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The Many Factors That Make a Child’s Well-Being Build Our Adult Health – the Aspirational OECD Framework

Health Populi

The ultimate health and wellbeing of an adult depends on the factors that shape us when we are children. A new, deep report from the OECD, Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies , spells out the many domains of experience that, together, bolster our whole health as we grow from child to adult.

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Breaking the Cycle of Financial Toxicity

GlobalMed

Hospital stays, outpatient visits, tests and medications can all add up, even when patients have health insurance. A distress common to Americans with serious or chronic diseases, financial toxicity can diminish treatment outcomes and impact physical and mental health. Deductibles in job-based health plans in the U.S.