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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks. ” The point is that claiming our mental health now IS mainstream… whatever your age or stage.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

I myself used the blogging platform you’re on now to promote the February ’22 issue of Health Affairs in the Hot Points following my post featuring Abner Mason’s origin story on Love and Health which traced his boyhood in Durham, NC, to founding ConsejoSano, now SameSky Health. [By

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#PatientsIncluded statement for SPM’s Second Annual Conference: #SPM2018

Society for Participatory Medicine

17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. He writes for WebMD, Psych Central, Bipolar magazine, and other publications. Angela and Grace Kennedy: Grace, at 16, is an expert patient portal user, sophisticated wearable device user, and expert decision-maker in her own health and health care.