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- Risk Communication for Sooner Spring and Beyond
- Risk Communicating with the public, the media and other health and emergency response organizations becomes a critical role during a confirmed or potential threat situation. Utilizing the tools of risk communication during a public health emergency will help local administrators communicate effectively the related risk to the public. The following...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Access to Medicines and Pharmaceutical Patents
- All countries agreed, in principle that, in circumstances of national health emergencies, developed countries should be allowed to grant compulsory licenses to manufacture generic pharmaceuticals for export to countries, which lack pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity. However, there is no agreement on the appropriate definition of health emergency and without this the...
- White papers
- Health Insurance for Children: Analysis and Recommendations
- This article frames some of the issues and draws on the most current research to point to solutions to persistent problems. The article begins by discussing the importance of health insurance for children's access to health care and describes the progress that has been made in providing coverage for children....
- White papers 2003-04-21
- How Public Health Insurance Programs for Children Work
- This article reviews the entire spectrum of coverage for children in the United States: private and public health insurance, and no health insurance. It places particular emphasis on the main features of Medicaid and SCHIP. The ways that these programs have influenced and benefited each other are also considered, as...
- White papers 2003-04-21
- Public Health Insurance for Oregon's Children
- This report discusses about the Family Health Insurance Assistance Program FHIAP, which was created to help low-income families afford private health insurance. The program subsidizes a portion of a member's private health insurance premium. The portion paid ranges from 50% to 95% depending on income levels, up to 185 percent...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- The Unique Health Care Needs of Adolescents
- This article describes the particular health care needs of adolescents and explores the extent to which public health insurance programs are meeting those needs. It includes an overview of the coverage available to adolescents through Medicaid and SCHIP, how that coverage has evolved, the importance of providing comprehensive benefits to...
- White papers 2003-04-21
- National Vital Statistics System
- The National Vital Statistics System NVSS provides the nation's official vital statistics data based on the collection and registration of birth and death events at the state and local level. The NVSS provides the most complete and continuous data available to public health officials at the national, state and local...
- White papers 2004-02-26
- Leisure-Time Physical Activity Among Adults: United States, 1997-98
- This paper presents selected prevalence estimates for leisure-time physical activity among U.S. adults, using data from the National Health Interview Survey NHIS. Leisure-time physical activity among adults has been the focus of public health efforts for many years. In the United States, cross-sectional studies of the association between physical activity...
- White papers 2002-04-07
- The Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance in Public Health Care Systems: The Importance of Price, Personal Characteristics and Public and Private Sector Supply
- The aim of private supplemental health insurance in the context of public health care systems is not generally to buy financial certainty but certain attributes of health care different from those of the public system. The paper deals with a model of the purchase decision based on individual and household...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Transfer of Health for All Policy - What, How and in Which Direction? A Two-Case Study
- This article explores the transfer of World Health Organization's WHO policy initiative Health for All by the Year 2000 (HFA2000) into national contexts by using the changes in the public health policies of Finland and Portugal from the 1970's onward and the relationship of these changes to WHO policy development...
- White papers 2004-12-07
- Cardiovascular Comorbidities Among Public Health Clinic Patients With Diabetes: The Urban Diabetics Study
- The paper involves determining the frequency and distribution of cardiovascular comorbidities in a large cohort of low-income patients with diabetes who had received primary care for diabetes at municipal health clinics. It further reveals that cardiovascular comorbidities were common both before and after diabetes diagnosis in this low-income cohort, but...
- White papers 2005-02-08
- Developing a Balanced Scorecard for Public Health
- Public health in Ontario has a mandate to promote and protect health and prevent disease in the population. Public health programs are largely based in the community and oriented to address community health needs. Recent events, such as the Walkerton tainted water crisis, SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, and West...
- White papers 2004-06-04
- A Crucial Part of Public Health Crisis Response
- Since September 11, a number of high profile health scares the anthrax mailings. The SARS outbreak and the monkeypox have vividly demonstrated how difficult it is to provide clear and consistent information to affected individuals, and to the professionals who come to their aid and the public at large. This...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Protecting the Public Health Through Knowledge: National Institutes of Health
- The National Institutes of Health NIH is one of eight agencies of the Public Health Service and part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH decided that, to meet its users' need for easy access to integrated business information, it needed outside help to bring a data...
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- Health Care: Continued Leadership Needed to Define and Implement Information Technology Standards
- Health care delivery in the United States has long-standing problems with medical errors and inefficiencies that increase costs. Hence, health information technology IT has great potential to improve the quality of care, bolster preparedness of our public health infrastructure, and save money on administrative costs. The paper reports on the...
- White papers 2005-09-29
- Household Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures and National Health Insurance in Taiwan: Income and Regional Inequality
- Unequal geographical distribution of medical care resources and insufficient healthcare coverage has been two long-standing problems with Taiwan's public health system. The implementation of National Health Insurance NHI attempted to mitigate the inequality in health care use. This study examines the degree to which Taiwan's National Health Insurance NHI has...
- White papers 2005-09-02
- Health System Outcomes and Determinants Amenable to Public Health in Industrialized Countries: A Pooled, Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis
- Few studies have tried to assess the combined cross-sectional and temporal contributions of a more comprehensive set of amenable factors to population health outcomes for wealthy countries during the last 30 years of the 20th century. This paper assesses the overall ecological associations between mortality and factors amenable to public...
- White papers 2005-08-02
- The Role of "Home" in Homeland Security: Public Health - The Challenge for State and Local Government
- This paper focuses on a discussion and recommendations on responding to bio-terrorism, integration of the public health and health care systems. It also features discussion on communicating effectively with physicians and other front line workers such as school nurses and emergency room workers about how to recognize and treat diseases...
- White papers 2003-01-31
- A Gap Between Acceptance and Knowledge of Herbal Remedies by Physicians: The Need for Educational Intervention
- The unprecedented global increase in the use of herbal remedies is set to continue apace well into the foreseeable future. This raises important public health concerns, especially as it relates to safety issues including adverse effects and herb drug interactions. Most Western-trained physicians are ignorant of the risks and benefits...
- White papers 2005-11-18
- Modeling Emergency Department Visit Patterns for Infectious Disease Complaints: Results and Application to Disease Surveillance
- Concern over bio-terrorism has led to recognition that traditional public health surveillance for specific conditions is unlikely to provide timely indication of some disease outbreaks, either naturally occurring or induced by a bioweapon. In non-traditional surveillance, the use of health care resources are monitored in "Near Real" time for the...
- White papers 2005-03-02
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