ptm1

Aims

To describe and compare OUD treatment policies across nine international jurisdictions, and to understand how they are situated within their primary care and health systems.

Methods

Using policy documents, we collected data on health systems, drug use epidemiology, drug policies, and OUD treatment from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Taiwan. We used the health system dynamics framework and adapted definitions of low- and high-threshold treatment to describe and compare OUD treatment policies, and to understand how they may be shaped by their health systems context.

I have one tattoo that flares up occasionally, especially when I have other allergies. I use it like a litmus test now for when to take a pill lol.