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Our Mental and Emotional Health Are Interwoven With What We Eat and Drink – Chewing On the IFIC 2023 Food and Health Survey

Health Populi

As most Americans confess to feeling stressed over the past six months, peoples’ food and beverage choices have been intimately connected with their mental and emotional well-being, we learn from the 2023 Food & Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). This survey was conducted between 20th August and 14th September among 1,769 U.S.

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

Health Populi

residents through the lens of health consumers and, especially this year and in this study, health citizens. The phenomenon of Stress-due-to-Corona was evident in Volume One of the APA study, covered here in Health Populi. 21 days later, George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis.

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Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

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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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USA Today Finds Hidden Common Ground Among Americans For Health Care

Health Populi

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. The poll found that nearly all Americans point to the following goals are important: Making health are more affordable for ordinary Americans.

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Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care

Health Populi

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

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.