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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

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

Health Populi

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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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

Risks of social determinants of health like paying for housing, utilities, and food, have been a greater burden during the public health crisis for Black people (32%) and Hispanic folks (28%) than for White people in America (17%), with an average of 22% at-risk for SDoH factors. population by a factor of 2 to 1.

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Health Commons Project Completes Acquisition of OneHealthPort to Advance Healthcare Innovation and Access across Washington State

Healthcare IT Today

This strategic acquisition underscores Health Commons Project’s commitment to expanding its impact by improving data interoperability, enhancing care coordination, and promoting public health across Washington. “Our shared mission of using health data to improve patient outcomes will be more achievable than ever.”

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

Health Populi

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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Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine

Health Populi

Bush administration beginning 2002. connects the dots between our underlying health status to those 3 P’s, calling out the inter-relationship between our individual well-being, the political environment, and public health. ” Dr. C. Watch it.

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Latin America’s Virtual Care Revolution

GlobalMed

When I started GlobalMed in 2002, our goal was to help make evidence-based medicine available in every nation, not just the U.S. Global access to care: that’s our mission and you can see it right there in our name. See event photos. Creating International Connected Care. Telehealth isn’t entirely new to Argentina.