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- Public Health at Center Stage: New Roles, Old Props
- The public health system represents a wide variety of actors playing key roles in the ongoing script to improve the quality and quantity of life for the U.S. population. The specific parts that public health is being asked to play and the resources available to support its infrastructure for prevention...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- The Case for Transforming Governmental Public Health
- Changing threats to the public's health necessitate a profound transformation of the public health enterprise. Despite recent attention to the biodefense role of public health, policymakers have not developed a clear, realistic vision for the structure and functionality of the governmental public health system. Lack of leadership and organizational disconnects...
- White papers 2006-07-01
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- APHA Calls for Significant Increases to CDC to Fund Nation's Public Health System; Says Funding System Crisis by Crisis Is Not the Answer
- WASHINGTON, May 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Health Association today called on Congress to think more strategically about investing in the nation's public health system and to avoid funding it crisis by crisis or program by program. CongressWASHINGTON, May 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Health Association...
- Research articles 2003-05-14
- Public health system ready or not?(News and Trends)(Brief Article)
- Bad news continues to flow out of government and industry groups assessing the U.S. public health system's readiness for a terrorist attack The latest to add their concerns are the Association of Public Health Laboratories APHL and the General Accounting office (GA0)I in its report, the...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- BRAZIL'S INFO SYSTEMS NEED A LIFT: PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM AND OTHER CHANGES ARE CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW MARKETPLACE.
- It should be a healthcare market eminently ripe for a technological lift. But Brazil's ambitions to bring its healthcare economy into the 21st century will require intermediate structural steps before most hospitals and other caregivers can benefit from information technology, observers say. ...
- Research articles 1999-05-17
- An Overview of the U.S. Public Health System in the Context of Emergency Preparedness
- This report describes the U.S. public health infrastructure: the structure, organization, and legal basis of domestic public health activities. In contrast with healthcare, public health practice is aimed at decreasing the burden of illness and injury in populations, rather than individuals. Public health agencies use epidemiologic investigation, laboratory testing, information...
- White papers 2005-03-17
- The Public Health Enterprise: Examining Our Twenty-First-Century Policy Challenges
- This paper examines the public health enterprise and its policy challenges in the twenty-first century. Among the many challenges public health faces, the authors' include here collaboration across a broad range of stakeholders, the public health infrastructure, agreement on public health's essential services, preparedness, accountability and measurement, workforce, and a...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Public Health and Business: A Partnership That Makes Cents
- Historically, public health agencies have had relatively few formal partnerships with private business. However, both groups share an interest in ensuring a healthy population. Businesses have a financial interest in supporting organized public health efforts; in turn, business partnerships can increase the reach and effectiveness of public health. This paper...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Putting the Public in Public Health: New Approaches
- Improving health in the twenty-first century means adopting a new approach that engages the public, the business community, and public policymakers more than in the past. This approach depends on a well-informed public that practices individual wellness, values community health, and advocates achieving both. It requires a business community that...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- The American Public Health Association's Position on the Proposed Department of Homeland Security
- WASHINGTON, June 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Health Association APHA is concerned that key components of the Administration's proposed legislation to create a new Department of Homeland Security may undermine efforts to strengthen the nation's public health system. While coordination and communication among health entities, law enforcement and...
- Research articles 2002-06-27
- Role of Doctors Critical in Effective Public Health
- This study highlights the need to provide clear, accurate information on an ongoing basis during a public health emergency and to integrate private physicians into the public health response. The goal of bio-terrorism-related initiatives is to protect the public's health by increasing the ability of the public health system to...
- White papers 2004-12-03
- Congress Must Increase Funding for Public Health Says American Public Health Association
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Our nation's public health system faces continued rising demands -- protecting against bioterrorism, emerging infections such as West Nile virus and SARS and an increasing chronic disease burden -- yet remains woefullWASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Our nation's public health system faces continued...
- Research articles 2004-02-04
- At risk: the dangers of an eroded public health system.(Irwin Redlener of National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health)(Interview)
- An Interview with Dr. Irwin Redlener IRWIN REDLENER, M.D., is associate dean, professor of clinical public health and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He speaks and writes extensively on national disaster preparedness...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- National Association of County and City Health Officials Statement: U.S. Cannot Afford to Cut Public Health Preparedness.
- Byline: Burness Communications WASHINGTON, June 18 AScribe Newswire -- The National Association of County and City Health Officials NACCHO is pleased that the Department of Health and Human Services HHS is continuing funding for public health preparedness. HHS announced yesterday that $849 million ...
- Research articles 2004-06-18
- 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
- Pentagon taps into public health system to help troops with PTSD
- WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon said Wednesday it is recruiting government public health workers to offset a shortage in mental care providers for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental problems. Psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, clinical social workers and psychiatric nurses will be tapped from the US Public Health...
- Research articles 2008-06-04
- Brazil: Government investing in public heatlh system.
- Sao Jose dos Campos Sao Paulo, Cerro Azul Parana and Florianopolis Santa Catarina will be the first Brazilian municipalities take part inthe automation pilot project of the public health system. Until June 2001 the Department of Health and Human Services aims to implement thesystem in other...
- Research articles 2000-12-15
- CMA: And Kirby Makes Three: Momentum Builds for Action on Public Health.
- OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Nov 5, 2003 CCNMatthews via COMTEX The Canadian Medical Association CMA and its 55,000 physician members welcomes the recommendations contained in the report released today by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, Reforming Health Protection and Promotion in...
- Research articles 2003-11-11
- German opposition proposes flat-rate health system
- BERLIN AFP — Germany's opposition Christian Democratic Union CDU announced it had ended a bitter internal dispute by hammering out a plan to reform the country's public health system. The proposal announced by CDU leader Angela Merkel and Edmund Stoiber, the leader of the party's Bavarian sister party, the...
- Research articles 2004-11-15
- The Problem With Public Health Insurance
- The Canadian health system suffers from chronic financing problems partly because of the economically irrational design of the public health insurance program. While Medicare is touted as a public health insurance system, it is in fact structured more like a social program than like insurance. The Canadian health system suffers...
- White papers 2004-02-01
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