10:832:302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Opioid Overdose, Wearable Technology, Telemedicine

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Public Health
• Course: 10:832:302
• Professor: M.Berger

Document Summary

Lecture #7: important topics in public health (chapter 12: pages 327-329, 331-332, and. 335-343; chapter 11) (* = from the textbook) (*** = important: overview, technology, security and privacy, telemedicine, rating doctors, preventive care, screenings, guidelines, an emerging epidemic, heroin and opioid use, increasingly important, mental health. More challenges with data: medical identity theft -> can add erroneous information to medical records -> may be life threatening and difficult to change. Heroin/opioid addiction: an epidemic: background, current situation, what is being done, public health implication, similar to needle exchange idea, propublica big data quandry, what is an opioid, opioids- medications that relieve pain. Overdose deaths: unbelievable increase: impact in new jersey, new jersey"s opioid crisis has only deepened and expanded, with heroin alone killing at least. Fentanyl killed 4. 6, a little less than double the national average, according to cdc data: the state has seen a 214 % increase in heroin and morphine deaths from 2010 (306) to 2015 (961).