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The Social Determinants of Food for Health, Farms, and the Economy

Health Populi

In 2016, 21.4 on several dimensions: diet and health outcomes, farming as an industry and economic engine, and social determinants, along with seven other categories. Expanding access for affordable, nutritious food. Ensuring food security for people who lack that access. employment.

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Payor-Led Initiatives to Strengthen Mental Health Resources

Healthcare Law Blog

1] In addition to the challenges presented by provider shortages, even when patients are able to locate an available mental health provider, many are hesitant to engage in treatment due to cost uncertainties, which often arise due to limited availability for in-network care and the subsequent need to seek out-of-network care. [2]

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Reproductive Health at Risk: Climate Change and Agrotoxins in Latin America

Bill of Health

In Uruguay , 97% of food consumed between November 2015 and August 2016 contained pesticide residues, and in Mexico , 140 agrotoxins banned in other countries are used, 111 of which are classified as highly dangerous. Cumulatively, the Americas accounted for 51% of global pesticide use in 2020, a concerning increase from 44% in 2000.

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Reproductive Health at Risk: Climate Change and Agrotoxins in Latin America

Bill of Health

In Uruguay , 97% of food consumed between November 2015 and August 2016 contained pesticide residues, and in Mexico , 140 agrotoxins banned in other countries are used, 111 of which are classified as highly dangerous. Cumulatively, the Americas accounted for 51% of global pesticide use in 2020, a concerning increase from 44% in 2000.

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Thinking Pharma on a Friday: Europe’s Big Reforms for a Health Union & the U.S. 50-State Fragments

Health Populi

I’ll remind all of us that a newly-elected President Trump talked about pharma companies quite critically in TIME magazine’s coverage which I discussed here in Health Populi in December 2016. — as much and as long as I have been evangelizing the ideal of Health Citizenship for all U.S. health citizen-consumers.

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Health Care Providers Are More Politically Engaged in the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

Until 2016, physicians’ voting rates in U.S. voters to the election polls…including health care providers. In 2016, the Annals of Internal Medicine published an essay on Will Physicians Vote? elections had not changed since the late 1970s. This was a milestone marker for U.S.

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