• Firstly, existing clusters and their stakeholders were mapped and the offers, needs and demands of the regions have been evaluated. (europa.eu)
  • The eMEN project brings together a range of key stakeholders across NWE countries (Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Belgium and Ireland) aiming to promote the development and implementation of eMental Health. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • Find inspiration in "Success Stories" from the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers website. (hhs.gov)
  • The partnership comes shortly after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services selected Duke University Hospital as one of five centers in the nation to help train more advanced practice nurses to provide primary care in underserved areas. (dukehealth.org)
  • According to the National Nursing Centers Consortium, approximately 250 clinics nationwide are managed by advanced practice nurses. (dukehealth.org)
  • This year, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which oversees the federal health insurance marketplace, slashed federal funding for navigator groups to $36.8 million - a 41 percent average cut . (wskg.org)
  • From our review of services, informed by the medical directors of New York City's three Centers of Excellence who are members of this group, current health care resources are adequate for the more than 10,000 WTC-exposed individuals who have sought treatment for conditions related or potentially related to 9/11 exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • Monitoring and treatment services available through the Centers of Excellence would be strained if greater awareness of these programs - particularly among Lower Manhattan residents, area workers and students - significantly increased demand. (cdc.gov)
  • Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designed for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.0 total Category I continuing education contact hours. (cdc.gov)
  • Situated in central London, an epicenter of the UK pandemic, the Crick elected to repurpose its scientific and technical resources to support the immediate healthcare needs of its partner hospital, University College London Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust (UCLH), during the outbreak. (nature.com)
  • Providing an end-to-end pipeline for clinical diagnostic testing of COVID-19, it would increase testing capacity to meet local demand and allow new surveillance programs for healthcare workers to be implemented. (nature.com)
  • And at a time of severe budgetary pressures and extreme demand for services - not to mention healthcare targets and league tables putting general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals under greater scrutiny - the pressure to deliver more with less has never been more acute for our healthcare sector. (spendmatters.com)
  • By examining the lessons learned and considering the implications for future healthcare strategies, we hope to foster a deeper understanding of the transformative potential of self-testing in improving healthcare accessibility and patient-centric services. (psi.org)
  • The Women's Health Innovation Summit (WHI) is THE platform for start-ups, investors, researchers and senior executives in pharma to drive innovation at the convergence of healthcare and technology. (constantcontact.com)
  • Alinea is assessing the commercial and social impact viability of the proposed USD 150M international standard teaching hospital, designed to address the demand for domestic healthcare services combined with training for health professionals. (alineainternational.com)
  • For this project, Alinea convened a consortium of healthcare, development and project financing expertise including the International Hospitals Group, Cox Architecture and BlueMount Capital. (alineainternational.com)
  • Collectively, the partners comprise a unique transnational, multisectoral, and multidisciplinary consortium motivated to encourage and support the development and utilisation of eMental health products and services to address key mental healthcare challenges, initially in the NWE countries but also across Europe and internationally. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • The potential offered by eMental health to address the treatment gaps in mental healthcare remains very under-exploited. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • Another factor has been the slowness of mental healthcare provider organisations to take-up and deploy eMental health based products and services as part of their mainstream activities. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • In this edition of Ask the Doc, we get expert advice from retired U.S. Public Health Service Capt. (Dr.) Joshua Morganstein, deputy director at the Center for Study of Traumatic Stress in the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and vice chair of the University's department of psychiatry, on ways to address mental health concerns when you, a friend, or a loved one is going through a tough time. (health.mil)
  • Besides the objective of developing a multidisciplinary joint action plan and a research products and services agenda, the mentoring of less developed regions has been a crucial objective of the project to help those regions to "get on board" where the collaboration within the triple-helix is not fully developed or where parts of the triple-helix is not yet integrated. (europa.eu)
  • The multidisciplinary approach of public health is often a critical aspect of its successes, but this high level of heterogeneity also means that multiple perspectives must be considered in the decision-making process. (cdc.gov)
  • There are liability considerations for health care providers when disparate outcomes are the result of not providing appropriate language access in health care settings (Quan & Lynch, 2010). (nad.org)
  • Facilitated by Air Force Lt. Col. (Dr.) Renée Matos, assistant dean of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, the RCA W3 course was developed to ensure and improve quality care and reduce negative outcomes at MTFs. (health.mil)
  • Floresco's integrated service model aims to overcome many of the challenges caused by the fragmentation of Australia's mental health system, which tend to undermine its ability to deliver sustainable improvements in outcomes for people affected by mental illness. (qld.gov.au)
  • The evaluation showed the integrated service model appears to have contributed to positive mental health outcomes for clients who have significant mental health and functional difficulties. (qld.gov.au)
  • Transform WASH aims to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) outcomes in Ethiopia, with a focus on sanitation by stimulating demand at the community level, strengthening supply chains and building an enabling environment for a vibrant private market. (psi.org)
  • The community-based VHW Program aimed to increase demand for RMNCAHN services, while complementary interventions strengthened government provision of health services, in order to improve RMNCAHN health outcomes. (womensrefugeecommission.org)
  • This model focuses on patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness, rather than the traditional fee-for-service model. (beckersasc.com)
  • Member States have expressed support for the proposal that the evaluation should focus on health systems strengthening, as this is a high priority for Member States, a fundamental requirement for improving health outcomes and the Millennium Development Goals, a major and increasingly important area of work for WHO at each level of the Organization. (who.int)
  • During 1990-2000, Peru implemented a renewed efforts to strengthen TB control ( 2 , 3 ) Program model program based on the World Health Organization managers and policy makers face the urgent task of quickly (WHO)-endorsed strategy of directly observed treatment, scaling-up comprehensive TB programs, often in settings short course (DOTS) ( 12 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Geneva, World Health Organization, 2006. (who.int)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening the Traditional Medicine Global Summit on 17 and 18 August 2023​ in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. (bvsalud.org)
  • Agenda] Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) Consortium Meeting, August 23, 2023, 3:00 p.m. (cdc.gov)
  • With the ongoing mental health challenges brought on by COVID-19, there could not be a more critical time to strengthen our nation's mental health resources," U.S. Sen. John Cornyn , R-Texas, said in November 2020. (gilmermirror.com)
  • A recent visit to Kapilvastu, one of the districts in Lumbini Province of Nepal was an opportunity to hear from municipal elected officials of Kapilvastu Municipality (including mayor, deputy mayor and ward chairs) and health workers on their experiences during the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. (rebuildconsortium.com)
  • The initiative started as part of the state's Rural College Consortium . (chalkbeat.org)
  • In Tennessee, Family and Children's Service, the state's largest navigator grantee, received a 15 percent cut to its $1.8 million grant. (wskg.org)
  • Faced with a 71 percent cut to its $1.7 million navigator grant this year, members of the consortium of nine nonprofits that made up the state's largest navigator program voted not to provide services this year. (wskg.org)
  • In 2016, the warnings about the future of the Texas mental health care workforce were clear. (gilmermirror.com)
  • The workforce issues reach the highest levels of the mental health system. (gilmermirror.com)
  • Texas currently can't use over 700 of its 2,911 funded state psychiatric hospital beds due to workforce shortages, said officials with Texas Health and Human Services. (gilmermirror.com)
  • The Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus (UPR-MSC) used funding from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to develop the Puerto Rico Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program. (hhs.gov)
  • Increased funding is required for preventative health approaches and policies that support education, employment and housing, as well as workforce capacity, to prevent and reduce the burden of illness and support the wellbeing of all South Australians. (sacoss.org.au)
  • 4.2 Build the capacity of the public health workforce. (sacoss.org.au)
  • This should include conducting a comprehensive review of the preventative health workforce in South Australia so as to provide a greater understanding of sector characteristics, core activities, and needs. (sacoss.org.au)
  • Interinstitutional, interdisciplinary groups like the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health is disseminating critical resource information and training, while The Midwest Human Rights Consortium is responding to the need for a coordinated "workforce" of practitioners who can conduct medical and psychological forensic assessments necessary to advocate for immigrant children and families seeking asylum. (latinorebels.com)
  • The formal training of the public health workforce varies more than training in medicine or other clinical disciplines (6). (cdc.gov)
  • The wide-scale implementation of EBPH requires not only a workforce that understands and can implement EBPH efficiently but also sustained support from health department leaders, practitioners, and policy makers. (cdc.gov)
  • Over the long term, Minnesotans can expect changes in how many forms of health care are delivered. (accesspress.org)
  • Gov. Mark Dayton and legislators have pledged health care reform and how that actually happens will play out over the next several months. (accesspress.org)
  • The more immediate impacts will center on a health care system that won't have the projected amount of funding needed. (accesspress.org)
  • Many people with disabilities were greatly affected by the shutdown, losing access to services ranging from workplace interpreters to the ability to do background checks on health care workers. (accesspress.org)
  • But costs will increase and demand will increase, while the budget will not, and we shall be in a position where the consortia will have to ration care. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • It is well documented that communication disparities are connected to poorer health care and mental health access, lower quality care and increased mortality (McKee & Paasche-Orlow, 2012). (nad.org)
  • Language access and strong commitment to best practices of serving individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing can have significant impact on overcoming the communication disparities in the integrated health care systems. (nad.org)
  • It is their human right to obtain barrier-free access to health care and mental health services. (nad.org)
  • While direct health care communication - meaning provided by clinicians fluent in the preferred language of the consumer - in integrated health care and mental health services are optimal and always preferred, such services are not always available. (nad.org)
  • [3] Each health care organization must commit that services are provided directly to each deaf or hard of hearing individual using the individual's communication preferences rather than using sign language interpreters as the first solution. (nad.org)
  • Direct communication and services have long been the preferred approach in mental health care. (nad.org)
  • The Office of Minority Health in the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (2013) has created the Enhanced National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) [5] in Health Care to ensure that health care organizations provide effective, equitable, comprehensible, and respectful quality care and services that are responsive to the linguistic and communication needs of diverse populations. (nad.org)
  • [7] No longer is mere accommodation to health care considered to be sufficient. (nad.org)
  • These bodies strongly believe that effective communication in the patients' preferred language is a crucial component of quality health care and patient safety and in a basic human right. (nad.org)
  • Health care costs continue to escalate in excess of the rate of inflation, with little end to that trend in sight (Patton, 2015). (nad.org)
  • States are responding to this increase by shifting from traditional fee for service arrangements to some form of managed care in which payment is made for "outcome" rather than on how much service is provided. (nad.org)
  • The NAD recognizes the reality of escalating health care costs and the need to control that rise. (nad.org)
  • He had had many heated conversations with the Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market finally went bankrupt, and everyone was forced into the government health care program. (blogspot.com)
  • Texas' shortage of mental health care professionals is getting worse " was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans - and engages with them - about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. (gilmermirror.com)
  • Texas ranks dead last when it comes to access to children's mental health services and 33rd for adult care, according to Mental Health America, a nonprofit advocacy group. (gilmermirror.com)
  • We never kept up with the demand really," said Dr. Sarah Martin, a psychiatrist and medical director of the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium. (gilmermirror.com)
  • That's not surprising to any Texan who has tried to get an appointment with a mental health care provider in the past three years, where waitlists can go beyond six or seven months. (gilmermirror.com)
  • The program expanded the capacity for telehealth service provision and promoted best practices by training UPR-MSC physicians, residents, and other health care professionals at their community-based primary care partners' sites. (hhs.gov)
  • In addition, the program provides education and training for health professions students, faculty, providers, direct care workers, as well as patients, families, and caregivers in the use of telehealth and tele-education technologies. (hhs.gov)
  • Durham, N.C. - In an effort to arm nurses with the leadership skills required for the growing demands of providing primary care, Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing have partnered with Johnson & Johnson to create the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program. (dukehealth.org)
  • Duke was the sole institution chosen by Johnson & Johnson to implement the program, which is supported with a grant as well as access to the company's expertise and innovative approaches in health care. (dukehealth.org)
  • We are excited to introduce a new training program that will strengthen primary care services in community settings, and are grateful to Johnson & Johnson for their support of nursing leadership," said Anh Tran, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of community and family medicine and vice chief of education for the Division of Community Health at Duke and director of the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program. (dukehealth.org)
  • The four-year initiative will help achieve several goals of the Affordable Care Act: increase health care access, cut costs and ensure high quality health care. (dukehealth.org)
  • A shortage of primary care physicians and the growing cost of health care have increased demand for nurses and other health professionals to provide primary care services. (dukehealth.org)
  • Our goal is for the graduates to bring their new skills to their own communities to improve access to care," said Michelle Lyn, MBA, MHA, chief of the Division of Community Health at Duke and a core member of the leadership program's faculty. (dukehealth.org)
  • Through hard work and access to care and services, people can and do have meaningful and fulfilling lives after spinal cord damage. (walterclark.com)
  • That means taking care of them in every domain of TFF - from nutritional and physical fitness to social and spiritual fitness - as they service and sacrifice for our country. (health.mil)
  • South Australia is facing significant challenges with increasing demands on the health system, rising health care costs and a need to reprioritise the system to focus on prevention and improving the health of the whole population. (sacoss.org.au)
  • It would need to be led by an independent body, such as the Health Performance Council, and would utilise existing datasets and ongoing surveys within SA Health, as well as the collection and analysis of additional data (e.g. housing, employment, education, income and health care). (sacoss.org.au)
  • Borrowing lessons from other industries, a root cause analysis (RCA) is considered the health care industry's best method to move away from focusing on human error (often termed "blame and shame") and move toward focusing on systemic issues or oversights that can lead to error, Matos explained. (health.mil)
  • For health care workers, placing blame on individuals can lead to burnout, low morale, less transparency, and the potential for more errors in the future. (health.mil)
  • The RCA W3 course, now in its third iteration, was developed with health care workers often-busy schedule in mind. (health.mil)
  • Health care need : meaning and measurement / Per-Erik Liss. (who.int)
  • Household surveys of health care demand and health expenditures : a practical guide / by Abdelmajid Tibouti, Yves-Antoine Flori and Anne Juillet. (who.int)
  • In search of equity : health needs and the health care system / edited by Ronald Bayer and Arthur L. Caplan and Norman Daniels. (who.int)
  • Quality and cost in health care choice in developing countries / Victor Lavy, Jean-Marc Germain. (who.int)
  • Margarita Mills (left), an insurance agent from Sunshine Life and Health Advisors, helped Daniela Morales shop for an Affordable Care Act health plan at the Mall of the Americas in Miami last month. (wskg.org)
  • According to the National Institutes of Health, health care providers diagnose about 54,000 new cases of oral cancer per year in the United States. (health.mil)
  • But these days, military veterans and active-duty service members can go online, choose a customized avatar, and virtually visit a doctor, meet with therapists, or consult about their care from a variety of locations beyond the clinic. (health.mil)
  • Ongoing, long-term social and mental health services provided by (multilingual) practitioners trained in culturally-sensitive interventions and trauma-informed care, in addition to ongoing training for these and others working directly with the families is critical and in high demand. (latinorebels.com)
  • Its economic value to the health care system is not yet established. (jmir.org)
  • Using data from a randomized controlled trial with 346 patients with psychosis (ISRCTN17308399), we estimated differences in health-related quality of life, health and social care costs, and wider societal costs for patients receiving virtual reality therapy in addition to treatment as usual compared with treatment as usual alone. (jmir.org)
  • gameChange was estimated to be worth up to £341 per patient from an NHS and social care (NHS and personal social services) perspective or £1967 per patient from a wider societal perspective. (jmir.org)
  • Prepare to use analytics to tackle policy challenges in a range of industries, including education, health care, security, the environment, and criminal justice. (discoverdatascience.org)
  • Description of the problem: Despite the widespread availability of abortion on legal grounds for 50 years in most of the EE countries, the quality of services remain poor: the main method is D&C, no patient centered care concept. (fiapac.org)
  • The low quality of services is influenced by the lack of quality of care standards and quality control. (fiapac.org)
  • ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate and estimate the cost of basic care in sickle cell disease (SCD) for patients under five years of age, within the scope of the Unified Health System (SUS) and to discuss the costs related to possible complications of the disease from the literature. (bvsalud.org)
  • Methods: The main management and conduct recommendations in the SCD up to five years of age, with healthy and baseline health status, were extracted from the Basic Guidelines of the Care Line in the SCD of the Ministry of Health. (bvsalud.org)
  • Furthermore, uncertainty in the availability of ongoing federal support for 9/11-related health care means that the people currently in these programs do not know if they will continue to receive their treatment and medications free of charge. (cdc.gov)
  • Bringing traditional medicine into the mainstream of health care - appropriately, effectively, and above all, safely based on the latest scientific evidence - can help bridge access gaps for millions of people around the world. (bvsalud.org)
  • Heads of State and government at the 2019 UN high-level meeting on universal health coverage acknowledged the need to include evidence-based traditional and complementary medicine services particularly in primary health care, a cornerstone of health systems, in pursuit of health for all. (bvsalud.org)
  • In some countries, it represents a significant part of the health sector's economy , and for millions of people around the world it is the only available source of health care. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is concluded that municipalities present different moments in the structuring of the service and that managers should improve the access organization, the work process and service evaluation in order to consolidate the universality and comprehensiveness of health care. (bvsalud.org)
  • Primary health care. (bvsalud.org)
  • Currently it is in effect, 2488 Decree, dated October 21st, 2011 5 , which approves the National Primary Care Policy, providing guideline and standard revision for the organization of Primary Care, for the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and the Program Of Community Health Agents (PCHA), as well. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Health Impact Programme. (who.int)
  • In Nigeria, Malaria Consortium is working to streamline malaria control activities across the country as part of the Support to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP). (malariaconsortium.org)
  • Malaria Consortium has managed the SuNMaP programme since it started in 2008 and has learned some valuable lessons from the experience - one of which is recognising that harmonisation is fraught with challenges. (malariaconsortium.org)
  • This completes Phase One of its programme to deliver world class customer service and the overall project will be finished in 18 months time. (ipmimagazine.com)
  • A work transfer programme, in which PruHealth's South African servicing operation, including all telephony and back office claims processing, has been fully migrated to the UK. (ipmimagazine.com)
  • Customers now have all their claims, servicing enquiries and Vitality wellness programme support delivered by the UK team, which provides local knowledge and expertise. (ipmimagazine.com)
  • Lapse rates have reduced by a third since the customer service programme began two years ago, and the volume of complaints has halved and is still reducing. (ipmimagazine.com)
  • Phase Two will comprise a series of projects designed to improve every dimension of the business, all focused around the customer journey and improving service for individuals, employers and intermediaries, as well as increasing engagement with the Vitality wellness programme. (ipmimagazine.com)
  • The evaluation will encompass the three levels of WHO, and the six core functions of the Organization as described in the Eleventh General Programme of Work2 as applied to the work of the Organization in health systems strengthening. (who.int)
  • This may require new thinking on the methodologies to address these more holistic, contextual approaches and provide evidence that is sufficiently conclusive and robust to lead to policy recommendations," said Dr John Reeder, WHO Director of Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and Director of the Department of Research for Health. (bvsalud.org)
  • The state is spending $8.6 million on a new initiative that will let Colorado's seven rural community colleges share programs and services so students - no matter where they live - get a wider set of educational opportunities. (chalkbeat.org)
  • BRAC has undertaken an initiative to provide Covid-19 related services to people in 35 high-risk districts. (brac.net)
  • Global Affairs Canada and BRAC are the primary contributors to this initiative, being supported by a consortium of donors and partners including the Australian government. (brac.net)
  • With a community-driven Covid-19 response and local-level health system strengthening approach, BRAC is partnering with the DGHS, recently formed platform Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Alliance, and United Nations agencies to implement this initiative. (brac.net)
  • Future of Public Health (Institute of activities of Assessment Initiative departments. (cdc.gov)
  • The pandemic exacerbated existing shortages in behavioral health clinicians at every level of the mental health continuum, including our state hospitals, private psychiatric hospitals and our local mental health authorities," Michelle Alletto, chief program and services officer for Texas Health and Human Services, told the House Appropriations Committee earlier this week. (gilmermirror.com)
  • The consortium aims to address the toughest challenges facing their schools, including lack of programs, failing infrastructure, difficulties recruiting faculty, and challenges attracting students. (chalkbeat.org)
  • Territory and its population, teamwork and intersectoriality are fundamental axes of this conception and home visits, one of its main strategies, aims to expand service access as well as create links with the population 3 . (bvsalud.org)
  • With a $365,000 GLOW award, the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment Foundation built a consortium of partner organizations to better support and serve adults with significant employment barriers. (goldenleaf.org)
  • For 24/7 mental health support in English or Spanish, call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's free help line at 800-662-4357. (gilmermirror.com)
  • Family members could seek reimbursement for loss of companionship, support, and consortium. (walterclark.com)
  • For health communication, FCHVs were mobilized, having the support of their communities and particularly close relationships with women and children given their work on maternal health and immunization. (rebuildconsortium.com)
  • In continuation to the SFD -I, SFD II includes similar work with demand a driven approach from ULBs which is a handholding support for preparation of SFDs. (cseindia.org)
  • These organizations desperately need funding and structural support to expand their services to provide community-level support, "know your rights" information, and legal representation for the thousands seeking asylum. (latinorebels.com)
  • eMental health is part of the solution to this growing demand, fusing technology with evidence-based therapy to put support directly into the hands of individuals who need it, 24 hours a day, and 7 days a week. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • Many self-help apps are now available for mental health, and there are a growing number of eMental health treatment programmes involving combinations of technological and therapist support. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • This is also the case for the extensive range of community and voluntary sector organisations that provide information, psycho-education, crisis support services, peer support platforms, and other mental health services and supports. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • The eMEN project is aiming to support this through fostering greater availability, deployment, and utilisation of high quality eMental health products and services. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • establishing a transnational platform to provide ongoing support for a vibrant eMental health ecosystem of developers, deployer organisations, users, researchers, and policy-makers. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • NRL), Socios en Salud, and US partners have worked to sus on TB and MDR TB management ( 4 ), and availability strengthen the national TB laboratory network to support of global resources to fund programs ( 5 , 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Oftentimes, these profiles will provide all the information needed to support your analysis and draw public health conclusions. (cdc.gov)
  • One element frequently left out of our analysis of the substance use services system is that like other systems that are primarily government funded, they are, by definition, political systems. (attcnetwork.org)
  • Some therapists have had to stop taking new appointments altogether as demands for services have begun to overwhelm the system. (gilmermirror.com)
  • Their plan is so radical that the Consortium plans to implement a "pay what you want" system for passengers. (ottawalife.com)
  • The DOD is increasingly recognizing that people represent our greatest asset, and the human weapon system is the priority investment to ensure readiness, said retired Army Col. (Dr.) Francis O'Connor, professor in the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University and the medical director of the Consortium for Health and Military Performance. (health.mil)
  • While Australia is rightly proud of its public health system, there are key areas that require improvement. (sacoss.org.au)
  • The SA Public Health Consortium is calling for the establishment of an independent state-wide monitoring system to track health inequities and provide data in accessible formats (e.g. an online portal) to all sectors of government and the public. (sacoss.org.au)
  • Such a system is needed to shine a light on where health inequities exist in South Australia, and to provide both an evidence-base to inform interventions, and a means of tracking progress over time. (sacoss.org.au)
  • Landon Pirius, Colorado Community College System academic affairs vice chancellor, said the last thing the state wants to see is colleges reduce services or even close due to declining enrollment. (chalkbeat.org)
  • The Plus Project is designed to work with and within the existing health system structures, leveraging existing points of contact between the health system and children under two to offer SP for PMC. (psi.org)
  • For example, this means that routine PMC data is included with the existing monthly reports from health facilities and entered directly into the government HMIS, and that pharmacovigilance for PMC in Cameroon is integrated into the existing system with the project contributing to the overall strengthening of the country's pharmacovigilance system. (psi.org)
  • Their stories demonstrate the resilience of a local health system under strain, as well as the challenges of emergency planning, especially in a decentralised context, and important recommendations for institutional and structural changes. (rebuildconsortium.com)
  • Challenges exist throughout the health system, especially in low-income countries. (who.int)
  • ABSTRACT Lebanon is providing sanctuary to an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees, with potential consequences for its health system. (who.int)
  • Nonetheless, geography dictates that the Lebanese health system must play a central role. (who.int)
  • We argue that the Ministry is well placed to take a lead, with its detailed knowledge of the Lebanese health system and its legitimacy to formulate a national health response. (who.int)
  • Finally, we suggest that this crisis could be a catalyst for the strengthening of the Lebanese health system, based on evidence-informed policies that would benefit refugees and the Lebanese population alike. (who.int)
  • integration of refugees within the Leba- the beginning of the conflict ( 1 ), placing nese health system. (who.int)
  • Second, a national severe pressure on the existing health plan could facilitate the definition of a system ( 4 ). (who.int)
  • After almost three decades of the institutionalization process of the Unified Health System (UHS), it is observed that its deployment and implementation has improved mainly concerning decentralization and municipalization of health service actions. (bvsalud.org)
  • The values applied to calculate the vaccination schedule were extracted from the Pan American Health Organization, adopting the perspective of the SUS-paying costs. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Multicancer Early Detection Consortium is a nonprofit, public-private organization that provides insight and guidance into the development of screening tests. (medscape.com)
  • The aim of this study was to conduct a situational diagnosis related to the organization of oral health services in 40 municipalities of São Paulo State, Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • A relevant milestone was the emergence of the Family Health Strategy (FHS), in the early 1990s, which proposed the organization of municipal health systems thus fulfilling UHS principles 2 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Toward this end, the ICUDDR facilitates networking among universities to promote high quality education and training in the field of addiction prevention, treatment and public health interventions. (icuddr.org)
  • The practice of evidence-based public health (EBPH) is an integration of science-based interventions with community preferences for improving population health (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Public health interventions are seldom a single intervention and often involve large-scale environmental or policy changes that address the needs and balance the preferences of large, often diverse, groups of people. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite the benefits and efficiencies associated with evidence-based programs or policies, many public health interventions are implemented on the basis of political or media pressures, anecdotal evidence, or "the way it's always been done" (8,9). (cdc.gov)
  • Together these comprise the Crick COVID-19 Consortium (CCC). (nature.com)
  • Such a benchmark is in line with targets in Australia's National Preventive Health Strategy 2021-2030 and would see an increase from current levels of around 2.3% of total health expenditure. (sacoss.org.au)
  • Everyone pays lip service to the need for Consilience, but the university structure does little to advance it in practice. (evostudies.org)
  • To advance principles of equitable and effective partnership, WRC facilitated a partnership co-design process to collaboratively define how the consortium would function in practice. (womensrefugeecommission.org)
  • This trend includes implementing electronic health records and practice management software to streamline patient scheduling, billing and medical records management. (beckersasc.com)
  • In addition to the services listed above, the hub is designed to simplify access to a range of other services for people with mental illness and their families and carers-for example, general practitioners, psychology, and mental health social work services. (qld.gov.au)
  • Chicago-based practitioners, researchers and activists have galvanized around this demand. (latinorebels.com)
  • Public health practitioners must be ready to implement an evidence-based approach in their work to meet health goals and sustain necessary resources. (cdc.gov)
  • An ever-expanding evidence base, detailing programs and policies that have been scientifically evaluated and proven to work, is available to public health practitioners. (cdc.gov)
  • Scientists, practitioners of traditional medicine, health workers and members of the civil society organizations will also take part. (bvsalud.org)
  • The project helps link this population to employers with high-demand jobs in construction, manufacturing, and health services. (goldenleaf.org)
  • These objectives led the project consortium to search for further funding opportunities within the European framework and made them look for opportunities to finance the implementation of the joint actions through national funding streams, too. (europa.eu)
  • This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number T73MC22233, Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disorders Training Programs. (scahec.net)
  • With funding assistance from the Commission, Aftercare engaged the University of Queensland through the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR) to undertake an evaluation of the project, which was finalised in June 2018. (qld.gov.au)
  • The Plus Project is led by Population Services International (PSI) with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in collaboration with key government and research partners. (psi.org)
  • To work toward addressing the conflict-driven health crisis in Borno, while adopting a localized approach to strengthen public health systems within the State, in 2017, the Women's Refugee Commission (WRC) developed the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAHN) Project, with its cornerstone component, the Village Health Worker (VHW) Program. (womensrefugeecommission.org)
  • and Climate Change App Challenge, and the CDC Dengue Fever Project are part of a partnership between NIH, HHS, and Esri that launched the Climate and Health Innovation Challenge Series, aimed at stimulating innovation in understanding and addressing the impact of climate change on human health. (hhs.gov)
  • She demanded proper survey on environmental loss before taking any development project in future. (brac.net)
  • The eMEN project partners include mental health service providers, mental health professional organisations, user and other third sector organisations, SME developers of eMental health products, and university research departments. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • Mental Health Reform is the sole Irish partner of the eMEN project. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • Introductory studies, with seminars and trainings for policymakers and health providers have been conducted by Gynuity Health Project in the region, with the aim to offer practical clinical experience with evidence-based protocols and provide useful data to revise existing guidelines and protocols or to establish new one. (fiapac.org)
  • Each undertaken a vast array of activities to for Health Statistics (NCHS) and state project has a director or coordinator enhance the use of data. (cdc.gov)
  • Centre de recherche d'étude et de documentation en économie de la santé (France). (who.int)
  • Operating at the Floresco Centre in Ipswich in the West Moreton Hospital and Health Service region, the hub was established in late 2014 by a consortium of non-government organisations, led by Aftercare. (qld.gov.au)
  • Importantly, service users also identified they found the 'one-stop' model useful and building on this success, another Floresco centre was opened in Toowoomba in 2017. (qld.gov.au)
  • As part of a 11 city study on sanitation, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) attempted to visualize excreta flows through the individual components of the sanitation service chain, focusing on the percentage of excreta being safely managed at each step. (cseindia.org)
  • Our vision was for states that had Fee-for-Service infrastructure to put the treatment funds to use rapidly via existing systems rather than bid it out. (attcnetwork.org)
  • Using the block grant forms would, in theory, allow the states to make direct payments to physicians via their Fee-for-Service reimbursement systems. (attcnetwork.org)
  • These precedents resulted in several states setting up statewide mental health delivery systems to individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing with mental health needs (Gournaris, Hamerdinger & Williams, 2013). (nad.org)
  • The epidemic proportion of NCDs is one of the single largest costs to European public health systems. (europa.eu)
  • The epidemic proportion of NCDs is the single largest costs to European public health systems. (europa.eu)
  • Moose Consortium Inc. (Mobility Ottawa-Outaouais: Systems & Enterprises) plans to use existing railways for a property-financed service to connect about 50 localities throughout the region. (ottawalife.com)
  • Assessing district health needs, services and systems : protocols for rapid data collection and analysis / A. A. Kielmann, K. Janovsky, H. Annett. (who.int)
  • In addition, other supporting activities such as routine date collection, supportive supervision, and working with community health workers have been largely integrated into the government's existing systems and adapted and modified in each focus country to suit the local context. (psi.org)
  • In this blog post by Kate Hawkins, Saugat Pratap KC, Shreeman Sharma, Sophie Witter, Karen Miller, Jo Raven and Shophika Regmi, we report from the HERDi learning site in Kapilvastu, Nepal where ReBUILD for Resilience is implementing embedded health systems research. (rebuildconsortium.com)
  • unwillingness of the public health systems to take the necessary steps for the implementation of the medical abortion services, and unnecessary barriers imposed by their regulations. (fiapac.org)
  • and health information systems. (who.int)
  • What do countries expect from WHO in terms of products and critical to health and engaging in services for health systems strengthening - what are the key aspects partnerships where joint action is of health systems strengthening on which WHO should focus its needed. (who.int)
  • Does WHO exercise effective leadership in health systems and how could this be improved? (who.int)
  • Which partnerships with other agencies have been most effective in supporting health systems strengthening and how can these collaborations be enhanced to strengthen coherence and alignment? (who.int)
  • Shaping the research agenda and How is WHO influencing the research agenda around health stimulating the generation, translation systems? (who.int)
  • Jordan and Turkey, placing huge strain need for a strengthened MoPH was is particularly important in the absence on their national health systems ( 2 ). (who.int)
  • the main service access of the population was the spontaneous demand and there have been production data inconsistencies in the information systems. (bvsalud.org)
  • Several landmark court cases [4] have found that utilizing interpreters as first solution did not provide "equal access" as did direct services provided by signing mental health professionals. (nad.org)
  • More than 80 percent of Texas counties are designated as Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas, which are defined as more than 30,000 residents per clinician," the Texas Statewide Behavioral Health Strategic Plan stated seven years ago. (gilmermirror.com)
  • In a nation where agreement can seem rare, both Republicans and Democrats have come to the same conclusion: Mental health services are in direct need of a makeover and expansion. (gilmermirror.com)
  • Mental health affects all of us," President Joe Biden said last fall after announcing millions of dollars in new funding for state mental health services. (gilmermirror.com)
  • We must provide mental health services to students who need it," Gov. Greg Abbott said in his inaugural address last month. (gilmermirror.com)
  • Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is calling for a more than $100 million school safety and mental health package, with nearly half of that package earmarked for children's mental health services. (gilmermirror.com)
  • Today, 98% of Texas' 254 counties were wholly or partially designated by the federal government as "mental health professional shortage areas. (gilmermirror.com)
  • The pandemic just dropped the stigma around mental health to the floor, and it happened so rapidly that lines or waiting lists for therapists are really long. (gilmermirror.com)
  • Reimbursement could cover medical treatment and all rehabilitative and mental health services a person might require. (walterclark.com)
  • Rural schools also don't always offer services such as tutoring and mental health counseling that help students finish school. (chalkbeat.org)
  • The Floresco Integrated Service Hub is a 'one-stop' mental health service for adults. (qld.gov.au)
  • The consortium has worked with several other local health and community service providers to establish Floresco as an integrated mental health service hub. (qld.gov.au)
  • This past November, a federal judge in LA held the current administration accountable for their "deliberate indifference" and the severe psychological harm caused, handing down an unprecedented ruling requiring the government to compensate these families and provide mental health services. (latinorebels.com)
  • As a mental health practitioner and researcher who has focused on the mental health of immigrant youth and their families for over 20 years, I've been concerned with the lifelong, detrimental consequences of separation particularly as the duration of that separation stretches into a new year. (latinorebels.com)
  • eMental health involves a broad spectrum of applications of digital technology in mental health services and supports. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • The demand for mental health services has been growing in the NWE countries and in the other EU member states. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • Mental health services have not been able to keep pace with this increased demand, and have therefore been under pressure. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • This includes cost-effectiveness for mental health service providers, greater access and empowerment for people with mental health challenges, and market opportunities for product developers. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • Once instructed in their use, people with mental health challenges have access to the apps 24/7. (mentalhealthreform.ie)
  • Should You Talk to Someone About a Drug, Alcohol, or Mental Health Problem? (icuddr.com)
  • Lists questions consumers can ask themselves to help them decide whether to seek help for a substance abuse problem, a mental health issue, or both. (icuddr.com)
  • While some Republican leaders contend this will provide better services and more choices, disability community advocates are skeptical. (accesspress.org)
  • While the threat of COVID-19 remains an ongoing concern in South Australia and nationally, the health priorities of pre-COVID times continue to impact the health and wellbeing of our community. (sacoss.org.au)
  • Southern Community Health Research Unit. (who.int)
  • The session will cover important topics like client-centered , community-led demand creation, d ifferentiated service delivery , sustainable financing, and digital solutions. (psi.org)
  • The ward chair is the chair of the Health Facility Operation and Management Committee (HFOMC) in each health facility at ward level, and the Health facility in-charge is the member secretary of HFOMC, and together they quickly mobilized the Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHV). (rebuildconsortium.com)
  • BRAC is going to deploy 27,500 community health workers in the selected 35 districts under this effort which will put maximum emphasis on the proper use of masks to ward off the transmission. (brac.net)
  • In this context, Oral Health was inserted in the Family Health Strategy, advocating a participative dental model role in the Health Unit, in the Family and also in the Community, allowing the population better oral health access, as well as quality improvement in the services offered 4 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Health studies describe the health of community members, counting the occurrence of a disease, symptom, or clinical measure and evaluating the possible association between the occurrence and exposure to hazardous substances. (cdc.gov)
  • The pandemic has provided global lessons on the importance of public health and prevention strategies, and the importance of health research, data analysis, and public access to health information. (sacoss.org.au)
  • Access and affordability of health services are a challenge for many people - examples include gap payments and ambulance fees. (sacoss.org.au)
  • Currently, only nine percent of Ethiopians have access to basic sanitation services - a serious situation. (psi.org)
  • In this session, PSI and PSH will share lessons for optimizing access to comprehensive, culturally sensitive HIV and sexual and reproductive health services. (psi.org)
  • Registered users can access a series of clinics focusing on general health topics, specific medical conditions, disease management, or well-being. (health.mil)
  • Sanitation remains the most off-track of all Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), with an estimated 2.6 billion people not having access to safe and hygienic toilet facilities that ensure health and dignity. (cseindia.org)
  • It is now well recognized that not only access to safe sanitation is key for public health, but also access to safe emptying and transportation services for onsite sanitation (OSS) technologies. (cseindia.org)
  • Access to abortion services has been challenged in recent years. (fiapac.org)
  • Experience-sharing, information, education, communication (IEC) activities, targeting potential users, to increase the demand for better and affordable services among women, advocacy for women rights to the access to the fruits of modern science, the improvement of providers knowledge among providers, transforming them in women advocates, advocacy events to register and utilize medical abortion are some of the listed strategies to consider. (fiapac.org)
  • This report presents progress made in implementing resolution WHA70.12 (2017) on cancer prevention and control in the context of an integrated approach, on and access to health products for rare and orphan diseases1 (part A) and in implementing resolution WHA72.8 (2019) on improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines, and other health products (part B). (who.int)
  • Despite recent advances, access to safe, appropriate, effective and quality-assured health products remains a global concern. (who.int)
  • and Health Services Laboratories (HSL), a UK Accreditation Service (UKAS)-recognized clinical diagnostic laboratory. (nature.com)
  • Nurse-managed practices can also bring necessary clinical services to underserved populations. (dukehealth.org)
  • In addition to meeting clinical governance assurances, complying with clinical safety standards and following OJEU requirements, any product or service procured by an NHS acute trust in England must be compliant with Global Standards 1 (GS1) and with Pan-European Public Procurement Online (PEPPOL). (spendmatters.com)
  • Both FDNY and the New York/New Jersey WTC Clinical Consortium are funded through 2009 only, and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation's (HHC) WTC Environmental Health Center has not received any federal funding to date. (cdc.gov)
  • Public health evidence often derives from cross-sectional studies and quasi-experimental studies, rather than the so-called "gold standard" of randomized controlled trials often used in clinical medicine. (cdc.gov)
  • Findings from the systematic reviews of traditional medicine and health, evidence maps of clinical effectiveness, and an artificial intelligence global research map on traditional medicine will be presented. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this two-part session, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PSI, and Population Solutions for Health will share lessons and best practices from rigorous research and hands-on implementation experience in Zimbabwe. (psi.org)
  • The program also provided technical assistance to develop the necessary protocols, guidelines, and processes needed to implement telehealth services. (hhs.gov)
  • The expanded version comes at a time of increased demand for telehealth and other remote services. (health.mil)
  • The idea to share services became a priority during the pandemic because of the changes it made to how students learned. (chalkbeat.org)
  • Traditional medicine can play an important and catalytic role in achieving the goal of universal health coverage and meeting global health-related targets that were off-track even before the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 2000, the publication of 1444 Decree officialized the incorporation of the Oral Health Teams (OHT) in the FHS. (bvsalud.org)
  • Peterson said Rural College Consortium leaders plan to come up with more priorities after its first success. (chalkbeat.org)
  • Amid an expansion in the use of traditional medicine worldwide, safety, efficacy and quality control of traditional products and procedure-based therapies remain important priorities for health authorities and the public. (bvsalud.org)
  • Systematic observation of healthy eating environments in afterschool services: a cross-sectional study. (sc.edu)
  • Several tools have been developed to meet EBPH needs, including free online resources in the following topic areas: training and planning tools, US health surveillance, policy tracking and surveillance, systematic reviews and evidence-based guidelines, economic evaluation, and gray literature. (cdc.gov)
  • The Francis Crick Institute (the Crick) is a biomedical research institute dedicated to the discovery of biology underlying human health. (nature.com)
  • AFRESH therefore aimed to develop an European Joint action plan for reducing diet- and physical inactivity-related (chronic) diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and various types of cancer, by designing innovative regional strategies for products and services, policy actions and research activities within the field of nutrition and physical activity. (europa.eu)
  • This donation comes with the launch of the Stibel Dennett Consortium, a new research center focused on brain and cognitive science. (constantcontact.com)
  • They range from inadequate investment in research and development, lack of effective policies for selecting health products, inadequate financing and expenditure management, weak regulatory capacity, poor infrastructure and insufficient resources for procurement and supply chain management, to inappropriate prescribing and irrational use of health products. (who.int)
  • Research methods such as ethnopharmacology and reverse pharmacology could help identify new, safe and clinically effective drugs, while the application of new technologies in health and medicine - for example genomics, new diagnostic technologies, and artificial intelligence - could open new frontiers of knowledge on traditional medicine. (bvsalud.org)
  • ONC's Market R&D Pilot Challenge was specifically designed for this purpose, asking health IT companies to partner with clinics to perform small-scale testing and validation of products in real patient environments. (hhs.gov)
  • Air Force Senior Airman Erick Requadt climbs a dirt incline during the 2019 Moody Mud Run in Ray City, Ga. For service members to meet and excel in their performance, it's important for them to pay attention to all eight life domains, including physical fitness. (health.mil)
  • The Floresco Service Model Evaluation, Final Report 2018 was published in January 2019. (qld.gov.au)
  • One service that did lose funding is "specialized maintenance therapies. (accesspress.org)
  • We must learn the lessons of COVID and invest in public health and prevention. (sacoss.org.au)
  • 4.1 Increase public health, disease prevention and health promotion expenditure to 5% of the health budget. (sacoss.org.au)
  • We call on the government to increase investment in public health, disease prevention and health promotion, with an ongoing commitment of at least 5% of health expenditure directed towards disease prevention and health promotion. (sacoss.org.au)
  • Informed by the review, a dedicated employment, training and development program should be established to provide career pathways in health promotion and disease prevention. (sacoss.org.au)
  • The International Consortium of Universities for Drug Demand Reduction (ICUDDR) supports the rapid improvement in competencies and skills among current and future generations of addiction professionals to meet the increasing demand for prevention, treatment and public health services. (icuddr.org)
  • It is very exciting to be able to build upon existing resources to bridge prevention efforts across the Department of Defense and the VA," said Patty Deuster, executive director of the Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Science in Bethesda, Maryland. (health.mil)
  • Moose Consortium is made up of a dozen, mostly local, businesses that came together to make Potvin's dream a reality: commercial, affordable and green. (ottawalife.com)
  • As a result, those that can afford it turn to outbound medical tourism, while those that cannot have no choice but to rely on unreliable local services. (alineainternational.com)
  • Municipality and ward offices, in coordination with local health facilities, enforced COVID-19 strategies at the local level. (rebuildconsortium.com)
  • These diseases may not be considered a priority in universal health coverage packages and may thus be left out of public procurement and reimbursement. (who.int)
  • More than 7,000 adults will be moved off of the state health insurance program MinnesotaCare and instead given vouchers to buy private insurance. (accesspress.org)
  • Everyone's mission demands, occupational risks, culture, and mission-essential skills are different, so their approaches to sustaining health and performance need to be different. (health.mil)
  • While conceding that the budget will have impacts, Abeler also cited the challenges of trying to provide services in the face of growing demand. (accesspress.org)
  • The NAD urges the preservation and continuation of existing programs that provide direct communication and services, and urges that such programs be the models for replication. (nad.org)
  • Impact investment refers to blending public and private finance to provide goods and services in equitable and sustainable ways. (alineainternational.com)
  • It is for the first time in Bangladesh that any civil society partnership will provide Covid-19 services with such a wide coverage. (brac.net)
  • A number of operations have been integrated to provide a seamless service, and instead of a one size fits all strategy, PruHealth has segmented how it works relating to each of its sales channels. (ipmimagazine.com)
  • Other challenges include the delivery strategy, the quality of the plan to introduce the vaccine into the national schedule, insufficient demand creation, and a lack of confidence in the vaccine, sometimes based on rumours. (who.int)
  • Co-hosted by the Government of India, the Summit will explore the role of traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine in addressing pressing health challenges and driving progress in global health and sustainable development. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the absence of formal guidance, health workers and managers found information online, through Facebook and other global sites. (rebuildconsortium.com)
  • While there is the potential for this type of source to broadcast dis- and misinformation, health workers were struggling with how to respond and counsel their constituencies. (rebuildconsortium.com)
  • Health workers described taking 300-400 swabs a day in 35 degree heat inside stifling PPE that couldn't be removed until the day was over. (rebuildconsortium.com)
  • For example, how extensively did the disaster affect the health of residents, area workers , and students in Lower Manhattan, and what kinds of exposures increased their risks? (cdc.gov)
  • Every day, frontline workers are risking their personal health and lives to keep us safe during COVID-19 and always. (who.int)
  • Such partnerships have led to the collaborative development between partners of guidelines for distribution of LLINs, the allocation of roles and responsibilities when delivering the nets and various efforts to increase demand and monitor the success of distribution campaigns, she added. (malariaconsortium.org)
  • A need for creative, individual, country-level, sustainable strategies: Strategic assessment of the contraception and abortion, currently taking place in some countries in the region will assist in improving the quality of services. (fiapac.org)
  • For most large-scale health programmes, harmonisation amongst partners is key. (malariaconsortium.org)
  • Leveraging volunteering and social assistance, SMALL partners will deploy 10 social innovation pilots that test new innovative devices in the 7 participating cities (e.g. on-demand tricycle taxi services, and inclusive mobility as a service - MaaS). (vu.nl)
  • This demand on diagnostic laboratories, coupled with a global shortage of commercial kits and reagents, reduced commercial flights and cargo capacity, and international competition for testing resource, has rendered the testing capacity of many countries inadequate to deal with the outbreak effectively. (nature.com)
  • Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that some people have the temperament, skills, and resources to push deep into the unknown, but this comes at a price: as E. O. Wilson, my friend and fellow UA alum, argues in Consilience, knowledge is fragmented and the problems we face demand the ability to unify knowledge across the "academic archipelago" as David Sloan Wilson calls it. (evostudies.org)
  • This video of Charles University Professor and ICUDDR president, Michal Miovsky, describes the rationale for ICUDDR to begin and the types of services and resources we offer. (icuddr.org)
  • ATSDR makes its Public Health Statements (PHSs) available as summary standalone resources, which are pulled from Chapter One of each contaminant-specific Toxicological Profile. (cdc.gov)
  • While health and human service spending will show some growth, from $10.2 billion last biennium to $11.4 billion this biennium, that's about $1 billion less than the actual need projected by the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS). (accesspress.org)
  • Introduced to the Department of Defense in 2009, Total Force Fitness is a framework that helps warfighters, their family members, and military units reach and sustain optimal, holistic health and performance in a way that aligns with their mission, culture, and identity. (health.mil)
  • Navigating Special Education Services teaches participants how to define free appropriate public education (FAPE), what the process is for a child to receive an evaluation through their school, and who should be included on an Individualized Education Program (IEP) team. (scahec.net)
  • According to the Office of the Surgeon General report Addressing Health Worker Burnout (PDF), telemedicine can help reduce staff burnout by offering greater scheduling flexibility and improved work-life balance. (hhs.gov)
  • Topics will include enhancing the accuracy and reliability of sex worker population data, improving HIV case finding among men who have sex with men (MSM) through reverse index case testing, and scaling differentiated service delivery models. (psi.org)
  • WHO/Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) has dedicated a web page, http://www.emro.who.int/mhps/frontline_worker.html help them deal with the immense pressure and stressors they are facing due to high work demands, strict bio-security measures, fear, and consequences to personal and family life. (who.int)
  • As one of the top five largest employers in the world and an average annual expenditure of £130 billion, the National Health Service (NHS) and how it spends its budget is a widely debated topic. (spendmatters.com)
  • A commitment is also required to report annually on public health preventative expenditure. (sacoss.org.au)
  • One great success that we've been able to have in Nigeria is long lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) distribution," said Dr Moriam Jagun, a Health Specialist at the World Bank. (malariaconsortium.org)
  • Today, traditional and complementary medicine is well established in many parts of the world, where it plays an important role in the culture, health and well-being of many communities. (bvsalud.org)
  • The government argues that its promise to cut hospital waiting lists cannot be carried out this year because the under-funding of the health service by the Tories was more severe than it had thought. (newworker.org)
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital Digital Health Innovation Group Program Manager Josie Elias is scheduled to speak on September 21 at 10:40 am on the Opportunities for Championing Innovations and Teaming with Entrepreneurs panel. (constantcontact.com)
  • They reported at the time that Trusts and health authorities carried a combined debt of over 300 million from the previous year. (newworker.org)
  • Health evaluation. (bvsalud.org)
  • ATSDR has both general and issue-specific facts sheets on topics such as remedial efforts, public health effects evaluation findings, and sampling results. (cdc.gov)
  • The state has a lot of work to do first to increase the number of professionals it will take to deliver these planned new services. (gilmermirror.com)
  • With a few exceptions, train services will only be offered where the average rent and property values within a 0.8 km radius of each station are expected to increase by at least 25 percent over the base value. (ottawalife.com)
  • Barker helped them run the numbers to determine that the tax credit they'll get for their health plan's premium next year will be much higher than the insurance company's estimate - more than making up for the increase in the cost of the insurance policy. (wskg.org)