Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

APA published the report, Stress and Health Disparities, in 2017, and the learnings resonate even louder today than when the Association launched the paper. Partner with community-based organizations, schools and professional organizations to disseminate information on stress and impact on health disparities.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

The daily life of a person managing diabetes feels many costs: at work, on relationships, at play, during sleep, on time, on mental health, and to be sure, on personal finances. Finally, there’s mental health: over one-half of PwD are worried about the future, and 39% report depression.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

The Well Being Trust is a non-profit organization devoted to peoples’ social, spiritual, and mental wellness. Health Populi’s Hot Points: How to deal with this think-the-unthinkable public and personal health reality? Expanding and modernizing mental health services and treatment in U.S. healthcare.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

In the words of the report, “our analysis reveals a mix of strides and stagnation in state-based policy despite decades of evidence-based research highlighting positive clinical outcomes and increasing telehealth utilization.” That is, mental health issues. health care system.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

While virtual health can’t solve every Medicaid issue, it can dismantle many typical roadblocks: Providers and patients can meet as scheduled even if the patient has missed their bus or had a childcare cancellation. Medicaid is the largest payer for mental health services in the United States.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

This is familiar territory here in Health Populi where we cover every nook and cranny of dismal U.S. health economics, and hopeful green shoots for making health care more cost-effective, high quality, engaging and even enchanting-by-design. ” The U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Here are the past four years’ links for historical context and your reading pleasure… 2019 – “It’s the Deductible, Stupid” – Health Premiums Reach $20,576 for a Family. 2017 – Employees Continue to Pick Up More Health Insurance Costs, Even As Their Growth Slows.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

.: Relatively high levels of obesity are literally weighing down Americans’ health status, contributing to higher rates of diabetes, raising risks for many cancers, and reversing gains made in heart disease. The 2017 U.S. But in the latter five-year period, 2012-2017, life expectancy gains in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

followed by immigration (at 13%, falling 3 points in the month since September), race relations (at 6%), health care and insurance (at 5%), unifying the country (5%), and climate change (4%). “Average mentions of government have been on the rise since 2017,” Gallup noted in a growing polarized political climate in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

symptoms of depression were three-times greater in April 2020 in the COVID-19 pandemic than in 2017-2018. As mortality outcomes from contracting COVID-19 have not been evenly distributed across demographic groups, so, too, negative impacts on mental health have not uniformly impacted the U.S. In the U.S., population.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Two-thirds of Rx’s were dispensed to treat chronic conditions, notably hypertension, mental health, lipid management, diabetes, and anti-coagulants. In 2017, nearly 60% of new therapy starts were for the Flucelvax Quadrivalent flu vaccine. increase over 2017 net of rebates, discounts, and price concessions.

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

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

It was November 7, 2017, when this image was captured at the close of the NASDAQ bell. This is not the first time I’ve mashed up popular culture into a post on health care here on Health Populi. At the center of the photo is Dr. David Shulkin, then head of the Veterans Administration.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

asserted that by 2011, human health was marked less by infectious disease and more by non-communicable conditions that could be highly influenced, reversed and prevented through self-care by the individual and public health policy that promotes social and financial wellness.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Health is translating across all definitions for U.S. voters in November 2020: for health care and physical health, financial health, mental health, and societal health. And the energy to cast votes is a signal sparking Americans recognizing the importance of health citizenship.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 31, 2019

Her Medicare for All plan, which is similar to Senator Bernie Sanders – would cover all medically necessary services, including emergency room visits, doctor visits, vision, dental, hearing aids, mental health and substance use disorder treatment, telehealth and comprehensive reproductive care services. Kirsten Gillebrand, U.S.

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