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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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

Bill of Health

The Maternal and Infant Health Crisis The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1,205 women died due to childbirth-associated health complications in 2021, up from 754 in 2019. is the most dangerous place to be born in in the developed world. .; According to the U.S. Further, the U.S.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

HIT Consultant

The COVID-19 pandemic hit Africa hard and overwhelmed the capacity to test for and treat the disease, highlighting existing gaps within its national health systems. Health resources are unevenly distributed and often of poor quality. Hesitancy: a convenient scapegoat.

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Health Provider News – September 23, 2022

Hall Render

Amazon PillPack Founders to Leave in Latest Health-Care Shakeup. Congress presses Meta about health data privacy after hospitals remove Facebook tracker. Healthcare Compliance Will Be a Challenge in Post-PHE World. Health systems grow apprenticeships to tackle shortages. 2 RWJBarnabas Health facilities among 1st in N.J.

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The Pandemic’s Death Rate in the U.S.: High Per Capita Income, High Mortality

Health Populi

The United States has among the highest per capita incomes in the world. also has sustained among the highest death rates per 100,000 people due to COVID-19, based on epidemiological data from the World Health Organization’s March 28, 2021 , update. Millions of people in the U.S.

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

Jane Sarashon

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). We segue then to a view from Kaiser Family Foundation’s Health Tracking Poll focusing on the cost of health care and prescription drugs.