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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

Quincy, family and friends take on good health behaviors that create a flywheel virtuous cycle of others’ behaving well, with low levels of smoking, binge drinking, and other negative lifestyles. 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

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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Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

Health Populi

Americans borrowed $88 billion in 2018 to pay for health care spending, West Health and Gallup estimated. 27 million Americans — 1 in 100 people — each borrowed at least $10,000 to pay for medical care.

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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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The True Costs of Diabetes Go Well Beyond the Wallet

Health Populi

Diabetes impacts peoples’ leisure-time activities — that would be “fun” — as well, with nearly one-half of PwD having to miss a planned outing or other personal event due to diabetes. The session was sponsored by the Center for Health Journalism at the Annenberg School.

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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Lloyd Price

""Critical access hospitals with limited resources can benefit from prompt, synchronous consultation by a neurologist, in the event a stroke is clinically suspected, and timely treatment with thrombolysis is critical.""Synchronous ""The store-and-forward process can overcome language and cultural barriers."

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SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Day two of the virtual event kicked off with David Fletcher and Dr. Hari Eswaran thanking those involved and HRSA’s Deputy Associate Administrator, Heather Dimeris, speaking about the current telehealth landscape. HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.)