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Mental Health Risks in Mid-2022 Related More to Global Anxieties and Safety, Not-So-Much COVID

Health Populi

With peoples’ anxiety about COVID-19 at its lowest point since 2020, folks are most anxious in spring 2022 about current global events and the safety of their families, based on the latest Healthy Minds study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). 2 in 3 are anxious about keeping their families safe. 1 in 2 U.S.

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Medical Costs Are Consuming Americans’ Financial Health

Health Populi

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. Healthcare Cost Crisis , a survey from West Health and Gallup. Americans borrowed $88 billion in 2018 to pay for health care spending, West Health and Gallup estimated. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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Bonus Features – July 30, 2023 – Amazon gets into the generative AI game, HIMSS plans to sell off the annual trade show, and more

Healthcare IT Today

The deal only appears to involve the trade show – next slated for March 11-15, 2024 in Orlando – and makes no mention of smaller HIMSS events (in-person or online) or the Healthcare IT News or MobiHealthNews publications that HIMSS Media owns. Fierce Healthcare confirmed the news as initially reported by Trade Show Executive.

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What You Can Do to Support Children Experiencing Stress and Trauma

Iris Telehealth

Keep reading for a discussion of the types of trauma and their prevalence, risk factors and protective factors for child and adolescent PTSD, review screening and assessment for PTSD in primary care, and the algorithm for treatment. COVID-19 has been a mass, traumatic event for children. Almost half of children in the U.S.

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The Social Determinants of Prescription Drugs – A View From CoverMyMeds

Health Populi

Those patients trying to stay medication-adherent tried various strategies such as stretching out their prescriptions, skipping doses, or reducing those doses — not sticking to the prescribed regimen, which can result in an adverse event or compromise the intended health outcome.

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How Trust Fuels Equitable Health Outcomes

Society for Participatory Medicine

This event focuses on trust, as a critical element to advance health equity and participatory medicine. The team preparing the event prepared a summary academic literature and highly credible surveys on the topics of health equity and trust to help create a common baseline understanding of these topics among participants.

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Living La Vida Hybrid, for Work, Shopping, Entertainment and Healthcare – Emerging from the Pandemic

Health Populi

thinking their lives are the same as they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, about one-half of Americans believe that remote work, virtual community events, and telehealth should continue “once the pandemic ends.” With only 1 in 10 people in the U.S. ” As of mid-May 2022, most people in the U.S. While most people in the U.S.