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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
- 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
- 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
- CDC Report Regarding Selected Public Health Topics Affecting Women's Health
- This publication focuses on birth defects and human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), two preventable causes of death and disability. The articles focus on programs in several states that are designed to reduce disease and assess disease trends. The primary messages are not new, but need to be reinforced.
- White papers 2001-05-11
- 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
- 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
- Immigrant Child Health Project: Experiences of Immigrant Children in Public Health Insurance Programs
- The Immigrant Child Health Project ICHP was developed to improve the health and well-being of immigrant children in New York City through a combination of public awareness and education, outreach and training, policy development and advocacy, and the Family Advocate Project. CDF's Family Advocates worked with 107 Latino and Chinese...
- White papers 2002-08-30
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