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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...
Safe Medical Devices
A medical device can range from a simple wooden tongue depressor or stethoscope to the most sophisticated implants or medical imaging devices. In general, a medical device is an instrument, apparatus, or machine used to prevent, diagnose or treat disease. It also serves to detect, measure, restore or modify the...
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...
Towards a Common International Understanding of Patient Safety Concepts and Terms: Taxonomy and Terminology Related to Medical Errors and System Failures
A World Health Organization (WHO) Working Group on Patient Safety Taxonomy was held in Geneva, Switzerland on the 8th to 11th October 2003. Participants reflected a wide range of expertise in the development and use of nomenclature, classification, and incident reporting in patient safety. Growing concerns among a number of...
Medical Device Regulations: Global Overview and Guiding Principles
The term medical devices covers a vast range of equipment, from simple tongue depressors to haemodialysis machines. Like medicines and other health technologies, they are essential for patient care - at the bedside, at the rural health clinic or at the large, specialized hospital. Medical devices also cost governments a...
Surmounting Challenges: Procurement of Antiretroviral Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
As the price of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in lowand middle-income countries has fallen in recent years, governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been able to start developing treatment programmes for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Procurement strategies are a key element in this global scaling-up process. This paper talks...
Total Quality Management: An Approach to Promote Maternal and Neonatal Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Countries
In order to enhance managerial capabilities in maternal and neonatal health care, the Regional Office, in collaboration with the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), developed a project aimed at introducing Total Quality Management approach in countries of the Region. The project was implemented jointly with the United...
Guidelines for Using HIV Testing Technologies in Surveillance: Selection, Evaluation, and Implementation
In the context of second generation HIV surveillance, these laboratory guidelines suggest methods for selecting, evaluating, and implementing HIV testing technologies and strategies based on a country's laboratory infrastructure and surveillance needs. The guidelines provide recommendations for specimen selection, collection, storage, and testing and for the selection and evaluation of...
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Mothers with Breast Cancer Can Dine to Thrive with Gourmet Meal Delivery
LOS ANGELES, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Mom was always after you to eat right -- to find meals that were both tasty and good for you. This Mother's Day, return the gift of eating well with Dine to Thrive's gourmet meals that may help mom fight breast cancer. With...
Caliper Life Sciences' Optical Imaging Technology Selected to Aid Tuberculosis Research Efforts by the Texas A&M Health Science Center
- IVIS Imaging System Provides Real-Time Insight on Viability of Infectious Disease Treatment Options - HOPKINTON, Mass., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. today announced that the Texas A&M Health Science Center Research Foundation (HSCRF) is using the IVIS Spectrum imaging system to speed...
The educated guesswork of estimating Darfur deaths
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — When a top UN official released a new estimated death toll of 300,000 for Darfur this week, he reignited a lively debate about just how accurate such statistics are. John Holmes, the UN emergency relief aid coordinator, told reporters that as many as 300,000...
Executive Director of cbm US congratulates UN on Malaria Campaign
GREENVILLE, SC, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer of cbm US, congratulates the United Nations for teaming up with religious, business and sports leaders in a new effort to send insecticide-treated bed nets to Africa to prevent millions of deaths from malaria, ahead of the first-ever...
Annual Trachoma Treatments May Be Unnecessary
In communities with moderate levels of the eye disease trachoma, one or two rounds of high coverage mass treatment with the antibiotic azithromycin may be sufficient to eliminate the infection, researchers say. A team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Trachoma Group said its findings...
Healing in Haiti
* Healing In Haiti: A boy receives a free vaccination for Rubella, also known as German measles, at a school in Cite' Soleil, a shanty town in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The U.N. Children's Fund, the World Health Organization and the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti are partners in a nationwide vaccination...
Peninsula club lending hand to clinic in Africa
REDWOOD CITY -- There's far more happening in Malawi than Madonna's high-profile adoption scandal. In this relatively small country in southeastern Africa, approximately 80,000 out of 12 million Malawian citizens die of AIDS every year, according to the World Health Organization. As...
Axway's Synchrony™ Provides Complete Supply Chain Protection and Visibility for Pharmaceutical Companies
Synchrony Supply Chain Integrity Suite Helps Identify and Prevent Supply Chain Integrity Risks SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Axway's Synchrony Supply Chain Integrity Suite offers a comprehensive solution for companies looking to strengthen and protect their supply chains. By creating actionable and immediate intelligence about supply chain performance, the Suite...
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All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services: 621999
