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More people die in the United States during childbirth each year than in any other developed nation. For Black birthing parents, mortality rates are significantly higher than they are for white birthing parents. Providing birth doulas as a supportive part [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Black Birthing Parents, Business Group on Health, Doulas, health equity, Maternal Health, maternity, Nancy Jester, Tracie Collins
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It’s well-understood that young people’s mental health is suffering; it’s the subject of news headlines, dinner conversations, and benefit strategy sessions as employers explore how to support families. On this episode of the Business Group on Health podcast, we dig [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, Laura Erickson-Schroth, mental health, The Jed Foundation, Vivante Health, youth, youth mental health
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At least one in ten people will be diagnosed with an eating disorder in their lifetime. Despite how common they are, most of us have misconceptions about who suffers from an eating disorder and what they look like. On this [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Accolade, anorexia, binge eating, bulimia, Business Group on Health, eating disorder, health equity, Project HEAL, Rebecca Eyre
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Many people with cancer are diagnosed during the prime working years of their life. Among other uncertainties, they often question how they’ll balance their work with treatment and recovery, and what will happen if they disclose their diagnosis. On this [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Accolade, Business Group on Health, Cancer, Cancer and Careers, Cancer in workplace, Healthcare, Rebecca Nellis
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The United Nations has an ambitious goal for the world: to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. While medical advances in recent decades have allowed people with HIV to live longer and healthier lives than ever before, many challenges to [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Anne Aslett, Business Group on Health, Chevron, Equality, Global Public Health, health equity, HIV/AIDS, Michael Steinberg, Onduo, Verily, World AIDS Day
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“By listening carefully to what they are saying, we can appreciate the lessons they have to teach us: be real, know who you are, be responsible for your own well-being, support your friends, open up institutions to the talents of [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, Gen Z, Generation Z, Generation Z in workplace, Onduo, Roberta Katz, Verily
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Globally, one in seven people live with some form of disability, making disabled people the world’s largest minority group. It’s also a group that anybody can join at any time throughout their life. In fact, 80 percent of disabilities are [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Allyship, Business Group on Health, Crosby Cromwell, Disability Inclusion, equity, Inclusivity, Workplace Inclusion
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More than ever, LGBTQ+ equality is on the minds of employers and this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast tackles some of the most pressing issues facing organizations striving for allyship. In conversation with representatives from the Human [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Allyship, Business Group on Health, Equality, HRC, human rights, Human Rights Campaign, Inclusivity, Joy Wilson, LGBTQ, Raina Nelson, Transgender, Workplace
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Alcohol use is harmful to health in many ways, including some that go unrecognized. One third of U.S. adults experience alcohol use disorder in their lifetime, according to today’s Business Group on Health Podcast guest, Dr. John Kelly. But there [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Addiction Medicine, Aim Specialty Health, alcohol addiction, alcohol use, behavioral health, Business Group on Health, employer sponsored health care, Harvard Medical School, John Kelly, Recovery, substance use disorder
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The latest data show that suicide is the twelfth leading cause of death in the U.S. and among those with the highest rates are younger, working age adults (ages 25-34). While there are a multitude of factors that contribute to [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Aim Specialty Health, Business Group on Health, Christine Yu Moutier, mental health, mental health benefits employer sponsored health care, suicide, suicide prevention, suicide risk
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What if we focused on the conditions for creating health rather than treating disease? This simple change in perspective is the foundation of functional medicine: promoting health by focusing on the body as “one whole ecosystem” rather than different parts [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: body, Business Group on Health, food, food and medicine, functional medicine, habits, Health, Mark Hyman, Medicine, Vanderbilt Health
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More than 80% of working Americans say financial insecurity is a major problem, reflecting the fact that many in the U.S. live paycheck to paycheck, lack emergency savings, and experience financial anxiety. Businesses are taking note, realizing that what they [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, emotional well-being, financial anxiety, financial insecurity, financial security, financial well-being, Timothy Flacke, Vanderbilt Health, well-being
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In medicine death is seen as a failure, and we do everything we can to avoid failure. This supports the societal stigma associated with talking about death and dying, as we no longer see death as a part of life. [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, caregiving, Death, death and dying, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, dying, end of life care, grief, palliative care
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What do mitigating pain, overcoming phobias, changing harmful behaviors and calming anxiety have in common? They’re all addressed through virtual reality. In this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, we speak with Dr. Walter Greenleaf, a behavioral neuroscientist [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: behavioral neuroscience, Business Group on Health, Dr. Walter Greenleaf, Health, health and well-being, health care, overcoming phobias, pain mitigation, Pear Therapeutics, therapeutic virtual reality, virtual reality, VR, well-being
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Over the last few years there’s been increasing public interest in “gut health” – research tells us that a healthy gut microbiome can not only help us lose or maintain weight, but also influences so much more, including our mood, [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, gut health, gut-brain connection, healthy gut, microbiome
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When we talk about sleep and health, our conversations usually focus on the physical impact of sleep loss. Far less discussed, but just as important, are the social and emotional changes taking place when we don’t get the sleep we [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, employer sponsored health care, Eti Ben Simon, Ovia Health, Sleep, Sleep and Health, Sleep Loss, Sleep Science
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A recent report from the National Center for Health Statistics provided unwelcome news – during the first year of the pandemic the number of deaths among pregnant women and new mothers rose 14%, with Black women most affected. Why does [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Black Maternal Health, Business Group on Health, Child Health, health disparities, Healthcare Disparities, March of Dimes, Maternal Health, Stacey D. Stewart
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Although the U.S. is in a more positive phase of the pandemic than two years ago, many are wondering how long it might last (especially in light of surges abroad) and how we should best prepare for the future. In [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, COVID-19, employer sponsored health care, long covid, pandemic
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The United States is experiencing an addiction crisis with historical levels of drug overdose deaths, prompting increased urgency to treat addiction with both evidence and empathy. During this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, we speak with Dr. [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: addiction, addiction treatment, Business Group on Health, Carl Erik Fisher, employer sponsored health care, substance use disorders
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While once deemed to have no medical value, there’s currently a race underway to study and gain FDA approval for the use of psychedelics as a mental health treatment. In this episode of the Business Group on Health Podcast, we [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, employer sponsored health care, innovation, mental health, mental health treatment, psychedelic therapy
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Climate change touches everything important to us, according to Dr. Renee Salas, and that includes our health and well-being. And perhaps there’s no clearer example of how we’re all bound together by the effects of climate change than the 2021 [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: 2021 Dixie Fire, Business Group on Health, climate change, employer sponsored health care, equity, Renee Salas
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In-person care, telehealth, and apps, oh my! With so many care delivery choices available to patients, when does it make sense to engage virtually and when is it best to leave the screen behind? In our conversation with Dr. Ateev [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Business Group on Health Tags: Business Group on Health, employer sponsored health, health care, health care quality, telehealth, virtual care, virtual health
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For people recovering from COVID-19, the journey back to health and well-being can be a long and winding road. Some suffer from crippling fatigue; others experience brain fog; and still others can’t seem to catch their breath. How do we [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: brain fog, Business Group on Health, COVID-19, employer sponsored health, health care, Lekshmi Santhosh, long covid, UCSF Health
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Over 20 years ago the Institute of Medicine included “equitable” as one of six domains of quality, but when we talk about equity and quality today, we don’t often discuss them in tandem. To reach health improvement goals, that must [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, Dr. Mark Smith, health care quality, health equity, hybrid work, virtual health