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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

In April 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a report featuring evidence that in the month of March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was not an equal-opportunity killer. The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. In the U.S., population).

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Targeted analytics help Canadian healthcare groups combat homelessness, boost SDOH

Healthcare It News

" That all changed in late 2019 when the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) released a sizable expression of interest funding contribution, to which the Labatt Family School of Nursing decided to apply and propose a two-armed study to explore homelessness in Canada using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden

Bill of Health

From spring 2020 through the present day, Americans have endured levels of sickness and death that are outliers among not only wealthy democracies, but around the world. No other country has recorded as many total COVID-19 casualties as the United States — indeed, no other country comes close. By Martha Lincoln.

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Health Care Is Front and Center as DeSantis and Newsom Go Mano a Mano

Kaiser Health News

Front and center will be homelessness and health care, top priorities for voters — and issues that have largely defined the governors’ policies and leadership styles. From abortion to covid-19 vaccines, Newsom and DeSantis could not be further apart.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2020. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. population health burden. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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