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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

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The following 10 predictions that we have made for the global healthcare will define new ways of rethinking business and growth opportunities in 2021, and will help determine the future direction of the industry. By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally.

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

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dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021. Life expectancy in the U.S. decline in life expectancy? These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care

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The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on health consumers’ spending varies depending on whether the household is generally a healthy family unit, healthy “enthusiasts,” dealing with a simple or more complex chronic conditions, or managing mental health issues. adults polled in early April 2020.

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By-Latinos, For-Latinos Healthcare Startup Zócalo Health Closes $5 Million in Funding to Launch Primary Care Services

Healthcare IT Today

We founded Zócalo Health to embrace the values and traditions from our culture and Latino identity and make them the heart of the primary care experience. Zócalo Health is available to individuals living in California. In August 2021, he founded Zócalo Health to deliver a first-class family medicine experience for the Latino community.

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

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adults, followed by vision care for 25%, a doctor’s office visit among 24%, mental health services among 18%, and 14% of people avoiding hospital services. The issue of health care costs, and in particular out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, continues to be a priority for most U.S. One-half of people in the U.S.

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

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in this moment, here’s a huge consensus for Americans on a single issue in 2021. The survey was fielded in June 2021 among 1,071 U.S. We can marry up the Health Affairs prescription drug cost/UM story with the Optum/UnitedHealthcare DTC drug launch for the larger context of what U.S. Given our political chasms in the U.S.