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Obesity is a Public Health Epidemic in the U.S. — The Case for GLP-1 Coverage, Affordability and Equity

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were sensible, weight management would be treated as a public health issue,” David Cutler writes in the JAMA Health Forum dated August 15, 2024. health care” citing the example of weight loss medications — in short, the uptake of GLP-1 drugs to address Type 2 diabetes first, and subsequently obesity.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

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Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds

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GfK looked at consumers across four significant stressful events: 9-11, natural disasters, the Great Recession, and COVID-19. “This time is different,” GfK observes, arraying impacts of security, resources, the economy, health, and other items yet to be seen. Why is this time different from these other events?

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

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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. Heat-related illness.

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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

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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.

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

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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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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

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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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