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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

These self-care tasks extended in our health care across all dimensions of “health” including mental health, nutrition and gut wellness, sleep, and certainly financial health. I wrote early on in the pandemic that mental health impacts would be the epidemic inside and beyond the coronavirus itself.

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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds

Health Populi

It’s déjà vu all over again for Americans’ well-being: we haven’t felt this low since the advent of the Great Recession that hit our well-well-being hard in December 2008. The Great Recession was a direct hit on national and personal economics; health was an indirect impact.

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The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

Along with the life-threatening impact of the coronavirus on physical health, and the accompanying mental health distress activated by self-distancing comes a third unintended consequence with the pandemic: a hard hit on women’s personal economies.

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The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

Health Populi

For these deaths of despair, job security and unemployment, social connections and loneliness, access to healthcare services (THINK: mental health, anxiety, depression, pain), and education are all pathways to socioeconomic status and social security (meant in the phrase as written, not as the U.S.

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Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2

Health Populi

The World Health Organization identified stress as one of the top ten determinants of disparities in health in 2008. Partner with community-based organizations, schools and professional organizations to disseminate information on stress and impact on health disparities. In this pandemic era, the U.S.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. states since 2008. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”