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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

Nearly one-half of consumers said the pandemic compelled them to support provider sharing of data, 4 in 10 people embraced downloading data to apps, and one-third supported government standards to improve patient matching.

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Channeling Tip O’Neill: “All Public Health (Love) is Local,” U.S. Health Citizens Tell the de Beaumont Foundation

Health Populi

.” A big part of learning about public health and its local value was peoples’ growing understanding of the social determinants, or drivers, of health that shape medical outcomes and residents’ well-being in their communities.

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Come Together – A Health Policy Prescription from the Bipartisan Policy Center

Health Populi

Among all Americans, the most popular approach for improving the health care in the U.S. isn’t repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act or moving to a Medicare-for-All government-provided plan. legislators inside the Beltway to come together for the health-benefit of U.S.

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What John Mackey of Whole Foods Said at the 2022 HIMSS Conference – and Why This is Important for the Whole Health Ecosystem

Jane Sarashon

” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. .” Yes, to health care access (especially primary care).

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Financial Health Is On Americans’ Minds Just Weeks Before the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

“While many Americans have benefitted from government assistance during the pandemic, the money is quickly running out,” doxo observed in data about peoples’ receipt and use of CARES Act funding. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The patient in the U.S. Two-thirds of people do not believe the U.S.

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What the Pew Report on Trust and Distrust in America Means for Health/Care, El Paso and Dayton — Pogo Rears His Head Again

Health Populi

It’s been well-documented that Americans’ trust in institutions, and especially government and media, has eroded over the past decade. This holds true for health care access, burdens of chronic disease, health literacy, and by definition access to the social determinants of health the bolster well-being.

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

The CDC addressed the issue of social determinants of health disproportionately impacting people of color in July, noting that people from racial and ethnic minority groups were more likely to be uninsured than non-Hispanic Whites. Onward, health citizens.