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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health challenges have indeed adversely impacted more younger people than people 25 and older.

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7 Mistakes You’re Making with Mental Health Telehealth

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In our digital age, telehealth has become an invaluable tool for mental and behavioral health providers to reach and support a larger population of individuals in need. Telehealth is a great way to reach clients beyond your physical borders and can even help you find people in mental health deserts.

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Generation Z is in mental health crisis – telehealth can help

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Study after study has shown that stressors such as social media, bullying, loneliness and the pandemic are causing and exacerbating a wide array of mental health challenges among high school and college kids. And those mental health statistics are quite important because of the mental health professional shortage in the United States.

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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Health Populi

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

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Integrating behavioral tools improves access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Nele Jessel, chief medical officer of athenahealth, says bringing telehealth and other tools into the primary care setting destigmatizes mental health conditions and increases treatment.

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The New Employer Wellness Lens Includes Mental Health, Telehealth and Women’s Health

Health Populi

employers are tightening their focus on mental and behavioral health, addressing workers’ chronic conditions, emphasizing women’s health, and allocating more resources to digital and telehealth investments, we learn from Optum’s Ten Years of Health and Well-Being at Work: Learning from our past and reimagining the future.

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

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Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. One in three people over 50 in America are most interested in telehealth, with another 30% somewhat interested.