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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

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The line chart come from a new study into Multimorbidity Trends in United States Adults, 1988-2014 , published in the July-August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. Decades of research have shown that nutrition, economic stability, and a clean and safe physical environment make individual and public health.

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

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Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since CVS/pharmacy morphed into CVS/health when it quit tobacco five years ago in 2014 , I began to intuit a shift in the U.S. where private sector organizations began to more visibly take on public health objectives and missions.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

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.” Concerns about consumer-generated data and third-party data brokers’ and others’ potential to exploit the information outside of pure health care uses is not a new-new thing.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

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Health Populi’s Hot Points: The “super social” adjective was first coined by Dr. Chris Gibbons of Johns Hopkins University, who wrote about Broadband as a Health Imperative back in 2014.

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Technology, Aging and Obesity Drive Healthcare Spending, BEA Finds

Health Populi

Some key findings from this study were that: The fastest-growing spending conditions between 2013 and 2014 were infectious disease, mental illness, and diabetes. The second chart indicates healthcare spending by category in billions of dollars and annual rate of growth.

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Population Health POV — “It’s About Patient Data”

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As a member of the Editorial Board of Population Health News , I was asked to provide some personal perspectives for the October 2014 issue. Health; Instructor, Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard. School of Public Health Boston, Mass. Nussbaum, M.D. Jaan Sidorov, M.D.,

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Obese, Access-Challenged and Self-Rationing: America’s Health Vs Rest-of-World

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In the Weighing Down America study, the Milken Institute gauged that health conditions related to obesity and overweight totaled $428 billion. healthcare spending in 2014. The direct medical expenses generated through treating diseases borne by obesity accounted for over 14% of U.S. of America’s gross domestic product.