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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

In May 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) re-visited the acronym, “PPE.” ” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity.

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U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases

Health Populi

health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. What’s the worth of $323 billion?

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. Healthcare experienced a bounce in the one year 2020-21, rising from 56 points of trust among U.S. By mid-2020, Edelman detected, “a decline in willingness to share personal data to fight the pandemic.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

In 2020, as voting commences in-person tomorrow on 3 rd November, U.S. Health is translating across all definitions for U.S. voters in November 2020: for health care and physical health, financial health, mental health, and societal health. Issue #2 for 2018 voters was the economy. In the U.S.,

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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While mental health issues were already mainstream across health citizens around the world before the COVID-19 pandemic was termed a “pandemic” in March 2020, peoples’ mental well-being eroded during the public health crisis and since then, more people have put a name to their situations and sought (..)

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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

But in developed, wealthier parts of the world, like the U.S., “a record number of countries are experiencing an all-time high ‘mass-class’ trust divide,” according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer. where private sector organizations began to more visibly take on public health objectives and missions.

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