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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

health system in the latest Gallup poll — earning a grade of “excellent” or “good” by American adults surveyed in November 2023. The second chart arrays the historical trend downward for all healthcare players (except walk-in/urgent care clinics) looking back to 2003 to 2023.

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Telemedicine, Baby Boomers and Tech-Savvy Millennials

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The Association of American Medical Colleges reported in May the results of its 2017 Medical School Enrollment Survey, which found that medical school enrollment has increased 29 percent since 2002-2003. There is hope on the horizon, however.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

Prudential surveyed U.S. FYI, Dr. Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S. consumers in late February 2020 on peoples’ perspectives of the Coronavirus. Note this poll was done three weeks ago from this writing.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

back in 2003 — so we’ve known for over 16 years that in the U.S., From 2003 to 2019, the theory that prices are the primary driver of America’s spending more on health care than any other country is still the case. ” So much for transparency in 2019. Expect health care to rank high on U.S.

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Considering Technology Adoption -- AARP’s 2008 Healthy@Home

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy. A few highlights from the report catch the eye.

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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from June 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Will results change when older adults are surveyed later this year? So if this is the baseline of adoption, what’s next when the surveys come around again? As for social media , things really got going with AOL Instant Messenger in 1993 -- then all was pretty quiet until 2003-4, when LinkedIn, MySpace, Skype, and Facebook all arrived.

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Most Americans Want the Federal Government to Ensure Healthcare for All

Health Populi

This sentiment has been relatively stable since 2000 except for two big outlying years: a spike of 69% in 2006, and a low-point in 2003 of 42%. This study surveyed about 1,500 people with serious illnesses or people who cared for those patients, polled in July and August 2018. Most people in the U.S.