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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Health Populi

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

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Mental Health Risks in Mid-2022 Related More to Global Anxieties and Safety, Not-So-Much COVID

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With peoples’ anxiety about COVID-19 at its lowest point since 2020, folks are most anxious in spring 2022 about current global events and the safety of their families, based on the latest Healthy Minds study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The results were published May 22, 2022. 1 in 2 U.S.

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Virtual Care and Mental Health Top of Mind for Employers’ Workplaces in 2023

Health Populi

The first line chart illustrates how this phenomenon shot up in importance for large companies between 2021 and 2022. And long-term mental health issues were seen as the #1 impact coming out of the pandemic. To be sure, mental health services expansion will be part of virtual care growth. and other nations.

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Financial Stress and Mental Health: Considering the New $24,000 Health Plan Cost from KFF

Health Populi

There is growing evidence on the connection between people’s financial health and their mental health, explored and explained in Understanding the Mental-Financial Health Connection , a study published by the Financial Health Network. consumers said paying a health care bill was stressful. .

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Chronic Medical Conditions, Mental Health, and Equity On Employers’ Minds for 2022 – Employee Health in the Wake of COVID-19

Health Populi

With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, large employees have many concerns about worker and dependents’ health.

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Telehealth Expansion Reportedly Decreased Mental Health Disparities: JAMA Study 2022

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Access to quality mental health care for low-income populations is an ongoing concern. While telehealth expansion efforts during COVID have significantly improved access in many groups ; research associated with access to care for low-income mental health populations has been limited.

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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week: “What I Wish I Had Known” About Mental Health

Health Populi

It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week : annually NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness , devotes the first week of October to advocate for people facing managing a mental illness every day and to raise public consciousness on the pervasiveness of mental illness in America. Mental Illness Awareness Week: Oct.