Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So what’s an organization like CTA doing with AI and health care? Check out this graphic taken from my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. In the best of all worlds, that can lead us to better health outcomes, more effective care, and lower costs. Let me connect the dots.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The authors suggest that investing more in prevention and health promotion for these groups could improve health outcomes and get to more equitable spending levels. Kudos to the editors at JAMA for curating and publishing the August 17th issue addressing many facets and roots of health disparities in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

Place matters for a person’s health,” I wrote in Chapter 7 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.” The social determinants of health are conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live and age.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries: suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes, albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics. It led me to reinforce my belief in the concept of health citizenship for my fellow and sister Americans.

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