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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

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President Biden’s first few days on the job gave us a very clear view on how he sees conquering COVID: through a whole-of-government approach to public policies that bolster directly addressing the virus, along with the many forces shaping how we got here and how to come out of the pandemic era stronger. ” The plotline goes….

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Being Transparent About Healthcare Transparency – My Post on the Medecision Blog

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With new rules emanating from the White House this month focusing on health care price transparency, health care costs are in the spotlight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The post Being Transparent About Healthcare Transparency – My Post on the Medecision Blog appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

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Health Populi’s Hot Points : Emotional support is just as important as medical support, Accenture observed in the Health and Life Science Experiences study conducted in 2021.

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The New Deaths of Despair in America – Among U.S. Children

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you can search through the Health Populi blog for my various takes — starting with the milestone research of Deaton and Case discussed in this post. Note that these data go to 2021, so do not include the life expectancy data for young Americans from 2022 or first quarter of 2023. Subtitled “the sad state of U.S.

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The Trust Deficit Is Bad for Health: A Health/Care Lens on the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer

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I welcome and dig into the Edelman Trust Barometer every year, and put on my health/care lens when reviewing its findings. In this Health Populi blog, I’ll cover the global results and some of the granular health-related nuggets I can divine from this overall world-view. Some 1,150 U.S. In the U.S.

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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds

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In her blog on this first day of the World Bank/IMF conference, Gita Gopinath wrote about The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression. In 2021, all economies are expected to recover at some level, the brighter news in the third column in the last chart. Read carefully. will decline by -6.1%.

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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

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When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012. And this year’s Oscar winner for leading actor, Anthony Hopkins, played The Father, who with his family is dealing with dementia. appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.