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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Amcham 2003 Taiwan White Paper: Priority Issues
- The attractiveness of Taiwan as an investment market for the international research-based pharmaceutical industry is under threat, as are the long-term prospects for its health care system and its appeal as a regional biotechnology player. The key issues: (1) Solve long-standing issues that deprive international firms of a level playing...
- White papers
- Armed Conflict as a Public Health Problem
- Armed conflict between warring states and group within states have been major causes of ill health an mortality for most of human history. Conflict obvious causes deaths and injuries on the battlefield, but al health consequences from the displacement populations, the breakdown of health and soc services, and the heightened...
- White papers 2002-02-09
- 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
- Financial and Management Practice in a Voluntary Medical Insurance Company in the Developed World
- The paper provides a summative evaluation of the financial and management practice of voluntary health insurance in UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland from the practitioner's view point. From a statistical perspective, the paper concentrates on Australia, as one of the few environments where there is a wealth of publicly...
- White papers 2005-03-15
- Using Local Health Information to Promote Public Health
- Local health information can be a powerful vehicle for improving the health of a community. It can highlight both the existence of problems and opportunities for improvement. It can also guide local action in support of policy changes and improve programs' effectiveness. However, efforts to expand the availability and use...
- White papers 2006-07-01
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