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

Health Populi

” Growing out-of-pocket payments for copays and coinsurance for services and prescription drugs have also reshaped patients into consumers, increasingly facing a retail health environment that inspires many people to shop around for care and products when they are shoppable. To build healthcare back better in the U.S.,

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

Bill of Health

Climate disasters create barriers to reproductive health care access by causing damage to facilities and overwhelming infrastructure and health personnel. The recognition of human rights implications related to environmental health presents an opportunity to integrate these concerns into climate policy.

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

Bill of Health

Climate disasters create barriers to reproductive health care access by causing damage to facilities and overwhelming infrastructure and health personnel. The recognition of human rights implications related to environmental health presents an opportunity to integrate these concerns into climate policy.

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

Health Populi

In part, these health outcomes can be significantly influenced by factors both within the health care system as well as the environment, social care, and other drivers of health (those social determinants of health we cover here in Health Populi as core to our wheelhouse and advisory work).

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Medicaid & Health Equity: Addressing Disparities in Maternal and Mental Health

HIT Consultant

Research lays the foundation for equitable healthcare and where there is a lack of research, notable biases are present. Women’s health has been neglectfully under-researched, contributing to conditions going undiagnosed, incorrect treatment plans, and procedure failures. Air Force serving five years on active duty as a nurse.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Jane Sarashon

The key safety implications here are lack of access to pediatric behavioral health providers, drug and alcohol use, gun violence, and other stressors. ages 12 to 17 presented to the emergency department for suspected suicide attempts in the winter of 2021 — 39% greater than in the same period in 2019.

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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.” than on white people.

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