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Former Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Richard Carmona Joins DrKumo’s Advisory Board

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Carmona brings a wealth of experience and expertise to DrKumo, having served as the Surgeon General from 2002 to 2006. His distinguished career in medicine, public health, and as a healthcare leader will provide invaluable insights and guidance as DrKumo continues to expand its impact in the healthcare industry. “Dr.

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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

Risks of social determinants of health like paying for housing, utilities, and food, have been a greater burden during the public health crisis for Black people (32%) and Hispanic folks (28%) than for White people in America (17%), with an average of 22% at-risk for SDoH factors. population by a factor of 2 to 1.

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

Health Populi

McKinsey’s report included a chart akin to the one above from Manhattan Institute, graphically illustrating the growth of household costs with education, health care and housing fast-growing between 2002 and 2018. These costs erode and overwhelm the wage picture shown in the third vertical bar chart. did not save for old age.

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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. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

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

Health Populi

In this post, I’ll share just a handful of insights that were particularly impactful to my work and my commitment to work toward health citizenship for all people in the U.S. First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity.

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

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was in a position to help, and the miracle of antiviral drugs worked to address the death sentence that was AIDS in 2002. In his role, Abner went to Africa and saw a shocking scale of death in large communities in the hardest-hit countries in the world. Abner was part of one of the biggest humanitarian efforts in U.S.

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Latin America’s Virtual Care Revolution

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When I started GlobalMed in 2002, our goal was to help make evidence-based medicine available in every nation, not just the U.S. Global access to care: that’s our mission and you can see it right there in our name. See event photos. Creating International Connected Care. Telehealth isn’t entirely new to Argentina.