Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this post, I’ll share just a handful of insights that were particularly impactful to my work and my commitment to work toward health citizenship for all people in the U.S. First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

McKinsey’s report included a chart akin to the one above from Manhattan Institute, graphically illustrating the growth of household costs with education, health care and housing fast-growing between 2002 and 2018. These costs erode and overwhelm the wage picture shown in the third vertical bar chart. did not save for old age.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this essay, I re-visited the 2002 report from the Institutes of Medicine (IOM), Unequal Treatment , which laid out racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 25, 2024

Carmona brings a wealth of experience and expertise to DrKumo, having served as the Surgeon General from 2002 to 2006. His distinguished career in medicine, public health, and as a healthcare leader will provide invaluable insights and guidance as DrKumo continues to expand its impact in the healthcare industry. “Dr.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

As governments attempt to contain the virus, we must mitigate the mental health impact of the pandemic and economic crisis, especially given that pre-COVID-19 predictions already indicated that by 2030 depression will be the leading cause of disease burden globally [1].

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

was in a position to help, and the miracle of antiviral drugs worked to address the death sentence that was AIDS in 2002. In his role, Abner went to Africa and saw a shocking scale of death in large communities in the hardest-hit countries in the world. Abner was part of one of the biggest humanitarian efforts in U.S.

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