Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Together, these three factors erode workers’ confidence in jobs and their personal household economies and financial health. The second chart comes from the study, quantifying global citizens’ trust levels by industry sector since 2012. Technology was the only industry whose trust-equity fell in the year.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

Most commonly, folks changed their life-flows for sleep (41%), exercise (40%), mental health (via therapy, mindfulness, or meditation, 30%), nutrition/diet (30%, and social and family life (29% each), with other areas of change to deal with stress shown in the green bars of the second chart.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

After the most common patient diagnosis, acute upper respiratory infections (historically the most common complaint presenting in retail clinics), the second and third most frequent reasons for telehealth diagnoses were for mood/affective disorders and anxiety and other nonpsychotic mental disorder. That is, mental health issues.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For context, since 2012, the annual cost increase for family premiums ranged between 3% and 5%, so the 2020 rate of 4% fell within a fairly normal range of 3-5% seen over the past eight years. Workers’ earnings grew by 3.4 in 2020, as family premiums increased by 4.0% and inflation, 2.1%.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This last chart compares gains in life expectancy (longevity) between two periods, 2002-2007 and 2012-2017. But in the latter five-year period, 2012-2017, life expectancy gains in the U.S. Look all the way to the left of the chart, and see that in the U.S.

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