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

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Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. visits per 100 member-years. ” The U.S.

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

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First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity. The table arrays data the researchers analyzed from 2002 to 2016, identifying patterns of six types of medical services used by race and age group. colonoscopy).

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How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

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Note the last line of that matrix, population with health care coverage: the U.S. It’s important to realize that this statistic is based on data from 2016 at a historic high, when the Affordable Care Act was in full implementation]. ranks lowest on that, at 90%. [It’s

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Obese, Access-Challenged and Self-Rationing: America’s Health Vs Rest-of-World

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Health Populi’s Hot Points: The CDC published new data on the prevalence of obesity in America earlier this month, identifying a markedly greater obesity prevalence among adults in nonmetropolitan than metropolitan counties in 2016: 34.2% in nonmetros vs. 28.7% in metro areas. Overall obesity prevalence in the U.S.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

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The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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Slow Food, Slow Medicine: What Italy Can Teach America About Health

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[Health insurance coverage is also an important social determinant of health, but for this post, I’ll forgo that discussion — albeit a key pillar of a healthy community]. In 2016, the U.S. Now look out image #2: the proportion of GDP spent on healthcare by OECD nation. ranked as the biggest spender, allocating 17.8%

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The Trust Deficit Is Bad for Health: A Health/Care Lens on the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer

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For healthcare, trust hit a 7-year high in the Trust index at 69, the highest level since 2016 and gaining 3 points over 2021. ” The post The Trust Deficit Is Bad for Health: A Health/Care Lens on the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.