2020: Telehealth and the Tale of Two Pandemics
Author Marie Johnson. Published in InnovationAus, 13 April, 2020
Cardiovascular disease and COVID-19 are both pandemics, and these two pandemics are colliding.
How we are managing both and together is a public health issue: these can’t be managed in isolation because these don’t exist in isolation.
Impacting both pandemics – and every disease and condition not just COVID-19 and CVDs – is health illiteracy and poor accessibility. Health illiteracy is widespread throughout populations, and disproportionately impacts the disadvantaged.
