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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

Health Populi

.” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Health Populi

One of my favorite Dr. Seuss characters is the narrator featured in the book, I Had Trouble In Getting to Solla-Sollew. I frequently use this book when conducting futures and scenario planning sessions with clients in health/care. along with health disparities and inequities. Of more than one kind.

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

Health Populi

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The patient in the U.S.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

NABIP’s ten-article “Bill” incorporates a broad range of rights the speak to today’s health care environment — with States’ rights eroding health care access for certain populations, cybersecurity threats reducing patient trust in health systems and technology ubiquity, and health disparities compromising health (..)

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

Health Populi

The pandemic has further evolved health consumers toward health citizenship — learning that without health care access, mitigated risks of social determinants of health, and trust in institutions, Life in the Coronavirus Era was very difficult. To build healthcare back better in the U.S.,

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Health Consumers, Health Citizens, and Wearable Tech – My Chat with João Bocas

Health Populi

Once I actually became a health citizen in the EU, I’ve made the personal professional, incorporating the concept as part of my work on ESG principles in health care with my clients and collaborators. First, healthcare access for all — as a civil right. Third: trust as a precursor to civil engagement.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

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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