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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

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The Commonwealth Fund has conducted this study since 2006 , assessing a range of health system indicators and patient outcomes to track trends over time identifying which U.S. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being. Pre-pandemic, that rate was even for eight years, then this jump spiked in 2020.

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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.” Health equity is prioritized in Quincy’s community as a community investment.

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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

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COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

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Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Because they are public goods, and the U.S. Because they are public goods, and the U.S.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

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For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color.

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Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

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Donald Berwick re-named these factors that underpin our health as “The Moral Determinants of Health.”. We must connect the dots between public policy for food security, safety, and accessible nutrition; a clean environment and climate health; education; fair wages; and, of course, health security.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

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JLL points out that surgery centers are performing more complex procedures today, and complexity will continue to grow surgicenters’ procedure lists over the next decade — moving more complex care closer to peoples’ homes. This is essentially a five-month extension for telehealth in the U.S.