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

Health Populi

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

Health Populi

Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Because they are public goods, and the U.S. Why has this been the case?

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

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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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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

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

Health Populi

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 post Obese, Access-Challenged and Self-Rationing: America’s Health Vs Rest-of-World appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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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. Longitudinal Care Service Lines, Geisinger Health. Global Director of Healthcare Transformation, IBM; President, Patient- Centered Primary Care. System, Danville, PA.

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Video: Farzad Mostashari on patient engagement, ‘physician ACOs’

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Related posts: Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, 2014 edition. I still think it worked out well. Here’s a link to Salber’s post about the interview because I don’t want to steal page views. :). HIMSS gossip. Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber: 2013 edition.