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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity. The table arrays data the researchers analyzed from 2002 to 2016, identifying patterns of six types of medical services used by race and age group.

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What We Know We Know About ZIP Codes, Food, and Deaths of Despair – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 3

Health Populi

.” That’s the first sentence of Chapter 7 in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. This data point comes from research published in JAMA in April 2016 on the association between income and life expectancy in the U.S.

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Financial Stress Is An Epidemic In America, Everyday Health Finds

Health Populi

This feeling of political stress was uncovered at the time of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election by the American Psychological Association in their Stress In America study, which I discussed here in Health Populi. tomorrow having spent nearly three weeks getting smarter about health and healthcare in various parts of Europe.

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Social Determinants of Health Generate Drastic Cost Reductions

BHM Healthcare Solutions

New research released by WellCare Health Plans, Inc. New research released by WellCare Health Plans, Inc. The study examined medical expenditures associated with 2,718 WellCare Medicaid and Medicare Advantage plan members who accessed WellCare’s Community Assistance Line—a toll-free, nationwide line open to the general public.

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How The Rapid Shift To Telehealth Leaves Many Community Health Centers Behind During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Henry Kotula

Preparedness Of Community Health Centers For Telehealth. Despite the changes, many health centers may not be ready to implement high-quality telehealth. A study using 2016 data showed that only 38 percent of CHCs used any telehealth. Permanent All-Payer Parity For Telehealth Reimbursement.

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

Health Populi

A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. In 2019, there was a major sentinel event for public health made by a huge private sector force in America: Walmart.

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The Importance of Broadband and Net Neutrality for Health, to the Last Person and the Last Mile

Health Populi

I’ve talked about the importance of connectivity as a social determinant of health here on this site in December 2017, as well as in July 2016 in the Huffington P ost (appropriately published in the “Life/Wellness” section). Without them, the U.S.