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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

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“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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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

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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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Stress Is Playing A Big Role in Consumers’ Food Habits: Food-As-Medicine Update from IFIC

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That net shift was 93% of folks thinking about healthfulness of food (a lot + a little) down to 86% across all consumers. Over 1 in 2 consumers said they felt stressed in the past 6 months (roughly October 2021 through March 2022), with 22% reporting being “very” stressed.

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A Tale of Two America’s for Health

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The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016. The lower row shows that the level of self-rationing due to costs fell across the entire northern section of America, leaving at least 15% of people living in the deeper south to continue to ration in 2016 as they did in 2012.

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Call It Deferring Services or Self-Rationing, U.S. Consumers Are Still Avoiding Medical Care

Health Populi

” Nearly a decade ago, I cited the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Security Watch of May 2012 here in Health Populi. In October 2020, The American Cancer Society explained that patients were postponing care, which also drove up peoples’ anxiety in dealing with their health and daily lives.

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5 Most Common FAQs About Depression

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The WHO stated that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide and the demand for curbing depression and other mental health conditions is on the rise globally. For every person who commits suicide, 20 or more have attempted to end their lives (WHO, 2012). References: Depression: A Global Public Health Concern.

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

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Medscape researched its first Physician Lifestyle Report in 2012. Add in the lengthening pandemic, growing variants of the virus, and supply constraints of inpatient settings in many health care markets, and this already-shaky pillar of the Quadruple Aim is weakened by the public health crisis.