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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

Health Populi

The third chart details some of these points: On the macroeconomic side of the forecast, we see increasing private consumption, higher inflation, less public sector support (e.g., PPP in the US), and in emerging markets, currency weakness.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

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The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

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As the pandemic exacerbated many risks of social determinants of health like food security and the ability to earn a wage in hospitality or caregiving jobs, so, too, did the public health crisis shine a light on a newer determinant of health: connectivity as a basic human need. Follow the meeting on Twitter at #ATA2022.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

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That’s what government regulation and intervention are for, to make more fair and effective the lack of a real health care market. In the immediate term, looking from “now” to one and three years from now, we can expect the private sector to take on more public health roles.

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Techquity: How Technology Can Help to Scale Health and Digital Equity, Live from VIVE 2022

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In his work at Howard University and in Baltimore in the public health department, he learned to connect families with services they needed beyond medical care, for housing, community development, education, transportation — all, in his words, “pieces of the puzzle that go into what makes people healthy.”

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

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On the upside for health and trust, the most-trusted institutional leader in this year’s study is scientists, with 76% of global citizens trusting scientists (fairly even with last year with a 1 point uptick in trust). Our positive health behaviors beget a virtuous flywheel of well-being, research has shown. In the U.S.,