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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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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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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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Consumers Embrace Tech But Privacy Remains a Concern – The Morning Consult Poll of Consumers and Tech

Health Populi

adults in early December 2021 for this survey, Health Populi’s Hot Points: Trust is a pre-cursor for health engagement, with authenticity running a close second as a factor that health consumers lean into when partnering with organizations for their health. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

Health Populi

Increased availability of opioid prescription drugs, chronic pain (for which opioids are often prescribed), and the economic crisis which began in 2008 may all have contributed to an increase in overdoses, suicide, and increased liver disease associated with alcohol abuse.”

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. .”