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A Citizen’s Response Corps for Digital Health

Society for Participatory Medicine

Tom Ferguson , highlights how COVID-19 long haulers are the most cutting-edge example, and points to how their methods can be applied to 21st century public health challenges. Its articles focused on how to build your own house, plant your own garden, and nurture your own health to prevent disease. Not a member of the Society?

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

Health Populi

sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. More young women than young men looked for health info online, as well as more Hispanic/Latinx and White youngers compared with Blacks. ” The point is that claiming our mental health now IS mainstream… whatever your age or stage.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

I myself used the blogging platform you’re on now to promote the February ’22 issue of Health Affairs in the Hot Points following my post featuring Abner Mason’s origin story on Love and Health which traced his boyhood in Durham, NC, to founding ConsejoSano, now SameSky Health. [By

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Health Consumers Are Now Amazon-Primed for Healthcare – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 2

Health Populi

In the past couple of months, Amazon announced many health-related plans and developments, including: Accepting medical and health savings accounts (HSAs) to pay for consumer health products like over-the-counter drugs. Joseph Health. Launching a private label skin care line, Belei, covered in Allure magazine here.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

Now consider what happens when consumers (the noun chosen by the authors of the second paper I’m adding to the mix) access data, information and tools for self-management in health care. agency responsible for monitoring claims and the use of personal data out-of-health-context.

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Pay people for their data – yes, or no?

Society for Participatory Medicine

Humantiv (health data coop). My31/Hu-manity (health data coop). Some stories revealing the creep factor in digital health data capture and sale: Google gobbling DeepMind’s health app might be the trust shock we need – TechCrunch. Startups Plan the Health Data Gold Rush – The Scientist.

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Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers glimpses of an exciting future

Lloyd Price

The WHO and the India G20 presidency emphasised its importance by launching ‘The Global Initiative of Digital Health’ (GIDH) in August, proclaiming: “Digital health is a proven accelerator to advance health outcomes and achieve Universal Health Coverage and health-related Sustainable Development Goals.”