Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. We must address the poor state of the public health infrastructure. health care, Dowling colorfully noted.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Note that peoples’ faith in healthcare remained steady from 2019 to this year (just a 1 point decline in the index). Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since CVS/pharmacy morphed into CVS/health when it quit tobacco five years ago in 2014 , I began to intuit a shift in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020. Finally, invest “broadly” in social services to address factors that are determinants of health and well-being, like housing and economic security. Because these public health emergencies will continue to live with us, in every ZIP code.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). points in 2019. Food access (looking at grocery store concentrations vs. food deserts). points, versus 17.0

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety : The start of the Order calls out the fact that lower-income people and those of color have been essential workers during the pandemic. “Ensuring the health and safety of workers is a national priority and a moral imperative. .

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Staff well-being is paramount to a sustainable health care system, and resources must be allocated to ensuring mental and behavioral health services are available to staff who may need them — but not be comfortable being vocal about their demand for them.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

To further bolster SDoHs that address health equity, public policies can and must also be baked with health, from transportation to food systems and education. “The new Thrive Local network will start rolling out summer 2019,” K-P’s press release said.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

.” 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. The post The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In 2019, the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers received 4,039 requests, total, from providers looking for technical assistance or for more information about telehealth. Experience the education, innovation and collaboration of the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition… virtually. HIMSS20 Digital.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

health care spending will grow to 20% of the national economy by 2028, forecasted in projections pre-published in the April 2020 issue of Health Affairs, National Health Expenditure (NHE) Projections. 2019-28: Expected Rebound in Prices Drives Rising Spending Growth. NHE will grow 5.4% in the decade, the model expects.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. W2O notes that these five issues became more-inter-related than ever, compared with previous years’ top consumer health issues. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S. Part of re-building U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Life expectancy in the U.S. We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC). Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. health care system every other year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

And that will enhance patient/consumer health experience and loyalty. AI underpins all retail experience now – which is something we’re hearing in healthcare whether at HIMSS, CES, SXSW, ePharma, and other conferences since the start of 2019. How can I banish bags from my eyes? What causes eye pain?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. Race matters for health insurance in America. health system in terms of access to medical care and differences in mortality rates emerged.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2020

Here’s the table from Gallup’s latest Index published in February 2019 showing the state of West Virginia in the right-hand column, with the lowest score of well-being among the lowest 10 states for health in America. Remember that West Virginia was the last state in the U.S. to identify its first C19-positive patient.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. is really dealing with several waves of dramatic challenges at once: The coronavirus crisis, a test of the nation’s health system and public health infrastructure. Furthermore, 4 in 5 people in the U.S. adults sponsored by the American Psychological Association.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

Outcomes produced by the NHS for the UK’s health citizen are also less optimal compared with most OECD nations, except for the U.S. which lands dead last in the league table of nations’ mortality rates from avoidable causes in 2019. health care system?” Like our health citizen cousins in the UK, more U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

As such, every company is a health/care company, regardless of industry. We learned this in the early iterations of the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer over ten years ago, but the public health crisis solidified this in the minds of Everyday People. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

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. health citizen was for professional services, comprising nearly $1 in $3 of health care spend.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here’s little Janie in her tutu, about the time Daddy drove us into Detroit around July 30, 2019, to witness the devastation in Detroit and what his friends would face in rebuilding their businesses, communities and family lives in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. offer many services in several healthcare arenas. Track A: Emergency Care and Management. Dr. Lori Uscher-Pines.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

Harborview Medical Center in downtown Seattle operated at 95 percent of its capacity in 2019, based on its licensed 413 beds and the days of patient care it reported to the Department of Health. The state’s greatest strength, according to the index, is in its ability to detect public-health threats and contain them — scoring 8.5

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending. An October 2019 CBS News Poll on how Americans feel about U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

life expectancy at birth fell by one full year over the first half of 2020 compared with 2019, to 77.8 In 2019, life expectancy at birth was 78.8 years, according to data shared by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). years in 2019.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. During the pandemic, inpatient hospital beds have been in short supply in various communities across the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2021

It’s timely, then, to re-visit a research paper on subsidizing fruits and vegetables from a March 2019 issue of PLOS as an introduction to a new initiative growing out of The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) on produce prescriptions. and my local CSA farm is on my mind.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

allocates more national spending to health care than any other country (among these OECD nations as well as countries not included in this research). In 2019, that reached nearly 17% of the national economy. The second chart illustrates the long-time fact that the U.S. We’re #1! Not-so-close behind the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s been one year since the White House convened the Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health , kicking off the Biden Administration’s national strategy to improve health citizens’ access to healthy food as a matter of public health and economic security. health care system.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The second chart details the most significant sources of stress from 2019 into 2021. Those stress sources that increases in the three years were, in terms of statistical significance: The economy, increasing from 46% stressed to 59% stressed. Housing costs, growing from 45% stressed to 51% stressed.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2019

There’s been a “clear lack of progress on health equity during the past 25 years in the United States,” asserts a data-rich analysis of trends conducted by two professors/researchers from UCLA’s School of Public Health. we see these income/health disparities as well from U.S. Within the U.S.,

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