Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So only in America in the coronavirus pandemic have millions of people lost their health security just when folks would be most needful of access to health care services: during a public health crisis. Race matters for health insurance in America. Onward, health citizens.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

” 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). Yes, to healthy food.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

My cousin Arlene got married in Detroit at the classic Book Cadillac Hotel on July 23, 1967, a Sunday afternoon wedding. Ultimately, public policy should and must bake health into all policies, from agriculture and transportation to labor laws and health care access.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

When it comes to health care, ensuring universal coverage and increasing access, and addressing health care costs rank the top two concerns for voting up-and=down ballot in the 2020 election, shown in the second chart.

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Health Populi

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Sum of Us, a new book by Heather McGhee, details the many flavors of inequities that put the U.S. That’s certainly true for health and health care access — COVID-19 has shown us. And we are all paying a price in life expectancy losses as a result, the NCHS data sadly demonstrates.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The heavy cost burden, the time-wasting and -waiting life-flows of getting and accessing appointments, and the administrative paperwork that is an outlier experience for people living digitized lives… calling people “health consumers” doesn’t mean their consumer experience is particularly enchanting.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions.

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Hall Render

JUNE 7, 2024

million bird flu shots to U.S. million bird flu shots to U.S.

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Hall Render

APRIL 1, 2022

Coalition of hospitals, health plans and others urge for stronger guidance around third-party apps. Hospital, long-term care groups again petition Becerra to extend COVID-19 public health emergency. Rural Alabama wastewater infrastructure ‘public health issue’ gets much-needed attention.

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Hall Render

MAY 31, 2024

public relations firm strikes second acquisition after landing PE investment D.C.’s margin in Q1 AI + navigation = faster cancer care at Northwell Mount Sinai’s Beth Israel submits revised closure plan Dollars can boost health equity, but broad change is just as important Montefiore records $27.9M operating income, 4.1%

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2020

“We must have hit a wrong key,” they note in the introduction of their book, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Here’s one included in the beginning of the book that’s a macro-picture of U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: I draft this post on Monday 9th March 2020. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2023

Appreciation for public health in America tends to be a local-love thing, according to research from the de Beaumont Foundation. The COVID-19 pandemic raised health citizens’ awareness of the role and importance of public health — and for 7 in 10 people in the U.S., Nor is public health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

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. In closing, the last chapter of my book, HealthConsuming, talks about Americans “Becoming Health Citizens.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Two-thirds of working adults employed during the pandemic say their jobs have been negatively impacted by the public health crisis. I finalized the title of my recently published book, Health Citizenship , with the tagline: “How a virus opened hearts and minds.”

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