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Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

Health Populi

That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). In the 2007 analysis, a roughly similar proportion of U.S.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While the 2007-8 Great Recession was considered more of a “He-Cession,” this round of U.S. You can see million-person differences for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, and half-million worker deltas for LPNs and medical assistants.

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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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Hims & Hers Welcomes Five New Experts to Its Medical Advisory Board

Digital Health Global

Dr. Chacko has been recognized as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine and as a member of the Delta Omega Honorary Society of Public Health. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health. She received her M.D.

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Americans Lost Future Life-Years in 2020: How Much Life Was Lost Depends on the Color of One’s Skin

Health Populi

. “Provisional life expectancy at birth in the first half of 2020 was the lowest level since 2006 for both the total population and for males, and was the lowest level since 2007 for females,” the report observes.

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Longevity Stalls Around the World And Wealth, More Concentrated

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This last chart compares gains in life expectancy (longevity) between two periods, 2002-2007 and 2012-2017. life expectancy gained in the earlier period, 2002-2007, ranked relatively high with OECD countries like the UK, Australia, Canada, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, and others.

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The Polarization of Trust in 2023 – What It Means for Health, via Edelman at Davos WEF 23

Health Populi

Note that Russia, studied in the surveys between 2007 and 2022, was not included in the 2023 research). On the upside for health and trust, the most-trusted institutional leader in this year’s study is scientists, with 76% of global citizens trusting scientists (fairly even with last year with a 1 point uptick in trust).