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People Want to Flourish, Not Just Live – Speaking Health Politics to Real People

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asserted that by 2011, human health was marked less by infectious disease and more by non-communicable conditions that could be highly influenced, reversed and prevented through self-care by the individual and public health policy that promotes social and financial wellness. And I daresay, health reform.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

Health Populi

” The authors recommend that public health leaders and policy makers address the obesity trend when designing “policies and interventions to improve the public’s health.” Because they are public goods, and the U.S. Why has this been the case?

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U.S. Health Care in 2025 Requires Scenario Planning: The Uncertainties That Inspire DIY Healthcare

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An historic sidebar: read this origin story of Jean Nidetch here in a 2017 New York Times essay – it’s a great yarn that still rings all too true in the swipe-left-online-dating era].

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The $4 Trillion Health Economy of 2020

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Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers. per year, 2017-26, expected to hit $5.7 What are those “fundamentals” pushing up healthcare spending?

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Health Populi

The dip in patient volumes is easy to see in 2019-20, followed by the hockey stick increase in 2020-21 for utilization, signally some patients’ return to health care services. between 2017 and 2021. Inpatient costs fell just below the prescription drug share of spending per person in the U.S.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. We fast-forward to the era of cloud computing and AI to find that Microsoft has adopted the health citizen persona in their work with health systems around the world, such as in this explanation on democratizing AI to improve citizen health , published in 2017.

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