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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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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

There is more PE-backed innovation for smaller niched digital tech companies that deliver services to The CEOs of health care-self-care, and more out of pocket spending by Quincy and their friends and family base don personal preferences. Health equity is prioritized in Quincy’s community as a community investment.

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The True Costs of Diabetes Go Well Beyond the Wallet

Health Populi

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. The fiscal bottom-line for PwD: 1 in 2 patients has sometimes gone without diabetes care due to cost.

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

Health Populi

My new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , launched this week. In it, I track these events and the many forces transforming U.S. Today, nearly 200,000 Americans have died due to the novel coronavirus.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains.

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Telemedicine Today: September 2016

American Well

Each month we re-visit some of the most exciting news and influential events. At this time, parents only pay for the medicine and any future follow up with their personal primary care physician. Texas A&M uses Telehealth to Treat Mental Health in Rural Communities. Answering the Call for Tele-Pediatric Care.

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Longevity Stalls Around the World And Wealth, More Concentrated

Health Populi

That core set of services covers consultations with doctors, tests and examinations, along with inpatient hospital care. Americans have relatively less access to a doctor when care is needed, the OECD report revealed. The primary care “backbone” in the U.S. In the U.S.,