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- Observing Health and Safety at Work
- Regardless of size, all businesses have a legal responsibility to protect the health and safety of their employees and visitors to their workplaces and offices, and a range of federal and state laws exist to ensure that responsibility is met. This article explains the main steps you must take for...
- Articles 2007-06-26
- Horses help in race to beat flu
- Designing an influenza vaccination strategy that keeps pace with the rapid evolution of flu viruses is a vital public health issue. But until now, it has been an art as much as a science. There is much debate, for example, about how much protection against swine flu is given...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Communicating in a Crisis: Risk Communication Guidelines for Public Officials
- The tragedies of September 11, 2001 and the emerging threat of bioterrorism have reemphasized the need for public officials to communicate effectively with the public and the media to deliver messages that inform without frightening and educate without provoking alarm. The purpose of this primer is to provide a resource...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Crisis Communication: To Be Effective, Treat it Like Water
- When one is prepared, a crisis is a perfect opportunity to spread the word about public health. Paper explains that to do in a crisis is communicate with a variety of audiences at a time when there are multiple demands on attention. At such a time, it helps to be...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Writing A Public Health Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Plan
- A crisis is any event that triggers a level of public interest and media inquiry that requires a significant increase in staffing and/or resources to make a reasonable media response. Crises include such things as disease outbreaks, disasters and other health matters. Crises also may include fires, breakdowns in communications,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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
- Keeping your Head in a Crisis - Responding to the Communication Challenges Posed by Bioterrorism
- This live webcast called Keeping Your Head In A Crisis: Responding To Communication Challenges Posed By Bioterrorism And Emerging Infectious Diseases is presented by Vincent T. Covello, PhD, Director of the Center for Risk Communication. It assumes that as time moves into the 21st century, communication may well become the...
- Webcasts 2002-04-11
- Health in an Age of Globalization
- This paper aims to present some of the arguments from the public health literature as seen through the eyes of at least one economist. Disease has traveled with goods and people since the earliest times. Armed globalization spread disease, to the extent of eliminating entire populations. The geography of disease...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Primary Prevention of Hypertension: Clinical and Public Health Advisory From the National High Blood Pressure Education Program
- This paper is meant basically for health professionals, reflects the latest scientific evidence on preventing high blood pressure and updates the 1993 "National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group Report on Primary Prevention of Hypertension". The new advisory emphasizes two complementary strategies to keep blood pressure from rising: a...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Modeling Impacts of BUGs
- The ultimate health impacts associated with the use of back-up generators derive from how those emissions disperse through the atmosphere and the public exposure to higher concentrations of pollutants. This study uses the latest modeling approaches overlaid with population densities and the improved emissions estimates to assess the potential public...
- White papers 2004-10-06
- Health Care Coverage for the Nation's Uninsured
- The goal of expanding public health insurance programs is to provide coverage to most of the nations uninsured. But policymakers face a number of challenges in determining whether this goal can be reached. For example, how much will it cost? How should new public programs be financed? How will benefits...
- White papers
- Gaps in Public Health Preparedness: Lessons Learned in California
- The focus on bio-terrorism preparedness, combined with California's current fiscal crisis, may have endangered other key public health functions. In many jurisdictions, some of the best staff members have been reassigned to bio-terrorism and away from programs such as teen-pregnancy prevention and contact-tracing for sexually transmitted diseases. On a county...
- White papers 2004-10-07
- Public Health Preparedness in California: Lessons Learned From Seven Health Jurisdictions
- The tragic events of 9/11, coupled with the advent of a new series of infectious diseases - including SARS, West Nile Virus, and Monkey pox - have brought new attention to the role of public health and with it new funding to combat threats of a bio terrorist attack or...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- 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
- Injury Prevention for Canadians: Essential Elements for an Effective Program
- This paper is about injury prevention to Canadians. Awareness that injuries are one of the most important public health problems has been growing around the world since the 1980s. This has produced significant public policy responses in a number of countries. For example, the European Union's 1993 Framework of Action...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Albania: The Development of Public Health Insurance - 1995-2000
- This report outlines why public health insurance was chosen as a means of financing health care in Albania, and the extent to which it met its remit in those early years. It also describes the relationships between the Health Insurance Institute and the Ministry of Health, and the newly established...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- 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
- Promoting Public Health Insurance for Children
- This article examines how states marketed their State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP and Medicaid programs and identifies lessons learned from these efforts. The article focuses primarily on state advertising and marketing campaigns - since these were such new activities for public health programs that serve children - and less...
- 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
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