Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2021

A Year into our collective coronavirus experience, Americans remain stressed, with physical health taking a back seat to our daily grinds based on the 2021 Stress in America survey from the American Psychological Association (APA). Stressed Out by COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I noted this Morning Consult survey , data shown here, finding that people of color who were lower-income as of June 2020 had a more difficult time paying for Internet and phone bills than white people with lower incomes. ” Assuring health equity in a post-pandemic world. Some are shown in this graphic.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2022

While WEF is mostly virtual this year due to the pandemic, Edelman has released the survey of global citizens’ views on trust in institutions right on-time and in full and sobering detail. I welcome and dig into the Edelman Trust Barometer every year, and put on my health/care lens when reviewing its findings.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 11, 2018

In January 2016, we wrote about a comprehensive study reported in the journal Health Affairs that found employees working just above and just under 30 hours per week both experienced virtually no change in their workweeks during the years the ACA has been in effect. But that has not happened, according to several studies on the issue.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In a survey conducted in 17 countries by the World Mental Health Organization, it was found that about 1 in 20 people reported having an episode of depression in the previous year. References: Depression: A Global Public Health Concern. 2016, December 27). Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2018

Surveys affirm increasing tech use among older adults, but for some, not so fast. So let’s understand this in a data context – there were 268 million vehicles registered in the US as of 2016. Traffic deaths are a 'public health crisis that cannot be tolerated.' And why is that? Cars are kept for 11.6

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

According to a press release issued through the Bill Cassidy MD legislative website , the Act will expand coverage of telehealth services through Medicare, make permanent COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities, improve health outcomes, and make it easier for patients to connect with their practitioners.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

According to a press release issued through the Bill Cassidy MD legislative website , the Act will expand coverage of telehealth services through Medicare, make permanent COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities, improve health outcomes, and make it easier for patients to connect with their practitioners.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In a survey based in the US, patients that experienced telehealth visits highly rated this type of healthcare (recommendations: > 80%) 5,6 , stating it was beneficial for their mental health as well. In a cross-sectional survey, 52.5% In a survey among telehealth patients in the UK conducted by Dhahri et al.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2024

McKinsey and team have considered data from U-Wash’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation on the global burden of disease, coupled with OECD data on retirement ages — for the latter, finding that the average pension age for women in 2016 was 63.7 Health Populi’s Hot Points: More tightly focusing on the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 14, 2020

Data in electronic health records (EHRs) must abide with the UK’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).However, The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has had electronic health records in GP practices for more than 20 years. The programme was finally scrapped in 2016.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

In addition to offering a generous employee benefits package, the hospital collaborated with the Massachusetts Nursing Association — its RNs’ collective bargaining arm — to offer employees up to $2,000 in incentives for maintaining their health. Boston Business Journal named the hospital a Best Place to Work in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Wages increased about 2.6%, and consumer prices, 1.3%, based on the 2019 Segal Health Plan Cost Trend Survey. Over the ten years 2006 to 2016, deductibles increased an average of 176% and coinsurance, 67%. This intolerable situation has escalated to a public health crisis. in 2019, compared with 17.7%

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you felt stressed during the 2016 Presidential election season, you were also one in a million. The latest, published 7 October, finds that the 2020 Presidential election is a source of significant stress for more Americans than the 2016 race. That was in Wave 1 of the study which finished fielding the survey on May 4.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Most health citizens, hoping for a way out of the public health crisis, are counting on science to liberate both lives and livelihoods. In my book Health Citizenship: how a virus opened up hearts and minds , I discuss how the pandemic has moved more patients as health consumers toward their health citizenship.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Two-thirds of working adults employed during the pandemic say their jobs have been negatively impacted by the public health crisis. adults age 18 and over in August 2020 for this survey. Presidential Election is a Significant Sources of Stress, Even More than in the 2016 Race – October 2020. 67% of Republicans, and.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s important to note that equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans were worried about healthcare between 2014 and 2016 as the Affordable Care Act was being implemented. I covered EBRI’s poll here in Health Populi earlier this year, explaining that, “Workers dissatisfaction with U.S. Gallup interviewed 1,041 U.S.

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