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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

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” As OED evolves the definition of PPE, the wordsmiths could borrow from OSHA’s website , noting that PPE, “is equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses. For more on this issue, see Health Populi here ]. In the U.S., In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in “My Health” – New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

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People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. As such, every company is a health/care company, regardless of industry.

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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

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I’ll point to one that’s become a key learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is mental health care. have a mental health provider in their practice, compared with 9 in 10 Dutch and Swedish primary care practices. communities, worsening health disparities that grew in the COVID pandemic.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

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Enter the digital era, forcing a re-definition of what we mean by “infrastructure.” Health care costs consume nearly one in every five dollars of the American economy. This concept informs the current discussion about how we define “infrastructure” moving forward.

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The True Costs of Diabetes Go Well Beyond the Wallet

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The daily life of a person managing diabetes feels many costs: at work, on relationships, at play, during sleep, on time, on mental health, and to be sure, on personal finances. Finally, there’s mental health: over one-half of PwD are worried about the future, and 39% report depression.

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

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Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal. health care system model.

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People Want to Flourish, Not Just Live – Speaking Health Politics to Real People

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“How should we define ‘health?'” The context for the question was that the 1948 World Health Organization definition of health — that health is, “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”– was not so useful in the 21st century.