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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

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These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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A Breakthrough, Sobering Report on Teens and Young Adults, Digital Health and Social Media Use: Implications for Mental Health

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There are also hundreds of stories written in both mass media outlets and professional journals on the topic of TYAs and mental health: especially relative to depression and suicidality. The report was co-written by Victoria Rideout and Susannah Fox, two names Health Populi readers should know.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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COVID-19’s Consumer Health Care Behaviors: Telehealth, Trauma, and Trust, via PwC

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A new report from PwC looks at peoples’ changes in health behaviors in the first two months of the pandemic, asking whether these changes will stick “after” the pandemic fades. But feeling isolated was surely the most impacted health risk, as the dotted line in the first chart graphs. In the COVID-19 era in the U.S.,

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Consumers’ Health Concerns Grow in the Pandemic Across All Categories – And More Trust Virtual Care

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While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand

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Fully one-half of employees would be keen on apps to help find a doctor or care when and where needed, and just about 1 in 2 workers would like an app that helps find expert physicians anywhere in the world (think: specialists via telehealth) as well as electronic and portable personal health records.

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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

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Patients’ willingness to share their personal health information is eroding, varying by age group and race/ethnicity along with the kind of organizations folks would share with. The most common home-test by far has been for COVID-19, with other kinds of DTC diagnostic testing still lagging well behind.