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Employers and the Future of Public Health

Bill of Health

By Sharona Hoffman As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health. In the future, they may frequently take the lead in implementing public health measures. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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

Health Populi

The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. In the U.S., The percentages of people in the U.S. population).

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

Health Populi

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. now, looking at health citizens’ trust in five segments of the health care industry between 2015 and 2021. in the first quarter of 2020.

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

Health Populi

In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Joining Peloton in connected fitness at CES 2021 was NordicTrack, which recently announced its purchase of Precor.

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

Health Populi

The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry gained a “whopping” 30 points between January 2020 and February 2021, based on the latest Harris Poll in their research into industries’ reputations. Looking forward, the test of the sustainability of upwardly-mobile pharma reputation in 2021 and 2022 will be drug pricing.

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

Bill of Health

From early moments in 2020, the concept of a right to health — and indeed, even a right to life — has been discounted in American policy, discourse, and practice. In a recent comparison of health system performance in 11 high-income countries, the U.S. rated last , owing in part to our lack of universal coverage provision.

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