article thumbnail

My Therapy Assistant: Virtual mental health in our post-pandemic world

Lloyd Price

Yvette Dzumaga, is an MD/MBA specialising in psychiatry, who focuses on behavioural health and characterising market trends. Though the Covid-19 pandemic is not yet over, there’s a "second pandemic" already looming large in the form of a mental health crisis. Using the ONS and Mind’s estimate of 5.34

article thumbnail

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. The President signed the $8.3

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The New Loneliness Health Agenda from Dr. Vivek Murphy, US Surgeon General

Health Populi

Simply put: time spent alone by Americans between 2003 and 2020 grew; time spent with others fell, in some instances like time with friends in dramatic decline downward. And it will be worth it because our need for human connection is like our need for food and water: essential for our survival.

article thumbnail

Guns, Jobs, or Health Care? In 2018, Voters Split as to Top Issue

Health Populi

Arguably, gun policy can cut in two ways: in light of the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings and wake-up call for #NeverAgain among both students and the public-at-large, vis-a-vis Second Amendment issue voters. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

article thumbnail

Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

Health is translating across all definitions for U.S. voters in November 2020: for health care and physical health, financial health, mental health, and societal health. And the energy to cast votes is a signal sparking Americans recognizing the importance of health citizenship.

eHealth 42