Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. The community ethos bolsters social cohesion and mental health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Last month, AARP published research on older peoples’ perspectives on their state of mental health and well-being. “While it is understandable to see a decline in mental health or emotional well-being during trying times, this is not a normal part of aging.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. In addition, policies that address underlying social determinant risk factors like housing, jobs, food security, and access to social services would be critical, ASPE believes.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Risks of social determinants of health like paying for housing, utilities, and food, have been a greater burden during the public health crisis for Black people (32%) and Hispanic folks (28%) than for White people in America (17%), with an average of 22% at-risk for SDoH factors. population by a factor of 2 to 1.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

” Furthermore, states should boost investment in primary care – “ the foundation for a high-performing health care system” — and fully integrate behavioral and mental health services with primary care. Because these public health emergencies will continue to live with us, in every ZIP code.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The pandemic certainly gave us the gift of knowledge in having to face the ubiquity of mental health in Americans’ overall health and well-being… or lack thereof. billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. Most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. Welcome back to my ABCovid-19 Journal, which I created/curated in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. M is for mask.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. As such, every company is a health/care company, regardless of industry.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Financial stress is a factor ranking high for people dealing with both mental health challenges and chronic health conditions. Our relationship with our self — “self-worth and purpose” — ranks high, too, for people dealing with a mental health condition. Looking under the 52% of U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. But there are technology innovations that can help people deal with addiction through, for example, digital therapeutic solutions.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

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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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

That net shift was 93% of folks thinking about healthfulness of food (a lot + a little) down to 86% across all consumers. Over 1 in 2 consumers said they felt stressed in the past 6 months (roughly October 2021 through March 2022), with 22% reporting being “very” stressed.

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Lower income earners face an “uphill battle” when it comes to their mental health, GWI found. times more likely to say they have depression, also facing an under-supply of mental health providers. Furthermore, rural Americans were 1.5

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

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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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since CVS/pharmacy morphed into CVS/health when it quit tobacco five years ago in 2014 , I began to intuit a shift in the U.S. where private sector organizations began to more visibly take on public health objectives and missions.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

Chapter 7 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , is titled, “ZIP Codes, Genetic Codes, Food and Health.” public health — uniquely American versus the rest of the developed world.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s a lot — and has made a huge difference in public health access for those enrolled in ACA plans. Check out the health care services Americans say are the most important for commercial health insurance plans to cover. Morning Consult polled 2,199 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis. An epidemic of mental and emotional decline exacerbated by COVID-19 and financial stress, and.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For these deaths of despair, job security and unemployment, social connections and loneliness, access to healthcare services (THINK: mental health, anxiety, depression, pain), and education are all pathways to socioeconomic status and social security (meant in the phrase as written, not as the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

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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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2023

” In this year’s annual IFIC food study, mental health and stress play leading roles in consumers’ lives, embedded into peoples’ food-lives. Three in four people said that food consumption impacted their mental or emotional state. What is “healthy” in the eyes of consumers?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2020

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. Adams was for health citizens to “socially distance:” that is, stay the heck away from each other to avoid exposure to the coronavirus. Q is for quarantine.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

.” For everyone, social distancing could have devastating impacts on people dealing with depression, with the coronavirus sparking mental health concerns in the clinical psychology community. The World Health Organization organized resources for dealing with mental health crises during this pandemic.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

House Appropriations Committee unveiled an omnibus spending package that included telehealth service extensions to cover Medicare enrollees for 151 days after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. This is essentially a five-month extension for telehealth in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

national policies to attend to both the financial/economic scars as well as physical and mental health now and in post-pandemic life in 2021. .” I’ve highlighted this last sentence, and in particular the words “persistent scars.” ” As the Gallup poll informs us, we must be mindful in U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

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). Food access (looking at grocery store concentrations vs. food deserts).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Staff well-being is paramount to a sustainable health care system, and resources must be allocated to ensuring mental and behavioral health services are available to staff who may need them — but not be comfortable being vocal about their demand for them.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

Partner with community-based organizations, schools and professional organizations to disseminate information on stress and impact on health disparities. Advocate for and fund mental health services for people under stress, among other strategies. In this pandemic era, the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

Along with the life-threatening impact of the coronavirus on physical health, and the accompanying mental health distress activated by self-distancing comes a third unintended consequence with the pandemic: a hard hit on women’s personal economies.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

A recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), which surveyed state Medicaid officials across 44 states in the US, including the District of Columbia, revealed an increased interest in permanently adopting pandemic-era telehealth policy expansions.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

In addition, America’s overweight and obesity epidemic results in lost worker productivity, mental health and sleep challenges, and lower quality of life for millions of Americans. Food — healthy, accessible, fairly-priced — is a key social determinant of individual health, wellness, and a public’s ability to pursue happiness.

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MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. The President signed the $8.3

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