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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Jane Sarashon

In place of “government,” you might use the words “hospital” or “health insurance” or “drug company.” The post Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

The most-trusted parties people trust with their personal health information are doctors’ offices (86%), health insurers (75%), and medical researchers (72%), seen as the top health data stewards in the U.S. Three-quarters of people in the U.S.

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

Health Populi

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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Managing Cognitive Decline Concerns in the Workplace

Bill of Health

Employers want to safeguard their profitability and avoid workers who could develop absenteeism and productivity problems and raise health insurance costs. Short tests such as the Mini-Mental State Examination could reassure employees about their cognitive abilities or encourage them to pursue thorough testing with their doctors.

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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.

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

Health Populi

For an in-depth look into this phenomenon, see my report, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Getting Tracked and Used, written for the California Healthcare Foundation. doctors have to say about health disparities in JAMA. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.