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I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.
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The second chart dives into the data for heart disease and cancer, showing that more steps — again, the 10,000 goal — reduces death rates for both cardiac health and for deaths from cancers. This is a useful proof-point for recommending exercise-as-medicine.
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during the publichealth crisis. Note on the “decrease” half of the graph is exercise, with 18% of people significantly reducing their physical activity, and one-half of Americans moderately decreasing exercise. The Atlantic offered this take this week].
It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. At the start of 2021, over one-third of people started the new year with heathy eating and exercise goals, along with more economizing to save money. Diving further into U.S.
The last chart gauges consumers’ engagement pre-pandemic for usual life-flows like going to outdoor parks, visiting friends in their homes, going to movies and live concerns, exercising in gyms, hanging out in bars, going to the barber and beauty shop, and dining out.
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If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for publichealth 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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consumers’ changing attitudes toward food during the publichealth crisis. Health Populi’s Hot Points: If you paid attention to mass media since the start of the pandemic in the first quarter of 2020, then you would be aware of a toxic side-effect of the coronavirus crisis — that of food insecurity.
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” That jump was accelerated during the pandemic, as people staying home has led to new work- and life-flows for jobs, exercise, cooking, learning, and staying even-keeled in the face of isolation, economic challenges, and political/social stress.
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