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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

Advancing innovations that lead to equitable and sustainable solutions in the healthcare system requires interrogating the inequities embedded within research, design, and testing processes for novel health solutions, as well as diversifying the people involved at each stage.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

In this blog post, I’ll explore the possibility of AI in social work, examine real-world applications and success stories, address challenges and ethical considerations, and envision the future of this exciting time. At the same time, another may benefit more from exposure therapy and medication.

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Everything You Need to Know about Medical Bankruptcy

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Everything You Need to Know about Medical Bankruptcy. Here is everything you should know about medical bankruptcy so you can better decide if filing bankruptcy is the best option. Did you know as high as 62% of bankruptcies are due to medical debt? What Is Medical Bankruptcy? Medical debts are considered unsecured debts.

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Can We Nudge Our Way into a Healthier Future?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Michael on Unsplash A popular area of applied behavioral science, nudges are frequently deployed within public health and healthcare systems to influence people’s choices. But can people be nudged into better health? Nudges are meant to be noncoercive ways of reframing choices to help people make better decisions.

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Professional discourse: strategic exclusion that doesn’t belong in fundraising

Jeff Brooks

It’s a secret code used by eye-health professionals. Using codes based on Latin and Greek is part of what sets medical professionals apart. Though I did find an article at the National Institutes of Health titled It’s time to throw out old-fashioned Latin abbreviations. It’s ethical. Why do they use a secret code?

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Is your nonprofit thinking about using ChatGPT? Your first step is to do no harm

Candid

In this article, we unpack the lessons learned from a nonprofit’s chatbot project to dispense mental health advice that went wrong, and how nonprofits can reduce the risks when adopting ChatGPT and other generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies. The COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in hotline calls of over 100%.

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Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer

Stanford Social Innovation Review

When the legendary physician and advocate Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away at the age of 62 in February, he was called a hero , a visionary , and a global health giant. ” While Paul was a world-renown expert in both infectious disease and medical anthropology, he believed that technical expertise is often overrated.