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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

Health Populi

Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Because they are public goods, and the U.S. In the U.S., Why has this been the case?

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

This, to assure the physician that he would not be tracked by the sort of FBI state licensing compact concerns described in the linked article above. Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

For Black patients, lower utilization of ambulatory care and higher use of inpatient, emergency department, and nursing suggest greater spender downstream that might be prevented by more spending upstream on primary care, prevention, and early detection of disease. colonoscopy).

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Politics is not about money.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. The article below clarifies and summarizes the end-of-pandemic reimbursement decisions made by private payers, Medicare, and Medicaid.

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Nurses Continue to Rule in Honesty and Ethics in U.S. Professions – Healthcare Professions Still Top Gallup’s Annual Poll

Health Populi

Gallup surmises this may be a downturn in positive ratings among Republicans, with tensions rising between parents and teachers in the pandemic era return-to-school timing and public health mandates for masking, vaccinations, and other measures. call out and confront the real phenomenon of bullying nurses in health care settings).

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. As health consumers, U.S. Which virus is it?”