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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

.” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity. For more on this issue, see Health Populi here ]. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

Health Populi

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

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

Telebehavioral Health Institute

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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A BA Degree as Prescription for a Longer Life – Update on Deaths of Despair from Deaton and Case

Health Populi

Case and Deaton wrote the book on Deaths of Despair ( detailed here in Health Populi) , . Case and Deaton begin this analysis recognizing nearly 100 years of declining mortality from the early 20th century up until the late 1990s.

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Technology, Aging and Obesity Drive Healthcare Spending, BEA Finds

Health Populi

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

Health Populi

On the promising front, recent studies reviewed through a meta-analysis published in JAMA found that hospital-to-home programs can be clinically and cost-effective for inpatients discharged from hospital. This quote comes from the McKinsey analysis. “Caring for a loved one is an honor – it’s also incredibly hard.