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Private Medical Insurance in the United Kingdom
This paper provides a descriptive overview of the market for supplementary Voluntary Health Insurance VHI, or Private Medical Insurance PMI, in the United Kingdom. The structure of the paper reflects the three principal dimensions of the market: the product, demand and supply. An appendix discusses the market for health cash...
Effects of Armed Conflict on Access to Emergency Health Care in Palestinian West Bank: Systematic Collection of Data in Emergency Departments
Armed conflict affects public health in various ways. In the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, tight restrictions have been imposed on the population. Towns and villages are encircled by military checkpoints, making passage difficult, unpredictable, and occasionally impossible. The World Health Organization recommends collection of data in emergency departments as...
Children's Health and Environment Developing Action Plans
The European Commission has strengthened its focus on environment and health issues, not only by providing large amounts of funds to its Member States but also by developing policies and action plans, such as REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization of chemicals), SCALE (Science, Children, Awareness raising, Legislation, Evaluation), the European Union...
Intellectual Property And Product Development Public/Private Partnerships
The PDPPPs (Product Development Public/Private Partnerships) studied here can be characterized as a fledgling "Industry"; On a microscale, these entities are dealing with fundamental questions about the relationship between intellectual property and drug and vaccine development and access that face policy makers at national and international levels. From all of...
Regulatory Challenges
The term "Medical devices" covers a vast array of products from simple tongue depressors to magnetic resonance equipment. The intended primary mode of action of a medical device on the human body, in contrast with that of medical products, is not metabolic, immunological or pharmacological although it may be assisted...
Human Resource Indicators and Health Service Performance
Public expectations and increasing financial pressures are requiring health services to adopt new approaches to the management of their resources, particularly human resources. This paper examines the use of human resource indicators HRI to support management-led initiatives to improve health service efficiency and effectiveness. The paper continues with an identification...
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PDA/FDA Conference September 10-12, 2008 to Explore Global Initiatives for Ensuring the Integrity of the Pharmaceutical Ingredient Supply Chain
The Parenteral Drug Association PDAannounced today that together with the US Food and Drug Administration USFDA, it will host the PDA/FDA Pharmaceutical Ingredient Supply ChainConference in Washington, D.C., September 10-12, 2008. The program is beingdeveloped jointly with FDA and will provide information on guidance andregulations from around the world, including...
Healthy and Delicious Home Delivery Just Got Easier: Dine to Thrive Cuts Prices in July
LOS ANGELES, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- While healthcare is becoming more expensive for many Americans, Dine to Thrive, a Los Angeles-based company that makes wellness promoting meals which may help prevent cancer, is cutting its prices by 40%. For the entire month of July, the dietitian-designed, gourmet meals...
Experts Optimistic New Flu Vaccine Can Help Businesses Keep Productivity Up While Economy is Down
Now is the Time to Plan for Employee Flu Vaccination Programs ATLANTA -- Businesses that want a dose of preventive medicine to maintain healthy productivity levels among workers - and protect profits - during a sick economy should look for healthcare partners now to protect their employees during...
Drug Use Increasingly Common in All Countries
The United States has one of the highest lifetime rates of tobacco and alcohol use and the highest percentage of people who reported using marijuana or cocaine at least once in their lives, a new survey shows. Researchers from the World Health Organization analyzed alcohol, tobacco and illegal drug use...
Broad Differences in Alcohol, Tobacco and Illegal Drug Use Across Countries
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE text PUBLIC "-//The Gale Group//DTD Mercury Version 1.0//EN" "Article.dtd"> <Text rich="yes"> <P> A survey conducted by the World Health Organization WHO research consortium found that the United States had among the highest lifetime rates of tobacco and alcohol use and led...
Americans are world's top drug users: study
WASHINGTON AFP — Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS Medicine. The study, released Monday, revealed that 16.2 percent of Americans had tried cocaine at least once, and...
New TB test identifies drug resistance faster
Rapid DNA tests that can save thousands of lives by cutting delays in diagnosis of drug-resistant tuberculosis from two months to two days will be rolled out in 16 countries fighting twin epidemics of HIV and TB, health officials said Monday. Current TB tests are more than a...
A Lot of Hot Air
A popular program for cutting air pollution from vehicles doesn't work To its residents who still have a sense of smell, Mexico City is redolent with the perfumes of exhaust and ozone. The metropolis's air pollution levels routinely rocket past the World Health Organization's maximum limits, leaving...
Smoke and Mirrors
Can a tobacco company ever be socially responsible? Since the World Health Organization clamped down on tobacco advertising, corporate social responsibility CSR initiatives are among the few remaining outlets that tobacco companies have to promote themselves publicly. British American Tobacco Malaysia BATM, for example, has won the...
Persistence of diphtheria, Hyderabad, India, 2003-2006
During 2003-2006, diphtheria rates in Hyderabad, India, were higher among persons 5-19 years of age, women, and Muslims than among other groups. Vaccine was efficacious among those who received [greater than or equal to] 4 doses. The proportion of the population receiving boosters was low, especially among Muslims. We recommend...
AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history
AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history. A key feature of its politicization was the claim that without massive funding for prevention programs, the disease would escape into the general population from its bases among homosexual men and needle-using drug addicts. Heterosexuals were all under threat, we...
G-8 summit eyes targets to tackle global shortage of health workers
TOKYO, June 23 Kyodo The Group of Eight nations are discussing setting numerical targets at the leaders' summit in July to tackle the world's chronic shortage of health workers, especially in Africa and Asia, by meeting the World Health Organization's minimum threshold, sources close to...
Bioniche Hosts Veterinarians and Food Industry Reps at Two-Day E. coli O157:H7 Vaccine Conference
- guest speakers included a World Health Organization expert on E. coli - BELLEVILLE, ON, June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, hosted a two-day conference in Toronto this week entitled, "E. coli O157 Vaccine: Added Value or...
WHO launches safety checklist for surgeons
WASHINGTON AFP — The World Health Organization unveiled a proposal Tuesday to reduce the risks of complications and possible death linked to major surgery by urging surgeons to use a safety checklist, according to a study in the British journal The Lancet. According to the WHO, half of...
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