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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

Health Populi

Trust, or really lack thereof, is a killer app for people’s coronavirus health outcomes. That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19.

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

Health Populi

Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. adults, the annual Gallup survey on honesty and ethics in professions perennially proves.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S.,

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. The survey was conducted in December 2022 among a group of 1,001 U.S.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Why COVID-19’s Death Toll Will Climb Long After the Pandemic Is Over

Henry Kotula

An estimated 10% to 20% of Americans who needed mental-health services during the pandemic received no treatment. Another survey cited in the report estimates that up to a quarter of adults with depression or anxiety went untreated. No one was spared, but the hit came hardest for less-educated, essential and lower-paid workers.