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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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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

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The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

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The line chart come from a new study into Multimorbidity Trends in United States Adults, 1988-2014 , published in the July-August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. ” Unless this trajectory reverses, multimorbidity trends will continue to drive up healthcare costs in the U.S. .

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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

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If you live in Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas, your health care and outcomes are less likely to be top-notch, the Fund’s research concluded. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being.

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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA

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As a long-time fan and customer of IKEA, I receive daily Google Alerts about the company, from business finances to design trends. Thanks to the publication Retail TouchPoints and the author of the story, Adan Blair, for covering this project.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

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In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). Food access (looking at grocery store concentrations vs. food deserts).

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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

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In addition to the food supply impact for the Planet Earth’s patients, climate change impacts public health in many other ways. The American Public Health Association founded the Center for Climate.