• The Planned Parenthood advocacy organization identified in the tiles below is responsible for the content of that tile. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
  • 2017 was quite a year for all of us and for Planned Parenthood. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
  • I feel like this is the time to tell my story, and how it led me to Planned Parenthood. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
  • Contribute to Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
  • Make a specific gift to Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund to help with advocacy work on the ground, fighting on the front lines for reproductive freedom. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
  • We join sixty other groups including the American Academy of Pediatrics, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. (americanhumanist.org)
  • Generally, the sole bogeyman in these schemes is Planned Parenthood. (prospect.org)
  • Texas, the one exception, won a decidedly pyrrhic victory when, in 2011, it decided to forgo federal funding-which had previously paid for 90 percent of the cost of women's health services-in exchange for the privilege of excluding Planned Parenthood from its health coverage for low-income women. (prospect.org)
  • Indiana made a similar bid for the Supreme Court's attention after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down its law, which prohibited Planned Parenthood from receiving state or federal funds. (prospect.org)
  • Planned Parenthood Is Fleecing Taxpayers? (scienceblogs.com)
  • AUSTIN, Texas -- A study found that Texas saw a drop in women obtaining long-acting birth control after Republican leaders booted Planned Parenthood from a state women's health program in 2013, which researchers said may explain an increase in births among poor families. (cbsnews.com)
  • The research examined the effects of Texas severing taxpayer ties with the largest abortion provider in the U.S. The same year Texas barred Planned Parenthood from state family planning services, then-Gov. Rick Perry signed abortion restrictions that shuttered clinics under a sweeping law that the U.S. Supreme Court will review next month. (cbsnews.com)
  • No explicit connection is made in the study between the exclusion of Planned Parenthood clinics and fewer women obtaining long-lasting forms of contraception. (cbsnews.com)
  • Researchers, though, said Texas hasn't filled the void left by Planned Parenthood. (cbsnews.com)
  • Whatever good efforts are being made, they weren't enough to offset the impact of suddenly removing Planned Parenthood," said Joseph Potter, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the study authors. (cbsnews.com)
  • The study, released Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, was funded in part by the Susan T. Buffett Foundation, a major supporter of Planned Parenthood and other abortion-rights groups. (cbsnews.com)
  • Researchers looked at the number of women who obtained birth control through state-funded family planning services in the two years before and after Planned Parenthood was removed from the Texas program. (cbsnews.com)
  • Childbirths covered by Medicaid also increased among women who used contraceptive shots and lived in counties with Planned Parenthood affiliates, according to the study. (cbsnews.com)
  • There were 566 such births among such women within 18 months of receiving a shot after Planned Parenthood was excluded, compared to 529 before. (cbsnews.com)
  • Texas lost all federal funding for its women's health program following the exclusion of Planned Parenthood, which is a qualified provider under federal law. (cbsnews.com)
  • Texas Republicans, like conservatives in Congress and other GOP-controlled states, have long opposed Planned Parenthood. (cbsnews.com)
  • Their anger toward the organization flared again last year after anti-abortion activists released undercover video of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the transfer of fetal tissue. (cbsnews.com)
  • State leaders swiftly launched investigations into Planned Parenthood and Congress unsuccessfully tried stripping federal funding. (cbsnews.com)
  • None of the investigations turned up wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood, and a Republican prosecutor in Houston last month announced that a grand jury had indicted the activists behind the videos. (cbsnews.com)
  • She and David Daleiden are charged with presenting fake government IDs to a Planned Parenthood clinic while pretending to be from a medical research company. (cbsnews.com)
  • She is ferociously anti-sex (unless you're married, which she desperately wants to be), and really hates Planned Parenthood for giving out honest information about sex. (feministe.us)
  • The notice must include a phone number for a county office that would refer women to Planned Parenthood or other abortion providers. (catholicworldreport.com)
  • In 1984, RCAR created the Women of Color Partnership Program (WCPP), which throughout the '80s collaborated with other groups such as the Black Women's Health Project, the National Organization for Women's Women of Color Program, the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project, the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. (rcrc.org)
  • Planned Parenthood estimates that it sees approximately 41 percent of women who receive family planning services through Title X. (vox.com)
  • It is true that Planned Parenthood is the country's largest abortion provider. (vox.com)
  • But it's also true Planned Parenthood is a key part of the American health care safety net and one of the largest providers of contraceptives in the country. (vox.com)
  • The best research we have suggests that if Planned Parenthood is cut out of the Title X program, there isn't a backup option. (vox.com)
  • Lots of those patients use Planned Parenthood. (vox.com)
  • Organizations like Planned Parenthood often use Title X grants to subsidize birth control, STD screenings, and other reproductive health services for low-income patients who may lack health insurance coverage. (vox.com)
  • Many of those Title X patients seek care at Planned Parenthood clinics. (vox.com)
  • This is partially due to the fact that Planned Parenthood exists in many places where other family planning clinics don't: A new analysis from the Guttmacher Institute estimates that there are 103 counties in the United States where Planned Parenthood is the only provider of publicly funded contraceptives. (vox.com)
  • In an additional 229 counties, Planned Parenthood serves the majority of women who are low-income and qualify for government help paying for birth control. (vox.com)
  • Separate research suggests that Planned Parenthood plays a unique role in catering to women's birth control needs, providing greater access to family planning services than other clinics. (vox.com)
  • Eighty-nine percent of Planned Parenthood clinics, for example, report being able to provide their patients with emergency contraceptives, compared to 34 percent of federally qualified health clinics (which typically serve low-income patients and are also a major recipient of Title X funding). (vox.com)
  • And 81 percent of Planned Parenthood clinics say they provide same-day access to intrauterine devices (IUDs), the most effective type of reversible birth control. (vox.com)
  • The Guttmacher Institute released a report today entitled "Leveraging the Potential of Medicaid and Title X in an Evolving Health Care System" that could bolster support for expansion of federal funding for family planning services. (feminist.org)
  • A provision in an earlier version of the economic stimulus package that would have removed the waiver requirement for states to expand family planning services under Medicaid was eliminated in January as a result of harsh public criticism of the provision from Republicans. (feminist.org)
  • In reference to the Medicaid waiver requirement, Gold said that "cutting through the red tape and doing away with the waiver is a crucial first step that should be a high priority for policymakers… our report recommends other policy changes to help the national family planning program maintain and increase its effectiveness. (feminist.org)
  • This policy is consistent with recommendations in the US Department of Health and Human Services' National Prevention Strategy to expand access to contraceptive services 4 and with the Healthy People 2020 objective to "increase the number of States that set the income eligibility level for Medicaid-covered family planning services to at least the same level used to determine eligibility for Medicaid-covered, pregnancy-related care" (Objective FP-14). (cdc.gov)
  • Healthy People 2020 sets a target of increasing the number of states that set the income eligibility level for Medicaid coverage of family planning services to at least the same level used to determine Medicaid eligibility for pregnancy-related care (the level varies by state). (cdc.gov)
  • States can expand eligibility for Medicaid coverage of family planning services to include teens under age 18 years by 1) securing approval (officially known as a "waiver" of federal policy) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2) amending the state Medicaid plan with a State Plan Amendment (i.e., a permanent change to the state's Medicaid program), or 3) expanding the full state Medicaid program. (cdc.gov)
  • 12 As a result, the use of family planning waivers and state plan amendments will be used together with the expansion of many state Medicaid programs. (cdc.gov)
  • As of August 2013, the state Medicaid expansion for family planning services was income-based, met the income eligibility level for pregnancy-related care, and covered all women, including teens. (cdc.gov)
  • As of August 2013, the state Medicaid plan expansion was limited. (cdc.gov)
  • Medicaid expansion for family planning services existed but was not income-based, did not meet the income eligibility level for pregnancy-related services, and/or excluded some teens. (cdc.gov)
  • As of August 2013, the state had not expanded Medicaid coverage of family planning services. (cdc.gov)
  • This fact sheet provides general information regarding how the FLSA's requirements apply to the employment of a family or household member paid through certain Medicaid-funded and certain other publicly funded programs offering home care services. (dol.gov)
  • Certain Medicaid-funded and certain other publicly funded programs allow a recipient of home care services (or that person's representative) to select and supervise the care provider and further allow the selection of a family or household member of that person as a paid care provider. (dol.gov)
  • In these circumstances, the employment relationship is usually limited by a "plan of care" or other written agreement developed with the involvement of the individual and approval of the Medicaid-funded or other program. (dol.gov)
  • If the son enrolled in a Medicaid-funded program and the father became his son's paid care provider under a program-approved plan of care that funded eight hours per day of services, the father would then also be in an employment relationship with his son for purposes of the FLSA. (dol.gov)
  • Some estimates suggest every $1 spent on publicly funded family planning services saves $4 on Medicaid expenditures for pregnancy care. (healthline.com)
  • The state attorney general wants to enact a law that would strip Medicaid funding for preventative health services from any clinic that provides abortions. (prospect.org)
  • On Wednesday, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a law that would strip Medicaid funding from doctors and clinics who perform abortions. (prospect.org)
  • The law, which was struck down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in August, instead would prevent the state's abortion providers from being reimbursed by Medicaid for providing any kind of care to low-income women, whether it's breast exams, cervical cancer screenings, or contraceptive services. (prospect.org)
  • An estimated 450,000 of these unintended pregnancies are prevented as a result of services provided by private doctors under Medicaid. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Proposals to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and reduce funding for Medicaid will have a disproportionate impact on low-income older adults and their families. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • While unpaid care by family members and friends constitutes the largest share of caregiving for this population, these adults and their caregivers depend on Medicaid benefits to cover basic medical care expenses and to provide community or institutional-based long-term services and supports. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • As has been outlined in a recent Community Catalyst fact sheet , even without taking into account the proposed repeal of the ACA, current congressional proposals to move Medicaid towards a block grant program or per capital spending caps will result in punishing cuts to the Medicaid program that will impact many Americans, including vulnerable older adults and their families. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • For example, Rep. Tom Price, the proposed next secretary of health and human services, has already outlined proposals that are estimated to reduce Medicaid spending by $169 billion over 10 years. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • Medicaid is the major publicly financed insurance program supporting LTSS for low-income older adults. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • Long-term services and supports funded through Medicaid provide vital assistance with activities of daily living such as eating, bathing, dressing, preparing meals and managing medications. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • Yet, at the same time that it is widely recognized that the need for LTSS will increase substantially as the number of older adults more than doubles over the next 40 years, proposals to reduce funding for Medicaid are gaining traction in Congress. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • Through the local Council on Aging, her daughter learned that Joan was able to qualify for Medicaid LTSS through a community-based agency that provided her 32 hours per week of home health aide services and a social service case-worker. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • After a month in a long-term care facility, working with the Council on Aging and nursing home social workers, Joan's daughter and I explored and enrolled her mother in a local Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), supported by Medicaid funding. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • In its most recent application for federal funds, the Texas Women's Health Program (TWHP) states clearly its goal "to reduce expenditures for Medicaid-paid births by increasing access to family planning services. (firstthings.com)
  • Decreasing Medicaid-funded births translates into cost savings at both the state and federal levels as Medicaid covers not only costs associated with prenatal care, delivery, and postpartum care for the mother, but also covers, in most cases, first year medical costs for infant care and additional years of medical costs for disabled infants. (firstthings.com)
  • Colorado Medicaid is publicly funded health insurance for low income families, children, pregnant women, persons with disabilities or who are blind. (thearcofco.org)
  • Colorado Medicaid is often simply referred to as the State Plan. (thearcofco.org)
  • People with intellectual and developmental disabilities who qualify can receive Medicaid services regardless of whether or not they also receive other services specific to their developmental disability. (thearcofco.org)
  • With the passage of Engrossed House Bill 1519 (Chapter 320, Laws of 2013) and Second Substitute Senate Bill 5732 (Chapter 338, Laws of 2013), the Washington State Legislature directed that contracts the Department of Social and Health Services and the Health Care Authority execute with service contracting entities (Behavioral Health Organizations, Area Agencies on Aging, and Medicaid Managed Care Organizations) include measures to address shared client outcomes. (wa.gov)
  • Data on family planning, pregnancy care, births, and infant outcomes for Apple Health (Medicaid) and Washington. (wa.gov)
  • 16% (8 states) cover no dental services through Medicaid and only four states (8%) cover the maximum possible dental services in Medicaid. (medicareadvocacy.org)
  • The "health care safety net" serves millions of low-income, uninsured, and publicly (ie, government) insured persons.The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has defined the health care safety net as "[t]hose providers that organize and deliver a significant level of health care and other related services to uninsured, Medicaid, and other vulnerable populations. (ama-assn.org)
  • The "core safety net" includes an estimated 1300 public hospitals, 1000 community health centers, federally supported family planning clinics, and local public health agencies whose patients are likely to be on Medicaid, uninsured, poor, and members of racial or ethnic minority groups. (ama-assn.org)
  • 10 Public hospitals' and local clinics' legal obligation or rigorous mission to serve persons who cannot afford necessary health care, along with their typically heightened efforts to offer culturally appropriate care that includes patient support services such as social work, translation, and transportation, would be impossible without Medicaid revenue. (ama-assn.org)
  • The recommendations outline how to provide quality family planning services, which include contraceptive services, pregnancy testing and counseling, helping clients achieve pregnancy, basic infertility services, preconception health services, and sexually transmitted disease services. (cdc.gov)
  • By providing millions of women with access to the contraceptive services they want and need, public funding for family planning helps women avoid 1.94 million unintended pregnancies each year (Figure 2.4, page 15). (scienceblogs.com)
  • The Guttmacher Institute insists that "the [contraceptive] services provided at publicly funded centers saved the federal and state government an estimated $4.3 billion" in pregnancy-and infancy-related health care costs. (firstthings.com)
  • However, contemporary notions of family planning tend to place a woman and her childbearing decisions at the center of the discussion, as notions of women's empowerment and reproductive autonomy have gained traction in many parts of the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2006, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a recommendation, encouraging men and women to formulate a reproductive life plan, to help them in avoiding unintended pregnancies and to improve the health of women and reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Publicly funded family planning providers provide critically important sexual and reproductive health services to millions of poor and low-income women each year. (confex.com)
  • In fact, MDG 5.B, universal access to reproductive health, including access to voluntary family planning (not added until 2007), witnessed the least progress over the entire 15-year MDG time frame. (ghspjournal.org)
  • The legislature finds that all women in Hawaii, regardless of income, should have meaningful access to effective reproductive health services. (hawaii.gov)
  • Public programs providing insurance coverage and direct services for reproductive health care and counseling to eligible, low-income women are currently available through the department of health and department of human services. (hawaii.gov)
  • Because family planning decisions are time sensitive and care early in pregnancy is important, Hawaii must make every possible effort to advise women of all available reproductive health programs. (hawaii.gov)
  • Requiring facilities that provide pregnancy- or family planning-related services to provide accurate health information and to inform clients of the availability of and enrollment procedures for reproductive health programs will help ensure that all women in the State can quickly obtain the information and services that they need to make and implement informed, timely, and personally appropriate reproductive health decisions. (hawaii.gov)
  • The purpose of this Act is to ensure that women in Hawaii are able to make personal reproductive health decisions with full and accurate information regarding their rights to access the full range of health care services that are available. (hawaii.gov)
  • notice of reproductive health services. (hawaii.gov)
  • Exploring the characteristics of public reproductive health services in the Islamic Republic of Iran from the perspectives of unmarried women: what needs to be changed? (who.int)
  • ABSTRACT This qualitative study in the Islamic Republic of Iran aimed to explore facilitators and barriers to the use of reproductive health services by unmarried women. (who.int)
  • A purposive sample of unmarried women aged 25-60 years in Isfahan city were interviewed about their experiences of reproductive health services in public health centres. (who.int)
  • Content analysis of responses revealed that the favourable characteristics of reproductive health services in public centres were services that: were delivered by personnel of the same sex in a woman-friendly environment and available at a suitable price, and did not label clients. (who.int)
  • She applies quantitative methods to study family planning service receipt, contraceptive use, and adolescent and young adult reproductive health. (childtrends.org)
  • Her research focuses on factors including relationship context, community characteristics, and access to reproductive health services, and their relationship to the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults. (childtrends.org)
  • HIV/AIDS Action Plan: Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy 2003 (Ministry of Health 2003). (cph.co.nz)
  • The comparatively high rates of maternal deaths in the United States is an indicator of the failure to ensure that women have guaranteed lifelong access to equitable, quality health care, including reproductive health services. (arhp.org)
  • adequate reproductive and general health care services and adequate insurance coverage for these services. (rcrc.org)
  • Based on our religious beliefs and our commitment to reproductive justice, we also champion a range of issues that impact families, family formation and the health and well being of communities. (rcrc.org)
  • likely than married women to refer to aimed to explore facilitators and bar- reproductive health services. (who.int)
  • For example, in some view responses to explore the character- an increase in the age of marriage and a countries reproductive health providers istics of publicly-funded reproductive higher rate of celibacy ( 1 - 3 ). (who.int)
  • If sexually active, family planning may involve the use of contraception and other techniques to control the timing of reproduction. (wikipedia.org)
  • Others aspects of family planning aside from contraception include sex education, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, pre-conception counseling and management, and infertility management. (wikipedia.org)
  • Family planning is sometimes used as a synonym or euphemism for access to and the use of contraception. (wikipedia.org)
  • Additionally, many might wish to use contraception but are not necessarily planning a family (e.g., unmarried adolescents, young married couples delaying childbearing while building a career). (wikipedia.org)
  • Thousands of women in Hawaii are in need of publicly-funded family planning services, contraception services and education, pregnancy-related services, prenatal care, and birth-related services. (hawaii.gov)
  • Many women in Hawaii, however, remain unaware of the public programs available to provide them with contraception, health education and counseling, family planning, prenatal care, pregnancy-related, and birth-related services. (hawaii.gov)
  • Hawaii has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services, including, but not limited to, all FDA-approved methods of contraception and pregnancy-related services for eligible women. (hawaii.gov)
  • A s states seek to balance budgets, population planning groups are touting abortion and contraception as money-saving measures. (firstthings.com)
  • In 2014, an estimated 4,100 clinics used Title X funding to provide low-cost or free contraception to their low-income patients, typically those who lacked health insurance coverage. (vox.com)
  • This Group was funded in the past by NIOSH to study the U.S. employed population's morbidity and mortality using statistical resources publicly available through the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The focus of this report is to describe the prevalence of morbidity and disability among employed work ers in the Construction sector. (cdc.gov)
  • Family planning has been of practice since the 16th century by the people of Djenné in West Africa, when physicians advised women to space their births at three-year intervals. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are multiple benefits to family planning including spacing births for healthier pregnancies, thus decreasing risks of maternal morbidity, fetal prematurity and low birth. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is envisaged that the Bridging the Gap program will provide essential evidence to support service and policy innovation and knowledge about what it takes to implement sustainable improvements in the way that health services support vulnerable populations, within the constraints of existing resources. (bvsalud.org)
  • Starting in the 1980s, some states authorized RNs to dispense medications, including contraceptives and STI medications, as a way to increase access to medical care for individuals obtaining services at outpatient health clinics, such as health departments or family planning clinics. (guttmacher.org)
  • 16 states allow RNs to dispense some medications, including contraceptives and drugs for STI care in outpatient settings, such as a health department or a family planning clinic. (guttmacher.org)
  • Child health services indicators include injuries by type (assault, fracture, abuse-related), outpatient emergency department visits, and well-child visits. (wa.gov)
  • These reports on employment outcomes for consumers receiving community outpatient mental health services funded through DSHS Behavioral Health Administration, Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery. (wa.gov)
  • Medicare "as we know it" includes a legacy program that provides coverage for hospital services, physician and outpatient services, and optional coverage for prescription drugs. (heritage.org)
  • The new Texas Women's Health Program is entirely state-funded and bars clinics affiliated with abortion providers. (cbsnews.com)
  • Judge Nelson said the notice "informs the reader only of the existence of publicly funded family-planning services" and "does not contain any more speech than necessary, nor does it encourage, suggest or imply that women should use those state-funded services. (catholicworldreport.com)
  • State-wide clinic survey findings from Federally Qualified Health Center and Department of Health and Environmental Control family planning clinics in South Carolina. (etsu.edu)
  • State-wide clinic survey findings from Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) family planning clinics in Alabama. (etsu.edu)
  • But the family doctor shortage in B.C. has meant the clinic can no longer offer walk-in appointments. (northernsentinel.com)
  • Seeing more patients in a walk-in setting than they might in a family clinic also appealed to doctors interested in the public service aspect of their job. (northernsentinel.com)
  • There are currently about 1,000 patients who regularly use the clinic but have no family doctor, and Aitken says they haven't attached a patient to a physician in two years. (northernsentinel.com)
  • Community linkages and outreach services in adolescent contraceptive clinic programs. (cdc.gov)
  • Over the past three years, North Carolina, Kansas, Tennessee, and Texas have all passed laws designed to keep federal dollars out of Planned Parenthood's coffers. (prospect.org)
  • The new rule is the latest battle in Republicans' years-long war to end Planned Parenthood's public funding. (vox.com)
  • More than one-third of low-income women who get birth control through Title X currently do so at one of Planned Parenthood's 817 clinics. (vox.com)
  • This new rule won't end Planned Parenthood's federal funding completely. (vox.com)
  • Dozens of clinics closed in the aftermath of the shift from federal to state funding, cutting off health care for hundreds of thousands of women. (prospect.org)
  • The state health commission said the number of clinics providing women's health services had doubled. (cbsnews.com)
  • Bryan Black, a spokesman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said the number of clinics offering women's health programs had doubled since 2014. (cbsnews.com)
  • Doctor shortages have made walk-in clinics and emergency rooms the only options for the nearly one million British Columbians without a family doctor, according to the BC College of Family Physicians. (northernsentinel.com)
  • Women's health clinics that provide abortions or refer patients for the procedure will be cut off from a key source of federal funding under new Trump administration rules expected to be released Friday. (vox.com)
  • Low-income women who use Title X services at these clinics likely will not have another place to turn for birth control - and unintended pregnancies could rise as a result. (vox.com)
  • These health centers and other publicly supported clinics are the "neighborhood doctors" for many medically underserved communities, acting as a regular source of quality health care. (ama-assn.org)
  • The report provides recommendations for how to help prevent and achieve pregnancy, emphasizes offering a full range of contraceptive methods for persons seeking to prevent pregnancy, highlights the special needs of adolescent clients, and encourages the use of the family planning visit to provide selected preventive health services for women, in accordance with the recommendations for women issued by the Institute of Medicine and adopted by HHS. (cdc.gov)
  • Deeper cuts to the Title X program will continue to exacerbate barriers for women trying to access important preventive health services. (americanhumanist.org)
  • The law's supporters allege that public money is trickling into abortion providers' pockets because they offer preventive care services, enabling them-however indirectly-to perform more procedures. (prospect.org)
  • One study showed that deaf ASL users who attended a primary care practice with full-time interpreter services were more likely to report receiving preventive services than a comparison group of deaf ASL users who sought care elsewhere (2). (cdc.gov)
  • Increasing nurses' scope of practice can help provide access to these critical services. (guttmacher.org)
  • In fact, many states have adopted the "consensus model" which provides uniform requirements for APRNs across Some states have also expanded the types of services registered nurses (RN) can provide. (guttmacher.org)
  • As a member of the Family Planning Coalition, the American Humanist Association has signed a letter calling on Congress to provide $327 million in funding for the Title X family planning program. (americanhumanist.org)
  • As you continue to develop a Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 appropriations measure to fund the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and related agencies, the undersigned members of the Family Planning Coalition respectfully request that you provide $327 million in funding for the Title X family planning program. (americanhumanist.org)
  • The organizations listed below collectively represent millions of administrators, providers, and patients who share the common mission of supporting and protecting federal funds for critical, cost-saving programs that provide family planning services to millions of women, men and families. (americanhumanist.org)
  • Under the FLSA, family or household members can be hired as employees of other family or household members to provide home care services, creating an employment relationship. (dol.gov)
  • The purpose of this Local Commissioners Memorandum (LCM) is to provide local departments of social services (LDSSs) with their Title XX Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) allocations for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2022-23. (ny.gov)
  • Finally, our assessment will provide program and policy recommendations for facilitating implementation of HIT solutions among publicly funded family planning agencies. (confex.com)
  • Centers that receive some Title X funds provide services that enable women to avoid nearly one million unintended pregnancies each year. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Minnesota Health Care Programs provide health care coverage to eligible families with children, adults, people with disabilities, and seniors. (minnesotahelp.info)
  • 7 This means that the United States health care system must provide health care services that are available, accessible, acceptable and of good quality. (arhp.org)
  • They do not provide abortion services or abortion referrals, and counselors at these centers encourage a woman to continue her pregnancy. (catholicworldreport.com)
  • There are fourteen local chapters of the Arc that provide direct advocacy to families. (thearcofco.org)
  • Most chapters provide a form of educational advocacy and adult advocacy services, free of charge. (thearcofco.org)
  • The company employs more than 6,400 dedicated professionals who provide regulated and regulated-like drinking water and wastewater services to an estimated 14 million people in 24 states. (amwater.com)
  • The new rule is expected to require a "physical as well as financial separation" between entities that receive Title X funds and those that provide abortions. (vox.com)
  • The women's health provider currently uses Title X funding to provide contraceptives to millions of low-income women. (vox.com)
  • She is responsible for supporting an account book worth over $30 million in annual subscription value and manages a team of consultants to provide industry-leading service to some of the largest institutional asset managers in the area. (bryant.edu)
  • d) provide prevention services and referrals for sex and needle-sharing partners of HIV-infected persons (6). (cdc.gov)
  • Contraceptive information and services enable people to prevent unintended pregnancies and to plan and space wanted ones, thus promoting positive health, social and economic outcomes. (guttmacher.org)
  • The aims of the programme are to improve access to universal health care for families of refugee background and build organisational and system capacity to address modifiable risk factors for poor maternal and child health outcomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Evaluation methods include use of interrupted time series design to examine health service use and maternal and child health outcomes over a 3-year period of implementation. (bvsalud.org)
  • Without current funding, the report projects that unplanned pregnancy and abortion levels would be two-thirds higher and that, among poor women, unplanned pregnancies and abortions would be close to double current rates. (feminist.org)
  • They actively connected their racial justice activism to their commitment to helping women and families gain access to safe abortions. (rcrc.org)
  • Family planning has been shown to reduce teenage birth rates and birth rates for unmarried women. (wikipedia.org)
  • When women can pursue additional education and paid employment, families can invest more in each child. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gov. Paul LePage's unwavering opposition to safe, legal abortion has won him the admiration of Maine's anti-abortion groups, while his policies have slashed services to women and children. (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
  • The study's lead author Rachel Benson Gold said in a press release that "the national family planning program is smart government at its best… publicly funded family planning is basic health are that empowers disadvantaged women to decide for themselves when to become pregnant and how many children to have. (feminist.org)
  • This report can assist primary care providers in offering family planning services that will help women, men, and couples achieve their desired number and spacing of children and increase the likelihood that those children are born healthy. (cdc.gov)
  • providing sexually transmitted disease (STD) screening and treatment services to prevent tubal infertility and improve the health of women, men, and infants. (cdc.gov)
  • Funding for the Title X program is a critical and life saving investment in the well-being of women and their families across the county. (americanhumanist.org)
  • In this commentary, we outline family planning's links to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlight the transformational benefits that voluntary family planning brings to women, families, communities, and countries. (ghspjournal.org)
  • Arizona should be free to enforce its public policy against the taxpayer funding of abortion and in favor of the best health care for women. (prospect.org)
  • Yet, publicly supported family planning centers are the dominant source of services--helping women avoid 1.48 million unintended pregnancies . (scienceblogs.com)
  • Fully 300,000 of these pregnancies averted with the help of family planning centers would have occurred among teens, and just over one million would have occurred among poor and lowincome women. (scienceblogs.com)
  • More women could have chosen to get pregnant or obtained birth control outside publicly funded programs. (cbsnews.com)
  • In 2010, sixteen thousand women in Hawaii experienced an unintended pregnancy, which can carry enormous social and economic costs to both individual families and to the State. (hawaii.gov)
  • In Hawaii, low-income women can receive immediate access to free or low-cost comprehensive family planning services and pregnancy-related care through Med-QUEST and the department of health's family planning program. (hawaii.gov)
  • Under this grant, Ms. Welti is conducting quantitative analyses to examine trends in the characteristics of women receiving publicly funded family planning services, family planning service receipt, and contraceptive use. (childtrends.org)
  • About 42 percent of women 15-44 years of age received one or more family planning services in the 12 months before the 2002 survey. (cdc.gov)
  • years of age, and 20 percent of women 40-44 used such services in the year before the survey. (cdc.gov)
  • The percentage of women 15-44 who used family planning services in the last 12 months increased from 33 percent in 1995 to 42 percent in 2002. (cdc.gov)
  • INTRODUCTION: Women facing complex and uncertain situations such as cancer in their families may seek information from a variety of sources to gain knowledge about cancer risk and reduce uncertainty. (cdc.gov)
  • MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sister Study participants, a cohort of women with a family history of breast cancer, were surveyed on family cancer history, family communication, social support, and interactions with healthcare providers (n = 11,766). (cdc.gov)
  • and greater participation of women in health services less than married ones, political and social affairs. (who.int)
  • The aver- do not recognize the needs of young health services from the perspective of age age of women at marriage has gradu- people nor do they welcome provid- participants. (who.int)
  • This dashboard displays current statewide monthly trends in child protective services (CPS) intakes and children's medical visits from 2018 to present, with a focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. (wa.gov)
  • The company's rate request, filed on April 30, 2021, was driven by $258 million in infrastructure investments since its last rate case in 2018, including upgrades to water mains, treatment plants, tanks, valves, booster stations and other infrastructure necessary to maintain and improve water quality, service reliability and fire protection. (amwater.com)
  • En la sede de este equipo, el abordaje clínico grupal data ya de varios años pero particularmente el grupo de púberes surgió en el año 2018. (bvsalud.org)
  • The primary audience for this report is all current or potential providers of family planning services, including those working in service sites that are dedicated to family planning service delivery as well as private and public providers of more comprehensive primary care. (cdc.gov)
  • Family planning services can help address these and other public health challenges by providing education, counseling, and medical services ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • By expanding support for the Title X family planning program you will help protect access to the public health safety net for millions in need of high-quality health services. (americanhumanist.org)
  • I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation. (confex.com)
  • Most importantly, we hope that the evidence presented here leads to action at the international and country level-to fully support organized, voluntary family planning in the public and private commercial sectors, as well as through civil society. (ghspjournal.org)
  • It's the ultimate anti-public health move, to kick out an organization that provides such a vital service so well, simply because there's an ideological difference about some of the other services the organization offers," she says. (prospect.org)
  • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Feb. 25, 2022) - In an order entered on February 24, 2022, the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (PSC) approved a request to establish new water and wastewater rates for West Virginia American Water customers. (amwater.com)
  • We appreciate the careful consideration and review from the Public Service Commission in our request to establish new customer rates following significant infrastructure investment by our company over the last three years," said Robert Burton, president of West Virginia American Water. (amwater.com)
  • 4 The IOM also identified a subset of the safety net-"core" resources such as federally funded community health centers and public hospitals-which serve the aforementioned population and have an open door policy of offering services regardless of ability to pay. (ama-assn.org)
  • The core safety net depends greatly on public funding. (ama-assn.org)
  • Publicly funded by New York City, the project essentially imports public defenders into immigration courts. (abajournal.com)
  • RCRC endorses public policies that ensure the medical, economic and educational resources necessary for healthy families and communities equipped to nurture children in healthy, safe environments. (rcrc.org)
  • 3-mental health services should, at least in theory, be able to help guide public health policies when these involve a significant modification of individual behaviour. (bvsalud.org)
  • In August 1987, CDC published the Public Health Service Guidelines for Counseling and Antibody Testing to Prevent HIV Infection and AIDS (3). (cdc.gov)
  • rather, it is meant to provoke refl ection about how potential disparities in the effects of an infl uenza pandemic might be reduced or eliminated through appro- priate planning and implementation of clinical and public health activities. (cdc.gov)
  • Ontario provides public coverage for a limited scope of oral-health services. (bvsalud.org)
  • Since 2009, there has been a concerted effort to have operational research embedded into the way local health services and community leaders engage with public health issues in East Kwaio on the remote eastern coast of the island of Malaita. (who.int)
  • These include increased funding for the federal Title X program, which provides critical support to the national family planning provider infrastructure. (feminist.org)
  • Recently, the Title X program has experienced devastating cuts -a total reduction of $23.6 million in federal funding over FY2011 and FY2012, which providers absorbed in a single calendar year. (americanhumanist.org)
  • Because of these funding cuts the program experienced a decline of over 200,000 patients in just one year.5 In addition to these cuts, Title X will face an additional 5-9 percent cut, or nearly $15-$26 million in additional funding reductions, due to sequestration in FY 2013. (americanhumanist.org)
  • In addition to providing services, the Title X program also supports the nation's health care infrastructure. (americanhumanist.org)
  • The Coalition looks forward to working with you to strengthen America's only dedicated family planning program and invest in the critical health infrastructure that millions of Americans rely on for basic health care. (americanhumanist.org)
  • We thank you for your consideration and urge you to include at least $327 million in FY 2014 for the Title X family planning program. (americanhumanist.org)
  • At Child Trends, she has taken a lead role in the evaluations of several school and community-based adolescent pregnancy prevention programs and is currently the lead scientist on an evaluation of an innovative sexual health program for youth funded under the Family and Youth Service Bureau's Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies Program (PREIS). (childtrends.org)
  • Health services are provided on a fee-for-service basis or through managed care organizations, depending on the program. (minnesotahelp.info)
  • A combined federal and state program administered by the state that provides medical benefits for individuals and families with limited incomes who fit into an eligibility group that is recognized by federal and state law. (minnesotahelp.info)
  • Additionally, the company helps fund the West Virginia Utility Assistance Program Dollar Energy Fund, through which eligible customers can receive one-time emergency grants applied directly to their water bills. (amwater.com)
  • Both the New York Times and Modern Healthcare report that the White House plans to issue new guidelines for Title X, the only federal program dedicated to paying for birth control. (vox.com)
  • Advocates point to the Medicare program as the foundation for their plan and claim their plan would add new benefits for seniors. (heritage.org)
  • Almost 58 million seniors and disabled Americans would be displaced from their current Medicare plan and placed in a new government-run health care program. (heritage.org)
  • Alternatively, seniors can forgo the legacy program and select an alternative, private coverage insurance option, which integrates these services. (heritage.org)
  • Under the House and Senate "single-payer" bills, those private options, as well as the legacy Medicare program, would be replaced by the new government plan, and there would be no private insurance option. (heritage.org)
  • While, depending on your income, your taxes may go up to pay for this publicly funded program, that expense will be more than offset by the money you are saving by the elimination of private insurance costs. (heritage.org)
  • For immigrant legal services groups, which can generally take only a fraction of viable removal cases, the New York project represents a breakthrough, according to Andrea Saenz, who was a core advocate for the program as a teaching fellow at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. (abajournal.com)
  • She was a member of the Honors Program and The Archway Investment Fund. (bryant.edu)
  • This includes surgical-dental services delivered in hospital under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) (e.g., dental and diagnostic consultations, reconstructive procedures, and cleft lip and cleft palate surgery), as well as some services that are covered through three publicly funded programs targeted to low-income children and families, and/or those with disabilities (Healthy Smiles Ontario, Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support program). (bvsalud.org)
  • This program directly supports the crisis counseling services for survivors of major disasters. (cdc.gov)
  • These goals outline the major elements of a long-range plan for a comprehensive occupational surveillance program. (cdc.gov)
  • However, given the experience in Massachusetts 13-15 with full expansion, CDC recommends that states retain family planning waivers and state plan amendments for several years after 2014 to maximize access to care during this transitional period. (cdc.gov)
  • A growing global population highlights the need for family planning resources, healthcare workers, and better access to healthcare. (healthline.com)
  • Besides preventing the increase of sexually transmitted diseases, research shows access to birth control also prevents 1.94 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . (healthline.com)
  • However, little is known about the current HIT capabilities and experiences of family planning providers, including their ability to be able to access the funds and incentives available through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act). (confex.com)
  • Despite this renewed momentum, family planning investments and service access fall short of need in virtually all low-resource settings. (ghspjournal.org)
  • Judge Dorothy W. Nelson, writing for the unanimous three-judge panel, said the state of California has "a substantial interest in the health of its citizens, including ensuring that its citizens have access to and adequate information about constitutionally protected medical services like abortion," according to the New York Times. (catholicworldreport.com)
  • Launched in 1971, Title X was meant to fulfill President Richard Nixon's promise that "no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition. (vox.com)
  • Advocates argue that such a plan would be built on existing arrangements, make average American families financially better off, and give everyone access to high-quality care. (heritage.org)
  • Rather than give government more control over health care, policymakers should lower costs and increase access by giving control to individuals and families. (heritage.org)
  • 6 Without the core safety net, uninsured individuals would continue to go without needed care, and millions of publicly insured persons would have no access to health care. (ama-assn.org)
  • At the same time, primary care, including family planning and sexual health services, has never been more important. (guttmacher.org)
  • It was not until the 2013 legislative session that lawmakers righted the balance, pouring millions of state dollars into women's health services. (prospect.org)
  • Other services may include alcohol and drug treatment, mental health services, medical and equipment and supplies and rehabilitative therapy. (minnesotahelp.info)
  • A total of 34 papers were analyzed, which document the profound clinical, organizational and procedural changes introduced in mental health services following this exceptional and largely unforeseen planetary event.Among the main innovations recorded everywhere, the strong push towards the use of telemedicine techniques should be mentioned: however, these require an adequate critical evaluation, which highlights their possibilities, limits, advantages and disadvantages instead of simple triumphalist judgments. (bvsalud.org)
  • Health, population and nutrition: protecting pro-poor health services during financial crises: lessons from experience. (who.int)
  • Setting three: Health services. (who.int)
  • Identifying the effects of and approaches to integrating oral-health services in health sy. (bvsalud.org)
  • This entry was posted in Cobertura universal de salud , Equidad and tagged Australia , Partnerships , Process Evaluation , Quality Improvement , Refugee Families , Time Series Design , Universal Health Services by Editor Equity/Equidad - CG . (bvsalud.org)
  • This protocol describes an innovative programme of quality improvement and reform in publically funded universal health services in Melbourne, Australia, that aims to address refugee maternal and child health inequalities. (bvsalud.org)
  • A partnership of 11 organisations spanning health services, government and research is working to achieve change in the way that maternity and early childhood health services support families of refugee background. (bvsalud.org)
  • Quality improvement initiatives are iterative, co-designed by partners and implemented using the Plan Do Study Act framework in four maternity hospitals and two local government maternal and child health services. (bvsalud.org)
  • Meghan Griffin is our speaker from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, also known as SAMHSA. (cdc.gov)
  • 1 Accordingly, we hope that the information presented here will help governments and planners-including Ministries of Finance, district health teams, and civil society organizations-to consider family planning as a fundamental element of any long-term, socioeconomic development strategy, and key to SDG achievement. (ghspjournal.org)
  • The 2010 "Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health" has mobilized new resource commitments, and Family Planning 2020 (FP2020), the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities, the MDG Health Alliance, and other groups have revitalized family planning globally. (ghspjournal.org)
  • This lawsuit was filed in hopes of gaining injunctive relief against a moratorium on the federal funding of stem cell research. (asu.edu)
  • This LCM includes the Attachment for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Grants, which must be provided to all subrecipients per Title 45 U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Part 75 (45 CFR 75), Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for HHS Awards, Section 352. (ny.gov)
  • The "All Other" allocations (Attachment B) will be released at a later date when federal funding is made available. (ny.gov)
  • Meddling with this provision could, judges have worried, create a nasty precedent, giving states wide leeway to decide which doctors are "qualified" to receive federal funds. (prospect.org)
  • Each state sets its own guidelines regarding eligibility and services within parameters established at the federal level. (minnesotahelp.info)
  • City, county, state or federal government offices that are responsible for handling grants and contracts for the provision of services. (minnesotahelp.info)
  • The cost of most services is covered by a combination of state and federal tax dollars. (thearcofco.org)
  • Policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels should and current socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities consider potential sources of socioeconomic and racial/ in healthcare in the United States ( 10,11 ) raise questions ethnic disparities during a pandemic and formulate specifi c about the adequacy of plans to address the needs of dis- plans to minimize these disparities. (cdc.gov)
  • National HIV Action Plan for New Zealand Aotearoa 2023-2030 (Ministry of Health 2023). (cph.co.nz)
  • This website is supported by the Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $1,647,597 with 75 percentage funded by ACL/HHS and $549,200 amount and 25 percentage funded by non-government source(s). (archrespite.org)
  • Encourage government bodies to prioritize publicly-owned land for affordable housing . (fhfund.org)
  • Some leading lawmakers are advocating single-payer health care, an approach that would abolish nearly all existing coverage arrangements and replace them with a single, government-run plan. (heritage.org)
  • Government-controlled health care, according to its advocates, would be less expensive for working families. (heritage.org)
  • Measures to improve breastfeeding rates need to involve families, communities, and government and non-government groups and agencies. (who.int)
  • Although government plans are prepared for the long-term (5 to 10 years), short-term needs are often more pressing and determine actual resource allocations. (who.int)
  • Most people apply for coverage from publicly funded programs through the state's MNsure health insurance marketplace. (minnesotahelp.info)
  • Include Specific Language to Ensure Inclusion of Provisions for Older Adults in Every State's Oral Health Plan. (medicareadvocacy.org)
  • The concentration of population growth in the poorest countries will make it harder for those governments to eradicate poverty and inequality, combat hunger and malnutrition, expand education enrollment and health systems, improve the provision of basic services and implement other elements of a sustainable development agenda to ensure that no one is left behind," the report states. (healthline.com)
  • Compare current use and preparedness to implement HIT among Title X and non-Title providers, and various types of family planning agencies. (confex.com)
  • however, resources at state and lo- that can be expected in the absence of systematic attention cal levels may be inadequate to implement a robust pre- to differential social risks in pandemic preparedness plans. (cdc.gov)
  • These proposed cuts represent a threat to the quality of care received by disabled older adults living in nursing homes and in the community, and will create added burdens on families already struggling to care for relatives with chronic illness. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • 84% (42 states) lack a State Oral Health Plan that both mentions older adults and includes SMART objectives. (medicareadvocacy.org)
  • The 2010 Lifespan Respite Care grant to Massachusetts called for the Massachusetts Lifespan Respite Coalition to accomplish several key tasks, including the completion of a written assessment on the state of respite services in Massachusetts. (archrespite.org)
  • To remedy this information gap, we are conducting an assessment of the actual and planned HIT capabilities and anticipated barriers among a nationally representative sample of 950 publicly funded family planning agencies. (confex.com)
  • Family planning slows unsustainable population growth which drains resources from the environment, and national and regional development efforts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Who are paid family or household care providers? (dol.gov)
  • Ordinarily, under the FLSA, including in the context of domestic service work such as home care, if an employment relationship exists, all hours worked by an employee for an employer must be paid. (dol.gov)
  • What is the scope of a paid family or household care provider's FLSA employment relationship? (dol.gov)
  • When a paid care provider is a family or household member of the person receiving home care services, the decision to hire the family or household member does not turn all care provided into employment. (dol.gov)
  • If the requirements described below are met, the father's employment relationship with his son extends only to the eight hours per day of paid work contemplated in the plan of care. (dol.gov)
  • To apply online for medical insurance coverage, that will cover the full range of family planning and prenatal care services, go to mybenefits.hawaii.gov. (hawaii.gov)
  • Effective LTSS includes care planning and care coordination services based on a patient-centered care plan. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • Her family was committed to caring for her at home, but Joan's care needs and frequent medical problems caused significant caregiver strain. (communitycatalyst.org)
  • Health care is generally provided through participating managed care plans in the area. (minnesotahelp.info)
  • As an organisation, the HSE strives to foster a family-friendly work environment that enables all employees to embrace the organisation's core values of Care, Compassion, Trust and Learning. (publicjobs.ie)
  • of care and supervision or those with supportive families and home environments. (drugabuse.com)
  • 3 Among those with private health insurance, an estimated 10 to 25 percent are under insured, meaning their insurance plan is inadequate to cover the cost of their health care needs. (ama-assn.org)
  • Assess actual and planned HIT capabilities for family planning providers 3. (confex.com)
  • Existing legal services providers-currently the Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services and the Legal Aid Society-supply the attorneys. (abajournal.com)
  • In addition to the provision of HIV counseling and testing services (HIV-CTS) at publicly funded sites, many private providers, including physicians, offer HIV-CTS (5). (cdc.gov)
  • Process measures will examine refugee families' experiences of specific initiatives and service providers' views and experiences of innovation and change. (bvsalud.org)
  • Our presentation will include key findings regarding family planning agencies' current HIT use and plans for future use, their eligibility for financial incentives, and their actual and anticipated receipt of financial support for HIT. (confex.com)
  • For those families who face economic challenges, West Virginia American Water offers several targeted customer assistance programs. (amwater.com)
  • It's been so successful that the project has expanded to two upstate New York immigration courts, and is being used as a model for similar programs planned in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. (abajournal.com)
  • Family planning, as defined by the United Nations and the World Health Organization, encompasses services leading up to conception. (wikipedia.org)
  • West Virginia American Water, a subsidiary of American Water (NYSE: AWK), is the largest investor-owned water utility in the state, providing high-quality and reliable water services to approximately 560,000 people. (amwater.com)
  • Identify housing options that are absent in your community and create a plan to fill these gaps using organizing, advocacy, and lobbying. (fhfund.org)
  • The Center for Medicare Advocacy proposes a five-part plan that will make Medicare a bulwark against the worsening health and economic challenges facing the American people. (medicareadvocacy.org)
  • Adjusted percentages and 95% confidence intervals for being informed about breast cancer versus not being informed were computed for individual-, family-, and provider-level characteristics in three steps using multivariate logistic regression models. (cdc.gov)
  • Families who are receiving benefits through TANF and individuals who receive SSI as aged, blind and disabled are categorically eligible groups. (minnesotahelp.info)
  • Any individual with an intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in the State of Colorado is eligible to apply for assistance through a grant application to the Calabrese Life Opportunities Fund. (thearcofco.org)
  • Otherwise, ANCRON said, its doctors can't manage a workload that already includes their own family practices. (northernsentinel.com)
  • Having a trusted person with whom to discuss cancer concerns, having a lower versus higher perceived risk of breast cancer, having undergone genetic counseling, and being satisfied with physician discussions about breast cancer in their families were predictors of being informed about breast cancer. (cdc.gov)
  • 1. Identify barriers to implementation of health information technology systems for family planning agencies 2. (confex.com)
  • d) No limited service pregnancy center that collects health information from any individual seeking or receiving its services shall disclose any individually identifiable health information to any other person, entity, or organization without express written authorization from the subject individual. (hawaii.gov)
  • We describe and assess the relative importance of information sources about familial breast cancer at the individual, family, and healthcare provider levels influencing women's reporting they had enough information to speak with daughters about breast cancer. (cdc.gov)
  • For the study, researchers examined pharmacy and medical claims from state family planning services from 2011 to 2014. (cbsnews.com)
  • and some recipients may be asked to pay a small part of the cost (co-payment) for some medical services. (minnesotahelp.info)
  • ANCRON Medical Centre, which used to offer walk-in service seven days weekly, now only has availabilities Saturdays and Sundays on a first-come, first-serve basis. (northernsentinel.com)
  • The State Plan covers the cost of basic medical services. (thearcofco.org)
  • For example, many adults deaf since birth or early childhood do not know their own family medical history, having never overheard their hearing parents discussing this with their doctor (13). (cdc.gov)
  • And absent publicly supported services, the U.S. abortion rate today would be higher than it ever has been. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The enacted budget for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2022-23 includes a Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) appropriation of $3,200,000 for the provision of non-residential DV services. (ny.gov)
  • National Syphilis Action Plan (Ministry of Health 2019). (cph.co.nz)
  • Continuous monitoring of the effects of global financial crisis on funding for health development: a questionnaire for completion by directors of policy and planning at the Ministry of Health. (who.int)
  • The purpose of this Local Commissioners Memorandum (LCM) is to notify local departments of social services (LDSSs) of their allocations for non-residential domestic violence (DV) services administered through the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS). (ny.gov)
  • Our purposes are to 1) call attention to potentially major and avoidable social disparities in suf- fering and death during an infl uenza pandemic and 2) high- light the importance of including in pandemic preparedness plans targeted strategies for minimizing or avoiding these social disparities. (cdc.gov)
  • Breastfeeding has a positive influence on the health status and social wellbeing of the baby, mother, family and community. (who.int)
  • Advocate for zoning policies responsive to your community's needs and more funding for housing initiatives. (fhfund.org)
  • Advocate for Financially Viable Oral Health Benefits in Publicly Funded Insurance. (medicareadvocacy.org)
  • NASA's 2012 budget proposal, sent to Congress in February, said the agency will spend the year defining "a sufficiently affordable, sustainable and realistic" development plan for a heavy-lift rocket "derived from Ares and Shuttle hardware" including "two Ares-derived five-segment solid rocket boosters. (spacenews.com)
  • While NASA has publicly embraced the Ares- and shuttle-derived heavy lifter as its "reference vehicle design," it also put Congress on notice late last year that it cannot afford to field the rocket on the schedule and budget laid out in the NASA Authorization Act. (spacenews.com)
  • And because deported immigrants can lose their jobs, families and homes, the stakes in immigration court are even higher than they are in some criminal cases. (abajournal.com)
  • That's why the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project focuses its efforts on detained New York immigrants. (abajournal.com)