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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color.

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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. Because they are public goods, and the U.S.

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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

Health Populi

The Commonwealth Fund has conducted this study since 2006 , assessing a range of health system indicators and patient outcomes to track trends over time identifying which U.S. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being. Pre-pandemic, that rate was even for eight years, then this jump spiked in 2020.

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Hims & Hers, ATA, and 10 others launch Telehealth Equity Coalition

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth was held up as a "panacea," said Adaeze Enekwechi, a board member at the Public Health Institute and the Alliance for Health Policy, at the final installment of the American Telemedicine Association's EDGE policy conference on Tuesday.

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Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

Health Populi

Donald Berwick re-named these factors that underpin our health as “The Moral Determinants of Health.”. We must connect the dots between public policy for food security, safety, and accessible nutrition; a clean environment and climate health; education; fair wages; and, of course, health security.

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Building Health Equity Through Faith and Food – the Black Church Food Security Network

Health Populi

” This market is an experience mashing up the market goods, a DJ, music and dancing, food demonstrations, and of course, fellowship/. In the future, he envisions the mesh of the food system with the health system. The Arc Initiative. Brown conjured up Noah for this third pillar, as in “building an ark.”

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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

Health Populi

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.