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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

Health Populi

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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How Retailers Are the New Public Health Purveyors

Health Populi

In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. The company re-branded from CVS/pharmacy to CVS Health. That was a watershed moment in U.S.

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Chronic Medical Conditions, Mental Health, and Equity On Employers’ Minds for 2022 – Employee Health in the Wake of COVID-19

Health Populi

Nearly all large companies are also worried about the long-term mental health impacts of the public health crisis. Access to mental and behavioral health services rank top on this list, for three in four companies.

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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

Health Populi

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.” looking far enough in the future from now to 2030, recognizing that we will have had two U.S.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

While technology is embedded in this list, the headlines have more to do with social, mental, and behavioral health than pure-play technology and devices. Topping the 2023 list of patient safety concerns is the pediatric mental health crisis.

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Populi

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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

Health Populi

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Providers serving Highmark members can use the referral tool for people who need access to social/health services such as food, housing, transportation, and mental health support.