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Calling for Holistic Maternal Care to Address Racial Disparities: The Role of Midwives and Doulas

Bill of Health

By Jordan Brooks and Tamar Ezer Expanding access to midwives and doulas in the United States is a vital and often overlooked way to increase access to culturally-congruent birthing options during pregnancy and improve health outcomes for birthing individuals and their children. The Maternal and Infant Health Crisis The U.S.

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Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2

Health Populi

. “This event set off weeks of protests over police violence and racism both aross the country and around the world,” APA’s report on Wave 2 research for this report begins. adults age 19 and over between May 21 and June 3, 2020. APA polled 3,013 U.S.

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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

Health Populi

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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Healthcare’s Sustainability Problem And The Solutions Tech Can Provide

Healthcare IT Today

Options such as autoclaving, microwaving, and frictional heat treatment have lower capital and operating costs and less environmental impact, according to the World Health Organization. Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center conducted more than 340,000 telehealth visits from March 2020-February 2021. Telehealth.

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

Health Populi

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

Jane Sarashon

Financial stressors were a kind of toxic side effect of the pandemic, observed by the spring of 2020 just weeks into the public health crisis. A new article in Nature details the mental health concerns exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included economic problems faced by many families.