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In A Declining Consumer Tech Spending Forecast, Consumer Health Tech Will Grow in 2022: Reading the CTA Tea Leaves

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The largest segments in health tech are for smartwatches, connected exercise equipment, and fitness activity tracks whose revenues may have hit their max last year. households will have adopted connected health monitoring devices this year (21%), CTA gauges. About 1 in 5 U.S.

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

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During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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Connected Wellness Growing As Consumers Face Tighter Home Economics

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consumers, dominated by more Gen z, millennials and bridge millennials more like to adopt digital health than Gen X and Baby Boomers. We’re at a time when it’s crucial to connect the dots between peoples’ physical health, their financial health, and their mental health. in August 2022.

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A Breakthrough, Sobering Report on Teens and Young Adults, Digital Health and Social Media Use: Implications for Mental Health

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There are also hundreds of stories written in both mass media outlets and professional journals on the topic of TYAs and mental health: especially relative to depression and suicidality. The report was co-written by Victoria Rideout and Susannah Fox, two names Health Populi readers should know.

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Health Is Social, With More People Using Apps for Physical and Emotional Wellbeing

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The pandemic negatively impacted about one-half of all peoples’ emotional health across generations, with more younger people in Gen Z and Millennials feeling mental health stress along with more women than men. Digital health apps, smartwatches and smartphones won’t be the panacea to solve our mental health crisis.

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

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Use of health and fitness apps ranked third, with telehealth for mental health services ranking fourth in growing use in the pandemic. Considering timing for re-engaging in health activities, apps, online health services, and connected exercise equipment are already in use by over one-half of U.S.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

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The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” The community ethos bolsters social cohesion and mental health.

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