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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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Masks Work. A Picture From Kansas That Tells A Story in Two Words.

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The rationale: That was two days before Independence Day, the holiday weekend when she and state public health officials anticipated health citizens would abandon their personal efforts to physically distance and cover faces to avoid contracting or spreading the coronavirus. This was the message directly communicated to U.S.

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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

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Twenty-seven days before the 2020 elections, 7 in 10 Americans say their financial health will influence their votes this year, according to the doxoINSIGHTS survey which shows personal financial health as a key voter consideration in the Presidential election. The study has a 2% margin of error.

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“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

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That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19. The Lancet study, published on 1 February 2022, was funded by the Gates Foundation in partnership with The Bloomberg Philanthropies et al.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

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It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

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Even with that moderate increase, this post’s title reports the study headline that workers’ health insurance premiums continue to grow faster than wages: cumulatively since 2010, family premiums grew by 55% and deductibles, 11%. Workers’ earnings increased 27% in the period and inflation, 19%.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

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His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Over the past week, I’ve culled several studies and resources to divine a profile of the U.S. consumer in the COVID-19 moment…a moment that may last most of the rest of the months of 2020.