Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

My new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , launched this week. In it, I track these events and the many forces transforming U.S. Today, nearly 200,000 Americans have died due to the novel coronavirus.

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JUNE 24, 2021

The third chart details some of these points: On the macroeconomic side of the forecast, we see increasing private consumption, higher inflation, less public sector support (e.g., PPP in the US), and in emerging markets, currency weakness.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. The President signed the $8.3

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APRIL 7, 2020

A few articles that have informed me include… In The Atlantic , the piece The Kids Aren’t Alright explained how the youngest health citizens in the country may experience the greatest long-time mental health trauma, learning from Wuhan’s experience with C19 back to Katrina and the impacts of adverse childhood events.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Risks of social determinants of health like paying for housing, utilities, and food, have been a greater burden during the public health crisis for Black people (32%) and Hispanic folks (28%) than for White people in America (17%), with an average of 22% at-risk for SDoH factors. population by a factor of 2 to 1.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

The Taylor Swift Eras Tour, slated to raise $1 billion when it’s completed, generating financial benefits to the towns she’s staged the event, giving those local economies a boost according to the Federal Reserve July Beige Book. The crowds at these cultural events showcase women’s agency and voice.”

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JUNE 13, 2022

Following the Uvalde, Texas, school shootings, many healthcare advocacy organizations, professional societies, and health system executives came out loud, clear, and assertive about the role of guns in public health and impact on the health system. As physicians, our mission is to heal and to maintain health.

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JUNE 30, 2020

“This event set off weeks of protests over police violence and racism both aross the country and around the world,” APA’s report on Wave 2 research for this report begins. .” What a difference three weeks makes: the last day of APA’s Wave 1 research for this study was May 4. APA polled 3,013 U.S.

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APRIL 14, 2024

In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Ultimately, getting to that fourth level of equity — addressing socioeconomic and environmental impacts — takes an even larger village where public sector organizations responsible for the bulk of these issues — from education to clean water and minimum wage standard-setting — must be corralled into the mix.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

Diabetes impacts peoples’ leisure-time activities — that would be “fun” — as well, with nearly one-half of PwD having to miss a planned outing or other personal event due to diabetes. The session was sponsored by the Center for Health Journalism at the Annenberg School.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

MAY 2, 2019

As the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) notes, different telehealth modalities include: Live video: referred to as “synchronous” format and uses live interaction between two parties over video. Remote patient monitoring (RPM): involves the remote monitoring of patients’ health and medical data over secure electronic means.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Day two of the virtual event kicked off with David Fletcher and Dr. Hari Eswaran thanking those involved and HRSA’s Deputy Associate Administrator, Heather Dimeris, speaking about the current telehealth landscape. HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.)

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JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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Medicine and Technology

MARCH 6, 2013

He spoke about a number of public health topics ranging from worldwide healthcare disparities, the pediatric obesity epidemic, and the need to provide patients with their own health data so that they can be empowered to manage their own health. Read more ».

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MARCH 16, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched this initiative — called the National Health Security Preparedness Index — in 2013 to comprehensively evaluate the nation’s readiness for public health emergencies. points out of a possible 10, above the national average.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

What helps me stay focused in this ever-changing field is the True North of the Quintuple Aim — particularly useful given this year’s event’s theme: “Creating Tomorrow’s Health.” I have my own research agenda(s) underneath these themes that I’ll be listening for at #HIMSS25.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

America’s health system should be prepared to deal with a “probable increase” in mental illness after the pandemic, researchers recommend in Prevalence of Depression Symptoms in US Adults Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in JAMA Network Open. population.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2021

cardiovascular disease events and 350,000 CVD deaths, saving $40 billion in health care costs. million CVD events, 620,000 averted deaths due to cardiovascular disease, and $100 billion saved in health care costs. Using a predictive model, Scenario 1’s food and veg (F&V) incentive would prevent 1.93

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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

MAY 21, 2018

We each have the opportunity to make health — but too often our ZIP code and neighborhood prevents us from doing so relative to the quality of schools, access to healthy food, air and environmental quality, and limits on our ability to “walk with our feet” and find healthy opportunities each day.

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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2018

We each have the opportunity to make health — but too often our ZIP code and neighborhood prevents us from doing so relative to the quality of schools, access to healthy food, air and environmental quality, and limits on our ability to “walk with our feet” and find healthy opportunities each day.

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MAY 22, 2018

We each have the opportunity to make health — but too often our ZIP code and neighborhood prevents us from doing so relative to the quality of schools, access to healthy food, air and environmental quality, and limits on our ability to “walk with our feet” and find healthy opportunities each day.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2018

We each have the opportunity to make health — but too often our ZIP code and neighborhood prevents us from doing so relative to the quality of schools, access to healthy food, air and environmental quality, and limits on our ability to “walk with our feet” and find healthy opportunities each day.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2022

In this July Healthy Minds Poll, the APA asked people about their openness to speaking with a health care or mental health professional following a personal traumatic life event. adults would seek professional help to cope with a traumatic event. The second column here tells us that overall, 31% of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 19, 2020

First, what we in public health circles have been coining the social determinants of health have revealed themselves to be the “moral determinants of health.” Galarneau underscores. ” On Juneteenth 2020, there are people coming together in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s,

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JANUARY 29, 2021

This was discussed at the World Economic Forum in the context of public health, nutrition, and climate change. One foodie fact: mayonnaise sales increased 18% in 2020 – astonishing growth rate for this humble condiment. “Make taste, not waste,” the campaign calls-to-action.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Artificial intelligence and health equity were two key themes discussed during #HIMSS21, and Dr. Halamka’s concerns echoed through the week-long event. To build a digital health ecosystem that delivers timely access to information to inform public health decision-making, and.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Larry Moss who said, “Children’s health is the most powerful lever we have to influence the health of the next generation, and, ultimately, to influence the economy of this country.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

A new study from Tia, the women’s health services platform, looks deeply into COVID-19’s negative impacts on working-age women and how they would advise the next occupant of the White House on health policy in Dear Future President — What Women Want for Healthcare in America. coverage for telehealth, and.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

health care. Dr. Saini and his colleague Shannon Brownlee released the annual Lown Institute 2020 Shkreli Awards this week, highlighting their ten most egregious examples of the worst events in U.S. health care that happened in the past year — 2020, the year the coronavirus changed our lives and livelihoods.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

In listening to a cable news channel to keep updated on the shooting events and outcomes of the victims involved, I just heard Eddie Glaude, Professor at Princeton , say that we cannot blame this week’s shootings on anyone but ourselves. Plus ça change… ). . Eddie said, with passion and such deep sadness, “This is on us.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In June 2020, I wrote about the APA’s Stress in America study which focused in on the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice, just days after the death/murder of George Floyd. government response to the coronavirus public health crisis was a significant source of stress to them.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 26, 2024

.” That’s the headline in a WBUR story last week detailing the efforts of health care professionals in “amplifying” their patients’ voices inside and outside of the hospital walls by advocating for their health citizenship — through voter registration and public health policy advocacy.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It’s clear that the economic impact of the public health crisis has hit women harder than men in America, resulting in the impacts of a “She-Cession.” ” Here’s the full coverage of this press event with Bernstein’s full remarks.

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