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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus. who had received 1 or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines by race/ethnicity were: 66% of White, non-Hispanic people (60% of U.S. In the U.S., population).

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The International Weaponization of Health Data

Bill of Health

The Global Health Data Exchange : “The world’s most comprehensive catalog of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data,” including data from 1990 to 2019 on mortality and morbidity in 204 countries and territories, which spans 369 diseases, injuries, and impairments, and 87 risk factors.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

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.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

Dowling keynoted on the theme of “Leading for the Future,” sharing his lessons learned during COVID-19. He kicked off his lessons focusing in on a theme that would resonate with the HIMSS audience: “COVID changed our relationship with technology forever.”. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S.,

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

Then COVID-19 joined the top-10 list of killers in the U.S. The meeting is emphasizing this year countries’ responses to the COVID-19 crisis, working to boost health care systems, protect the poor and vulnerable, support business, and help countries towards a green, resilient recovery in the words of the Bank.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

CTA tracked consumers’ use of technology throughout the pandemic, and the first chart illustrates important findings that illustrate the digital transformation of people through COVID-19. While connected fitness was gauged in 2019, the other three categories were new to the 2021 study. in the next 12 months.

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Health Populi

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. The year 2020 pushed several issues into headlines and peoples’ online searches and social network shares.