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Leading Health Concerns: trends in life expectancy, mortality. Social Determinants of Health: prevalence of social, economic, environmental, and community conditions affecting health outcomes. Healthcare Delivery Systems: capacities of the healthcare workforce and organizations.
29 Φεβ 2024 · Chronic diseases are increasing in prevalence throughout the US and put a major strain on the health care system. What this study adds Areas affected by a high prevalence of multiple chronic diseases face a variety of socioeconomic and environmental barriers to achieving good health.
16 Νοε 2023 · Thanks to decades of research, Americans are living longer. Yet Chronic diseases still affect large swaths of the population and are unevenly distributed creating health disparities. These chronic illness are common and costly, and many are preventable.
According to a Gallup poll, seven in 10 think the current healthcare system is “in a state of crisis” or having “major problems,” with similar sentiments expressed for almost the last thirty years. What are the biggest problems with U.S. healthcare? Below are eight of the top issues.
23 Μαΐ 2024 · Narrower majorities say that the affordability of healthcare (57%), drug addiction (55%) and the federal budget deficit (53%) are very big problems in the country today. And roughly half say that illegal immigration (51%), gun violence (49%), violent crime (48%) and the state of moral values (46%) are each very big problems.
26 Ιουν 2024 · WASHINGTON — The U.S. has made little progress in advancing health care equity over the past two decades, and racial and ethnic inequities remain a fundamental flaw of the nation’s health care system, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Data increasingly showed that social, economic, environmental, and community conditions—together known as social determinants of health—may substantially influence the population's health more than care delivered by practitioners and healthcare systems.
