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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

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It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

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The line chart come from a new study into Multimorbidity Trends in United States Adults, 1988-2014 , published in the July-August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. ” Unless this trajectory reverses, multimorbidity trends will continue to drive up healthcare costs in the U.S. .

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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.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

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The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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A BA Degree as Prescription for a Longer Life – Update on Deaths of Despair from Deaton and Case

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The first chart illustrates the trends of a person’s expected years of life from 25 to 74 from 1990 to 2020 by whether the individual had a BA degree. The trend lines show declining life expectancy for both men and women, White and Black, without a BA degree. The trend lines for Black people without BA degrees in the U.S.

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

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In addition, anxiety and stress are mainstream across demographics and have impacted the way people select and consume food, based on findings in the 2022 Food and Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

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For important insights into this devastating risk-trend, read this Washington Post coverage published just a few days before the CDC reports came out. One last comparative point to keep in mind: the U.S. Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020.