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How COVID-19 is Hurting Americans’ Home Economics in 2020

Health Populi

Beyond the physical and clinical aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic are financial hits that people are taking in the shutdown of large parts of the U.S. economy, impacting jobs, wages, and health insurance rolls. health consumers in and beyond 2020. Some 1 in 2 people in the U.S. This, when U.S.

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The Patient as Consumer and Payer – A Focus on Financial Stress and Wellbeing

Health Populi

Year 3 into the COVID-19 pandemic, health citizens are dealing with coronavirus variants in convergence with other challenges in daily life: price inflation, civil and social stress, anxiety and depression, global security concerns, and the safety of their families. As a result, more people in the U.S.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

Fendrick was part of a team that wrote one of the first research articles on the effects of increasing patient cost sharing on health disparities — published in 2008 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. have struggled to pay for living expenses since December 2020, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Jane Sarashon

Septo“ refers to “seven:” along with the triple-demic of COVID-19, influenza and RSV, add in four more viruses: parainfluenza (a cause of croup), rhinovirus, metapneumovirus, as well as pneumococcus which is still alive and replicating. Reported in MIT Technology Review on December 19, 2022. “In

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Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts

Health Populi

She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. We’ll be brainstorming Health and Wealth in the coronavirus pandemic, covering a broad array of facts, health consumer challenges and hacks in our conversation.

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