Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

currently live in counties with limited or no access to maternity care services. Just one example of this public health challenge is the state of Texas which has 15 million women who have , March of Dimes asserts, the “highest reproductive health vulnerability of all U.S. million women in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The tendency to exclude older adults in the design process of technology is accelerating gaps in health care access and quality of life. The support systems that are available online are more difficult and frustrating to use for older adults.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition, preventive services for women are part of ACA prevention list such as well-woman visits, all FDA-approved, -granted, or -cleared contraceptives and related services, and other female-focused care. It’s a lot — and has made a huge difference in public health access for those enrolled in ACA plans.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Insurers should also work to decrease the shortage of mental health care providers in their networks. Ghost entries would be less problematic for mental health care access if there were a sufficient group of actual providers who could accept patients.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

.” Growing out-of-pocket payments for copays and coinsurance for services and prescription drugs have also reshaped patients into consumers, increasingly facing a retail health environment that inspires many people to shop around for care and products when they are shoppable. To build healthcare back better in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Nearly all large companies are also worried about the long-term mental health impacts of the public health crisis. The pandemic’s sharp reveal of health inequities and income inequality accelerated this trend. Figure 3 arrays various social determinants targets undertaken by large employers in the study.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So only in America in the coronavirus pandemic have millions of people lost their health security just when folks would be most needful of access to health care services: during a public health crisis. Race matters for health insurance in America.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

On a widespread basis, doctors and nurses are being gagged and muzzled by administrators for expressing their concerns, and penalized or even fired when they do speak out… The handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will go down as the worst public health disaster in the history of the country.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2023

House of Representatives vote of 221 to 213 to overturn a Pentagon policy that guaranteed abortion access to service members regardless of where they are stationed (including states where the procedure remains legally provided). The launch of the Opill will be very welcome news for women and family health and well-being.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s more of an “and” than an “or,” we know now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as financial health connects with mental health, physical health, and social/civic health. Yes, to health care access (especially primary care). Yes, to healthy food.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 12, 2024

Far too often, the public health imperative of harm reduction is blocked by federal policy, state laws, and other structural barriers anchored in the “war on drugs” that reduce the effectiveness of harm reduction efforts. Student at Temple University’s Department of Geography.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

to paint the movement on outdoor walls to promote health citizenship and the importance of health care access and affordability for all people in America. Shepard Fairey is well-known as a muralist painting popular and politically-inspired images. Power to the Patients is motivating muralists around the U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And we know that our prisons, jails, and detention centers employ doctors with suspended and limited licenses as the exclusive source for health care for incarcerated people. Carceral health care occurs within a regulatory vacuum.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Patients’ postponing health care will continue for some, resulting in worse prognoses for them along with the need for providers to engage people where they are to bolster trust in their return to care sites. along with health disparities and inequities. Mortality will be up in the U.S.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 9, 2023

An opportunity to reframe, regroup, and refocus  Now that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is well behind us, we have an opportunity to reframe patient expectations – and regroup and refocus on compliance-related patient care needs.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2023

This year, MedWand launched the Urban-Rural Healthcare Alliance , having known where the virtual care puck has been going since the company’s inception. That’s cross-industry collaboration, the kind required to solve thorny big challenges like health equity and access to care for all health citizens.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated many trends in and beyond health care. One is Americans’ growing understanding of health care as a civil right. The post The Unbearable Heaviness of Healthcare in America – the Change Healthcare/Harris Poll appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

.” “This,” being the scenarios illustrated by people – health consumers, patients, caregivers, all hungry for health citizenship, illustrated here by their signs of SDoHs curated in this second slide from my PowerPoint deck.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

When it comes to health care, ensuring universal coverage and increasing access, and addressing health care costs rank the top two concerns for voting up-and=down ballot in the 2020 election, shown in the second chart.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 14, 2023

I support ECRI’s call-out of this challenge as a patient as well as provider safety issue, given the politicization of women’s health care access which has emerged a national as well as State-level crisis for women and the people who love us.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

They conclude, “the US is consistently the wealthiest country in the world with subpar levels of coverage for a core set of health services; these findings provide additional evidence of the need to reduce disparities.”

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

See Latest Data RHODE ISLAND Lifespan’s primary care group transitions to Epic Teenage Depression Rates in Rhode Island Prompt ‘Crisis’ Rhode Island native’s AI company helping predict patient health outcomes Coastal Medical switches to Lifespan’s electronic health record R.I.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2021

Women have been more likely to lose jobs in the economic downturn, lose hours of work resulting in lower pay, and as a result of some workers obtaining health insurance through a job, and/or have lost health insurance and thus access to health care services.

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Hall Render

JULY 28, 2023

million for rural hospital expansion Hospices in Arizona & other states receive scrutiny over concerns of fraud, waste & abuse Phoenix Children’s Building New 44,000-Square Foot Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Firefighters oppose Banner’s planned $400M hospital There’s a growing nurse shortage in Arizona.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

In part, these health outcomes can be significantly influenced by factors both within the health care system as well as the environment, social care, and other drivers of health (those social determinants of health we cover here in Health Populi as core to our wheelhouse and advisory work).

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Pandemic puts local health care to the ultimate test. County’s public health system. Public health director announces she’s leaving. Idaho House passes bill to guarantee in-person caregiver visits at health facilities. United Health Foundation Invests in Healthcare Nonprofit.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

That’s certainly true for health and health care access — COVID-19 has shown us. Not true, Heather argues (and I agree): there’s a Solidarity Dividend that’s created as gains that come when people come together across race benefit every one.

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Hall Render

APRIL 1, 2022

Coalition of hospitals, health plans and others urge for stronger guidance around third-party apps. Hospital, long-term care groups again petition Becerra to extend COVID-19 public health emergency. Rural Alabama wastewater infrastructure ‘public health issue’ gets much-needed attention.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Psychedelic startups and media coverage have followed an influx of Venture Capital, carried on by quasi-religious evangelists who claim that their products will lead the way to the future, offering low-cost private-sector solutions to the vast problems of contemporary society, while seeking to undermine public health care access and employment.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 10, 2022

The growing telehealth/Rx channels of Nurx, Hims and Hers, Ro, GoodRx, among others, could channel medications and virtual services to women in the privacy of their homes, a health care access pathway we will be closely watching.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

in billing fraud Arizona system names new CEO Banner Health CEO Peter Fine to retire after 24 years, handing the reins to health system president Four UArizona bioscience startups selected for Flinn Foundation program Gov. s health, hospital chief says Raising Ky.’s

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. That’s what MLK would have wanted.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. That’s what MLK would have wanted.

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Public Health Health Insurance Health Outcomes Doctors 93

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Inman College of Nursing FDA clears Collierville startup CircumFix’s medical device for surgery, marketing FTC opposes Novant Health’s $320M hospital deal with Community Health Systems HCA CFO to retire HCA nets $5.2B

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. That’s what MLK would have wanted.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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Public Health Health Insurance Health Outcomes Doctors 141

Hall Render

APRIL 14, 2023

NATIONAL 94% of Organizations Experienced a Cyberattack in 2022 AHA blog: Strengthening crisis management in rural health care Biden signs bill ending Covid-19 national emergency Cancer drug shortages are creating dire circumstances for some patients CMS Releases FY24 IPPS Proposed Rule, Seeks to Boost Rates by 2.8%

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