Health status of White Americans

• From 14th to 17th of June 2023, VivaTech takes place in Paris, serving as a hub for ground-breaking technological advancements.
• With its global reach, this event offers an unparalleled opportunity for COMPREDICT to present its Vehicle Predictive Health Solutions at the Software République booth.
• During the exhibition, COMPREDICT will be part of the innovative H1st vision ("Human first vision") mobility concept car and present for the very first time a revolutionary car health certificate, based on its technology of Virtual Sensors.
• With our contribution to the H1st vision concept car, we demonstrate the potential of Virtual Sensors as an accelerating and enabling technology in monitoring the health state of vehicles.

• In a new study we’ve attempted to quantify how the COVID pandemic has affected global health using an international survey of the general public.
• Health economists often quantify health using a metric known as the quality-adjusted life year (QALY).
• The idea is to assign a value to each year of a person’s life based on their overall health.
• To ascertain how people thought the pandemic had affected them, we asked them to rate their current health compared with a year before.

What we found

• Anxiety and depression was the aspect of health that worsened the most, especially for younger people (aged under 35) and women.
• Translating the health reductions into a QALY measure indicated that during the pandemic perceived health was around 8% lower on average.
• Similarly, some countries offered economic support to those in financial difficulties, which may have positively impacted their mental wellbeing.
• QALYs provide a way of quantifying the trade-offs that exist between the positive and negative effects of different strategies.

Lessons for future pandemics

• Measuring multiple aspects of health through QALYs would also be a useful supplement to existing measures focusing on cases and deaths.
• Moving beyond counting deaths to understanding the overall health of the population globally can help us to be better prepared for potential future health shocks.
• The view expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the EuroQol Research Foundation.

• ITRI also will exhibit its innovations in sports and fitness at CES Unveiled Las Vegas , booth 213, Level 2, Shoreline Exhibit Hall, Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
• ITRI worked with a leading bicycle brand to develop iSportWeaR and is introducing this technology to various pioneering product designs for additional cycling applications.
• ITRI's sports and fitness technologies are launching in the United States at CES 2023.
• Over the years, ITRI has been dedicated to incubating startups and spinoffs, including well-known names such as UMC and TSMC.

• SUDBURY, Mass., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Cannabis Public Policy Consulting ( CPPC ), the independent leader in advanced data science for cannabis policymaking, has released its Fall 2022 Cannabis Legalization & Public Health Outcomes Report .
• The report details one of the largest studies to date on cannabis legalization and cannabis use utilizing data from CPPC's Regulatory Determinants of Cannabis Outcomes Survey (RDCOS).
• The quarterly Regulatory Determinants of Cannabis Outcomes Survey (RDCOS) is the only available tool that integrates population-level cannabis outcomes data with extensive policy data at state and substate levels.
• Cannabis Public Policy Consulting (CPPC) is a team of research and behavioral public policy experts who combine robust survey methodology, policy data collection, and data science with practical cannabis regulatory consulting experience.