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Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

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We need a “new needs model” for the digital age, asserts a new report, Human Needs in a Digital World , the 2019 Digital Society Index report from the Dentsu Aegis network. The post Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2

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feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. Sadly, the APA survey found that in just one month, between May and June 2020, the percent of black Americans reporting discrimination is a significant source of stress grew from 42% in May to 55%. Furthermore, 4 in 5 people in the U.S.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

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The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Finances Are the Top Cause of Stress, and HSAs Aren’t Helping Much

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has achieved “the best economy” ever in mid-July 2019. That’s the over-arching theme in PwC’s 8th annual Employee Financial Wellness Survey for 2019, painting a financial stressed-out workforce of fully-employed people. adults based on a poll conducted in January 2019. in December 2018 to 6.2%

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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

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Twenty-seven days before the 2020 elections, 7 in 10 Americans say their financial health will influence their votes this year, according to the doxoINSIGHTS survey which shows personal financial health as a key voter consideration in the Presidential election. health consumers would claim their health citizenship.

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

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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. Let’s now shift to the public health crisis in Americans’ mental health, which the pandemic certainly exacerbated.

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Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

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Healthcare Cost Crisis , a survey from West Health and Gallup. adults 18 and over in January and February 2019. One in three Americans overall are concerned they won’t be able to pay for health care services or prescription drugs: that includes 35% of people who are insured, and 63% of those who do not have insurance.