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Americans’ Trust in the Healthcare System Low Compared to Rest-of-World’s Health Citizens

Health Populi

Otherwise, the news is negative across the remaining four segments: consumer health is the second most-trusted segment, by 56% of Americans, but dropped by 7 percentage points from 2017. Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points. health ecosystem stakeholders.

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

Health Populi

Let’s now shift to the public health crisis in Americans’ mental health, which the pandemic certainly exacerbated. IQVIA’s national prescription data revealed that prescriptions for mental health drugs grew 8% since 2019 — with a 33% rise among girls under 19.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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Pharma’s Future Relevance Depends on Empathy, Messaging, Partnering, and Supporting Patients and Providers

Health Populi

Top-line, Accenture points to four pillars on which the pharma industry can “reinvent its relevance,” as the report title suggests: To express greater empathy, understanding the patient experience of delaying treatment, financial impacts, and mental health challenges the pandemic has caused.

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Prescription Drug Costs In America Through the Patient Lens, via IQVIA, GoodRx and a New $2 Million Therapy

Health Populi

Two-thirds of Rx’s were dispensed to treat chronic conditions, notably hypertension, mental health, lipid management, diabetes, and anti-coagulants. “A therapy is useless if no one can afford it,” asserted Cathryn Donaldson from AHIP, the health insurance advocacy group, quoted in the story.

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Netflix show Maniac explores the use of Hallucinogenic Drugs to treat Mental Trauma and Psychological Disorders

Lloyd Price

In an attempt to rid themselves of their psychological baggage, the two, who don’t know each other initially, sign up to a drug trial at the sinister Neberdine Pharmaceutical Biotech. There is more than a hint of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind here. Source : [link]

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

Health Populi

There is one health care public policy issue that unites 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. voters across political party: that is the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs.