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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s déjà vu all over again for Americans’ well-being: we haven’t felt this low since the advent of the Great Recession that hit our well-well-being hard in December 2008. The Great Recession was a direct hit on national and personal economics; health was an indirect impact.

Mental health

Mental health Public Health Health Policy

What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In Declining Use of Primary Care Among Commercially Insured Adults in the United States, 2008-2016 , the researchers analyzed data from a national sample of adult health plan members between 18 and 64 years of age and saw that visits to PCPS fell by 24.2%, from 169.5 visits per 100 member-years.

Primary Care

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

told the Gallup Poll in April 2022 that their financial situation has eroded in the past year, up to 1 in 2 people which is a statistic we haven’t seen since the Great Recession of 2008. who follow health policy wonkily always look to the States and Governors for innovation as labs for health policy innovation.

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The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is markedly different than the Great Recession of 2008, the last major financial crisis: that financial decline was coined a “ManCession,” taking a more significant toll out of more typically men’s jobs like construction and manufacturing where fewer women worked.

Mental health

Mental health Nursing Public Health Health Policy

Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. .” Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. states since 2008. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S.

Life Science

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The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Increased availability of opioid prescription drugs, chronic pain (for which opioids are often prescribed), and the economic crisis which began in 2008 may all have contributed to an increase in overdoses, suicide, and increased liver disease associated with alcohol abuse.”

Mental health

Mental health Public Health Health Policy

Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2

Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

The World Health Organization identified stress as one of the top ten determinants of disparities in health in 2008. This flow chart from the paper illustrates the dynamic of threat exposures combined with resource gaps to mitigate risks.

Mental health

Mental health Public Health Health Policy

State Telehealth Laws And Reimbursement Policies: 2017 Report

BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) is the federally designated National Telehealth Policy Resource Center. CCHP seeks to advance state and national telehealth policy to promote improvements in health systems and greater health equity. CCHP is a program of the Public Health Institute.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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CEO Roundtable Policy Summit 2016

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

MAY 4, 2016

The summit included national thought leaders Judith Feder and Kevin Hassett to discuss policy and the political landscape for employer sponsored healthcare for 2016 and beyond. A nationally recognized leader in health policy, she has made her mark on the nation’s health insurance system through both scholarship and public service.

Leadership

Leadership Health Policy

Why People Are Still Avoiding the Doctor (It’s Not the Virus)

Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

It echoes the scenarios that played out after the 2008 recession, when millions of Americans were unemployed and unable to afford even routine visits to the doctor for themselves or their children. Almon Castor’s hours were cut at the steel distribution warehouse in Houston where he works about a month ago.

Medical Billing

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The Burden of Depression in the Pandemic – Greater Among People With Fewer Resources

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The She-Cession, discussed here in Health Populi, has been especially burdensome to women’s personal economics and financial health compared with the 2008 Great Recession which hit men harder economically.

Mental health

Mental health Public Health Health Policy

Rationing Care in America: Cost Implications Getting to Universal Health Coverage

Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

in 2008, one in three Americans delayed medical treatment due to costs. It would not be surprising to know that when the Great Recession hit the U.S. Ten years later, as media headlines and the President boast an improved American economy, the same proportion of people are self-rationing healthcare due to cost.

Primary Care

Primary Care Medicare Telehealth Health Policy

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

COVID-19 and working from/learning from/exercising from/praying from/cooking from home accelerated, our homes have been morphing into our personal “HealthQuarters,” I recently discussed here in Health Populi. As we observed in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008, more DIY care came to people’s self-care at home.

Health Technology

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

For more color, read Jane’s April 2008 report, “The Wisdom of Patients,” where she wrote about PLM in its start-up phase (see section on page 20 entitled “ An Ongoing, Live Outcomes Study ”).

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Hims & Hers Welcomes Five New Experts to Its Medical Advisory Board

Digital Health Global

MARCH 16, 2023

He served as Chief of Family and Community Medicine for the Miriam Hospital, a teaching hospital of the Warren Alpert School of Medicine from 2008 to 2018. from the University of Michigan Medical School, an MPH in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Benefit Cost Increases Overwhelm Flat Wages for Most in US: Pew

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

This has translated in benefit costs — particularly, health benefits — rising more quickly than peoples’ paychecks have kept pace. The first chart from the Pew discussion illustrates the rise of benefit costs vs. wage and salary growth, crossing lines around 2008 — when the Great Recession hit U.S. households.

Medical Billing

Medical Billing Patient Experience Health Policy

Stress in America, Like COVID-19, Impacts All Americans

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2020

With six in 10 adults saying stress due to the economic downturn has been a significant source of stress, that was nearly 50% greater in 2020’s pandemic era compared with 2019, approaching the high level of stress felt during the 2008 Great Recession.

Mental health

Mental health Public Health Health Policy

The Polarization of Trust in 2023 – What It Means for Health, via Edelman at Davos WEF 23

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2023

Trust is also the precursor for health engagement, Edelman learned back in 2008 when it launched a survey called the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer. I had the great good fortune to work with the team on the study launch and follow-up surveys for several years.

Public Health

Public Health Mental health Health Policy

Healthcare Access and Cost Top Americans’ Concerns in Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

The Gallup Poll , fielded in the first week of March 2018, found that peoples’ overall economic and employment concerns are on the decline since 2010, at the height of the Great Recession which began in 2008. While 70% of Americans were worried about economic matters in 2010, only 34% of people in the U.S.

Public Health

Public Health Medicare Health Policy

Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts

Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2020

million, the greatest jobs lost since the 2008 Great Recession…erasing all job gains since then, this Washington Post story explained today. Across income groups among likely U.S. Job losses as of 22nd April 2020 tallied to 26.5

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Connected Health Pulse

Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds

What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2

State Telehealth Laws And Reimbursement Policies: 2017 Report

Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

CEO Roundtable Policy Summit 2016

Why People Are Still Avoiding the Doctor (It’s Not the Virus)

The Burden of Depression in the Pandemic – Greater Among People With Fewer Resources

Rationing Care in America: Cost Implications Getting to Universal Health Coverage

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Hims & Hers Welcomes Five New Experts to Its Medical Advisory Board

Benefit Cost Increases Overwhelm Flat Wages for Most in US: Pew

Stress in America, Like COVID-19, Impacts All Americans

The Polarization of Trust in 2023 – What It Means for Health, via Edelman at Davos WEF 23

Healthcare Access and Cost Top Americans’ Concerns in Latest Gallup Poll

Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts

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