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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

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deaths due to accidents, accidental overdoses, and suicide in 2017. to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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

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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. In May 2017, AMIA called for the same , and the issue is getting the traction it merits. such as in the U.K.