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

Health Populi

ASPE analyzed data from 62,451,150 people who had 1 or more vaccine doses administered by 3-10-21. who had received 1 or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines by race/ethnicity were: 66% of White, non-Hispanic people (60% of U.S. of Hispanic and LatinX people (19% of U.S. The percentages of people in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. Health insurance’s decline from 55% in 2017 to 46% in 2018, recovering in 2019 then falling again to a low of 43% this year in the 2021 Barometer.

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

Health Populi

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

Health Populi

First, check out the gainers on the list: after pharma, health insurance was the second biggest rep-winner in our COVID year, gaining 23 percentage points in the poll. Financial services took third place in reputation gains, with an 8-point growth over the year.

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

Bill of Health

This defeatist approach to COVID is quite in keeping with existing dynamics in the American health care system and broader national safety net. 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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