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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

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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.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

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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. colonoscopy).

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Longevity Stalls Around the World And Wealth, More Concentrated

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That core set of services covers consultations with doctors, tests and examinations, along with inpatient hospital care. Americans have relatively less access to a doctor when care is needed, the OECD report revealed. The primary care “backbone” in the U.S. In the U.S.,