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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

Fast-forward to January 2021, and Edelman’s survey learned that health consumers around the world lost trust in their health care systems from May 2020 to January in the new year. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

Shown here in the third chart, note that adult vaccinations have returned to pre-COVID levels, but immunizations for kids were 20% lower than in 2019. IQVIA’s national prescription data revealed that prescriptions for mental health drugs grew 8% since 2019 — with a 33% rise among girls under 19.

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Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical

Health Populi

The 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer measured the biggest gap in trust for the healthcare industry between the U.S. This week, Edelman released more granular healthcare insights from the annual omnibus survey that was published during the World Economic Forum in Davos in January. “informed public” and the mass population.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. From 2003 to 2019, the theory that prices are the primary driver of America’s spending more on health care than any other country is still the case.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

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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Pharma’s Future Relevance Depends on Empathy, Messaging, Partnering, and Supporting Patients and Providers

Health Populi

For the study, Accenture surveyed 720 health care providers in general practice, oncology, immunology, and cardiology working in China, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., in May and June 2020. Financial toxicity is a common side-effect for specialty drugs, and as U.S.

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As COVID-19 Rocks Markets, Digital Health Start-Ups Rake In Cash

Lloyd Price

One leading sector of the digital health space, telemedicine companies, generated three times the amount of financing they received in Q1 2019, raising $788 million in venture capital backing, compared to $220 million in the first quarter of 2019. invested across Q2 2019-Q1 2020.The across 107 deals—more than 1.5X