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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. So what is primary care, anyway?

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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

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Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. have a PCP relationship, compared with 71% of health citizens in Germany and the Netherlands.

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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

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If you live in Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas, your health care and outcomes are less likely to be top-notch, the Fund’s research concluded. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being. The Fund’s bottom line.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care. Black, Latino/Hispanic, and American Indian people have worse self-reported health. colonoscopy).

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How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

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These sobering statistics were published in Health Care Spending in the Untied States and Other High-Income Countries this week in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study points to salaries of generalist and specialty physicians in the U.S. as in the U.K. and Germany.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

The study polled U.S. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future. Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people.

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Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Among the other recommendations was a call to make electronic medical records must be made interoperable, more accessible, and searchable by public health personnel to aid in state and federal situational awareness and emergency management.