Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The CDC published new data on the prevalence of obesity in America earlier this month, identifying a markedly greater obesity prevalence among adults in nonmetropolitan than metropolitan counties in 2016: 34.2% in nonmetros vs. 28.7% in metro areas. Overall obesity prevalence in the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2021

Further, it evaluated data from 2016-2019, so the results should be caveated as pertaining to the “pre-COVID era”, before last year’s explosion in virtual care. This focus on increased downstream care as a prima facie failure also ignores the fact that telemedicine services likely tap into pent-up, unmet demand for access to care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.” ” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

[Health insurance coverage is also an important social determinant of health, but for this post, I’ll forgo that discussion — albeit a key pillar of a healthy community]. In 2016, the U.S. Now look out image #2: the proportion of GDP spent on healthcare by OECD nation. ranked as the biggest spender, allocating 17.8%

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

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.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Think convenient health care is only for the wealthy? Medicaid recipients often have significant barriers to care. Throughout my residency, I worked in a primary care clinic that was in one of the poorest areas of Boston. Think again. The answer is “Absolutely, yes.”

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Think convenient health care is only for the wealthy? Medicaid recipients often have significant barriers to care. Throughout my residency, I worked in a primary care clinic that was in one of the poorest areas of Boston. Think again. The answer is “Absolutely, yes.”

Telemedicine 48

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2018

This geography-as-destiny for heart conditions is examined in The Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases Among US States, 1990-2016 published in JAMA Cardiology. Researchers analyzed data on cardiovascular disease mortality, nonfatal health outcomes, and risk factors by age, sex, and year from 1990 to 2016 for the U.S. population.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Public perception has not caught up to the reality that the lines between health care companies are so blurred at this point that it is becoming nearly impossible to tell the insurers from the providers from the pharma/medtech manufacturers from the retailers from the tech and data analytics companies. Should it be?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

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).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For several years, I’ve called out telecom connections as a social determinant: for example, in this Huffington Post column written in July 2016, I asserted that broadband is a social determinant of health. One on which I focus in my book is connectivity.

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