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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week: “What I Wish I Had Known” About Mental Health

Health Populi

For 2022’s campaign, here are some key data about mental illness in the U.S. adults experience mental illness each year. adults experience serious mental illness each year. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year… a growing concern. health system for patients across demographics.

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How Public Health Crises Have Advanced Medical Technologies

InTouch Health

Once the worst of the pandemic was over, several countries changed their approach to healthcare, essentially reorganizing every aspect of public health. As the world continues to respond to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, learn how some public health crises shaped the evolution of medical technology. The Opioid Crisis.

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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 Hair Economy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Control, Wellness, and Self-Care

Health Populi

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I feature the black barbershop to introduce a chapter on “The New Retail Health.” But this first-wave impact of the pandemic and #StayHome mandates have exacted a price on financial and mental health. Can you see yourself?

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

Health Populi

states since 2008. In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S.

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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.