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The Health of Older Americans in 2022 – Risks from the Pandemic, Isolation, and Social Determinants

Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2022

In this essay on health disparities and equity for older adults, I weave together new data from, The United Health Foundation’s study on seniors’ health status in America’s Health Rankings for 2022. RAND and CMS research into seniors health disparities among Medicare Advantage enrollees.

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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

states to live in for health and health care are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maryland… Those are the top health system rankings in the new 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance annual report from the Commonwealth Fund. The best U.S.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

In early 2022, over half of those over 50 (the AARP core membership base) told the Association they would likely use telehealth in the future. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future. . The study polled U.S.

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

I appreciated the opportunity to share my perspectives on “The Patient As the Payer: How the Pandemic, Inflation, and Anxiety are Reshaping Consumers” in a webinar hosted by CarePayment on 25 May 2022. I wrote early on in the pandemic that mental health impacts would be the epidemic inside and beyond the coronavirus itself.

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

Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

” I’ve pulled out a few of the data points that speak to me about population health, prevention and early diagnosis (or lack thereof), and alarm bells on women’s health — notably, young women and girls. Women thus accounted for one-third of ADHD prescriptions as of December 2022.

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC). In case you missed it in your pre-holiday wind-down, the CDC published two reports on declining life expectancy in America on December 22, 2022. Life expectancy in the U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021.

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Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Lower income earners face an “uphill battle” when it comes to their mental health, GWI found. times more likely to say they have depression, also facing an under-supply of mental health providers. Furthermore, rural Americans were 1.5 is seen as likely among a growing consensus of economists).

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whether dealing with migraines and mental health, heart conditions or diabetes, orthopedic and sports injury rehab or sleep disorders, #CES2024 will be a major stage for health/care.

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Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures

Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. As mental health converges so intimately with physical health and financial health, this part of the study is so important (and appreciated!).

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The pharmacy is all these things, and increasingly digital-first, we learn in The Rx Report: A new day in retail pharmacy , a consumer survey from CVS Health. CVS Health, one of the two largest pharmacies operating in the U.S. adults online in mid-August 2022.

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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

[The link in the previous sentence will take you to my post on the Fund’s 2009 report, citing a déjà vu experience of evidence that sounds all too similar to the 2022 profile]. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. communities, worsening health disparities that grew in the COVID pandemic.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit).

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Stress Is Playing A Big Role in Consumers’ Food Habits: Food-As-Medicine Update from IFIC

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated consumers, globally, to take on more DIY roles as well as self-care for health and well-being. Over 1 in 2 consumers said they felt stressed in the past 6 months (roughly October 2021 through March 2022), with 22% reporting being “very” stressed. IFIC polled 1,005 U.S.

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Our Mental and Emotional Health Are Interwoven With What We Eat and Drink – Chewing On the IFIC 2023 Food and Health Survey

Health Populi

MAY 24, 2023

” In this year’s annual IFIC food study, mental health and stress play leading roles in consumers’ lives, embedded into peoples’ food-lives. Three in four people said that food consumption impacted their mental or emotional state. What is “healthy” in the eyes of consumers?

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Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in “My Health” – New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. the biggest barriers to better health are (1) cost and (2) information, the Edelman research discovered. In the U.S., datapoint shown to the far right.

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Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

A recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), which surveyed state Medicaid officials across 44 states in the US, including the District of Columbia, revealed an increased interest in permanently adopting pandemic-era telehealth policy expansions.

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The Patient Is Still the Payor – And May Skip Paying for Prevention (Eyes on the ACA & Texas)

Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

In September 2022, Judge O’Connor ruled it unconstitutional for the ACA to require health plans to cover preventive services. Health Populi’s Hot Points: By late January, one-in-two U.S. Check out the health care services Americans say are the most important for commercial health insurance plans to cover.

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How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

The master-builders of the Index, Steven Downs and Thomas Goetz, explained the project’s methodology and top-line results in a Zoom call last week — actually on Earth Day 2022. We have a chronic disease problem, and it’s getting worse: “the U.S. 10% now have diabetes and another 30% are pre-diabetic.

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. The survey was conducted in December 2022 among a group of 1,001 U.S.

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American healthcare: The good, bad, ugly, future

Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

Drug-Pricing Laws With the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Congress took meaningful action to lower drug prices , a move the CBO estimates would reduce the federal deficit by $237 billion over 10 years. Mental Health Finally, the mental health of our country is in decline with rates of anxiety, depression and suicide on the rise.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The funds will support the company’s launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington in 2022, introducing an improved and long overdue healthcare experience for Latinos built on trust, community, and culture. “We To learn more about Zócalo Health’s mission and services, visit zocalo.health.

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Reimagining Health Care Without Walls – Deloitte’s Vision

Health Populi

MAY 16, 2022

The future of regulation for medical, digital health, pharma, and other areas requiring risk-management. Compared with care delivery in 2022 in much of the developed world, care is organized around the needs of providers, suppliers, plans, and payers…not consumers, patients and caregivers.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Thus, the sage advice as we approach gatherings for Christmastime 2022: “Close your mouth and step away from the human,” by Katherine Wu of The Atlantic. We enter 2023 with home economics setting our tables as a context for our overall health and well-being.

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Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I talked through the short, shocked, continuing story of the consumer in the era of the coronavirus epidemic: what we know-we-know in the first ten months into it, and what might come to persist post-pandemic in 2022 and beyond.

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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Along with the potential of the home evolving as a patient, consumer, and caregiver’s health hub come the realities and challenges of peoples’ daily lives: those social (and other) determinants of health (SDoH) and living situations that are real obstacles for many patients’ discharged to home.

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especially for mental health. Along with other health policy, system infrastructure changes, and digital health solutions, RPM can and should be part of a multi-prong approach to advance strides in achieving health equity.

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Healthcare access, racial disparities, guns and climate – U.S. doctors are worried about some big social issues

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

physicians are worried about big social issues, according to a Medscape survey report, Physicians’ Views on Today’s Divisive Social Issues 2022. residents had no health insurance coverage, and another 38 million people were enrolled in “inadequate” health plans — deemed to be “under-insured.”

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. This will inevitably change the results of what we will see one year from now in 2022.

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2023 Preview of Telemental Health Laws & Behavioral Telehealth Regulations

Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

After continuing COVID-related telemental health laws and behavioral telehealth regulations in 2022, many key issues for 2023 are already decided. First, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be extended for three months in January, bringing today’s best predictions for the end of the PHE to April 2023.

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From Better for Me to Better for “We” — NielsenIQ’s New Consumer Hierarchy of Health

Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

The altruistic need is inspiring several microcultures which NielsenIQ describes as: Aging with dignity, with independence and good health. Mental health advocacy, looking to end the stigma around mental health especially in workplace culture and health care. Policy, legislation, and governance.

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Money and Guns Are the Top Two Sources of Anxiety in America This Summer

Health Populi

JULY 12, 2022

Inflation and the fear of economic recession were the top two causes of anxiety in America, followed by gun violence, in June 2022. For some context about these findings, note that this survey was fielded between June 18 and 20, 2022; that was, 24 days after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

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Health in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections – Women, Prescription Drugs, and Who Shows Up to Vote

Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2022

On Tuesday November 8, 2022, health and medical issues will be on many U.S. Health policy experts from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, AARP, and the United States of Care recently shared perspectives on the health care issues on voters’ and policy makers’ minds for the 2022 midterm elections.

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The Polarization of Trust in 2023 – What It Means for Health, via Edelman at Davos WEF 23

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Edelman team conducted this 23rd annual study in November 2022 in 28 countries, among over 32,000 people — some 1,150 residents per country polled. Note that Russia, studied in the surveys between 2007 and 2022, was not included in the 2023 research). insights along with those touching on health. .”

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Nurses Continue to Rule in Honesty and Ethics in U.S. Professions – Healthcare Professions Still Top Gallup’s Annual Poll

Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

. “The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a spotlight on nurses, reinforcing the critical contributions they make to our health care system, while also highlighting the devastating impact it has had on their mental health and well-being,” ANA noted. and other countries’) health care systems.

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More Americans Trust Small Biz and the Military than the Medical System, Gallup Finds

Health Populi

JULY 7, 2022

Americans’ trust in institutions hit new historic lows in 2022, Gallup found in its latest poll of U.S. published this week of Independence Day 2022. The chart illustrates trends in peoples’ faith in institutions from 2021 to 2022, seeing the largest declines in trust for the U.S. sentiment across all major sectors.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

Inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem facing America, most people told the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2022 Health Tracking Poll. Underpinning that household budget concern are gas and health care costs. Monthly health insurance premium, among 36% of people. Overall, 55% of people in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While 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.

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Health, Politics, Inflation and Women: Health Engagement at the Voting Booth

Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2022

adults 18 and over between July 7 and 17, 2022. Pew’s research found a 14-percentage point increase in the number of Americans who said abortion would be “very important” for their 2022 midterm votes: 59% in February 2022 compared with 73% in July 2022. voters for the November 2022 midterms.

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The Health of Older Americans in 2022 – Risks from the Pandemic, Isolation, and Social Determinants

The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

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

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

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

Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Stress Is Playing A Big Role in Consumers’ Food Habits: Food-As-Medicine Update from IFIC

Our Mental and Emotional Health Are Interwoven With What We Eat and Drink – Chewing On the IFIC 2023 Food and Health Survey

Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in “My Health” – New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

The Patient Is Still the Payor – And May Skip Paying for Prevention (Eyes on the ACA & Texas)

How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

American healthcare: The good, bad, ugly, future

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

Reimagining Health Care Without Walls – Deloitte’s Vision

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare access, racial disparities, guns and climate – U.S. doctors are worried about some big social issues

In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

2023 Preview of Telemental Health Laws & Behavioral Telehealth Regulations

From Better for Me to Better for “We” — NielsenIQ’s New Consumer Hierarchy of Health

Money and Guns Are the Top Two Sources of Anxiety in America This Summer

Health in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections – Women, Prescription Drugs, and Who Shows Up to Vote

The Polarization of Trust in 2023 – What It Means for Health, via Edelman at Davos WEF 23

Nurses Continue to Rule in Honesty and Ethics in U.S. Professions – Healthcare Professions Still Top Gallup’s Annual Poll

More Americans Trust Small Biz and the Military than the Medical System, Gallup Finds

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

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

Health, Politics, Inflation and Women: Health Engagement at the Voting Booth

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