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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
CHICAGO -- Academic pharmacy is poised to make a significant impact in international health and economic issues. At the 2008 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy AACP and Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada AFPC Annual Meeting and Seminars, Angus Deaton, Ph.D., a distinguished economist and scientist, will discuss...
EXTON, Pa., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WPCS International Incorporated , a leader in design-build engineering services for specialty communication systems and wireless infrastructure, has announced that, through its subsidiaries, it has been awarded approximately $13 million in new contracts for projects in a variety of sectors including public safety,...
Byline: Cinda Becker New Jersey hospitals' unique financial problems are a lot bigger than New Jersey, according to a yearlong study released last week that amounted to a scathing indictment of the nation's schizophrenic healthcare system. The long-awaited report...
Accounting Joan Kampo has been named director of human resources at WithumSmith+Brown. Kampo is based in WS+B's Princeton office, where the human resources department serving the firm's 10 regional offices is located. Before joining WS+B, Kampo served as assistant vice president of human resources at First Atlantic Federal Credit...
For All of These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Private-Public Welfare State By Jennifer Klein Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 354. $22.95 paperback. In For All of These Rights, Jennifer Klein offers an informative narrative of the...
Jun 16, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Biodiversity is good for public health. Andy Dobson, an ecologist at Princeton University, gives as an example the white-footed mouse, which lives in small patches of forest and grassland and carries Lyme disease. Such ...
Loyola University New Orleans' School of Law Commencement will be held at 7 p.m. May 19 in the New Orleans Arena, 1501 Girod St.Seth Chandler, law foundation professor and co-director of the Health Law & Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center, will give the commencement address.Loyola officials...
Four years ago, while still at Princeton University, I started teaching a course on the social conditions of creativity in art, science, and business. Teaching about creativity is a lot like teaching about health and nutrition-it has certain spillover effects outside the classroom. Nutritionists see "bad health" all around themin...
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Timothy R. Sahr hasbeen appointed Research Director at the Health Policy Institute ofOhio. Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Sahr served as Head ofResearch and Policy with the Franklin County Board of Health inColumbus, where he authored numerous reports assessing health issuesin...
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Byline: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 12 AScribe Newswire -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation RWJF today launched Healthy Eating Research, a new program to determine effective changes in policies and environments that can promote healthy eating among children. The five-year,...
Uwe E. Reinhardt, a leading authority on health economics and policy, is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He has served on numerous governmental committees and commissions and is currently a member...
Mercer County prides itself on its exceptional schools and unlimited educational opportunities. Its schools encompass a great variety of public and private institutions, many of which are world-renowned colleges and universities. These institutions help put Mercer County on the map and help maintain the health of the economy by generating...
FEBRUARY 8 Tuesday 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Public Policy Forum: HealthCare Insurance: A Collective Approach. Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce, New Jersey Business and Industry Association and National Federation for Independent Business. Mercer Oaks Golf Course, West Windsor. (609) 924-1776. 8 Tuesday 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m....
PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Colleges, vocationaland technical schools can now take advantage of valuable healthcareresources through a new membership category offered by the New JerseyHospital Association. The recently launched NJHA EducationalInstitution membership category is open to facilities and schoolsoffering nursing, allied health, medical, public health education...
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