• The Children's Aid Society created "a foster care approach that became the basis for the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997" called Concurrent Planning. (wikipedia.org)
  • AIDS incidence among all MSM declined 22% from 1996 to 1997 ( Table 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Overall, the proportionate declines in AIDS incidence from 1997 to 1998 were smaller than those from 1996 to 1997. (cdc.gov)
  • In September 1997, CDC convened a meeting of expert consultants who reviewed and considered background information about HIV-related TB in the United States and the scientific principles of therapy for both diseases (Part I of this report). (cdc.gov)
  • In his State of the Union Address in January 1997, President Clinton voiced a goal of connecting every school and library into the Internet. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Both of these policies would strengthen an already strong program-since the enactment of the program in 1997, the uninsured rate among children has decreased by one-third. (americanprogress.org)
  • MCHB Technical Assistance care - United States, 1989-1997. (readkong.com)
  • The annual incidence of spina bifida fluctuated from 2.34 to 4.03 per 1000 deliveries between 1991 and 1996, but fell sharply to 2.11 per 1000 deliveries in 1997, after which the downward trend continued, reaching 0.29 per 1000 deliveries by 2006. (who.int)
  • The Commonwealth Fund Survey for the Health of Adolescent Girls," November 1997. (breakthecycle.org)
  • a critical analysis of WHO's leadership role in international health by the Task Force on Health in Development", was made available during regional committee meetings in September and October 1997 as a first step in ensuring wide dissemination of the conclusions of the task force on strengthening WHO in the next century. (who.int)
  • After completing her Ph.D. in Nursing in 1990, Dr. Dumas began teaching at SUNY Stony Brook and working part-time at a VA Hospital in primary care, as a nurse practitioner (NP). (adelphi.edu)
  • By 1990 reports of child maltreatment had risen to 1.7 million, affecting about 2.7 million children. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In 1990 the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), designed to fulfill this mandate, began collecting and analyzing child maltreatment data from CPS agencies in the fifty states and the District of Columbia. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The resulting syphilis epidemic hit the United States in a series of waves of increasing magnitude that culminated in a 1990 peak rate of 20.3 per 100,000 (Fig. 1). (glowm.com)
  • Although the rate of primary and secondary (P&S) or infectious syphilis in the United States declined 89.7% between 1990 and 2000, the rate of infectious syphilis increased between 2001 and 2006. (glowm.com)
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1990, as amended) require that services to individuals who use a language other than spoken English must be delivered in the language most appropriate to that student, client, patient, or family. (asha.org)
  • ABSTRACT This paper presents the trend of spina bifida and other neural tube defects in Oman after the nationwide implementation of folate supplementation of pregnant women in 1990 and the fortification of wheat flour with iron and folate in 1996. (who.int)
  • RÉSUMÉ Cet article présente la tendance du spina bifida et d'autres malformations du tube neural à Oman, après la mise en place au niveau national de la supplémentation en acide folique chez les femmes enceintes en 1990, et l'enrichissement de la farine de blé en fer et en acide folique en 1996. (who.int)
  • The supply of health manpower : 1970 profiles and projections to 1990. (who.int)
  • El proceso democrático de la década de 1980 en busca de la equidad y la justicia social, la articulación con las organizaciones internacionales resultaron en la ratifi cación de las normas internacionales, la creación de una legislación específi ca y establecimiento, en la década de 1990, de políticas públicas: el Programa de Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil (PETI) aliándose la transferencia combinada de ingresos y la educación. (bvsalud.org)
  • Entre 1991 et 1996, le taux annuel de cas de spina bifida oscillait entre 2,34 et 4,03 pour 1 000 accouchements. (who.int)
  • Between 1991 and 1996, AIDS in adults over 50 rose more than twice as quick as in youthful adults. (lastestlaw.xyz)
  • This report presents recent trends in AIDS incidence and deaths among MSM who belong to racial/ethnic minority populations*, and compares data on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnoses with AIDS diagnoses during 1996-1998 among racial/ethnic minority MSM in the 25 states** that have conducted confidential HIV surveillance and AIDS case surveillance since 1994. (cdc.gov)
  • The findings indicate that among MSM, non-Hispanic black and Hispanic men accounted for an increasing proportion of AIDS cases and had smaller proportionate declines in AIDS incidence and deaths from 1996 to 1998. (cdc.gov)
  • Trends in AIDS incidence during 1989-1998 among MSM aged greater than or equal to 13 years from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories were analyzed by race/ethnicity, age, and geographic area of residence. (cdc.gov)
  • During 1996-1998, AIDS incidence per 100,000 population was calculated using race/ethnicity-specific Bureau of the Census estimates of males aged greater than or equal to 13 years for the corresponding years. (cdc.gov)
  • Trends examined were from 1989 through 1998 and from 1996 through 1998, the period of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). (cdc.gov)
  • During 1996-1998, for the 25 states with confidential HIV surveillance, age and race/ethnicity of MSM whose disease status was HIV infection (not AIDS) when initially diagnosed were compared with MSM who had AIDS-defining conditions when first diagnosed. (cdc.gov)
  • And, she was the first African American academic department head at UNLV from 1998-2006. (socialworkblog.org)
  • The objective of the consultation was to agree on the major elements of a WHO programme on health and human rights for the period 1998-2000. (who.int)
  • These guidelines update previous CDC recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis (TB) among adults and children coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • These guidelines update previous CDC recommendations for treating and preventing active tuberculosis (TB) among adults and children coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (1-3). (cdc.gov)
  • Effectiveness of latex condoms as a barrier to human immunodeficiency virus-sized particles under the conditions of simulated use. (netce.com)
  • Each state's services are monitored by the federal Department of Health and Human Services through reviews such as Child and Family Services Reviews, Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Reviews, Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, and Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System Assessment Reviews. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, in recent years there has been a trend among legislatures, courts, legal scholars and child-welfare advocates toward insistence on respecting children, legally and morally, as distinct persons whose fundamental needs or `welfare interests' warrant legal protection [ 14 ], rather than viewing children as appendages or property of their parents to be treated however parents (within minimal limitations) see fit [ 15 ]. (cirp.org)
  • In the quarter-century since this observance was established, the child welfare system in the United States has undergone dramatic shifts. (nrc4tribes.org)
  • Certainly this reduction is the result of positive changes in the child welfare system: more children are able to stay safely in their homes, and those who do come into foster care are moving more quickly to permanency. (nrc4tribes.org)
  • During National Foster Care Month, we can celebrate the progress the child welfare system has made, but we must also recommit ourselves to improving outcomes for the approximately 400,000 children who are in foster care on any given day. (nrc4tribes.org)
  • Read the rest of Commissioner Bryan Samuels's post marking National Foster Care Month on the ACF Blog , and find resources for National Foster Care Month on the Child Welfare Information Gateway . (nrc4tribes.org)
  • As part of the former U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, NCCAN commissioned the American Humane Association (AHA) to collect data from the states. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The NCPCA started collecting detailed information from the states on the number of children abused, the characteristics of child abuse, the number of child abuse deaths, and changes in the funding and extent of child welfare services. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The work of AAGG also includes improving health, life quality and welfare of older people. (helpage.org)
  • Children's Defense Fund, Child Welfare and Mental Health Division, "Domestic Violence and its Impact on Children. (breakthecycle.org)
  • The "Prevention Plan" presented on this site is based on the ideas in "The Stop Child Molestation Book by Gene G. Abel, M.D. and Nora Harlow (Xlibris 2001). (childmolestationprevention.org)
  • Jones, L. & Finkelhor, D. (January 2001) "The Decline in Child Sexual Abuse Cases," Juvenile Justice Bulletin (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention): 1-10. (childmolestationprevention.org)
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (childmolestationprevention.org)
  • Incorporating HIV prevention into the medical care of persons living with HIV. (netce.com)
  • Integration of behavioral counseling interventions with primary care delivery increases the reach of effective prevention strategies, 3 which is particularly important with recent health care reform efforts. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)
  • The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) acknowledged the potential of modifying health behaviors for prevention as early as 1996 11 and has previously described its methods for evaluating behavioral counseling interventions in primary care and for estimating the certainty and magnitude of the net benefit of these preventive services. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)
  • In 1988 the Child Abuse Prevention, Adoption and Family Services Act ( Public Law 100-294) replaced the 1974 CAPTA. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Ed) Maternal and Child Health: Programs, Problems, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (readkong.com)
  • Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_08.pdf Prevention Objectives. (readkong.com)
  • The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease prevention and control (especially infectious diseases), environmental health , occupational safety and health, health promotion, prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • World Health Organization, Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention, "Violence Against Women: A Priority Health Issue. (breakthecycle.org)
  • Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, "Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States," March 2003. (breakthecycle.org)
  • The National Clinical Care Commission, a federal advisory committee, has launched its final report outlining evidence-based, actionable suggestions to improve federal diabetes awareness, prevention, and treatment applications. (lastestlaw.xyz)
  • Immunization : survey of recent research, issued November 1986- / prepared by Centers for Disease Control, Center for Prevention Services, Technical Information Services. (who.int)
  • by Center for Prevention Services (U.S..) Division of Immunization. (who.int)
  • In addition, The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • This has largely been due to limited human and financial resources, unaffordable drugs for prevention and treatment, and poor infrastructure. (who.int)
  • In the United States, vaccination programs have eliminated many vaccine-preventable diseases and markedly reduced the incidence of others ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Between the 1980s and early 1990s, in response to a new increase in incidence of TB cases in the United States ( 2 - 4 ), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended annual tuberculin testing for high-risk children such as blacks, Hispanics, the socioeconomically disadvantaged, and children living in neighborhoods where the disease rate was higher than the national average ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Researchers use two terms-incidence and prevalence-to describe the estimates of the number of victims of child abuse and neglect. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Andrea J. Sedlak and Diane D. Broadhurst defined incidence as the number of new cases occurring in the population during a given period ( Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect [NIS-3], U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Washington, DC, 1996). (encyclopedia.com)
  • The incidence of child maltreatment is measured in terms of incidence rate: the number of children per one thousand children in the U.S. population who are maltreated annually. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Surveys based on official reports by child protective services (CPS) agencies and community professionals are a major source of incidence data. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The problem addressed in this paper is the difficulty of assessing across nations the impact of different policies on health outcomes without a reliable way of comparing routine hospital morbidity data. (ahima.org)
  • Nevertheless, the question remains whether hospital morbidity data can enhance the assessment of outcomes for health policy globally. (ahima.org)
  • The USPSTF's evaluation of behavioral counseling interventions asks 2 primary questions: do interventions in the clinical setting influence persons to change their behavior, and does changing health behavior improve health outcomes with minimal harms? (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)
  • The challenges relate broadly to study populations, intervention protocols, assessment of outcomes, and linking behavior changes to health outcomes. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)
  • Figure 1 ) The systematic evidence reviews done for the USPSTF seek intervention studies that can answer whether interventions lead to changes in health outcomes and whether they can be implemented in primary care to effect behavior change. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)
  • 8 This section focuses on challenges related to study populations, intervention protocols, outcomes and assessment, and linking behavior changes to health outcomes. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)
  • Although mortality is not the only measure of disparities, it is certainly the most definitive and is a measure of health outcomes that are determined not only by health care but also health behavior, environment, and biological differences in response to medications. (annfammed.org)
  • Supplemental analyses of recent reproductive health, maternal health, and perinatal outcomes. (readkong.com)
  • With this cornerstone textbook, the new generation of child and family professionals will have the research and practical guidance they need to improve the lives and outcomes of 21st-century families. (perlego.com)
  • This is a significant finding considering that younger diabetic patients have been shown to have the Abstract poorest glycemic control and worst health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • agents and health outcomes in Filipino patients is limited, Adherence to oral hypoglycemic agents is essential to studies support an increased risk for developing diabetes reducing the poor health outcomes of populations at high in this group. (cdc.gov)
  • Community health-care providers, as well as state and local public health vaccination programs, should coordinate with partners to identify and maximize outreach to populations at risk for undervaccination and vaccine-preventable diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Various data sources are used to compare the health status of populations across nations, with common comparisons made from vital statistics such as birth and death registers and population censuses (OTA, 1994). (ahima.org)
  • In the United States, racial/ethnic minority populations account for an increasing proportion of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases, including cases among men who have sex with men (MSM) (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Subject to federal standards, states administer Medicaid programs and have flexibility to determine what populations and services to cover, how to deliver care, and how much to reimburse providers. (kff.org)
  • States may receive a higher match rate for certain services and populations. (kff.org)
  • The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) makes recommendations on which preventive services to routinely incorporate into primary care for specific populations. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)
  • It is especially committed to safeguarding the health of populations that are particularly vulnerable to certain environmental hazards - children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1996, the AAP's committee on infectious diseases ( 6 ) issued updated guidelines that called for targeted tuberculin skin testing (TST) of children and discouraged universal testing of children who lack risk factors. (cdc.gov)
  • Leptospirosis is an infectious disease of humans and animals that is caused by pathogenic spirochetes of the genus Leptospira . (medscape.com)
  • Furthermore, PHS of folate include fruits, vegetables, identified several possible approaches whole grain products, fortified cereals, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND by which folate intake by the target and dietary supplements. (who.int)
  • Public Law 93-247) created the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) to coordinate nationwide efforts to protect children from maltreatment. (encyclopedia.com)
  • CAN DO Project Child/Adult Abuse & Neglect Disability Outreach - Issues of abuse and children and adults with disabilities. (menstuff.org)
  • Sexual Abuse of Children," The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, ed. (childmolestationprevention.org)
  • Reporting of Child Maltreatment," The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, ed. (childmolestationprevention.org)
  • In addition, it is virtually impossible to know the extent of child maltreatment that occurs in the privacy of the home. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Prevalence, as defined by NIS-3, refers to the total number of child maltreatment cases in the population at a given time. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Some researchers use lifetime prevalence to denote the number of people who have had at least one experience of child maltreatment in their lives. (encyclopedia.com)
  • To measure the prevalence of child maltreatment, researchers use self-reported surveys of parents and child victims. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In 1985 the federal government stopped funding data collection on child maltreatment. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The new law mandated that NCCAN, as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), establish a national data collection program on child maltreatment. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In 2023, Medicaid programs are facing new challenges and millions of enrollees are at risk of losing coverage as states unwind the continuous enrollment provision that was put in place early in the pandemic to ensure stable coverage. (kff.org)
  • According to the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Center for Research and Education of the Populace (CINEP), from January 1 through August 26, there were 28 cases of "intentional deaths of civilians committed by state agents. (state.gov)
  • The NGO Human Rights Watch collected information linking 25 civilian deaths during the protests to police, including 18 deaths committed with live ammunition. (state.gov)
  • Campbell MJ, Rodrigues L, Macfarlane AJ, Murphy MFG. Comparing mothers' reports on the content of prenatal care Sudden infant deaths and cold weather: was the rise in infant received with recommended national guidelines for care. (readkong.com)
  • IRS form I-9, which proves eligibility to work in the United States of America. (precisepayroll.com)
  • now called Prevent Child Abuse America) picked up where the government left off. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Health of an aging America : issues on data for policy analysis. (upenn.edu)
  • L, Posner SF, Hood JR, Zapata L. Preconception and Silent Victories: The History and Practice of Public Health in interconception health status of women who recently gave birth Twentieth-Century America. (readkong.com)
  • National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States 2022-2025. (netce.com)
  • Available at https://www.unaids.org/en/frequently-asked-questions-about-hiv-and-aids . (netce.com)
  • U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration October 1999) Statistical Abstract of the United States: The National Data Book 1999. (childmolestationprevention.org)
  • Under COBRA, a 1986 law, workers can remain on their employer's health plan for as long as 18 months. (obama-health-care.org)
  • After directing the adolescent section in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, he joined the faculty of Loma Linda University School of Medicine and the medical staff of Loma Linda University Hospital in 1986. (andrews.edu)
  • Informed parental permission can substitute for consent from the child only for medical interventions in situations of clear and immediate medical necessity, such as an immediate threat to the child from disease, trauma, or deformity. (cirp.org)
  • I have obtained exclusive whistleblower documents showing that, despite its public statements, the Houston-based children's hospital-the largest in the United States-has secretly continued to perform transgender medical interventions, including the use of implantable puberty blockers, on minor children. (outsmartmagazine.com)
  • Behavioral counseling interventions are preventive services designed to help persons engage in healthy behaviors and limit unhealthy ones. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)
  • In addition to health care interventions and an individual's environment, a quantity of different components are recognized to affect the health status of people. (lastestlaw.xyz)
  • Health survey research methods : fifth conference proceedings [held May 2-4, 1989, in Keystone, Colorado] / edited by Floyd J. Fowler. (who.int)
  • In state fiscal year 2021 , Medicaid accounted for 27% of total state expenditures, 15% of expenditures from state funds (general funds and other funds), and 45% of expenditures from federal funds (Figure 1, tab 3). (kff.org)
  • According to the CDC, more than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the United States during the 12-month period May 2020 to April 2021, reflecting a new record high. (medscape.com)
  • In the United States, foster home licensing requirements vary from state to state but are generally overseen by each state's Department of Child Protective Services or Human Services. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this context, "special needs" can include situations where children have specific chronic medical problems, mental health issues, behavioral problems, and/or learning disabilities. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a career that has spanned over 30 years, she has distinguished herself as a scholar and advocate in the areas of adults with severe mental illness, mental illness and the legal system, assertive community treatment, case management services, consumer rights, mental health policy, and policy and practices related to systems moving to managed behavioral health care. (socialworkblog.org)
  • State of Terror, States of Mind: Gender, Mental Health and Systems of Care in Guatemala City. (asu.edu)
  • The costs of intimate partner rape, physical assault and stalking of U.S. women ages 18 and older exceed $5.8 billion each year, $4.1 billion of which is for direct medical and mental health care services. (breakthecycle.org)
  • Mental health support Should you, or somebody you know want support, there are crisis care services obtainable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (lastestlaw.xyz)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (U.S..) Biometric and Clinical Applications Branch. (who.int)
  • State Infant Mortality Toolkit References General Infant Mortality, Maternal and Kleinman JC, Kovar MG, Feldman JJ, Young CA. A comparison of 1960 and 1973-4 early neonatal mortality in selected states. (readkong.com)
  • Infant Health Am J Epidemiol. (readkong.com)
  • to a live-born infant--Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), United States, 26 reporting areas, 2004. (readkong.com)
  • Explaining the 2001-2002 infant mortality increase in the United http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hp2000/hp2k01.pdf States: Data from the linked birth/infant death data set. (readkong.com)
  • Most of these concerns centered on the 1977 NCHS and the revised charts in use were based on samples of the infant charts and were largely percentile curves are included in this children that did not represent the U.S. associated with characteristics of the report. (cdc.gov)
  • check also tag CHILD or specific HN - 2008 FX - Adolescent Nutrition FX - Infant Nutrition DH - Maternal Nutrition DI - 052505 MN - SP6.021.072 MS - Nutrition of a mother which affects the health of the INFANT as well as herself. (bvsalud.org)
  • AN - check the tag INFANT HN - 2008 FX - Child Nutrition FX - Infant Nutrition Physiology FX - Milk FX - Milk, Human DH - Adolescent Nutrition DI - 052508 MN - SP6.021.067 MS - Nutrition of persons 10 through 19 years of age. (bvsalud.org)
  • Healthy People 2000, Statistical Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics Notes. (readkong.com)
  • More than 60,000 chemicals are produced annually in the United States, of which the US Department of Transportation (DOT) considers approximately 2000 hazardous. (medscape.com)
  • More than 2000 people are victims of hazardous materials releases in these states each year. (medscape.com)
  • Other common aspects of treatment include genetic counseling, education of females regarding risk for pregnancy, assessment of possible learning problems, on-going dietary management, adherence strategies, protocols for illness management, and specialist services. (nih.gov)
  • Syphilis remains a common cause of morbidity and mortality during pregnancy, despite the continued sensitivity of T. pallidum to penicillin, the widespread availability of inexpensive, accurate tests, and substantial efforts to encourage routine screening through early prenatal care. (glowm.com)
  • The example childbearing age to reduce their risk of annual basis, of the number of neural contains all required elements plus having a pregnancy affected with spina tube defect-affected births among live optional information: Women who bifida or other neural tube defects births in the United States. (who.int)
  • Richardson said one-third of U.S. health care spending goes to "administration and bureaucracy," but Medicare officials put the figure at 7.4 percent. (factcheck.org)
  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services does project that health care spending in the U.S. will be more than $2.2 trillion in 2007. (factcheck.org)
  • Medicaid also provides coverage for low-income Medicare beneficiaries to help pay for premiums, cost sharing, and services not covered by Medicare. (kff.org)
  • In fact the House bill, the Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act, or CHAMP Act, included legislation that would give states the option to eliminate the five-year ban on eligibility for public benefits for all legal, documented immigrant children and pregnant women and would also ease some of the cumbersome administrative processes for providing proof of citizenship status when enrolling in Medicaid. (americanprogress.org)
  • The House bill "opens the door to government-subsidized health care for illegal aliens, … raises taxes and cuts Medicare Advantage benefits. (americanprogress.org)
  • Mark McClellan, head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, noted that a report released by the Inspector General of Health and Human Services "does not find particular problems regarding false allegations of citizenship, nor are we aware of any. (americanprogress.org)
  • The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) that administers Medicare and Medicaid programs. (connecticutchildrens.org)
  • The pandemic also focused policy attention on longstanding issues including: initiatives to reduce health disparities, expand access to care through the use of telehealth, improve access to behavioral health and home and community based services, and address workforce challenges. (kff.org)
  • The second goal was the elimination of disparities in health among different racial and ethnic groups. (annfammed.org)
  • Whereas reducing disparities in health has been part of Healthy People 2010 for some years, targeting the elimination of disparities in health brought the kind of attention and planning to disparities in health that had not been seen before. (annfammed.org)
  • 3 It was a very thorough and in-depth examination of the issue of disparities in health care and is considered by many to be the guidebook. (annfammed.org)
  • In this issue of the Annals of Family Medicine, 2 studies look at disparities in health and mortality as it relates to hypertension. (annfammed.org)
  • In the second article, Millett and colleagues, 8 in a study conducted in London in the setting of universal access to care, examine the impact of pay for performance on disparities in blood pressure management in blacks, whites, and south Asians with hypertension. (annfammed.org)
  • 95% CI, health disparities among them. (cdc.gov)
  • Lanning, K.V. SSA (Winter 1994) "Sexual Homicide of Children," The APSAC Advisor 7, no. 4. (childmolestationprevention.org)
  • Health Rep. 1994;109:637-646. (readkong.com)
  • Methods-- Data from five national health examination surveys collected from and well-being of infants, children, and 1963 to 1994 and five supplementary data sources were combined to establish an adolescents. (cdc.gov)
  • Like surrogate decision-makers for incompetent adults, parents should be able to demonstrate that their judgement is the same as that which the child would rationally choose for himself, if able to do so. (cirp.org)
  • The guidelines are not substitutes for clinical examinations and health histories. (fda.gov)
  • The dentist is advised to conduct a clinical examination, consider the patient's signs, symptoms and oral and medical histories, as well as consider the patient's vulnerability to environmental factors that may affect oral health. (fda.gov)
  • I've worked in several settings as an FNP, however, for the past 20 years, I've maintained a clinical practice in primary care at the Northport Veteran's Medical Center. (adelphi.edu)
  • Memorial Hermann Health System is the largest nonprofit health care system in Southeast Texas, operating 14 general medical and surgical (GMS) hospitals among a portfolio of clinical facilities. (hfmmagazine.com)
  • It is the legal and ethical responsibility of the facility and its providers to offer reasonable and appropriate accommodations to facilitate access to clinical services. (asha.org)
  • Funding and infrastructure to support primary care research stand in sharp contrast to the organized commitment to advancing knowledge in various subspecialty areas of medicine, typically using the methods of biomedical research and clinical investigation. (nationalacademies.org)
  • One broad explanation for the mismatch between the bulk of clinical care and the bulk of health-related research is the misperception that primary care is already sufficiently understood (Nutting, 1996). (nationalacademies.org)
  • Discussions in the workshop and elsewhere during this study made clear, however, that primary care is a distinct and quite complex field, that it is inadequately described to and poorly understood by the broader health care community and the public generally, and that it is apparently an important source of variation leading to different health (or disease) states and clinical management strategies. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Normal laboratory values and imaging studies, coupled with clinical improvement, can give the health care provider a false sense of security. (medscape.com)
  • Treatment of inhalation injuries caused from toxic smokes is based on clinical presentation and involves primarily supportive care directed at the cardiopulmonary system. (medscape.com)
  • clinical nutrition as a specialty goes here HN - 2008 BX - Nutrition FX - Diet FX - Food DH - Child Nutrition DI - 052504 MN - SP6.021.062 MS - Nutrition of children aged 2-10 years. (bvsalud.org)
  • American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , dedicated to treating and improving the quality of life for children, adolescents and families affected by major psychiatric disorder. (menstuff.org)
  • New features include second National Health and Nutrition addition of the 3rd and 97th percentiles for all charts and extension of all charts for Examination Survey (NHANES) and the children and adolescents to age 20 years. (cdc.gov)
  • Partner Violence Among Adolescents in Opposite-Sex Romantic Relationships: Findings From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. (breakthecycle.org)
  • We used data from the Global Youth Tobacco Surveys on adolescents aged 12-16 years, comprising 456,634 participants from 147 countries between 2006 and 2018, to estimate the prevalence of early attempts at cigarette smoking and age distribution at attempt by sex, country income, purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita, and WHO region. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In a study of 2,169 children who had mandatory TST because they resided in a high-prevalence community, Ozuah et al. (cdc.gov)
  • The Joint Commission , an independent, not-for-profit organization, accredits and certifies more than 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. (connecticutchildrens.org)
  • Over the past 25 years, hundreds of health care organizations have partnered with ENERGY STAR to cut costs by reducing energy use, earn recognition by certifying their buildings, and fulfill sustainability goals. (hfmmagazine.com)
  • The CDC works to protect public health and the safety of people, by providing information to enhance health decisions, and promotes health through partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. (cdc.gov)
  • The term "healthy" can be extensively used in the context of many kinds of non-living organizations and their impacts for the profit of humans, corresponding to in the sense of healthy communities, healthy cities or healthy environments. (lastestlaw.xyz)
  • The democratic processes of the 1980s in defense of social equity and justice, and the partnership with international organizations resulted in the ratifi cation of international guidelines, the creation of specifi c legislation and the development of public policy against child labor in the 1990s. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 1996, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended targeted tuberculin skin testing (TST) of children while discouraging routine TST of children without risk factors for tuberculosis (TB). (cdc.gov)
  • In the 1960s and 1970s, when tuberculosis (TB) infection rates in the United States were high, universal screening for TB was required for all children ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Such efforts may include school-located clinics, school-based health centers, back-to-school immunization clinics, public health clinics for schoolchildren, periodic influenza vaccination clinics, public health nurse tracking of childhood immunizations, and government-sponsored financing of vaccines through the Vaccines for Children and Section 317 program. (cdc.gov)
  • Health-care providers should simultaneously administer as many vaccine doses as possible as indicated on the Recommended Immunization Schedules for Persons Aged 0 Through 18 Years ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Vaccination programs and private providers are encouraged to refer eligible children to obtain WIC nutritional services, at www.fns.usda.gov/wic/immunization-screening-and-referral-wic ( 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • If you have acquired a quantity of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine exterior of the Province of Ontario, you have to present your proof of immunization to Ottawa Public Health. (lastestlaw.xyz)
  • Universal vaccination is a critical part of quality health care and should be accomplished through routine and catch-up vaccination provided in physicians' offices, public health clinics, and other appropriate settings. (cdc.gov)
  • The challenge for public health and school officials is to develop a screening program that avoids stigmatization of the at-risk group. (cdc.gov)
  • We can drastically reduce most child sexual abuse by following a three-step plan that's been proven successful in conquering other public health problems. (childmolestationprevention.org)
  • For a Healthy Nation: Returns on Investment in Public Health. (childmolestationprevention.org)
  • Medicaid is the nation's public health insurance program for people with low income. (kff.org)
  • Meredith L. King rebuts claims that reauthorization of the SCHIP program will grant undocumented immigrants access to public health insurance. (americanprogress.org)
  • But undeterred, they are now falsely claiming that the House bill will allow undocumented immigrants access to public health insurance at the expense of tax paying citizens. (americanprogress.org)
  • And so conservatives are once again spreading false rhetoric about undocumented immigrants and public health insurance in the hopes of bolstering public sentiment against the House's proposal for SCHIP reauthorization. (americanprogress.org)
  • Yet the propaganda from the Bush administration and some conservatives attempts to perpetuate the canard that the House proposal would offer public services to undocumented immigrants at the expense of health care for senior citizens and other taxpayers. (americanprogress.org)
  • Created in 1970, the primary role of Children's Advocates was to educate the public and to facilitate and coordinate the development of services for abused and neglected children and their families. (socialworkblog.org)
  • 1 , 2 After World War II, with the introduction of penicillin and aggressive public health efforts led by Surgeon General Thomas Parran, syphilis rates fell almost 95% from 66 cases per 100,000 persons in 1946 to 4 cases per 100,000 in 1956. (glowm.com)
  • Healthy People and Policy in Public Health. (readkong.com)
  • Am J Public Health. (readkong.com)
  • A framework for Public Health action: The Health http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr55/nvsr55_06.pdf Impact Pyramid. (readkong.com)
  • All its programmes and projects have long-term objectives and are based on the needs in the society that have not been met by state and public institutions. (helpage.org)
  • The program funds 30 states and one tribal government to develop and strengthen their abilities to evaluate and respond to environmental public health issues. (cdc.gov)
  • American Journal of Public Health 91 (2001) 1680. (breakthecycle.org)
  • from the U.S. Public Health Service are supplements. (who.int)
  • Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China / Joseph R. Quinn, editor. (who.int)
  • This increase included antibiotic-resistant genes previously classified as threats to public health, which were 56% (95% CI 36-91, p=210(-11)) higher in abundance after travel than before. (cdc.gov)
  • Public Health, 97(8):1401-1402. (who.int)
  • BMC Public Health, 7:106. (who.int)
  • Am J Public Health, Community Health, 56(1):66-71. (who.int)
  • The aim of this article is to analyze the changes in public policy against child labor introduced by the Brazilian government. (bvsalud.org)
  • Education and child labor, whose existence was mainly attributed to poverty, ceased to be the focus of public policy. (bvsalud.org)
  • Child labor, public policy, education. (bvsalud.org)
  • For example, are day cases included in the collection, how are the "dead on arrival" cases counted, and where is the boundary between hospital-based emergency services (and other ambulatory services) and hospital inpatients drawn? (ahima.org)
  • Last spring, executives at Texas Children's Hospital announced that they would cease performing transgender medical procedures on children, citing potential legal and criminal liability. (outsmartmagazine.com)
  • Philip worked across a plethora of nursing sectors, both within hospital and long-term-care settings. (staufferfuneralhome.com)
  • We are Magnet recognized, a designation only 7% of hospitals achieve, and Women's Choice Award has recognized us as Best Children's Hospital and for best pediatric emergency care. (connecticutchildrens.org)
  • Terrorist activities in the United States, Japan, Europe, and Asia and the fear of contamination from radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan (see image below) stemming from the March 2011 massive earthquake highlight the need for hospital preparedness. (medscape.com)
  • At least 37% of female patients and 17% of all patients treated in hospital emergency departments for violence-related injuries were injured by a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend. (breakthecycle.org)
  • U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Violence-Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments. (breakthecycle.org)
  • By primary care clinician, the committee explicitly means physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, as discussed in Chapter 2 and the committee's interim report (IOM, 1994a). (nationalacademies.org)
  • More generally, in referring to primary care, the committee means to imply primary care as defined in Chapter 2 . (nationalacademies.org)
  • To help redress this imbalance, this chapter explores the need for a primary care research infrastructure and identifies key areas of primary care research that warrant high-priority attention. (nationalacademies.org)
  • She has also been selected for prestigious fellowships in 2005, by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and the 2003 Department of Health and Human Services, Primary Health Policy Fellowship. (adelphi.edu)
  • Following his 1967 graduation from Andrews Academy, Bill pursued an academic career that led to earning a Bachelor of Arts from Andrews University, a Doctor of Medicine from Loma Linda University, and a Child Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Michigan. (andrews.edu)
  • Current knowledge suggests that behavioral patterns contribute more to premature death than genetic predisposition, social circumstances, environmental exposures, and health care errors. (uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org)
  • Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2020. (netce.com)
  • 2020. http://healthypeople.gov/hp2020 Kotelchuck M. Safe Mothers, Healthy Babies: Reproductive D'Angelo D, Williams L, Morrow B, Cox S, Harris N, Harrison Health in the 20th Century. (readkong.com)
  • Let Precise Payroll Take Care Of New Hire Reporting! (precisepayroll.com)
  • The Department of Human Health Services Office of Child Support Enforcement can help you find your local state agency and learn about the special process for new hire reporting in your state. (precisepayroll.com)
  • Of course, on top of reporting your new hire to the appropriate state agency, there are several other important tasks that must be performed upon hiring a new employee. (precisepayroll.com)
  • Fifteen state health departments participate in the reporting system. (medscape.com)
  • Measures of ED acuity (including total census, admission rate, total number of admissions, and proportion of triage category nonurgent patients) and measures of throughput (left-without-being-seen [LWBS] rate and ED length of stay [LOS]) data for 11 years (1996-2006) were plotted, and correlation coefficients were calculated. (nih.gov)
  • The final years of his career were spent as a devoted employee of Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, where he served as a well-regarded healthcare surveyor for the long-term-care program and, most recently, a respected advocate for healthcare for individuals experiencing homelessness within the County. (staufferfuneralhome.com)
  • Surveillance data show that 85-90% of women reported to have primary and secondary syphilis in the United States are in the reproductive age group of 15-44 years. (glowm.com)
  • Written 13 years ago in a joint report authored by University College London and The Lancet , that prediction is prophetic given a recent United Nations report confirming the disruption climate change is already causing on every continent. (hfmmagazine.com)
  • Beneficial electrification - converting fossil heating, water heating and cooking to electric service - will provide the bulk of decarbonization in later years when the grid is powered with clean renewable energy. (hfmmagazine.com)
  • Defilement of a child carried a mandatory term of not less than 15 years imprisonment and other appropriate punishments as deterrents. (ohchr.org)
  • A variety of statistical procedures were used to developed in the 1970's by NCHS have produce smoothed percentile curves for infants (from birth to 36 months) and older been used to evaluate and monitor the children (from 2 to 20 years), using a two-stage approach. (cdc.gov)
  • Initial curve smoothing growth of infants and children in the for selected major percentiles was accomplished with various parametric and United States for more than 20 years. (cdc.gov)
  • We provide support to women who have been victims of domestic violence and give older people access to home-based care. (helpage.org)
  • The Human Rights Committee this morning concluded its consideration of the fourth periodic report of Zambia on how it implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, with Committee Experts commending the abolition of the death penalty and measures to improve prison conditions, while raising issues concerning violence against women and girls. (ohchr.org)
  • U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim, 1993-1999. (breakthecycle.org)
  • Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family, APA, 1996. (breakthecycle.org)
  • In April Amnesty International delivered a report to parliament denouncing "violations of the human rights of detainees" in connection with the problem. (state.gov)
  • Once you have this information, you will need to report that newly hired employee to a special state agency, as per the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. (precisepayroll.com)
  • World health systems lessons for the United States : a report presented by the chairman of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session. (upenn.edu)
  • Learn about how you can report a human rights violation. (ohchr.org)
  • Objectives-- This report presents the revised growth charts for the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • For all these reasons, the committee determined that setting out a coherent program for research and evaluation in primary care would be an important contribution of its report. (nationalacademies.org)
  • A national strategy for improving the health of the American people has been defined for each decade since 1980. (annfammed.org)
  • Before Congress recessed in early August, both the Senate and the House of Representatives passed legislation that would reauthorize the highly successful State Children's Health Insurance Program, a program that provides health coverage to millions of low-income children. (americanprogress.org)
  • Dr. Dumas was recently appointed by President George W. Bush to the Medical Ethics Subcommittee of the Defense Health Board (a civilian board that oversees healthcare in the United States military and directly reports to the US Secretary of Defense). (adelphi.edu)
  • It aims to provide community-based social and healthcare services to vulnerable groups, including older people. (helpage.org)
  • For example, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a categorical federal grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through state health departments. (cdc.gov)
  • United States growth charts, along with procedures, the United States growth charts represent an enhanced instrument to a brief historical background, the evaluate the size and growth of infants and children. (cdc.gov)
  • [ 1 ] The United States had the second-steepest decline in life expectancy among high-income countries last year during the pandemic. (medscape.com)
  • Physicians and other pediatric vaccination providers should adhere to the standards for child and adolescent vaccination practices ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This section describes current practices in the United States and elsewhere with regard to the treatment of PKU. (nih.gov)
  • Highly respected experts Marci Hanson and Eleanor Lynch have expanded and updated their bestselling text, weaving in cutting-edge research on social, demographic, and economic changes and connecting the research to best practices in family-centered care. (perlego.com)
  • J Epidemiol health of bar workers in Ireland: before and and current practices. (who.int)
  • Every WHO country office has also received copies and task force members are holding national seminars to discuss the ideas in the document with policy- and decision-makers, "partners" in health and development, and academic institutions. (who.int)
  • The Director-General has advocated the development and use of the potential represented by health promotive and preventive diplomacy, and the task force has recommended that WHO take a strong leadership role in this domain. (who.int)
  • With reference to operative paragraph 4(3), the ideas of the task force on health in development regarding equity, poverty, and human rights have been adopted by a number of WHO divisions and programmes. (who.int)
  • But the figure for administrative spending given by CMS' National Health Expenditure Data tables is far lower than one-third. (factcheck.org)
  • The data show 7.4 percent of all national health expenditures in 2007 will go to "program administration and net cost of private health insurance. (factcheck.org)
  • For example, the OECD data may supply national indicators for health systems only partially captured in the available data. (ahima.org)
  • After his national service, Philip and his brother Peter Archer Armah left Ghana for the Republic of Zambia where they had an expatriate teaching contract to teach biology in Chikola secondary school in the city of Chingola in the Copperbelt province of Zambia. (staufferfuneralhome.com)
  • This May, we mark National Foster Care Month for the 25th time in our country's history. (nrc4tribes.org)
  • by National Center for Health Services Research. (upenn.edu)
  • Fathers Network , a national organization that helps fathers raising disabled children. (menstuff.org)
  • National Center for Health Statistics. (readkong.com)
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). (cdc.gov)
  • This children are based primarily on national survey data. (cdc.gov)
  • Use of national data ensures a revision, presented here, used improved smooth transition from the charts for infants to those for older children. (cdc.gov)
  • These data statistical procedures and incorporated better represent the racial/ethnic diversity and the size and growth patterns of additional national survey data from the combined breast- and formula-fed infants in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite national and international criticism, its continuation was strongly sup- ported for its contribution to the eradication of child labor. (bvsalud.org)
  • HIV-2 infection surveillance-United States, 1987-2009. (netce.com)
  • Other policies followed a similar trajectory, emphasizing family rather than in- dividual protection and assistance, through fragmented social services with a focus on extreme poverty, community surveillance, and universal access to education. (bvsalud.org)
  • Clinicians are responsible for considering the goals of the session, discussing the client's/family's needs, evaluating the benefits of service in all language(s) necessary to facilitate the sessions goals, and determining the optimal interpreter to assist in the provision of services (Langdon & Saenz, 2016). (asha.org)
  • Family's impact on health : a critical review and annotated bibliography / Thomas L. Campbell. (who.int)
  • The guidelines titled, "The Selection of Patients for X-Ray Examination" were first developed in 1987 by a panel of dental experts convened by the Center for Devices and Radiological Health of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (fda.gov)
  • My first nurse practitioner position was in the Adelphi University-Molloy College Nursing Health Center, in Freeport, NY, funded by Robert Wood Johnson, in 1977. (adelphi.edu)
  • The Quality of Care Center provides information about various CMS quality initiatives. (connecticutchildrens.org)
  • Delaware Health Statistics Center. (readkong.com)
  • Check our COVID-19 resource center for affected person and visitor pointers and trusted health info. (lastestlaw.xyz)
  • John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences. (who.int)
  • In addition, this false identification may cause anxiety as the physician and family try to determine the source of a nonexistent infection and create an ethical dilemma by labeling a child as infected with TB. (cdc.gov)
  • There are some children in foster care who may be difficult to place in permanent homes through the normal adoption process. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the United States, foster care started as a result of the efforts of Charles Loring Brace. (wikipedia.org)
  • This approach greatly impacted the foster care system. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2016, there were 437,465 children in foster care in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • today there are 27 percent fewer children in foster care than in 1996. (nrc4tribes.org)
  • Federal statutes require hospitals to participate in the planning and care of persons exposed to hazardous materials and to train and provide protection for employees who may be exposed while providing medical care. (medscape.com)
  • Ms. Daka-Oteng, in concluding remarks, thanked the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for the opportunity to introspect on the Government and human rights. (ohchr.org)
  • A survey conducted by PNC Financial Services Group, which says it's "a leading provider of electronic financial services to the health care industry," said that nearly a third of expenditures went to administration. (factcheck.org)
  • Also, a 2003 article in the New England Journal of Medicine said that in 1999, 31 percent of health care expenditures went to administration. (factcheck.org)
  • In the United States, vaccination is considered primarily the responsibility of individual health care providers and health care systems serving patients. (cdc.gov)
  • The dental profession is committed to delivering the highest quality of care to each of its individual patients and applying advancements in technology and science to continually improve the oral health status of the U.S. population. (fda.gov)
  • Connecticut Children's is committed to delivering quality medical care to pediatric patients and to making their stay as pleasant as possible. (connecticutchildrens.org)
  • We encourage patients and their families to speak openly with their health care team, take part in treatment choices, and promote their own safety by being well informed and involved in their care. (connecticutchildrens.org)
  • One of the most challenging aspects of providing emergency medical care is attending to patients who have been contaminated with hazardous materials. (medscape.com)
  • Most hospitals in the United States lack plans or facilities for attending to patients exposed to hazardous materials, even though this can be a common problem in some areas. (medscape.com)
  • The United State Department of Health and Human Services may investigate potential violations and issue penalties. (outsmartmagazine.com)
  • In addition the JEP, the justice component of the Comprehensive System for Truth, Justice, Reparation, and Nonrepetition provided for in the 2016 peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), continued to take effective steps to hold perpetrators of gross violations of human rights accountable in a manner consistent with international law. (state.gov)
  • Thandiwe Daka-Oteng, Permanent Secretary for Administration in the Ministry of Justice, and head of the delegation said in opening remarks that Zambia recognized that there was an urgent need to draft corresponding legislation to the instruments to which the country was party, as well as to support victims of human rights violations, but progress had been made. (ohchr.org)
  • Dietary treatment involves use of a medical food/formula, PHE free and nutritionally complete with 100-120 mg/kg/day tyrosine and total amino acid content of at least 3 g/kg/day for children under 24 months and maintained at 2 g/kg/day for children over 24 months. (nih.gov)
  • Based on this premise, the guidelines can be used by the dentist to optimize patient care, minimize radiation exposure and responsibly allocate health care resources. (fda.gov)
  • The potential for exposure to hazardous materials in the United States is significant. (medscape.com)
  • As always, prehospital care providers must do everything in their power to remove the patient from ongoing exposure without becoming casualties themselves. (medscape.com)
  • Increasingly, adventurous travel and "mud run" sports or races involving fresh water or soil exposure put humans at risk. (medscape.com)
  • Dobroe Delo's home-based medical and social care programme provides medicine, clothing, hygiene kits, food products, legal assistance and social rehabilitation to older people. (helpage.org)
  • Multivariate logistic regression analysis was adequate access to health care and drug coverage (1,2). (cdc.gov)
  • From January 1 through July 31, the Attorney General's Office registered six new cases of alleged aggravated homicide by state agents. (state.gov)
  • Kaiser Permanente's all-electric medical office building in Santa Rosa, Calif., is the first demonstrated net-zero carbon health care building in the U.S., according to ILFI, the International Living Future Institute. (hfmmagazine.com)
  • HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra acknowledged that his Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, which the Biden administration created last fall, is actively considering policy changes towards this end. (hfmmagazine.com)
  • The award is sponsored by the U-M Council for Disability Concerns, the Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX Office, University Human Resources, Michigan Medicine, and the Office of the President. (umich.edu)
  • The UN Human Rights Office and the mechanisms we support work on a wide range of human rights topics. (ohchr.org)