Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. This was the highest proportion APA polled since 2018 when 46% of black adults reported discrimination was a significant stressor. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In June 2020, 4 in 5 Americans felt that the coronavirus pandemic was a significant source of stress.

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

HRIs research found an inflection growth point among employers offering health benefit programs addressing mental health and depression between 2016 and 2017 — growing from 44% of companies offering in 2016 to 66% in 2017 — that’s 50% growth year-on-year between 2016-17.

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Health Populi

JULY 3, 2018

May this bring you joy and positive vibes on Independence Day 2018. Lady Liberty beckons to welcome the tired, the weary, and the ambitious to America in this Shinola video, made in my hometown Detroit.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Patients as health consumers face challenges paying for care, managing mental health, finding health services and taking time off work to access them, caregiving, and in transportation for care along with personal mobility issues. Today as Election Day, I recall my post published yesterday here in Health Populi on U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

FAIR Health’s paper on A Multilayered Analysis of Telehealth published in July 2019 found that telehealth usage has substantially grown since 2015 as more states implement laws for coverage. An intriguing data point comes in Figure 14 on the distribution of non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth claim lines in 2018.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

In August 2018, I launched the Fixing Healthcare podcast. The Ugly An overall decrease in longevity, along with higher maternal mortality and a worsening mental-health crisis, comprise the greatest failures of U.S. [link] Albert Einstein determined that time is relative. healthcare over the past five years.

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TheraNest

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In short, health psychologists focus on the relationship between physical and mental health. We may work in private or group clinical practices, hospitals or other medical offices, research institutions or in health policy firms or organizations. What do Health Psychologist Do?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

For further information on loneliness in the UK, here was the New York Times’ take on the appointment of the Minister for Loneliness published in January 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Maneesh snapped this photo of us as we were about to say so long, for now, in Covent Garden.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 24, 2018

The individual receiving the service must be located in a rural health professional shortage area or non-Metropolitan statistical area and an eligible telehealth Originating Site (see resources below). The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) is a great resource to stay current on state and national policy.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

The mainstreaming of SDoH speaks to the awareness that health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn and shop… beyond the health”care” system of hospitals, doctors’ offices, and prescription drug dispensaries. adults between 18 and 64 years of age in December 2018.

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mHealth Insight

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Transforming Community Pharmacies into High Street Clinics is a conference organised by NELLPC and will be held from 9-5pm on Thursday the 15th November 2018 at The Old Town Hall, 29 Broadway, Stratford, London, E15 4BQ. Proposed action points and Close Prof David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

This is the BA divide in longevity: “For people with and without a BA, racial divides narrowed by 70% between 1990 and 2018, while educational divides more than doubled for both Black and White people,” Case and Deaton conclude. They term that BA degree a “life expectancy premium.”

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TheraNest

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In short, health psychologists focus on the relationship between physical and mental health. We may work in private or group clinical practices, hospitals or other medical offices, research institutions or in health policy firms or organizations. What do Health Psychologist Do?

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TheraNest

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In short, health psychologists focus on the relationship between physical and mental health. We may work in private or group clinical practices, hospitals or other medical offices, research institutions or in health policy firms or organizations. What do Health Psychologist Do?

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

High Spending Growth Rates For Key Diseases In 2000-14 Were Driven By Technology And Demographic Factors , a June 2018 Health Affairs article, analyzed this data.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That wand has begun to initiate its magic in the physician community, based on a wonderful essay in JAMA published 20 December 2018 titled, Social Determinants of Health in the Digital Age: Determining the Source Code for Nurture.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I’d called WiFi a social determinant of health in a Huffington Post column I wrote back in 2016 , recognizing the emerging virtual health opportunity and potential for furthering the digital divide without bolstering broadband “everywhere.” ” Assuring health equity in a post-pandemic world.

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American Well

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Texas A&M uses Telehealth to Treat Mental Health in Rural Communities. Now, telemedicine is expanding to offer mental health care. The mental health issues aren’t going to go away.”. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018. KBTX CBS 3. Answering the Call for Tele-Pediatric Care.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

In our review of 2018 Uniform Data System data—the most recent available—from a 100 percent sample of US CHCs, we found that our nation’s health centers are largely unprepared for this transformation. Across the US, 56 percent of 1,330 CHCs did not have any telehealth use in 2018 ( exhibit 1 ).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years. In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018. 2016 – Employer Health Insurance Costs Reach $18,142.

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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

prescriptions per person in 2018, two in three of which treated chronic conditions. In a call with analysts this week in which I participated, Murray Aitken discussed the report which looks back at 2018 and forward to 2023 with scenarios about what the U.S. Americans consumed 17.6 Welcome to Medicine Use and Spending in the U.S. ,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

where this research found Britons’ mental health improved through socializing via creative activities of all sorts. I covered this in depth in this Health Populi post earlier this year. The World Health Organization called for “prescribing” clean air for the world’s children, 90% of whom were breathing toxic air in 2018.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

The story, The Shadow Rulers of the VA , broke the evening of 7 August 2018 in ProPublica. It goes like this: at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, three men came together in a “troika” ( ProPublica ‘s chosen word description), to discuss and develop policy decisions about how the VA was being managed.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A new study from Tia, the women’s health services platform, looks deeply into COVID-19’s negative impacts on working-age women and how they would advise the next occupant of the White House on health policy in Dear Future President — What Women Want for Healthcare in America. Stress management.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Health insurers in the state are now allowed to offer plans with limited benefits, escaping the rules for plans in the Affordable Care Act that provided for a list of covered benefits. is facing with the erosion of the Affordable Care Act in 2018. So close, and yet so far, health policy-wise. . healthcare.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the 2018 mid-term elections, U.S. voters were driven to polls with health care on their minds. The key issues for health care voters were costs (for care and prescription drugs) and access (read: protecting pre-existing conditions and expanding Medicaid). Issue #2 for 2018 voters was the economy.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Indeed, access to health care services is one component of the SDOH universe , but only one — impacting about 20% of health outcomes. Finally…Where was the mass call-out for mental health as part of America’s public health? The rise of deaths of despair in the U.S.

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