Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

In the COVID-19 era, most U.S. consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Fewer Americans trust social media companies, employers, and genealogy companies (like Ancestry and 23andMe) with their personal health data.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In place of “government,” you might use the words “hospital” or “health insurance” or “drug company.” The book’s many examples of citizen scientists spans at least forty years, and even features very current insights into Long COVID and the use of TikTok in patient communities.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

All those activities, couched in safety and hygiene — being protected from the tricky COVID-19 virus, which meant keeping a clean home environment in terms of air, surfaces, and hand-hygiene. Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES.

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