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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

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and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

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a risk factor in two-thirds of bankruptcies filed between 2013 and 2016. That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). between 2013 and 2016.

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The New Deaths of Despair in America – Among U.S. Children

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The mortality rates for people ages 1 to 19 continued to fall from 1999 until about 2013, when deaths due to injury took a turn up and to the right — especially among young males. “Firearms play a central role in this crisis,” one of the concluding paragraphs asserts.

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The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

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This is shown in the third graphic, the line chart showing the hockey-stick growth of synthetic opioids since 2013. ” Three years later, there’s little national/Federal progress on resourcing the social determinants and personal/household economies that could help turnaround this public health challenge.

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The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

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In the US, the change in the 5-year compound annual growth rate of wages fell 2% comparing 1995-2000 and 2013-18; the poverty rate grew 2 percent between 2000-16. As we enter the wild-card era of corona virus in the midst of an eroded public health system and response, these studies are particularly timely…but so sobering.

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Most Americans Want the Federal Government to Ensure Healthcare for All

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In contrast, in 2013 the Affordable Care Act was in implementation and consumer-adoption mode, accompanied by aggressive anti-“Obamacare” campaigns in mass media. See the second chart, reported in a recent study by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on Being Seriously Ill in the U.S. .

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

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What he didn’t realize at the time was that “we were a company trying to solve health disparities.”. But in 2013, health equity wasn’t on anyone’s agenda. He envisioned ConsejoSano as a telemedicine company that could address this challenge and he raised angel funding, creating a minimum viable product.