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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

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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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Consumers Expect Every Company to Play a Meaningful Role in “My Health” – New Insights from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

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

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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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Stress Is Playing A Big Role in Consumers’ Food Habits: Food-As-Medicine Update from IFIC

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That net shift was 93% of folks thinking about healthfulness of food (a lot + a little) down to 86% across all consumers. Among people who felt stressed (the 56% net sample reporting “very + somewhat stressed”), consumers looked to self-care strategies to alleviate their anxiety.

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What We Know We Know About ZIP Codes, Food, and Deaths of Despair – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 3

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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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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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Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2

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Among APA’s recommendations in the SDoH report to address stress and disparities are to, Support and conduct research to identify strategies that work to ameliorate stress and risk exposure. Advocate for and fund mental health services for people under stress, among other strategies. In this pandemic era, the U.S.