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The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

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Surgeon General, the fact is that a growing number of Americans are feeling negative mental health impacts…and it’s only early April in what will be a many-month new-normal of physical distancing. Laughter is some of the best medicine these days, right?!

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

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health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages.

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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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The U.S. is a Nation in Pain – America’s Life Expectancy Fell Again in 2016

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wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. The Trust for America’s Health is a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on public health and healthy communities. Expanding and modernizing mental health services and treatment in U.S.

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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 4 of 5, Letters “P” through “T”

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The general theme here is that the pandemic is a global phenomenon, and that we humans are very small actors in a very big public health crisis. How to manage risk without complete information on the coronavirus? This would lead to an epidemic inside the pandemic: the erosion of our mental health.

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How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

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is mired in an epidemic of chronic health conditions, from obesity to diabetes to heart disease to mental health or mood disorders,” the Index’s report explains. The Building H Index is, in their words, flipping the script to reimagine how to bake health-by-design into companies’ product and service offerings.

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

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How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? Q4 – How has the ATA been responding to the coronavirus phenomenon? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? The President signed the $8.3 No, it’s not from the U.S.