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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

Health Populi

a risk factor in two-thirds of bankruptcies filed between 2013 and 2016. That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). between 2013 and 2016.

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The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

Health Populi

This is shown in the third graphic, the line chart showing the hockey-stick growth of synthetic opioids since 2013. ” Three years later, there’s little national/Federal progress on resourcing the social determinants and personal/household economies that could help turnaround this public health challenge.

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

Health Populi

In the US, the change in the 5-year compound annual growth rate of wages fell 2% comparing 1995-2000 and 2013-18; the poverty rate grew 2 percent between 2000-16. As we enter the wild-card era of corona virus in the midst of an eroded public health system and response, these studies are particularly timely…but so sobering.

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Technology, Aging and Obesity Drive Healthcare Spending, BEA Finds

Health Populi

Some key findings from this study were that: The fastest-growing spending conditions between 2013 and 2014 were infectious disease, mental illness, and diabetes. The second chart indicates healthcare spending by category in billions of dollars and annual rate of growth.

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Why Every Child Should Be Tested for Type 1

Insulin Nation

Reegan Karice Oxendine was a toddler when she died in September 2013 from undiagnosed Type 1 diabetes. State legislators and insurance commissioners have the power to determine what must be covered under a policy issued by a health insurance carrier in the state. Reegan was given the diagnosis of acid reflux disease.

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Seattle Coronavirus Care: Short in Staff, Supplies and Space

Henry Kotula

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched this initiative — called the National Health Security Preparedness Index — in 2013 to comprehensively evaluate the nation’s readiness for public health emergencies. points for managing volunteers in an emergency in 2013. Health Workers Strained.

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