Mental health Mobile Health Public Health 
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2021
For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health challenges have indeed adversely impacted more younger people than people 25 and older.
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2025
Health Populi’s Hot Points: What we-know-we-know is that the pandemic experience, emerging five years ago this week based on WHO’s pronouncement of the public health emergency, is that our homes became our health hubs.
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Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
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.
Health Populi
AUGUST 25, 2020
This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. On the consumerism front, UHC found that over one-half of people have gone online via either web search or mobile app to find medical services and seek price transparency.
Health Populi
MARCH 2, 2021
But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.
Health Populi
JULY 23, 2020
One of the public health hallmarks of the pandemic era has been stress, documented by the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey. One of the most compelling telehealth access scenarios in the first months of pandemic will be told by consumers accessing virtual care for teletherapy and counseling.
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