Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2025

I covered this phenomenon here in Health Populi in the context of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, and his commitment to relieving health injustices.] In this study, we see a rise of healthcare grievance which translates into health citizens saying that institutions are actively undermining peoples’ access to better care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2025

And that economic uplift is the fiscal meaning of “Health is Wealth.” ” This report follows up last year’s WEF study on women’s health disparities, Closing the Womens Health Gap: A $1 Trillion Opportunity to Improve Lives and Economies.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2025

While health citizens’ trust in the “messengers” of health information has become polarized by partisans’ political views, there is real concordance of support for many public health priorities. First, consider the KFF study, conducted among 1,380 U.S. Start small, think big, Matthew recommends.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2025

Among the many findings, three converged for me when considering health citizens’ potential interactions with AI for people’s personal use in their health care and well-being: Relationships — because health embeds social health, mental health, and peer-support.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The study’s subtitle was, “A nation in political turmoil.” health citizens in said turmoil are Women in America. Health Populi’s Hot Points: One way to hack political stress, a condition that’s part of my mind- and health-set right now, is to study and read and journal my anxiety and thoughts.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The study assesses a range of dimensions for current well-being, such as financial health (income and wealth), work and job quality, housing, health status, environmental quality, social connections, and civic engagement among other factors. First, see the OECD Well-being Framework illustrated here.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, could set the stage for another public health emergency given eroding trust in institutions — especially in media, government, and public health officials. I base this sobering forecast on the latest study from the Pew Research Center which polled people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Business, in general, is the most-trusted across the institutions studied, albeit in India NGOs are less trusted and in the US, NGOs are tied with business (with 26% of people in the U.S. 49% of people trust the World Health Organization to do what is right in the event of a pandemic, 45% trust the U.S. ” In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The category of food, for example, is a major focus for most consumers related to their health, medical conditions, and overall well-being. Among a huge amount of research I considered in 2024 for my client work was an informative study from IFIC , which perennially surveys consumers on their health goals related to food and nutrition.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2025

This spike up is clearly illustrated in the zig-zagging line chart from U-Michigan’s monthly study. Third, from the Harris Expats study, Americans increasingly feel “stuck” in survival mode — as Harris observed, “The American Dream (is) slipping further out of reach.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2024

adults in early December to glean peoples’ perspectives on health, trust, and a variety of health and social policies. Let’s start with the Index’s top-line and title of their study summary: that, “Most Americans favor strengthening health agencies.” public health. Kennedy, Jr.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2025

JPM nonetheless notes that financial strains persist for many small businesses, with EBRI’s research pointing to a near-record low in 2023 of employers providing health benefits (link here to EBRI’s October 2024 study).

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2025

When FabrizioWard asked voters how they felt about the importance of health insurance coverage overall, once again most voters — all, Trump voters, and swing voters — said health insurance coverage was important.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

In tracking this last health factor for U.S. The top-line of the studies is that the percent of people in America feeling financially wobbly has increased since the fourth quarter of 2024. Furthermore, see that the median amount borrowed for health care triples among people 50 years of age and older.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In today’s Health Populi blog, I’m digging into Access Denied: patients speak out on insurance barriers and the need for policy change , a study conducted by Ipsos on behalf of PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — the pharma industry’s advocacy organization (i.e.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2025

Now in the study’s 25th annual edition, the Edelman Trust Barometer this year finds us, globally, in a Crisis of Grievance which is eroding trust. Edelman surveyed 1,150 residents (plus or minus) in each of 28 countries around the world, yielding over 33,000 citizens’ voices sharing perspectives on trust and institutions.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2025

We know from Gallup’s poll published earlier this month that Americans’ self-reported mental health is at a low, even lower than we felt at the start of the pandemic. fell to its lowest level since the study launched. This week, we also saw the update for The World Happiness Report , finding that U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2025

For more on this study, see my post on the study here. We start with the state of trust held by U.S. consumers for the industries people deal with in daily life, shown in the first bar graph from the Gallup Poll.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

If you are interested in telehealth case studies, watch this video: Telehealth Case Studies. If you are interested in learning more about policy and reimbursement, bookmark these resources: Center for Connected Health Policy – state and national policy information.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2025

It never occurred to me I’d ever write about the Hallmark Channel in the Health Populi blog. MAHA is all about “Making American Healthy Again,” and diabetes and pre-diabetes represent major opportunities for a MAHA agenda for food, exercise, early diagnosis, and other preventive and supporting efforts toward public health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Health Care Post #Election2024,” I’ll focus on U.S. Let’s set the context with data from a recently-published study from Navitus Health Solutions exploring 2,000 U.S. Pollfish conducted this study online in October 2024. 9 in 10 insured Americans felt that prescriptions are more expensive in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

MMI is quick to note that an “average patient” in the study methodology is based on the original MMI family for tracking consistency. This year, we learn that outpatient care and pharmacy were the two line items most responsible for driving the PPO cost up to over $35K: pharmacy costs rose 9.7% for the average patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A Health Affairs study found that telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic was lower in communities with higher rates of poverty – suggesting that the industry must address the digital divide in order to ensure widespread access to virtual care. During the COVID-19 period of the study, researchers found that 30.1%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Thus far, the series has covered climate change, and this month health care. In their study conducted in December 2020, U SA Today polled 1,020 adults age 18 and over in the USA TODAY/Public Agenda Hidden Common Ground Survey. This poll is published today in a four-page special section devoted to health care policy.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Lululemon has published the 2024 Global Well-Being Report , a study into peoples’ perspectives on their personal health from the company best known for athleisure wear and self-care. The post Well-Being Burnout – Lululemon’s 4th Annual Study Into Our Pressured Lives appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Even with that moderate increase, this post’s title reports the study headline that workers’ health insurance premiums continue to grow faster than wages: cumulatively since 2010, family premiums grew by 55% and deductibles, 11%. Workers’ earnings increased 27% in the period and inflation, 19%.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

I wrote early on in the pandemic that mental health impacts would be the epidemic inside and beyond the coronavirus itself. And financial stress directly and negatively impacts mental, behavioral, and physical health. Cost, while important, ranked below these service factors in CarePayment’s study. Those of us in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2022

Retirement System from the Tramsamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS), we learn about the changing views of U.S. The study was fielded between October and December 2021, thus before the onset of significant inflation on household budgets in 2022. As more than 1 in 3 U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

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.

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MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

The 24th Annual Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) tells us that Americans in 2022 will have to manage challenging economic headwinds, shopping for technology is preparing people for their new normal — with household budgets and value in mind. 24% of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

This capability is attracting pharmaceutical and life science companies, health care providers and research organizations to take a closer look at Seqster’s offering. In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

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. In the United States, however, there’s been under-investment in these social determinants that closely tie to health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

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.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Even with the prospect of enrolling in Medicare sooner in a year or two or three, Americans approaching retirement are growing concerned about health care costs, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. Nearly 1 in 5 consumers in the study avoided medical care or filling a prescription in the past year due to cost concerns.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. driving Republican voter responses to the affordability argument more than toward the innovation context in the KFF study.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Medicare and Medicaid are better than private insurers at keeping spending per beneficiary low, a finding that has crucial implications for the current health policy debate, according to a new report.

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