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The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Accelerated Our Demand for Wellness – Learning from Ogilvy

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The first chart illustrates that most people see each of the seven industries studied as wellness channels, from the more obvious health-oriented categories like skincare and food to hospitality (hotels and airlines), financial services, and automotive (which I’ve covered as far back as 2007 here on Health Populi).

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

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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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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

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Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.

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

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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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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

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When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed the concept of the Triple Aim in 2007, it was founded on three pillars: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and lowering per capita health care costs. Four in ten U.S. As we consider re-investing in the U.S.

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What Poor Birth and Maternity Outcomes in the U.S. Say About American Healthcare & “Infrastructure”

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The first blog post I wrote on Health Populi back when this site launched at Labor Day 2007 was on this very topic — that the huge percentage of gross domestic product the U.S. The care economy cannot be easily or rationally separated from the fiscal economy.

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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

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Health Populi’s Hot Points: In this first week of January 2022 with CES kicking off its show of digital health innovations, along with other consumer categories of electronics at home and in connected cars ( which I covered here in Health Populi back in 2007 before I began to attend CES!),