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

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Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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The Suicide Rate in America Increased by 40% between 2000 and 2017. Blue Collar Workers Were Much More At Risk.

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between 2000 and 2017, a 40% increase. The data can be quite granular with information on mental health diagnoses and treatments, toxicology tests, and stressors such as health problems, relationship-, financial- or work-related challenges. The post The Suicide Rate in America Increased by 40% between 2000 and 2017.

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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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The Hair Economy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Control, Wellness, and Self-Care

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In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I feature the black barbershop to introduce a chapter on “The New Retail Health.” But this first-wave impact of the pandemic and #StayHome mandates have exacted a price on financial and mental health. Can you see yourself?

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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

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The pandemic certainly gave us the gift of knowledge in having to face the ubiquity of mental health in Americans’ overall health and well-being… or lack thereof. billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. Most people in the U.S.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

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At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.

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A New Chevy Equinox SUV, a Year in Grad School, or Health Care for Four – The 2022 Milliman Medical Index

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MMI 2018 Health Care for Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166. MMI 2017 Health Care Costs for Family of Four Will Reach $27,000 in 2017. The post A New Chevy Equinox SUV, a Year in Grad School, or Health Care for Four – The 2022 Milliman Medical Index appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.