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How Do We Contract A Virus?

Electronic Health Reporter

Now, the general masses are simply worried that they may catch the virus. The article How Do We Contract A Virus? The coronavirus pandemic has turned the world upside down. It has claimed thousands of lives and affected millions of others. This situation […].

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“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

Health Populi

“When a virus emerges with high potential for spread, governments must be able to convince citizens to adopt essential public health measures.” “When a virus emerges with high potential for spread, governments must be able to convince citizens to adopt essential public health measures.”

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The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

Health Populi

Three new studies (two published this week) converge prompting me to weave together this post on the high-cost-of-thriving and the evolving social contract for health care in America. Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

in the first near-year of the pandemic, we’ve learned a lot about the science and clinical aspects of the very tricky COVID-19 virus. in the first near-year of the pandemic, we’ve learned a lot about the science and clinical aspects of the very tricky COVID-19 virus. Why redefine, really re-imagine, PPE?

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Trust Is a Key Social Currency for COVID-Embattled Consumers

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has re-shaped patients into consumers, concerned about managing the risk of contracting the virus, millions of people experiencing months of sheltering, working, learning, and cooking at home. How do health care providers build trust? .

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

The third chart bolsters a fact we know-we-know about patients’ faith in health care providers as trusted data stewards : that is that apps recommended by doctors and hospitals more likely make patients feel more comfortable about using them than digital tools not vetted by a trusted source. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Health Consumers, Health Citizens, and Wearable Tech – My Chat with João Bocas

Health Populi

Our chat then segued to how digital health tools and platforms can help scale health and well-being to address barriers to the social determinants of health and well-being, when well-intended and enchanting design can do good and do well at the same time. First, healthcare access for all — as a civil right.