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#LoveThyNeighbor – A Faith-Based Call for Vaccination

Health Populi

The Catholic Health Association (CHA) is urging Americans to “love thy neighbor” by getting the COVID-19 vaccine, Sister Mary Haddad wrote in an editorial published in Modern Healthcare, published on September 3, 2011. Sister Mary is CEO and President of CHA. ” she asserted. .” ” she asserted.

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Physician burnout is at an all-time high, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Physician shortages, already projected to be severe before COVID, have almost become a public health emergency," he added. The study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that the prevalence of burnout among U.S. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2017, 54.4% in 2014 and 45.5%

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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The public health pandemic has converged in 2020 with the negative impacts of financial stress and mental health tolls.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. Strategic Solution Group, LLC (SSG) has a low-code software platform called Casetivity. do so in different ways and often have incomplete data.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Health Populi

Opioid-related deaths grew some 20% since 2011 in the U.S. health care versus the OECD peer nations. fall below the OECD average, and the proportion of people who self-report that they are in “good health” is the third highest in the OECD. and are impacting mortality rates in Canada, Estonia and Sweden, too. For the U.S.

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Akili Announces Leadership Transition

Digital Health Global

Martucci co-founded Akili in 2011 with a vision to transform the design, delivery and experience of cognitive medicine. Food and Drug Administration’s current Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices for Treating Psychiatric Disorders During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency.