Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

The infection rate is once again trending up, presumably due to a combination of factors including a dramatic reduction in demand for new vaccinations, the rapid spread of the more infectious Delta variant in the U.S., as well as the reduction in mitigation measures.”

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APRIL 7, 2019

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.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

This trend couples with one in another research question in the study finding that the pandemic increased interest in work automation this year compared with last year. Community, with collaboration around data, mission, and inclusion key to bolstering public health and trust that then inspires health engagement and mutualism.

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MAY 17, 2022

In addition, anxiety and stress are mainstream across demographics and have impacted the way people select and consume food, based on findings in the 2022 Food and Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this case, there are market interventions, public sector spending, and individuals risk-managing to the desired outcome. These trends and roles remind us of the social determinants of health, those factors that make health beyond health care services. That is, government spending.

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MARCH 16, 2021

The first chart illustrates the trends of a person’s expected years of life from 25 to 74 from 1990 to 2020 by whether the individual had a BA degree. The trend lines show declining life expectancy for both men and women, White and Black, without a BA degree. The trend lines for Black people without BA degrees in the U.S.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Taken together, my trend-weave opens the over-arching umbrella of ESG goals – for Environmental, Social, and Governance pillars have become strategic and impactful talking points in C-suites across all industry sectors. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

For important insights into this devastating risk-trend, read this Washington Post coverage published just a few days before the CDC reports came out. One last comparative point to keep in mind: the U.S. Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020.

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MAY 17, 2018

wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health. The Trust for America’s Health is a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on public health and healthy communities.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: “Without bold action to reverse the trend, children’s risk of not reaching adulthood may increase.” .” Bullets, drugs, and automobiles are now causing a youth death toll sufficient to elevate all-cause mortality rates, they conclude.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Current spending on health care in America is roughly $4 trillion (with a “t”) dollars, approaching 20% of the nation’s economy. trillion based on future health trends — not historic workflows and delivery mechanisms which would consume an additional $3.5 By 2040, spending is projected to be $8.3

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AUGUST 24, 2021

They conclude, “the US is consistently the wealthiest country in the world with subpar levels of coverage for a core set of health services; these findings provide additional evidence of the need to reduce disparities.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

CTA looked at ten categories of consumer tech for the research: mobile devices, video products, audio products, computing devices, video gaming, smart homes, wearable tech, automotive tech, health & wellness, and lifestyle tech.

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MARCH 26, 2020

These projections are based on “current law,” the team from the CMS Office of the Actuary write, “developed using actuarial and econometric modeling methods in addition to judgments about future trends that affect the health care sector.”

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JANUARY 30, 2020

But most Americans, rich or not, believe that it’s unfair for wealthier people to get better health care, according to a January 2020 poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Life Experiences and Income Equality in the United States. adults 18 or older.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? This month’s announcement launching the Advanced Care at Home Initiative bolsters this phenomenon.

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MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. For a comprehensive overview, visit the Public Health Emergency Roadmap fact sheet.

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JUNE 25, 2018

According to the Center for Connected Health Policy, “Telehealth is a collection of means or methods for enhancing health care, public health, and health education delivery and support using telecommunications technologies. 1 Telehealth is widely used to support patients with chronic health conditions.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Today, Ben Coleman is Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care , representing the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham (LBHF). Little did I know, way back in the 1992 days of our collegial work relationship and budding friendship, that Ben would one day play with me in my sandbox of public health and social determinants.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Through the health citizens’ lens, its useful to call out technology, food & beverage, retail, among others that are increasingly part of a consumer’s health/care ecosystem for self-care at home.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

So whose job is it anyway to bolster social, economic and environmental health for a nation’s health citizens? There’s a trend in 2019 which will continue through 2020 where private sector health care providers, Foundations and other non-public sector entities have begun to address social determinants of health.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

companies to benefit communities beyond stockholders is a trend in this direction which I laud. The recent update among Business Roundtable members for “an economy that serves all Americans” re-commits the largest U.S.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Health data analytics also facilitates population health management, identifying trends, and patterns to optimize preventive care and public health interventions. This data can be used to conduct studies, identify trends, and develop evidence-based interventions.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Position Summary: This dynamic team is seeking a Data Scientist for the Analytics team within NYeC to use directly contribute to moving the needle on New York’s pressing healthcare needs you will leverage HIE and savvy data analytics to serve public health needs, address health inequities, and mature NYeC’s analytics capacity.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

What have been the observed trends in utilizing telehealth services for behavioral health among states? The survey provides valuable insight into the utilization of telehealth for Medicaid in behavioral health services and the trends shaping its impact.

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MAY 29, 2018

New research released by WellCare Health Plans, Inc. About USF College of Public Health. The University of South Florida College of Public Health is currently ranked #1 in Florida and 16 th in the nation by U.S. SOURCE WellCare Health Plans, Inc. ” Study Details. News & World Report.

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JULY 1, 2020

While federal agencies can address some of these policies going forward, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid does not have the authority to make changes to Medicare reimbursement policy for telehealth under current law, stakeholders said. THE LARGER TREND. WHY THIS MATTERS. The PHE is scheduled to expire in July.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it was making almost $48 million available in American Rescue Plan funding for public health capacity in rural and tribal communities, through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 9, 2020

The trends are clear and concerning. Government orders to shelter in place and health care leaders’ decisions to defer nonessential care successfully prevented the spread of the virus. The toll from their deaths may be close to the toll from Covid-19.

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MARCH 12, 2020

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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AUGUST 28, 2020

I wrote about this challenge in 2014 in my report for California Health Care Foundation, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Information Is Being Tracked and Used. Years ago, the Harvard Privacy Project led by Latanya Sweeney at the time had addressed privacy as, “the sword and the shield of public health.”

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JULY 2, 2019

There’s been a “clear lack of progress on health equity during the past 25 years in the United States,” asserts a data-rich analysis of trends conducted by two professors/researchers from UCLA’s School of Public Health. The table shows the health equity measures and trends over the 25 years.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. She points to consumers’ growing demand for brands to support their health – including brands outside of the healthcare space.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

For insights into that trend of growing male mortality, search for my posts on the Deaths of Despair here on Health Populi). It took years to narrow the life expectancy gender gap: NCHS notes that in the decade between 2000 and 2010, the gap between the sexes declined from 5.2 years to the lowest level of 4.8 years in 2019.

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MAY 21, 2018

Pedro’s life work as a sociologist has been in education’s role for enriching peoples’ lives, and how schools are influenced by social and economic conditions as well as by demographic trends in local, regional and global contexts.

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