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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

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” The authors recommend that public health leaders and policy makers address the obesity trend when designing “policies and interventions to improve the public’s health.” Because they are public goods, and the U.S. Why has this been the case?

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

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Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. deaths due to accidents, accidental overdoses, and suicide in 2017. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

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years of age, if you were born in 2017. That’s the latest data on Mortality in the United States, 2017 , soberly brought to you by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That’s a decline of 0.1 year from 2016.

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

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The dip in patient volumes is easy to see in 2019-20, followed by the hockey stick increase in 2020-21 for utilization, signally some patients’ return to health care services. between 2017 and 2021. Inpatient costs fell just below the prescription drug share of spending per person in the U.S.

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

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Last week, The Lancet published its comprehensive study on the Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The study looked into the food intake among people in 195 countries and their health outcomes (mortality and morbibidity).

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Access to Technology Is the New Pillar for Well-Being: CES & the UN Partner for Human Security for All

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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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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. million people in 2017. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the erosion of the health insured population. lacked health insurance.