• Our Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group unpacks 2023, from the end of the COVID-19 emergencies to the much-anticipated Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. (jdsupra.com)
  • In a matter of first impression, the Supreme Court of Wyoming (Supreme Court), in West American Insurance Company v. Black Dog Consulting Inc., No. S-23-0052, 2023 WY 109, 2023 Wyo. (jdsupra.com)
  • At the recent 2023 national meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in Orlando (November 30 - December 4), the Innovation Cybersecurity and Technology Committee of NAIC (the "H Committee") and. (jdsupra.com)
  • Find the agenda, documents and more information for the 2023 RFS Interim Meeting on Nov. 10 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. (ama-assn.org)
  • The state of fertility & family benefits in 2023. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • Hannah is a double Buckeye, as she also received her B.S. in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences from The Ohio State University in 2023. (hfma.org)
  • 1 Vision 2023: Eastern Mediterranean Region: health for all by all. (who.int)
  • Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc. (sicklecelldisease.org)
  • Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. (SCDAA) will hold its 47th Annual National Convention on October 9-12, 2019 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 E Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202. (sicklecelldisease.org)
  • Get news from Sickle Cell Disease Association of America in your inbox. (sicklecelldisease.org)
  • But conservatives were unable, even after Republican Scott Brown's surprise election as a United States Senator from deep blue Massachusetts, to prevent Congress from mandating that every person in America buy health insurance in order to achieve the goal of universal access. (newgeography.com)
  • I agree with him that that is what America must do rather than create a government-run health plan, or any system that reproduces what is done in Canada or Great Britain, or elsewhere. (massnurses.org)
  • Americans for Insurance Reform , a coalition made up of Consumer Federation of America , ConsumerWatchdog.org and nearly 100 other public interest organizations, released a major study Wednesday on the state of the medical malpractice insurance industry. (nclnet.org)
  • For immigrants, America still holds the promise of a prosperous future. (nakasec.org)
  • We are united in calling for humane and just measures that bring families together - not keep them apart - and for policies that will create strong communities, which are vital to America 's political, social and economic well-being. (nakasec.org)
  • The United States of America is a noteworthy example of the value of health-care cost recovery litigation. (who.int)
  • Oral Health in America: A report of the Surgeon General. (cdc.gov)
  • IN 2019, the industry's net premiums totaled $1.32 trillion, with 53% coming from life/health and 47% coming from property/casualty. (einvestigator.com)
  • 2019) (proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only). (virginialawreview.org)
  • In March 2019, the United States recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. (state.gov)
  • Methods: We merged state-level minimum wage data with survey data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2001-2019). (bvsalud.org)
  • 2019 (https://applications.emro.who.int/docs/EMRPUB-RDO-014-2019-EN.pdf?ua=1, accessed 4 October 2020). (who.int)
  • The Regional Health Observatory was comprehensively redeveloped in 2019. (who.int)
  • In 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) established the Chronic Disease Risk Reduction (CDRR) intake, a chronic-disease-specific recommendation for dietary sodium of 2,300 mg/day. (cdc.gov)
  • The Allstate Corporation is the nation's largest publicly held personal lines insurer. (einvestigator.com)
  • Much like the civic generations - most notably the World War II era "greatest generation" - before them, Millennials want to reinvigorate the nation's institutions utilizing government to improve basic conditions in areas as diverse as health care, education and environmental protection. (newgeography.com)
  • On behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business, the nation's leading business advocacy organization, thank you for convening a hearing focused on lowering unaffordable healthcare costs and examining transparency and competition in healthcare. (house.gov)
  • LUGPA represents 150 urology group practices in the United States, with more than 2,100 physicians who, collectively, provide more than one-third of the nation's urology services. (house.gov)
  • AMA Advocacy Insights webinar: Strategies to address the nation's worsening overdose and death epidemic and more in the latest National Advocacy Update. (ama-assn.org)
  • After all the country that is the number one seller of new cars in the United States - Japan - holds $677 billion of our nation's mortgage. (patownhall.com)
  • It is because mail delays affect medication and testing delivery for so many Americans that the health of the United States Postal Service has a direct impact on our nation's public health. (amwa-doc.org)
  • On April 30-May 1, 2007, national Asian Pacific American organizations and participants from more than 25 states converged in Washington D.C. to call on lawmakers and the White House to fix the nation's broken immigration system. (nakasec.org)
  • Jon Melegrito, Communications Director of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NAFFAA), stated, "We joined our sisters and brothers in the Asian Pacific American community in urging our public officials to act promptly in reforming our country's current immigration system in a way that affirms our nation's values of justice and compassion. (nakasec.org)
  • Karen K. Narasaki, President and Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), stated, "Asian Americans from across the United States came together in our nation's Capitol to mark the beginning of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a strong voice in support of comprehensive, workable, and fair immigration reform. (nakasec.org)
  • The Preterm Birth Prevention Alliance (PBPA), a coalition of maternal and women's health advocates dedicated to improving preterm birth outcomes in the United States and addressing its disproportionate impact on women of color, applauds the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for awarding nearly $350 million to states across the country to improve support for safe pregnancies and healthy babies. (nclnet.org)
  • Estimates suggest that as much as $700 billion a year in health care costs do not improve health outcomes. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • AmeriHealth Caritas has announced the creation of a new company, Social Determinants of Life, Inc. An early pioneer in addressing the health outcomes of people who are challenged by poverty and disability, AmeriHealth Caritas is now pursuing a longer-term focus on resilience and life outcomes. (ahip.org)
  • As an initial move to accelerate promising work in social determinants and life outcomes, the company has made a substantial Series B investment of $29 million in Wider Circle, a California-based startup that builds tech-enabled, hyper-local health programs and peer-to-peer social networks. (ahip.org)
  • The implications of employers' efforts extend far beyond improving physical and mental health outcomes but also serve as a tool to drive global consistency and health equity, reduce health care costs and retain and recruit top talent. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • Global and regional overviews of the current status of child and adolescent health were presented by WHO headquarters and EMRO representatives, respectively, followed by presentations on the outcomes of the WHO global child survival and health strategic review and implications for the Region. (who.int)
  • This report summarizes the contribution of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies to improved health outcomes, the harmonization of its work with the relevant work of WHO, and the WHO Secretariat's interaction with the partnership. (who.int)
  • The Observatory's contribution to health outcomes has been in shifting the balance towards evidence-informed decisions, supporting policy-makers by feeding analysis on key issues (such as financing, workforce and governance) into political debate and contributing to cross-country comparisons and evidence, as increasingly important aspects of complex "real life" decisions. (who.int)
  • This body of work has fed into efforts to improve health outcomes by providing Member States with systematic and comparable descriptions of health systems in the WHO European Region. (who.int)
  • Health-care cost recovery cases have been pursued with varying outcomes in other jurisdictions, including Israel, Marshall Islands and Saudi Arabia. (who.int)
  • Neighborhood gentrification is also salient when examining mental health outcomes as neighborhood economic contexts shift around a child. (bvsalud.org)
  • His work seeks to integrate the two different policy areas in proactive ways that engender both improved public health outcomes and economic prosperity. (who.int)
  • Ms. Henley joined the CDC in 2010 and uses data from CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries and other surveillance systems to monitor cancer outcomes. (who.int)
  • In addition, Aetna offers Medicaid health care management services, workers' compensation administrative services, and health information technology services. (einvestigator.com)
  • Karen Higgins , critical care nurse at Boston Medical Center , past president of the Massachusetts Nurses Association and Co-President of National Nurses United explained: "Hospitals in Massachusetts receive half their revenues from tax dollars including Medicare, Medicaid, public employee and retiree health insurance, taxpayer funded grants, loans, subsidies and waivers on local, state and federal taxes. (prnewswire.com)
  • As I stood there (all the chairs were taken) reading some of Bush's attacks on the Kerry health plan as unaffordable, a woman from the Department of Health came up to me and asked if I had health insurance - because if I didn't, she could sign me up for some kind of State health plan to supplement my Medicaid, at no cost. (rushkoff.com)
  • This file also contains data covering nine noncash income sources: food stamps, school lunch program, employer-provided group health insurance plan, employer-provided pension plan, personal health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, CHAMPUS or military health care, and energy assistance. (cdc.gov)
  • Oakland, CA - At a rally and press conference today, Kaiser nurses and consumer advocates exposed the fact that Kaiser Permanente has accumulated a reserve that is $21.7 billion - 1626 percent - more than required by the state, while cutting patient care services and raising premiums on consumers. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • The initiative allows the state to return excessive reserves to policyholders in the form of lower premiums. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • By giving their representatives a donut, they made the point that millions of seniors are falling into the "donut hole" of premiums but no insurance coverage in the Medicare Part "D" (for disaster) Prescription Drug Law. (pencilstubs.com)
  • Patients are facing rising health insurance premiums, reduced access to care, and record levels of medical debt due to a health care system whose payment and delivery structures too often reward high-cost, low-quality care. (house.gov)
  • Alan Sager , Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Health Reform Program at Boston University's School of Public Health commented on this issue: "Some of the people running hospitals have lost touch with the financial circumstances of ordinary citizens of our state - and with the struggle many people face in affording both high health insurance premiums and soaring co-insurance and deductibles. (prnewswire.com)
  • In states that have substantially limited consumers' ability to go to court for medical malpractice, the insurance premiums for doctors are basically the same as in other states. (nclnet.org)
  • Mark has also spent over 10 years volunteering with the Insurance Institute of BC including serving on the Executive from 2011 to 2017, and was President from 2014 to 2015. (insuranceinstitute.ca)
  • Since 2017, Graham has been capital campaign supporter of the Cooperman Family Pavilion at RWJ Barnabas Health Medical Center. (fairviewinsurance.com)
  • Research from the AMA shows that half of all states had commercial health insurance markets that were less competitive in 2017 than during the previous year. (ama-assn.org)
  • An estimated 25% of Americans aged 50-80 use mail-order pharmacies, a number which is higher for Americans who take one or more prescriptions on a regular basis, according to the 2017 National Poll on Healthy Aging. (amwa-doc.org)
  • 1 This report is extracted from the Summary report on the Consultative meeting on redesigning the integrated approach to child health in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and other related global initiatives, Cairo, Egypt, 24-26 September 2017 (http://applications.emro.who.int/docs/IC_Meet_Rep_2017_EN_20198.pdf?ua=1, accessed 18 January 2018). (who.int)
  • In order to address these shortcomings, a consultative meeting on redesigning the integrated approach to child health in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and other related global initiatives was held in Cairo, Egypt, from 24 to 26 September 2017. (who.int)
  • In December 2017, the United States recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. (state.gov)
  • QuickStats: percentage of currently employed adults aged ≥18 years who reported an average of ≤6 hours of sleep per 24-hour period, by employment category - National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2008-2009 and 2017-2018. (cdc.gov)
  • Control (WHO, 2003), and the World by states (which are not themselves lication also identifies effective actions Health Assembly resolution on cancer binding in the manner that treaties necessary for cancer prevention and prevention and control (WHO, 2017). (who.int)
  • The list includes organizations that provide complete coverage solutions for your home, auto, health, life, and many other things. (einvestigator.com)
  • An insurer or insurance company sells coverage products, security, and sometimes financial services. (einvestigator.com)
  • By building a framework for universal coverage on the scaffolding of the existing private insurance system, the final legislative solution used the liberal approach of regulation and national mandates to create a new role for government, but kept government out of the business of actually providing health care. (newgeography.com)
  • As a nation, we simply cannot afford to wait for the kind of accessible, portable, universal healthcare coverage that we have available to us today in Massachusetts, or to employees eligible for coverage through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan, which was touted during President Obama's campaign. (massnurses.org)
  • For example, America's Health Insurance Plans, a national trade association on whose board I sit, has submitted its own comprehensive healthcare reform proposal to achieve universal coverage, reduce the unsustainable increase of healthcare costs, and improve the quality of medical care. (massnurses.org)
  • FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) has monitored US media coverage of universal health care, and exposed recent mis-reporting on the "failure" of the Canadian system. (redandgreen.org)
  • A constituency for broad access to health coverage has existed for nearly a century, pressuring both public and private sectors to find new and better ways of extending that access. (nih.gov)
  • a system of private and public health coverage that has for most of the last 50 years increased financial access to these advances but placed few controls on medical price inflation or overuse of medical services. (nih.gov)
  • On almost every front, the thrust in the United States is still expansionist-the uninsured want basic protection, the insured want restrictions on coverage eased, and researchers, providers, and entrepreneurs devise new technologies and services that further stimulate demand for care. (nih.gov)
  • The Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR) is a national coalition supporting reforms to lower insurance rates, increase coverage, and make the insurance industry more consumer-friendly. (nclnet.org)
  • Health care reform that results in accessible care for women means making sure that everyone has access to affordable coverage and health care, and ending unfair insurance practices - such as rejecting applicants based on health history, pre-existing condition exclusions, or setting insurance rates based on gender, health status, or age. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • It also means providing access to affordable health coverage regardless of employment or family status. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Finally, reform must provide comprehensive health and prescription drug benefits with coverage for a full range of health services, including wellness, prevention, and reproductive health services. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • AHIP's Health Coverage: State-to-State details the important role health plans play in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. (ahip.org)
  • County firefighters and law enforcement officers who opt out of employer- or union-provided health insurance coverage receive a monetary credit each pay period, minus an "opt-out fee" that goes toward the costs of maintaining. (jdsupra.com)
  • Concerning the 18 high school students pregnant in Gloucester, Mass, that have received national news coverage for supposedly choosing to get pregnant and raise their children together, Kelly McBride, who covers media ethics for Poynter Institute, has an excellent piece on pack journalism in search of a "pact. . (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Illinois will become the 17th state to mandate insurance coverage for treatment of anorexia and bulimia, assuming the governor signs a bill recently approved by the state Legislature. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • The measure is part of a larger national debate about addressing inequities in insurance coverage between psychiatric and physical ailments. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Mr. Obama complained about the press coverage of his speeches and seemed especially miffed about the portrayal of the one he delivered before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this month. (vdare.com)
  • Dukakis, on the other hand, has already placed mandatory health care coverage on Massachusetts companies, and many business leaders fear such a program on the national level. (csmonitor.com)
  • Health insurance coverage among U.S. workers: differences by work arrangements in 2010 and 2015. (cdc.gov)
  • Geographic Coverage State of residence is uniquely identified as well as census geographic division and region. (cdc.gov)
  • Notably, the National Health Program for Indigenous Peoples seeks to improve health coverage for Indigenous Communities through an intercultural lens, aligning with the Law on indigenous policy and support for aboriginal communities that emphasizes the participation and development of indigenous groups while respecting their values. (bvsalud.org)
  • Meanwhile the Obama administration's " Race to the Top " grant program, has sparked a firestorm of educational reform legislation in states competing for the money that weaken the hold of administrators and teachers' unions on what goes on in the classroom. (newgeography.com)
  • The Medicare Rights Center cautions Medicare consumers and consumer organizations that an outfit calling itself "Citizens for Better Medicare" is really a front group for the pharmaceutical industry , and its purpose is to mislead older Americans into supporting "bipartisan" legislation that would destroy Medicare and make health care more expensive. (redandgreen.org)
  • Cutting costs through medical malpractice reform is not likely to result in significant savings in health care reform legislation. (nclnet.org)
  • In related legislation, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), originally introduced by New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter in 1995, was ultimately spearheaded by California Congressman Xavier Becerra (now Secretary of Health and Human Services) to passage by the House of Representatives on April 25, 2007, by a vote of 420-9-3. (medscape.com)
  • National legislation to protect ownership of genetic materials has, despite many attempts, still not become law in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • Enabling legislation for health-care cost recovery claims can also be used to address procedural and evidentiary challenges in the pursuit of liability claims. (who.int)
  • Most Canadian provinces have also now introduced legislation to enable the government to bring a health-care cost recovery claim, and have subsequently filed relevant claims. (who.int)
  • 2 Despite the enabling legislation for the health-care cost recovery litigation in Canadian provinces having been shown to be constitutional, and appearing to address all of the legal and evidentiary obstacles needed to make such litigation possible and viable, the continuing experience highlights procedural challenges. (who.int)
  • tion and control, and cancer preven- the domestic level as legislation or in tion and control, including the United international law as treaties. (who.int)
  • There is national legislation exclusive to herbal medicines (Resolution 144/1998 and Provisions 2673/99, 2671/99 and 1788/00). (bvsalud.org)
  • National legislation protects the use of traditional medicines, but there are no active public policies to integrate them into healthcare systems. (bvsalud.org)
  • World Health Organization. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • A total of 28 participants from ministries of health, the academic community, regional and global experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), attended the meeting (2). (who.int)
  • During a recent phone call, the leader of one of our partner organizations asked Catherine Saucedo and me if there exists a national strategy to reduce smoking rates within the behavioral health population. (ucsf.edu)
  • Furthermore, the issue of smoking was essentially ignored by such relevant federal agencies as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, as well as by advocacy organizations such as the National Alliance on Mental Illness. (ucsf.edu)
  • Through the Oral Cancer Roundtable, a group of conference and meeting participants, CDC will communicate to interested agencies, organizations, and state health departments ways in which they can implement elements of the national plan. (cdc.gov)
  • Since then, Darcey has spent most of her time in the commercial insurance field in a variety of underwriting roles including both direct and broker-based organizations, a MGA/Insurtech, and various leadership positions. (insuranceinstitute.ca)
  • United Way of Southeast Louisiana has been a local partner of AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana for many years, and will expedite the funds to local organizations providing daily boots on the ground support. (ahip.org)
  • Similar efforts to fulfill additional urgent needs with hands-on resources continue alongside United Way and other community-based organizations throughout impacted Louisiana communities. (ahip.org)
  • He has served in leadership positions for trade organizations and corporations like the President's Advisory Council of the Professional Insurance Agents Association (1970's), and previously has been a member of the Agents' Advisory Council of Aetna Insurance Company (1980's), the Advisory Board of Summit Trust Corp., and the Board of Directors of the International School of Commerce (1980's). (fairviewinsurance.com)
  • He has volunteered his time to non-profit organizations like serving on the Board of Directors of the Karen Ann Quinlan Center of Hope (1980's), and has been a member of local, statewide and national charitable organizations such as Soup Kitchen 411/Feed NJ, Garden State Equality and the African American Chamber of Commerce. (fairviewinsurance.com)
  • In his opening remarks, Dr Fikri stated that the proposed regional framework for child and adolescent health and development 2018-2025 represented a unique platform to bring together all related programmes and concerned sectors along with United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations. (who.int)
  • Regulatory agencies, health care organizations, product manufacturers and advocacy groups encourage hospitals, nursing homes and home care providers to assess patients' needs and to provide safe care without restraints. (fda.gov)
  • In addition to extensively publishing in these substantive areas, including as co-author of the most recent Tobacco Atlas, he participates actively in capacity-building efforts across the globe, working with major inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, national governments and many educational institutions. (who.int)
  • But, because Medicare does not cover prescription drugs, older Americans pay twice as much for their prescription drugs as people who are covered by employee health plans. (redandgreen.org)
  • Steve Skavara, a retired steelworker from Northwest Indiana, noted that he had the "Cadillac" of health care plans -- Medicare. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • A follow-up meeting consisting of selected participants of the 1996 conference was held in September 1997. (cdc.gov)
  • Beginning with a consortium of health agencies in 1992 (and including a strategic planning conference in 1996 and a follow-up meeting in 1997), CDC has been involved in concerted efforts to establish a national plan for preventing and controlling these cancers. (cdc.gov)
  • Empirical proof of the life insurance market's dysfunction is readily apparent by examining the very products life insurers and their agents sell. (nclnet.org)
  • It found that insurance rates for doctors have dropped significantly while the medical malpractice insurers are earning record profits. (nclnet.org)
  • We can't trust health insurers to look out for our health when their only goal is profits, she said. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • The AMA continues to urge that competition, not consolidation, is the right prescription for health insurance markets," said AMA President Barbara L. McAneny, MD. "The slide toward insurance monopolies has created a market imbalance that disadvantages patients and favors powerful health insurers. (ama-assn.org)
  • It prohibits employers and health insurers from discriminating against people on the basis of their genetic information, and it also prohibits the use of genetic information in life insurance and long-term care insurance. (medscape.com)
  • Health-care cost recovery claims can counter many of the obstacles common to tobacco liability litigation, particularly by addressing the power and resource imbalance usually inherent in individual claims by giving standing to large bodies such as governments and private health insurers. (who.int)
  • In addition, claims brought by governments and health insurers remove the industry's ability to argue that the victim voluntarily consented to the risk or is partially responsible for the injuries he or she suffered. (who.int)
  • A service of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. (nih.gov)
  • Institutes and chapters work in partnership with the CIP Society National Council to achieve common goals. (insuranceinstitute.ca)
  • vices, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes tal expenses were paid out of Health, 2000. (cdc.gov)
  • Besides, although some private institutes (not universities) are really very good, in quality terms they are self -regulated, and the State does not usually participate in the optimization of the study plans of this field. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA), also known as the Wheeler-Rayburn Act, was a US federal law giving the Securities and Exchange Commission authority to regulate, license, and break up electric utility holding companies. (wikipedia.org)
  • The passage of the Public Utilities Holding Company Act was the climax to the thirty-year nationwide fight between public vs. private development of electricity in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other societal issues like the postal service, public roads, schools, social security, national health insurance, and public ownership of electric generation were part of a global phenomenon with most of Europe and regions of the United States in support of mixed economies. (wikipedia.org)
  • The National Electric Light Association and its member companies organized the largest U.S. Public Relations campaign of the 1920s. (wikipedia.org)
  • The campaign had two goals: to stigmatize public ownership on the one hand while promoting the rapid consolidation of the private sector into a few giant multi-tiered holding companies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dwarfs Governor Brown's 2014-15 proposed budget cut of $500 million for public health, and the entire state's annual $3.5 billion public health department budget. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • Its 23,000 members advance the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Legislature and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public. (massnurses.org)
  • First, it would be based on a foundation of basic public health tobacco control measures such as clean indoor air policies, raising tobacco taxes at federal, state, and local levels, counter-marketing, getting smoking out of the movies, and in general furthering the social denormalization of smoking. (ucsf.edu)
  • This chapter provides a rather detailed overview of some important bases for present public and private arrangements for insuring health care. (nih.gov)
  • The debate about private versus public strategies for medical expense protection is longstanding and has, with the exception of programs for special populations, repeatedly been resolved in the United States in favor of private approaches. (nih.gov)
  • Overall testing rates remain low, although testing was most common among African-American women, those who had multiple sex partners, and those who received public insurance or were uninsured. (cdc.gov)
  • Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, said on Wednesday that that she believes a health care overhaul bill will include a public insurance option. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • In a landmark move that countered eight years of inaction by the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency determined yesterday that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare because they contribute to climate change," reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • The EPA must hold a public comment period before finalizing any regulations. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Background Three years following the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), states across the United States continue to enact permanent changes to telehealth laws that impact how physicians and other health care. (jdsupra.com)
  • Graham has time tested experience developing national specialty insurance programs for businesses such as equipment dealers, automobile dealers and public entities. (fairviewinsurance.com)
  • And with patients increasingly relying on delivery of medications and tests by mail, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the USPS's lack of necessary finances and subsequent mail delays are a public health issue that should be of concern to patients, physicians, and other healthcare providers alike. (amwa-doc.org)
  • Although much of the reporting on this issue happened months ago, this continues to be an ongoing public health issue, and ongoing action is being taken to try to ameliorate the difficulties that the USPS is facing. (amwa-doc.org)
  • The only alternative would be public health facilities, such as the Department of Health Management Services - a New York State facility with a few branches around the city. (rushkoff.com)
  • Instead of looking for a public health facility in the best neighborhood, why not look for one in a place other New Yorkers fear to tread? (rushkoff.com)
  • Indeed, a problem with as much mutual liability and mutual responsibility as public health may just be best addressed through public policy. (rushkoff.com)
  • His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. (rushkoff.com)
  • I don't think there's any instance where Bush has been responsible for getting out a health-and-safety regulation,'' says Kathy Meyer, a lawyer at Public Citizen's Congress Watch, where she has just completed a study of the candidate's role as head of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief. (csmonitor.com)
  • Joy Mason is pursuing her Master of Health Administration (MHA) at The Ohio State University in the College of Public Health. (hfma.org)
  • Breven Perry is pursuing his Master of Health Administration (MHA) degree at The Ohio State University in the College of Public Health. (hfma.org)
  • Its evidence products are open-access, public goods and it works with Member States and WHO to tailor evidence packages to respond to specific challenges at the country level and enable policy-makers to make informed decisions. (who.int)
  • Health-care cost recovery claims are a form of civil litigation brought by either public or private health-care providers or funders in order to recover the health-care costs of tobacco-related harms. (who.int)
  • Fatal Pneumonic Tularemia of cardiac rehab after a heart attack should be encouraged by Associated with Dog Exposure -- Arizona, June 2016 health systems and supported by the public health community. (cdc.gov)
  • The findings of the paper provide an important entry point to the discussion on the relevance and scope of EU public mental health action. (lu.se)
  • These may include in which social inequalities are identi- of essential public health research education and support programmes, fied. (who.int)
  • However, many personal and group initiatives keep the integrative spirit alive and manage to put them into practice, both in public and private health institutions. (bvsalud.org)
  • There is a need for greater commitment from public policies of the State to improve these health aspects. (bvsalud.org)
  • National University of Rosario (public) and Maimonides University (private) are probably two of the most important academic places in which different aspects related to TCIM in Argentina are taught. (bvsalud.org)
  • Dr. Jeff Drope is Scientific Vice President of Economic and Health Policy Research at the American Cancer Society and Professor in Residence of Global Public Health at Marquette University. (who.int)
  • At ACS, an official observer to the WHO FCTC, Dr. Drope leads a team of professional researchers who focus on the nexus of public health and economic policymaking, especially taxation, trade, and investment. (who.int)
  • She also worked to strengthen collaboration between public health, health care, and other sectors playing a key role in advancing CDC's population health priorities. (who.int)
  • The California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, which has 85,000 California members, also announced its endorsement of a measure that will appear on this November's ballot to regulate health insurance rates in California, just as the state already regulates auto insurance rates. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • Originally the Alliance was The National Council of Senior Citizens, but between 2000 and 2001 with the help of many Unions, it became The Alliance when it was opened to all Union Retirees. (pencilstubs.com)
  • This Article was placed on the Texas seniors' website not long after the National convention of the Alliance for Retired Americans, was held in Washington DC on the 6, 7, & 8 of September of this year. (pencilstubs.com)
  • NAAL - According to the most recent National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), a national survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Education & National Center for Education Statistics in 2003, over 90 million Americans have trouble understanding fairly basic health information. (pfizer.com)
  • On Rescue Health Care Day, Americans will have the opportunity to stand together to proclaim their vote of "No Confidence" in corporate managed health care and to support and learn from a national dialogue on alternative systems of health insurance so that we can soon replace managed care with something better. (redandgreen.org)
  • More than 12 million Americans, mostly young women, have eating disorders in their lifetime, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • scribes the current status of oral health among the elderly, percent of persons with how these older Americans use dental health services, and dental visits varied by race, what the future holds for the oral health of older Ameri- education, and whether cans. (cdc.gov)
  • What is the state of oral health among older Americans? (cdc.gov)
  • These standards, developed and coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers, outlines " the knowledge and skills students should have within their K-12 education careers ," without dictating how schools should teach the material. (newgeography.com)
  • The life insurance market is characterized not only by an absence of reliable price information, but also by the presence of deceptive price information…the deceptive sales practices found in the life insurance industry constitute a national scandal. (nclnet.org)
  • To this day the life insurance industry too often relies on inadequate product disclosure, misinformation, and fraudulent practices, thereby costing consumers billions of dollars annually. (nclnet.org)
  • Settlement Agreement with the remaining 46 states for a settlement which, up to 2013, had resulted in almost US$ 100 billion in actual payments from tobacco companies to the states.1 In addition, the companies agreed to discontinue most advertising, refrain from a variety of deceptive practices, open a website including all documents produced in smoking- and health-related lawsuits, and fund a substantial counter-advertising initiative. (who.int)
  • Many scholars and experts acknowledge that it is now a suitable time to discuss and develop appropriate mental health policies and practices across Europe, including specific political measures within the framework of European integration. (lu.se)
  • Its meaning varies depending on cultures, local beliefs, and practices.2 As a result, policymakers need to plan and implement relevant policies and measures based on the mental health representations of various populations, within different countries. (lu.se)
  • Training in traditional practices (as well as TCIM), are not common in the degree of national universities, neither in the professional or technician field, although with a few exceptions. (bvsalud.org)
  • National organizer for the National Nurses Union -- the largest union of health care professionals in the country -- and an organizer for the California Nurses Association, Donna Smith was profiled in Michael Moore's film SiCKO. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (massnurses.org)
  • Second National Consortium Advance Program, 2, 1993. (cdc.gov)
  • http://www.rescuehealthcareday.com , or contact Karen Shore, Ph.D., President of the National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc., 1-888-SAY-NO-MC or 516-424-5232, e-mail [email protected] , web site http://www.NoManagedCare.org . (redandgreen.org)
  • It is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with support from the American Sexually Transmitted Disease Association, American Social Health Association, and National Coalition of STD Directors. (cdc.gov)
  • The occasion was the annual rally for single-payer health care, sponsored by Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan (HCHP), Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana (CAC), Jobs with Justice, Indiana chapter of the AFL-CIO, the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care and Physicians for a National Health Plan. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • He started his insurance career with ICBC in 1987 as a Claims Adjuster Trainee and worked his way up to the role of Director, Provincial Vehicle Registration and Licensing in 2011, eventually retiring from ICBC in 2018 after 31 years. (insuranceinstitute.ca)
  • More recently, in October 2018, Mark joined HUB International Insurance Brokers, and manages their Commercial Auto & Transportation team. (insuranceinstitute.ca)
  • Thus, determine necessary action to be included in the draft of the proposed regional framework for child and adolescent health and development 2018-2025. (who.int)
  • In 2018, the Knesset passed the "Basic Law: Israel - The Nation State of the Jewish People. (state.gov)
  • QuickStats: percentage of currently employed adults who have paid sick leave, by Industry - National Health Interview Survey, 2009 and 2018. (cdc.gov)
  • 2018 (http://applications.emro.who.int/docs/RD_Vision_2018_20675_en.pdf, accessed 2 October 2020). (who.int)
  • are, but may have legal significance) control generally, and for reducing In each of these instruments, states (Zhou and Liberman, 2018), and social inequalities in cancer specifi- commit to implementing interventions mechanisms to monitor or enforce cally. (who.int)
  • Consumers of the industry's other main products, annuities and long term care insurance, also face enormous disclosure-related problems. (nclnet.org)
  • The sole reason for the health insurance industry's existence it "to serve their shareholders, not patients, doctors or hospitals. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • The author of three books, he has led dozens of campaigns to reform insurance companies, financial institutions, energy companies, political accountability and health care companies. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • In his latest column , Kaiser Foundation's President and CEO Drew Altman offers a brief history of health reform efforts since World War Two. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • That's the average number of years between major attempts at health reform since Harry Truman made health reform a top priority and his plan was branded a socialist plot and soundly defeated in 1950. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Recognizing that in the early 1990s new and old health systems faced common challenges, WHO developed principles to guide health systems reform. (who.int)
  • The resulting Ljubljana Charter on reforming health care was signed in 1996 and a seminal volume was produced on strategies for health systems reform as part of the evidence base.2 The European Observatory on Health Care Systems grew from these efforts. (who.int)
  • The American Benefits Council ("the Council") thanks you for holding this important hearing, "Lowering Unaffordable Costs: Examining Transparency and Competition in Health Care. (house.gov)
  • The chair invites up to 11 leading members, representing all sectors of the CIP Society membership, to participate on the National Council. (insuranceinstitute.ca)
  • The mandate of the Council is to provide development opportunities, new services and products for members of the Insurance Institute's graduate community. (insuranceinstitute.ca)
  • She is member of the National CIP Society Council. (insuranceinstitute.ca)
  • The Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research on Tuesday held the first of at least three listening sessions on how the $1.1 billion from the stimulus package for comparative effectiveness research should be spent. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Karen Kay Leonard, president of the League of Women Voters of Indiana, said the league has been advocating a single-payer health plan since the early 1990s. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)
  • The National organization has over 3 million members and there are state affiliations in 28 states at this time, Texas being one of them. (pencilstubs.com)
  • AIG is the world's largest insurance organization, with more than 88 million customers around the globe. (einvestigator.com)
  • Rather, it reflects a gradual accumulation of factors: innovations in health care finance and organization, conflicting political and social principles, coincidences of timing, market dynamics, programs stimulated by the findings of health services research, and spillover effects of tax and other policies aimed at different targets. (nih.gov)
  • Pan American Health Organization. (who.int)
  • For example, the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the country's largest arbitration provider, developed fairness rules for employment and consumer arbitrations. (sbecouncil.org)
  • The country's insurance industry is now a key supporter and stakeholder, and has already signaled its willingness to be part of the national solution. (massnurses.org)
  • It also broke up any holding companies with more than two tiers, forcing divestitures so that each became a single integrated system serving a limited geographic area. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Japanese Government established an "Investment Advisor Assignment System" in April 2016 in which a State Minister acts as an advisor to select foreign companies with "important" investments in Japan. (state.gov)
  • The Blue Cross and Blue Shield System (BCBS) consists of 37 independently operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield member companies, a Federal Employee Program, and an Association, which serves the collective needs of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. (einvestigator.com)
  • As an alliance that brings together the interests of consumers, employers, labor unions, and primary care clinicians working to realign and improve the fundamental economic incentives and design of the health care system, Consumers First thanks you for being responsive to our call to action and stands ready to support you as you embark on this critical work. (house.gov)
  • The federal transparency efforts of the past several years hold great promise in helping us make rapid progress toward our goals of a truly free market health system informed by objective and reliable price and quality information, and we applaud Congress for its efforts to support this work. (house.gov)
  • Chairman Guthrie and Ranking Member Eshoo, the Large Urology Group Practice Association (LUGPA) is honored to submit this testimony to the Energy & Commerce Committee on how to strengthen the health care system. (house.gov)
  • AN ARTICLE in The New Yorker earlier this year by Dr. Atul Gawande explained the rationale for creating a national healthcare system based upon the fundamentals of existing programs. (massnurses.org)
  • Of course, this isn't to say that our state system is perfect, but theoretical perfection should not hold us hostage as we embark upon an idea whose time has finally come. (massnurses.org)
  • FAIR urges readers to ask "ABC News and the New York Times to take another look at the issue of Canada's health system. (redandgreen.org)
  • The current U.S. system of voluntary employment-based health benefits is not the consequence of an overarching and deliberate plan or policy. (nih.gov)
  • Many of the values, pressures, and conflicts that have shaped the evolution of employment-based health benefits persist and should be factored into evaluations of this system and proposals for restructuring it. (nih.gov)
  • Yet so many life insurance industry chieftains who regularly sing the praise of our economic system fail to acknowledge that their businesses haven't satisfied the system's prerequisites or played by its rules. (nclnet.org)
  • Peter Orszag, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, predicts that in one year the country will be on its way to a more efficient health care system. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Citizens, he said, "will continue to expose the activity of these parasitic middlemen who add no value to our health care system. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • A single-payer system, he added, would mean "everybody in, nobody out, and good-bye to the health insurance industry. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • When you have people dying because of no health care, it's not the best health care system in the world. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • Someday if the president gets his wish will health care be managed like the clunker the postal system is? (patownhall.com)
  • The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a computerized SBIRT system called the Health Evaluation and Referral Assistant (HERA) on risky alcohol use treatment initiation. (jmir.org)
  • People seem to be wondering how the hell a truly national health insurance system would be paid for. (rushkoff.com)
  • It produces Health System in Transition1 reviews (and includes an online platform, the Health Systems and Policies Monitor,2 which offers real-time reporting and analysis of system and policy reforms. (who.int)
  • These analytical reports help Member States to set their own health system in context, review points of weakness, and identify approaches employed in other countries in the Region. (who.int)
  • Writing a health system in transition review brings together a mix of key players and creates an opportunity for a collective review of information. (who.int)
  • Published reviews then act as a baseline of shared understanding and information on countries in the Region, focussing attention on health system opportunities to improve health. (who.int)
  • We reviewed pregnancy-related adverse events reported to the national passive surveillance system from November 1, 2009 through January 31, 2010. (cdc.gov)
  • She has subject matter expertise in prevention strategies, population health and health system transformation, focusing on a wide range of fields including tobacco use prevention and control, the prevention of violence and the prevention of non-communicable diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer. (who.int)
  • The Ninth Circuit affirmed on different grounds, holding that judicially decreed reimbursement for payments made to a beneficiary of an insurance plan by a third party is not "equitable relief" authorized by § 502(a)(3). (justia.com)
  • The 2024 American Medical Association Medical Student Advocacy Conference (MAC) will be held March 7-8, 2024. (ama-assn.org)
  • BOSTON , April 29, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a State House press conference today, advocates presented lists of over 40 Massachusetts hospitals with money stored in offshore accounts (see list at the end of this release) and urged legislators to demand greater transparency in hospital finances by passing The Hospital Profit Transparency & Fairness Act (H3844). (prnewswire.com)
  • The American Psychiatric Nurses Association has called for its members to be active smoking cessation champions, both in their clinical settings and as policy advocates. (ucsf.edu)
  • It limited holding company operations to a single state, thus subjecting them to effective state regulation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The health insurance rate review and regulation ballot measure on November's ballot will allow for refunds if consumers have paid excessive rates since November 2012 and requires future rate hikes and benefit cuts to be justified. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • Annual chlamydia screening can protect young women's reproductive health now and safeguard it for the future. (cdc.gov)
  • The Certified Exit Planning Advisor® Program is a five-day executive MBA-style program held by the Exit Planning Institute that trains and certifies qualified professional advisors in the field of exit planning. (ameripriseadvisors.com)
  • The disproportionate burden that smoking exerts on the behavioral health population has been known for several decades 1 , 2 . (ucsf.edu)
  • The president described disproportionate rates of unemployment, imprisonment and lack of health insurance in minority communities as barriers of the moment. (vdare.com)
  • We are united in our commitment to strengthen Social Security, not privatize it. (pencilstubs.com)
  • As part of the latter, Member States requested the Regional Director to conduct country functional reviews (CFRs) to strengthen WHO performance based on country needs and priorities, as outlined in resolution EM/RC65/R2. (who.int)
  • On behalf of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), representing more than 129,600 family physicians and medical students across the country, I write to express our appreciation for the Committee holding today's hearing on health care costs, titled "Lowering Unaffordable Costs: Examining Transparency and Competition in Health Care. (house.gov)
  • Aetna offers a broad range of traditional consumer health protection products and services. (einvestigator.com)
  • Health Literacy -Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate decisions regarding their health (Health People-2010). (pfizer.com)
  • The funding, awarded by HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), will support home visiting services, increase access to doulas, address infant mortality and maternal illness, and improve data reporting on maternal mortality. (nclnet.org)
  • Fertility and family-forming benefits are important for employers striving to improve health equity, provide access to critical health care services and promote global consistency. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • The United States Postal Service is unique in terms of delivery services in that its mission is "to provide the nation with reliable, affordable, universal mail service. (amwa-doc.org)
  • After being billed by the plaintiff, N.E. Physical Therapy Plus, Inc. (NEPT), for certain medically necessary chiropractic services provided to the passenger of its insured, the defendant, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (Liberty Mutual), maintained that the cost of those services was unreasonably high and thus refused to pay the full amount invoiced. (justia.com)
  • Hobby Lobby concluded that corporations were "persons" under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000bb-1, and held that Health and Human Services regulations requiring employers to provide insurance that covered contraceptives unconstitutionally burdened closely held corporations' exercise of religion. (virginialawreview.org)
  • However, Madison's economy today is evolving from a government-based economy to a consumer services and high-tech base, particularly in the health, biotech and advertising sectors. (yellowpagesdirectory.com)
  • Together, the 2 companies will work alongside NBA player Marcus Smart, who lost his brother and mother to blood cancer, to shine a light on health care inequities that exist, particularly as it relates to the diversity of blood stem cell and marrow registries. (ahip.org)
  • titled "Lowering Unaffordable Costs: Examining Transparency and Competition in Health Care. (house.gov)
  • We applaud your focus on examining ideas to drive down the cost of health care through transparency and competition. (house.gov)
  • Exercising your political voice is an excellent way of staying morally engaged and holding government officials accountable for maintaining transparency and the rights of the people they serve. (amwa-doc.org)
  • and creating or strengthening mechanisms for transparency and accountability in the health sector. (who.int)
  • In the dynamic policy environment surrounding women's health and family formation, employers also need to remain aware of regulatory hurdles in certain regions of the world, such as age caps and family eligibility restrictions. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • 2013, 20 states* and DC, and in 2015, four states included (rehab) includes exercise counseling and training, education for the cardiovascular health module, which contained questions heart-healthy living, and counseling to reduce stress. (cdc.gov)
  • Many U.S. adults might be at risk for chronic disease associated with sodium intake above CDRR intake, and efforts to lower sodium intake could improve population cardiovascular health. (cdc.gov)
  • From a voting record standpoint, no [senator] has had a better small-business voting record than Quayle,'' says John Sloan, president of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). (csmonitor.com)
  • CNA Treasurer Martha Kuhl, RN noted that California registered nurses regularly "struggle to get our patients the care they need, including people facing financial ruin because of high insurance bills. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • Cigna (NYSE: CI) is a global health service company dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being, and sense of security. (einvestigator.com)
  • Two doubting economists Pierre Rinfret and Eliot Janeway held a a strategy meeting in new York the other Day to consult not with their brother economists but with business people. (newspaperarchive.com)
  • When people get hurt by medical errors, doctors and hospitals should be held liable. (nclnet.org)
  • Chlamydia is the most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States, and young people are most affected. (cdc.gov)
  • And, in addition to that, the number of uninsured people in the United States will be dramatically lower than it is today. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • About 50 people attended the protest outside the for-profit health insurance giant Anthem Wellpoint annual shareholders meeting. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • Julia Vaughn, from Common Cause, pointed out that tens of thousands of people die each year in this country from having no or inadequate health insurance, yet Angela Braly, CEO of WellPoint, earns $13.5 million a year, or $100,000 per day. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • United for the People, http://united4thepeople.org/ [https://perma.cc/XS9X-LZNR] (last visited Aug. 19, 2020). (virginialawreview.org)
  • The people in the State health office were far more competent and accomodating than the losers in the private conglomerate-owned blood lab we had been to the week before for my wife's glucose test. (rushkoff.com)
  • and exercising the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish People. (state.gov)
  • Business, both large and small, leans toward Bush, since Mr. Dukakis seems ``to focus more on the people and the labor force, and less on the entrepreneur and investors,'' says John Galles, executive vice-president of National Small Business United. (csmonitor.com)
  • Currently, although the Ministry of Health in Argentina encourages research and awareness campaigns for the recognition of ancestral knowledge and traditional and complementary medicine, in practice, it achieves limited objectives. (bvsalud.org)
  • Eun Sook Lee, Executive Director of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), stated, "This historic event came at a strategic moment with the introduction of the first serious legislative proposal in the new Congress by Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and the exposure of the secret White House plan and negotiations. (nakasec.org)
  • Strategic objective (d) is progressing through implementation of the framework for action to improve national institutional capacity for the use of evidence in health policy-making in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, endorsed by the Regional Committee at its 66th session, and a separate progress report on this will be presented to the Committee during its 68th session. (who.int)
  • The central role of employment-based health benefits and the very substantial discretion accorded employers rest, in considerable measure, on federal laws and regulations (in particular, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) that did not explicitly plan or envision that structure. (nih.gov)
  • To support employees, employers are increasingly evaluating existing cost barriers, navigational issues and other drivers of health disparities in the fertility and family-forming space. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • Wisconsin state government and the University of Wisconsin-Madison remain the top two Madison employers. (yellowpagesdirectory.com)
  • Two smaller plans, at a cost of $50 million a year, would require every federal agency to provide employees with child care, and set up a federal reinsurance pool to make it easier for employers to get liability insurance to do this. (csmonitor.com)
  • Each year, approximately 790,000 adults a doctor, nurse, or other health professional ever told you that have a myocardial infarction (heart attack), including 210,000 you had a heart attack, also called a myocardial infarction? (cdc.gov)
  • To update these estimates, CDC used the most recent BRFSS data from 2013 and 2015 to assess the 874 National, Regional, State, and Selected Local Area use of cardiac rehab among adults following a heart attack. (cdc.gov)
  • This report focuses on the oral health needs of older adults. (cdc.gov)
  • our aging population correlates of tooth pain among adults: United States, 1989. (cdc.gov)
  • However, these increases may have no significant impact on health among Black adults due to structural racism and "diminished gain" of health effects from socioeconomic resources. (bvsalud.org)
  • Separate difference-in-difference models estimated the odds of hypertension among Black and White adults in states with and without minimum wage increases. (bvsalud.org)
  • Results: As state wage limits increase, the odds of hypertension significantly decreased among Black adults overall. (bvsalud.org)
  • Conclusion: States having a minimum wage above the federal wage limit are not sufficient to combat structural racism and reduce the disparities in hypertension among Black adults. (bvsalud.org)
  • Hypertension, which can be brought on by excess sodium intake, affects nearly one half of U.S. adults and is a major risk factor for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Smoking and Behavioral Health: Is there a national strategy? (ucsf.edu)
  • And, of course, that 17.8% baseline figure would be even lower if it excluded the one fifth or so of the population with a behavioral health condition. (ucsf.edu)
  • When the CDC's estimated number of annual deaths from tobacco use was 435,000 per year, several tobacco control experts estimated that about 200,000 of those premature deaths occurred among persons with behavioral health conditions. (ucsf.edu)
  • In addition, about 40% of all cigarettes consumed in the United States are by persons with behavioral health conditions. (ucsf.edu)
  • Yet, despite these facts, smoking cessation has not been an important goal among health professionals responsible for treating behavioral health clients--psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, and social workers. (ucsf.edu)
  • We have a long way to go before smoking cessation is mainstreamed into behavioral health treatment. (ucsf.edu)
  • So let's return to the original question-- what would be a national strategy to reduce smoking in the behavioral health population? (ucsf.edu)
  • Association of parental workplace injury with emotional and behavioral problems of children. (cdc.gov)
  • John F. X. Graham, Insurance Agency Chief Executive Fairview Insurance Agency Associates was founded by Mr. Graham in 1970 and on July 22, 2020, the agency celebrated its 50th year anniversary. (fairviewinsurance.com)
  • Throughout the year 2020, Fairview maintained its entire staff, allowed every employee to work remotely and held bi-weekly zoom calls to check on the staff's health and well- being. (fairviewinsurance.com)
  • Joy also serves as the Vice President of the Association of Future Healthcare Executives and the Chair of OSU's 2024 First Year MHA Case Competition. (hfma.org)
  • We applaud HHS for this additional funding that will help to improve the maternal health for all mothers and babies, especially women of color and those most at-risk. (nclnet.org)
  • Too often these struggles are over what the insurance company will pay rather than what is the best care option for patients. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • The AMA commends the Subcommittee for focusing on the critically important issue of consolidation in health insurance, hospital, and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) markets and the consequences for patients. (house.gov)
  • 3. Minute of Silence, beginning at 12 Noon on Rescue Health Care Day, to mark the death of quality care and the deaths of and harm done to patients at the hands of managed care. (redandgreen.org)
  • Flush with cash, Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide are aggressively expanding their reach, seeking to woo more affluent patients with a network of suburban clinics and huge new health centers that project a decidedly upscale image," reports the Wall Street Journal . (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Importantly, on-time deliveries of medication by mail ensure that patients with chronic illnesses do not run out of prescriptions that are necessary for their health. (amwa-doc.org)
  • In fact, for some chronic diseases, research studies have shown associations between receiving prescriptions by mail and medication adherence and between receiving mail-order prescriptions and lower emergency department visits by diabetes patients. (amwa-doc.org)
  • Additionally, as Dr. Michael Pignone states, utilizing mail for medical testing, such as sending fecal immunochemical tests, is a low-cost effort that can help reduce barriers to medical care for low-income patients. (amwa-doc.org)
  • Historically, physical restraints (such as vests, ankle or wrist restraints) were used to try to keep patients safe in health care facilities. (fda.gov)
  • In recent years, the health care community has recognized that physically restraining patients can be dangerous. (fda.gov)
  • Patients and their families should talk to their health care planning team to find out which options are best for them. (fda.gov)
  • Encourage patients or family to talk to their health care planning team to determine whether or not bed rails are indicated. (fda.gov)
  • CDC researchers analyzed self-reported data on chlamydia testing among teenage girls and young women aged 15 to 25 in the United States from the 2006-2008 cycle of the National Survey of Family Growth, a nationally representative household survey. (cdc.gov)
  • In Citizens United , the Supreme Court struck down a federal law, 2 U.S.C. § 441b (2006), that banned direct corporate spending on political campaigns. (virginialawreview.org)
  • In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held that naturally occurring DNA segments are products of nature and therefore are not eligible for patent protection. (medscape.com)
  • On November 17th of this year, The American Postal Workers union held a day of action and asked Congress to pass a financial support bill for USPS. (amwa-doc.org)
  • The analysis, along with additional research highlighting the need to expand chlamydia screening and retesting, was presented today at the National STD Prevention Conference in Minneapolis. (cdc.gov)
  • This new research makes it clear that we are missing too many opportunities to protect young women from health consequences that can last a lifetime," said Kevin Fenton, M.D., director of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • It is critical that health care providers are not only aware of the importance of testing sexually active young women every year for chlamydia infections, but also of retesting anyone who is diagnosed," said Gail Bolan, M.D., director of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The National STD Prevention Conference, held biennially, is the only major U.S. conference that focuses exclusively on advances and challenges in efforts to halt the spread of these serious diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • laws prevention and control, and of reduc- ways in which law can be used in that are designed to protect the priva- ing inequalities, and is usually used the areas of cancer prevention and cy of personal health information but most effectively in coordination with control addressed in this book, and unreasonably constrain the conduct other measures. (who.int)
  • Dr. Corinne Graffunder is Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (who.int)
  • Dr. Graffunder joined the CDC in 1987 and has 30+ years of experience working with Global, National, State and local prevention efforts. (who.int)
  • In this position she worked with the U.S. Surgeon General, leading the development of the first ever National Prevention Strategy: America's Plan for Better Health and Wellness. (who.int)
  • In 2016, he was named Man of the Year by the New Jersey American Cancer Society and received "The Good Guy" award from NJ State Woman Caucus. (fairviewinsurance.com)
  • and First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti , 435 U.S. 765, 784 (1978) (campaign expenditures as political speech). (virginialawreview.org)
  • Dengue in the Caribbean, 1977 : proceedings of a workshop held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, 8-11 May 1978. (who.int)
  • The pharmacopoeias used are the legally binding Argentinian medicines codex (Codex Medicamentario Argentino, 6th ed., 1978) and the United States pharmacopeia (2010). (bvsalud.org)
  • In addition to expanding programs to support maternal health, we must increase representation from racially and ethnically diverse groups in research and clinical trials, particularly those studying treatment options to prevent maternal morbidity and mortality," said Greenberg. (nclnet.org)
  • AmeriHealth Caritas North Carolina announced it has made $7,500 in donations to support community agencies across the state in addressing the needs of families impacted by the current economic downturn. (ahip.org)
  • In an effort to support the health and well-being of all employees around the world, companies are increasingly recognizing the critical importance of fertility and family-forming benefits. (businessgrouphealth.org)
  • developed with Janet A. Yellowitz, D.M.D., M.P.H. support from the National Institute on Aging. (cdc.gov)
  • Since then, Roz has held multiple, progressive leadership roles across RSA Canada's broker business in both Commercial Insurance and Personal Insurance spanning across Underwriting, Operations, Strategy and Planning. (insuranceinstitute.ca)
  • Their complex, highly leveraged, corporate structures were very difficult for individual states to regulate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aflac and Be The Match®, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, have announced a partnership to continue diversifying the national blood stem cell donor registry. (ahip.org)
  • LSU Health Shreveport makes it much easier for residents to meet ACGME common program requirements as part of its broader well-being effort. (ama-assn.org)
  • Or is the cash for clunkers program a new way of financing our national debt? (patownhall.com)
  • In August 1996, CDC convened a national conference to develop strategies for preventing and controlling oral and pharyngeal cancer in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • This report became the template for the The political battle over its passage was one of the bitterest of the New Deal, and was followed by eleven years of legal appeals by holding companies led by the Electric Bond and Share Company, which finally completed its breakup in 1961. (wikipedia.org)
  • That seven-year investigation took on special meaning following the Wall Street Crash of 1929 as the early phase of the investigation showed large scale corruption hidden within the six to ten layered pyramid holding company structures that concentrated financial power in the hands of a few. (wikipedia.org)
  • A group of United Food and Commercial Union activists, for example, sought congressional help in getting decent treatment from the Smithfield company. (pencilstubs.com)
  • What is an Insurance Company? (einvestigator.com)
  • AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company (formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States) was founded in 1859. (einvestigator.com)
  • Founded in 1936 as the Government Employees Insurance Company. (einvestigator.com)
  • WellPoint is a giant health insurance company based in Indianapolis. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • Universal health care and private insurance company profits are incompatible. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • The president of the United States is insistent that we have a national health care insurance company. (patownhall.com)
  • Madison is home to companies such as Spectrum Brands (formerly Rayovac), Alliant Energy, American Family Insurance, American Girl (a subsidiary company of Mattel), the Credit Union National Association and its CUNA Mutual Group, University of Wisconsin Credit Union, Dean Health Systems, Pacific Cycle, and Sub-Zero & Wolf Appliance. (yellowpagesdirectory.com)
  • The legal case is that of the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) v Myriad Genetics, Inc , a Salt Lake City-based biotech company that held patents on isolated DNA sequences associated with breast and ovarian cancer . (medscape.com)
  • Insuring medical care expenses is difficult for several reasons, and making private insurance workable for large numbers of workers and their families has taken considerable creativity, leadership, and some luck. (nih.gov)
  • After the Knudsons filed a state-court tort action to recover from the manufacturer of their car and others, they negotiated a settlement which allocated the bulk of the recovery to attorney's fees and to a trust for Janette's medical care, and earmarked $13,828.70 (the portion of the settlement attributable to past medical expenses) to satisfy Great-West's reimbursement claim. (justia.com)
  • She and her husband had to file for bankruptcy because her health insurance didn't cover their medical expenses. (bloomingtonalternative.com)
  • Held: Because petitioners are seeking legal relief-the imposition of personal liability on respondents for a contractual obligation to pay money-§ 502(a)(3) does not authorize this action. (justia.com)
  • Approving the settlement, the state court ordered the defendants to pay the trust amount directly and the remainder to respondents' attorney, who, in turn, would tender checks to Great-West and other creditors. (justia.com)
  • Here, the basis for petitioners' claim is not that respondents hold particular funds that, in good conscience, belong to petitioners, but that petitioners are contractually entitled to some funds for benefits that they conferred. (justia.com)
  • For some respondents, this was a requirement of their health insurance. (amwa-doc.org)
  • This study assesses the relationship between state minimum wage increases and Black-White disparities in hypertension. (bvsalud.org)
  • The US Postal Service, the wholly owned subsidiary of the Direct Mail Marketing Association, is in deep trouble. (patownhall.com)