• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Monitoring hospital-acquired infections to promote patient safety: United States, 1990-1999 [erratum published in MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep . 2000;49(9):189-190]. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Gil Garcetti served as the district attorney for Los Angeles County, the leader of the country's largest nonfederal, prosecutorial agency from 1992 to 2000. (harvard.edu)
  • In the Surgeon General's Report, 2000 objectives as compared to the first national health targets in Healthy death rates for persons over the age of 1990 objectives. (cdc.gov)
  • Commitments were made developed to track Healthy People 2000 persons 65 years and older--restricted with lead agencies to invest the objectives is the School Health Program activity days and bed disability days. (cdc.gov)
  • Furthermore, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 261,000 rapes and sexual assaults occurred in the United States in 2000, with collateral data from the National Crime Victimization Survey of 2000 identifying 3,270 of these victims as age 65 or older (Klaus & Maston, 2002). (medscape.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)
  • 5. As maternal mortality is one of Africa's most tragic health problems, countries and their development partners made a commitment at the Millennium Summit (2000) to reduce this mortality by three quarters between 1990 and 2015 (MDG5). (who.int)
  • In most tists to hypothesize that M. tuberculosis evolved cases, a competent immune system limits the mul- from the closely related mycobacterium, M. bovis , tiplication of the tubercle bacilli, although some possibly coincident with the domestication of cattle bacilli remain dormant but viable, rendering a con- by humans approximately 15,000-20,000 years dition known as latent TB infection (LTBI) (CDC, ago (Daniel, 2000). (cdc.gov)
  • Between January 2013 and June 2022, 17/194 (8.8%) World Health Organization (WHO) Member States reported 2000 human AI virus infections of 10 virus subtypes. (cdc.gov)
  • H7N9 (1568/2000, 78.40%) and H5N1 (254/2000, 12.70%) viruses accounted for the most human infections. (cdc.gov)
  • The MMWR series of publications is published by the Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Public Health Service, U.S. Depart- ment of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30333. (cdc.gov)
  • NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (nih.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Guide to Community Preventive Services 4 has identified effective population-based interventions that have been shown to increase physical activity, which may help reduce childhood overweight. (aafp.org)
  • Any location where health issues are addressed, including but not limited to emergency departments, patient treatment centers, and the offices of primary care clinicians and other health care practitioners. (hhs.gov)
  • Dramatic improvements have occurred over the past several decades in such areas as reducing infant mortality, reducing mortality and morbidity from many infectious diseases and accidental causes, increasing access to health care, and reducing environmental contaminants, such as lead ( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999b , 2000a ). (nih.gov)
  • Reviews by Clinton administration health agencies of University of California report on needle exchange programs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nat'l Institutes of Health, Substance Abuse Mental Health Administration, Health Services and Resources Administration, Food and Drug Administration). (druglibrary.org)
  • This amount would allow for continuation and expansion of the program in FY 1992, including development of at least two new primary health centers. (co.ke)
  • National Health Service Corps provided a lot of physicians for the community health centers, right? (co.ke)
  • If we can get that pipeline built back up for National Health Service Corps doctors because they do provide services for the community health centers. (co.ke)
  • The Task Force on Community Preventive Services found that education and policy approaches to increasing sun-protective behaviors were effective when implemented in primary schools and in recreational or tourism settings, but found insufficient evidence to determine effectiveness when implemented in other settings, such as child care centers, secondary schools and colleges, and occupational settings. (readkong.com)
  • The percentage of Californians reporting smoke-free homes on the California Tobacco Surveys increased from 37.6% to 73.7% between 1992 and 1999. (bmj.com)
  • RÉSUMÉ Afin d'identifier le profil et les déterminants des troubles psychiatriques et les facteurs prédictifs d'un séjour de longue durée chez des patients en séjour de longue durée à l'hôpital psychiatrique de Taïf (Arabie saoudite), nous avons examiné au total 430 dossiers de patients qui avaient été admis entre janvier 1999 et janvier 2009 et dont le séjour avait duré plus de neuf mois. (who.int)
  • An MRL of 0.001 Sv/yr (0.1 rem/yr) above background has been derived for chronic-duration external exposure (365 days or more) to radiation based on information that identified radiation doses that have not been reported to have detrimental effects on humans (BEIR V 1990). (cdc.gov)
  • Before the 1990-91 and 1991-92 influenza seasons, the HCFA sent letters to all Medicare beneficiaries living in the intervention areas urging them to be vaccinated. (cdc.gov)
  • In The 1990 Health more insight into prevention issues. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1980, 226 objectives were considerable attention was given to data health promotion activities of employers published with targets for 1990. (cdc.gov)
  • In an attempt to better define the magnitude of this problem, the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry developed the Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (HSEES) system in 1990. (medscape.com)
  • Tobacco & health 1990 : the global war, proceedings of the Seventh World Conference on Tobacco and Health, 1st-5th April 1990, Perth, Western Australia / editors, Betty Durston, Konrad Jamrozik. (who.int)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • This statement summarizes the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on screening and interventions for overweight in children and adolescents and the supporting scientific evidence, and it updates the 1996 recommendations contained in the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2nd ed. 1 Explanations of the ratings and of the strength of overall evidence are given in Tables 1 and 2 , respectively. (aafp.org)
  • He has previously served as ambassador to Zambia and Venezuela, and was assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs from 1996 until 1998. (harvard.edu)
  • The associated human disease, variant CJD, was not defined until 1996, 7 years after a ban was introduced in Britain on the use of specified offal from cattle in human food. (medscape.com)
  • Integrative health care, defined as a comprehensive, often interdisciplinary approach to treatment, prevention and health promotion that brings together complementary and conventional therapies, is more common. (nih.gov)
  • There is insufficient evidence to ascertain the magnitude of the potential harms of screening or prevention and treatment interventions. (aafp.org)
  • BMC Public Health (2018) 18:696 Page 2 of 17 Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA) autho- been developed and validated for over 25 nations and 8 rized the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the states with a wide range of different policy changes [2, marketing, promotion and sale of cigarettes and SLT. (deepdyve.com)
  • Tracking egg'' question and the experience in performance measurement, total quality the United States progress in reducing measuring national health promotion and management and continuous quality infant deaths, child deaths, adolescent disease prevention objectives can be improvement were not in the lexicon of and young adult deaths, and adult deaths instructive for planning Healthy People public managers. (cdc.gov)
  • Prevention (2), the PHS became the pneumonia deaths and increasing the new data on subjects not previously pioneers of the MBO approach in public number of older adults who function tracked and has offered considerably health. (cdc.gov)
  • Prevention (CDC) to measure the scope decade of the 1980s ended without ever implementation, the groundwork was of school health curricula, the survey fulfilling the promise of developing a laid for developing new data sources. (cdc.gov)
  • Disease Prevention and Health attainment of the life stage goals, these bringing attention to the number of Promotion with guidance provided by a indicators posed many data challenges. (cdc.gov)
  • 6 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CDC recommend that, in advance of a pandemic of influenza, schools implement effective infection prevention policies and procedures that help limit the spread of influenza. (apha.org)
  • Professor Torimiro is presently Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Coordinator of Laboratories in the Chantal Biya International Reference Centre for Research on the Prevention and Management of HIV/AIDS, and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé. (who.int)
  • 1992 by five provider organizations, the target was stated as 20 percent fewer measured. (cdc.gov)
  • Government, national and local agencies and organizations have been unable to systematically, and in a coordinated way, translate behavioral research into practice that makes a difference at a population level. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Human rights organizations and press reporting charged the CJTF with committing human rights abuses. (state.gov)
  • The Sasakawa Health Prize is awarded to a person or persons, an institution or institutions, or a nongovernmental organization or organizations having accomplished outstanding innovative work in health development. (who.int)
  • The fact that the principle medical organizations in the United States are not listening to them speaks ill of the integrity and sincerity of these organizations. (educate-yourself.org)
  • The USPSTF found insufficient evidence for the effectiveness of behavioral counseling or other preventive interventions with overweight children and adolescents that can be conducted in primary care settings or to which primary care physicians can make referrals. (aafp.org)
  • Behavioral interventions are needed to reduce consumption of strawberries in the field. (nature.com)
  • States,1993: recommendations of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tu- berculosis (ACET). (cdc.gov)
  • The increase in influenza vaccination coverage in comparison sites was approximately the same as that in the rest of the United States during this period (CDC, unpublished data, 1993). (cdc.gov)
  • As the largest existing analysis of scientific literature on low back pain, the 1993 Ontario Ministry of Health commissioned study drew international attention when it recommended the management of low back pain be moved from medical doctors to chiropractic doctors. (collegeparkchiro.com)
  • On October 15, 1993, Joe Boufford, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Lee's office), writes to CDC Director David Satcher requesting a review of the UC report and providing opinions and recommendations for federal action in response to needle exchange. (druglibrary.org)
  • Although this was the first case of BSE in the United States, more than 190,000 confirmed clinical cases have been reported worldwide since 1986, and approximately 184,000 cases were from the United Kingdom alone (see the images below). (medscape.com)
  • This ASPE Policy Brief on screening and counseling for domestic violence in health care settings is intended for policy makers, health care practitioners, and other stakeholders. (hhs.gov)
  • This amount would provide for approximately 714 agreements in FY 1992, as well as $10 million for nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other non-physician health providers, and $10 million for state loan repayment grants. (co.ke)
  • In 1988, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) and CDC began a congressionally mandated 4-year demonstration project to evaluate the cost-effectiveness to Medicare of providing influenza vaccine to Medicare beneficiaries. (cdc.gov)
  • Without this work, the American public would lack vital information on the safety and effectiveness of many practices and products that are widely used and readily available," said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "This change by Congress reflects the importance of studying the approaches to health and wellness that the public is using, often without the benefit of rigorous scientific study. (nih.gov)
  • The conclusion that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against screening for overweight in children and adolescents reflects the paucity of good-quality evidence on the effectiveness of interventions for this problem in the clinical setting. (aafp.org)
  • DATA SOURCES Literature search of Medline for reviews of effectiveness of programme and policy elements, plus journal articles and personal request for copies of publicly released reports and working papers from evaluation staff in each of the state programmes of California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Oregon, and Florida. (bmj.com)
  • This report presents the results of systematic reviews of effectiveness, applicabil- ity, other harms or benefits, economic evaluations, and barriers to use of selected interventions to prevent skin cancer by reducing exposure to ultraviolet radiation. (readkong.com)
  • They also found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of interventions oriented to healthcare settings and providers, media campaigns alone, interventions oriented to parents or caregivers of children, and community-wide multicomponent interventions. (readkong.com)
  • In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets radiation safety policy and basic safety standard. (cdc.gov)
  • Average concentrations of lead in the blood of children younger than 5 years dropped 78 percent between 1976-1980 and 1992-1994 ( U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2000a ). (nih.gov)
  • Additionally, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released a recommendation in January 2013 calling for clinicians to "screen women of childbearing age for intimate partner violence" (U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, 2013). (hhs.gov)
  • Because of the potential for ionizing radiation to cause deterministic (acute radiation syndrome, cataracts) and nondeterministic (cancer) health effects in exposed individuals, safe dose guidelines and regulations have been established for both external radiation exposure and radionuclides in air and water by a number of international and national agencies. (cdc.gov)
  • International and national regulations and guidelines pertinent to human exposure to ionizing radiation are summarized in Table 7-1. (cdc.gov)
  • The Mine Safety and Health Administration (Department of Labor) is responsible for protecting miners from exposure to radon and its daughters and gamma rays in underground or surface mines (MSHA 1997). (cdc.gov)
  • Studies have found adverse health effects attributable to ETS exposure in non-smokers who have a spouse who smokes 3 and have indicated that the home is a major site of exposure to ETS in children. (bmj.com)
  • 4 Awareness of the health risks of ETS exposure has translated into an increased interest in smoking restrictions in the home in the last decade. (bmj.com)
  • As evidence of the health effects of ETS has mounted, there have been significant advances in public policy efforts to limit exposure to ETS. (bmj.com)
  • Those with multiple categories of childhood exposure were more likely to have multiple health risk factors later in life. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • These data provide evidence that adverse childhood exposure to trauma and household dysfunctions are significantly associated with negative health outcomes in adults. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • We conducted an intervention with 44 strawberry harvesters (15 control and 29 intervention group members) to determine whether education, encouragement of handwashing, and the use of gloves and removable coveralls reduced exposure. (nature.com)
  • The potential for exposure to hazardous materials in the United States is significant. (medscape.com)
  • Of 1953 human cases with available information, 74.81% (n=1461) had a known animal exposure before onset of illness. (cdc.gov)
  • He was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy at the U.S. Department of State from 2001 to 2009, and was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate for the rank of Ambassador. (irex.org)
  • Subsequently, the infected cow was discovered to have originated in Alberta, Canada, and was imported into the United States in September 2001. (medscape.com)
  • Children's Health, The Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health. (nih.gov)
  • In 1972, he helped found the nation's first prosecutorial agency to have a division devoted to consumer and environmental protection. (harvard.edu)
  • Instead the approach was relatively easy because of the 2010--the Nation's health agenda for was known as management by uniformity and completeness of death the first decade of the 21st century. (cdc.gov)
  • These four measures could also past 18 years in monitoring and pioneered at General Motors, was be replicated and tracked at State and reporting on the nation's health widely used in the business sector. (cdc.gov)
  • toes, is a serious public health threat correlated with increased medical in- 4. (cdc.gov)
  • Ayalde earned her BA from the School of International Studies at American University in Washington, DC, and a Master of Public Health from Tulane University in Louisiana. (irex.org)
  • The National Institutes of Health agency with primary responsibility for research on promising health approaches that already are in use by the American public has a new name - the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). (nih.gov)
  • We will continue to focus on the study of the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative interventions, and provide the public with research-based information to guide health care decision making. (nih.gov)
  • The practices and products studied by the center are prioritized by four guiding principles: scientific promise, amenability to be studied using the highest quality research methods, use by the American public, and the potential impact on public health. (nih.gov)
  • In 1992, the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) was established within the Office of the Director, NIH, to facilitate study and evaluation of complementary and alternative medical practices and to disseminate the resulting information to the public. (nih.gov)
  • These findings have significant public health implications for individuals exposed to childhood trauma, and the authors present a vision for a children's mental health care and wellness infrastructure in the United States derived from the Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • Although this study is limited by its use of retrospective data, these findings have several important public health care implications for children exposed to trauma. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • Am J Public Health Apr 102(4):714-22. (cdc.gov)
  • The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. (deepdyve.com)
  • 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)
  • I teach in a wide variety of areas that cover both my primary interest in lung disease and 20 my interest in public health. (who.int)
  • For instance, the city of Las Vegas's health department used advanced AI technologies such as NLP to analyse more than 16,000 tweets daily for food-poisoning-related clues (for phrases such as "I feel nauseous," for example) to help detect venues likely to pose public health hazards. (deloitte.com)
  • Dog bites are a serious public health problem that ignores the true scope of the problem and will not inflicts considerable physical and emotional damage result in a responsible approach to protecting a com- on victims and incurs immeasurable hidden costs to munity's citizens. (cdc.gov)
  • This information should prove useful to all who attempt to design clinical strategies and educational programs to address this issue.DESPITE THE medical and public health importanceof domestic violence (DV), most 'physicians are uninformed as to risk factors in their patients for spouse abuse and other forms of violence. (sagepub.com)
  • MADD has used public education programs, victim assistance, and legislative activism, helped along by active cooperation of federal, state and local officials and law enforcement, to accomplish its goals. (druglibrary.net)
  • Physical inactivity across the lifespan remains a public health issue for many developed countries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Encouraging some consistency in measurement across studies will potentially accelerate the efficiency with which citizen science participatory research provides new insights into and solutions to the behaviorally-based public health issues that drive most of morbidity and mortality. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Sexual abuse is considered to be a pandemic contemporary public health issue, with significant physical and psychosocial consequences for its victims. (medscape.com)
  • The amount requested would provide health and social services to approximately 200,000 residents of public housing. (co.ke)
  • Pandemic influenza preparation guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) stresses that hand washing and respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette should be routine for all and strongly encouraged in public health messages, and that such practices should be facilitated by making hand-hygiene facilities available in schools, workplaces, and other settings where amplification of transmission would be expected. (apha.org)
  • 21 Only five states have established statewide standards for public school restrooms. (apha.org)
  • Updating our roads and bridges, improving air traffic safety, and protecting our food supply and public health systems protect us against an array of everyday threats and from terrorists exploiting our civilian infrastructure. (uscatholic.org)
  • the Dr LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health will be presented to Professor Balram Bhargava (India) and the Health Promotion Unit of the Department of Public Health (Myanmar) . (who.int)
  • Over the years, the prizes have been awarded to well-known scientists and researchers or simply to dedicated people who have greatly contributed through their work to the advancement of public health, and to institutions caring for the health of local communities. (who.int)
  • and School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley (Buffler), Berkeley, California nual deaths per 100,000 people from melanoma in- Notes: Affiliation reflects author's location while this research was creased by about 40% during this period, from 1.9 to being conducted. (readkong.com)
  • Despite the growing awareness mation for health planning and policies ades have witnessed a major shift in the of the public, and health and education addressing the needs of such special provision of psychiatric services to the professionals regarding the economic, group of people. (who.int)
  • METHODS: We analyzed AI virus infection reports among animals and humans submitted to animal and public health authorities from January 2013 to June 2022 and compared them with reports from January 2005 to December 2012. (cdc.gov)
  • on the other hand, 40 (55%) unvaccinated persons reported little/no confidence in public health institutions recommending COVID-19 vaccination. (cdc.gov)
  • ATSDR] Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. (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 that decade, it was estimated that 1.5 million women experience rape or physical assault annually in the United States, with the alarming fact that the majority of these crimes are perpetrated by offenders known to the victim (Tjaden & Thoennes, 1998). (medscape.com)
  • Cancer mortality rates by state economic area, white males, 1970 to 1998 (age-adjusted 1970 U.S. population). (readkong.com)
  • Wells DLSaltmarche A Voiding dysfunction in geriatric patients with hip fracture: prevalence rate and tentative nursing interventions. (jamanetwork.com)
  • The researchers also stated that studies on the prevalence and incidence of low back pain suggest that it is the leading cause of disability and morbidity in middle-aged persons, and is by far the most expensive source of workers' compensation costs North America. (collegeparkchiro.com)
  • [20] The World Health Organization recommends that people combine a reduction of processed foods high in saturated fats , sugar and salt, [21] and reduced caloric intake with an increase in physical activity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Stressful life events do not occur in pure forms, and research is needed to assess effects of multiple trauma and abuse on adult health risk outcomes. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • Mounting evidence that health during childhood sets the stage for adult health not only reinforces this perspective, but also creates an important ethical, social, and economic imperative to ensure that all children are as healthy as they can be. (nih.gov)
  • On December 8, 1994, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) of the US Department of Health and Human Services released Clinical Practice Guidelines for the management of acute low back pain. (collegeparkchiro.com)
  • Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Publication No. 950642 (1994) - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (collegeparkchiro.com)
  • VLCDs extending beyond 16 weeks are subject to medical review to determine if additional services are medically necessary. (aetna.com)
  • The medical necessity criteria set forth below do not apply to health plans that specifically exclude services and supplies for or related to treatment of obesity or for diet or weight control. (aetna.com)
  • NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. (nih.gov)
  • Noting that Taiwan's humanitarian assistance mainly consisted of emergency relief in the aftermath of natural disasters, reconstruction work and grassroots medical services, the Chen administration decided to broaden the focus by addressing the needs of refugees and displaced populations and promoting "long-term development of human rights and higher living standards" through education, health, nutrition and sanitation. (brookings.edu)
  • This study, conducted by the prestigious RAND Corporation, marks the first time representatives of the U.S. medical community have gone on record stating that chiropractic is an appropriate treatment for certain low back pain conditions. (collegeparkchiro.com)
  • [17] Meal replacements, orlistat , a very-low-calorie diet , and primary care intensive medical interventions can also support meaningful weight loss. (wikipedia.org)
  • This states that "the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served. (bmj.com)
  • Below is a letter to the chairman of the chemistry department at Kentuky U....and below that the beginning of my frontal attack on the allopathic medical establishment whose roots we both know well. (educate-yourself.org)
  • Treatment in which health-care providers or other designated persons observe patients ingesting anti-TB medications. (cdc.gov)
  • The use of an integrative approach to health and wellness has grown within care settings across the United States, including hospitals, hospices, and military health facilities. (nih.gov)
  • NCCIH's mission is to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health approaches and their roles in improving health and health care. (nih.gov)
  • Given the new policies in support of screening for domestic violence in health care settings, the purpose of this brief is to present the state of practice and research regarding effective screening. (hhs.gov)
  • Most recently, he has played a prominent role in the debate over health care and Social Security reform, arguing for solutions based on individual choice and market competition. (harvard.edu)
  • Predictive analytics is now being applied in a wide range of areas including defence, security, health care and human services, among others. (deloitte.com)
  • 16. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women. (netce.com)
  • We are the health care providers who provide individuals with disabilities with the means of returning to a more functional life. (co.ke)
  • Due to serious financial problems with the Canadian governments, the different types of treatments for low back conditions were evaluated in an effort to reduce and contain health care costs. (collegeparkchiro.com)
  • Only 10% believed they had management information, but 77% had not attended any educational programs on DV in the past year.ConclusionsThis study provides important information about current knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of health care providers toward the diagnosis and management of DV. (sagepub.com)
  • As part of this project, we surveyed primary care providers' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs on the subject before intervention. (sagepub.com)
  • These baseline data provide information that is important to those planning programs to improve the identification and management of DV in the primary care setting.PARTICIPANTS, MATERIALS, AND METHODSSETTINGFive primary care clinics within Group Health Cooperative (GHC) of Puget Sound, Seattle, Wash, a large urban health maintenance organization, were recruited to participate in this study. (sagepub.com)
  • Group Health Cooperative members are, however, more highly educated, while incomes greater than $50,000 per year are underrepresented compared with the standard metropolitan statistical area.Clinic recruitment was based on provider interest in being involved in an intervention trial to improve health care for abused persons. (sagepub.com)
  • The authors emphasize that diagnostic errors have become even more important in light of the growing clinical and financial costs of these errors in health care. (ahrq.gov)
  • Restoring trust in VA health care. (ahrq.gov)
  • The coronavirus pandemic's wider health-care crisis. (ahrq.gov)
  • Tackling implicit bias in health care. (ahrq.gov)
  • Health care safety during the pandemic and beyond--building a system that ensures resilience. (ahrq.gov)
  • Zero harm in health care. (ahrq.gov)
  • Toward a safer health care system: the critical need to improve measurement. (ahrq.gov)
  • This amount would provide funding for this program at its fully authorized level for both primary care and substance abuse services, and would provide services to another 240,000 homeless individuals as well as providing for expansion of the program. (co.ke)
  • This amount would ensure the availability of $3 million to assist providers of primary health care and preventive health services for translation services to thousands of nonEnglish speaking patients. (co.ke)
  • 1,2 As major settings for the transmission of these infections, child care and K-12 schools in the United States need to do everything possible to promote and enable correct and consistent hand hygiene among students and staff members. (apha.org)
  • and more frequently when someone is sick (health care and food services settings require more stringent measures). (apha.org)
  • 9 Compliance with hand hygiene practices by adults working in health care facilities is estimated to only be around 50 percent. (apha.org)
  • Such work includes the promotion of given health programmes or notable advances in primary health care. (who.int)
  • The inverse care law also operates in terms of access to services. (bmj.com)
  • Those with least need of health care use the health services more, and more effectively, than do those with greatest need. (bmj.com)
  • They do not have rights of access to official sites, so their situation in respect of health and health care may be even worse than that of the traditional communities. (bmj.com)
  • Ouagadougou Declaration on Primary Health Care and Health Systems in Africa focused on strengthening health systems to address maternal health, women's health and related issues using the primary health care approach. (who.int)
  • Because orthotic and prosthetic certification programs are in a financial crisis, we would like to direct our comments to the critical role the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) plays with respect to the funding of O&P education. (co.ke)
  • The USPSTF strongly recommends that clinicians provide [the service] to eligible patients. (aafp.org)
  • Do available surveillance and monitoring approaches provide the information necessary to ensure that common priorities and shared resources are aligned with children's needs and deployed to optimize their health? (nih.gov)
  • The idea was to overwhelm government with demands for services to the point where the system would collapse and provide an opening for the socialists to take over. (americanthinker.com)
  • The stated goal of these programs was to provide comprehensive healthcare for seniors and the poor. (americanthinker.com)
  • 1 rotate through the service or when I provide consults on individual patients. (who.int)
  • The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association (AOPA) is the national membership organization representing the approximately 1,100 facilities that provide orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) patient services to the physically challenged throughout the United States. (co.ke)
  • We describe overarching categories of constructs that can be considered when designing citizen science projects expected to yield multi-level interventions, and provide an example of the citizen science approach to promoting PA. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A treatment model for information processing of intrapsychic trauma is presented to describe domain disruption within a nursing diagnosis of rape trauma syndrome and provide guidance for sensitive assessment and intervention. (medscape.com)
  • We provide very good service. (co.ke)
  • 1997). Senate hearings on breast cancer held in 1992 found a wide range of problems with mammography practices in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • These selected recommendations have not been evaluated by NIOSH, but represent published research, or consensus votes of technical committees of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) or fire service labor/management groups. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2011 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released, Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps, an extensive report which identified eight key preventive services that would help ensure women's health and well-being. (hhs.gov)
  • 21 spend their time on clinical services in the hospital. (who.int)
  • [ 10 , 11 ] Most of these infected animals were slaughtered for human consumption before any clinical signs of BSE were noted. (medscape.com)
  • Names and affiliations of Task Force on Commu- nity Preventive Services members are listed at www.thecommunity 2.7 per 100,000 people. (readkong.com)
  • The USPSTF concludes that the evidence is insufficient to recommend for or against routine screening for overweight in children and adolescents as a means to prevent adverse health outcomes. (aafp.org)
  • toward ensuring that screening becomes an effective preventive service. (hhs.gov)
  • One of the preventive services identified by the IOM and included in the guidelines is screening and counseling for "interpersonal and domestic violence. (hhs.gov)
  • Weight loss can either occur unintentionally because of malnourishment or an underlying disease, or from a conscious effort to improve an actual or perceived overweight or obese state. (wikipedia.org)
  • Weight loss in individuals who are overweight or obese can reduce health risks, [5] increase fitness, [6] and may delay the onset of diabetes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Not taking medications as prescribed or not following the recommen- dations of the attending physician or health officer for the management of TB. (cdc.gov)
  • This article reviews the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study that examined the association between multiple childhood traumas and health outcomes in adults. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study examined the association between multiple childhood trauma and health outcomes in adults (Felitti et al. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • Logistic regression was used to examine the association between adverse childhood experiences (range=0 to 7) and health outcomes controlling for significant demographic factors. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • J Epidemiol health of bar workers in Ireland: before and and current practices. (who.int)
  • In the first round of progress health-promoting practices of and independence for the elderly life reviews chaired by Dr. James Mason, secondary-level schools. (cdc.gov)
  • Unfortunately, the huge majority of African women are still unaware of their fundamental rights to health, education and life as part of the fundamental rights they gained several decades ago.2 They continue to suffer from sociocultural discrimination, harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM), gender-based violence, food taboos, forced marriages, early and unwanted pregnancies, all of which are very harmful to their health. (who.int)
  • This report presents final results of the Medicare Influenza Vaccine Demonstration conducted during 1988- 1992. (cdc.gov)
  • The Health consequences of smoking : nicotine addiction, a report of the Surgeon General. (who.int)
  • As many as 8 of these 17 Member States did not report a human case prior to 2013. (cdc.gov)
  • Member States of the United Nations agreed that women's health and their active participation in development actions were closely linked. (who.int)
  • In addition, the Regional Committee adopted a number of resolutions on women's health and their contribution to development.5 These resolutions addressed the issue of women's health throughout their life cycle as well as gender and human rights issues in order to achieve rapid and long-lasting impacts in the African Region. (who.int)
  • The present document reports on progress made and proposes actions to improve women's health in the African Region. (who.int)
  • The WHO has revised ICD-10 to produce the latest version of the ICD, ICD-11 adopted by the 72nd World Health Assembly in 2019 and came into effect on 1 January 2022. (wikipedia.org)
  • BACKGROUND: Avian influenza (AI) virus detections occurred frequently in 2022 and continue to pose a health, economic, and food security risk. (cdc.gov)
  • RESULTS: From 2013 to 2022, 52.2% (95/182) of World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Member Countries identified 34 AI virus subtypes during 21,249 outbreaks. (cdc.gov)
  • Counseling may include provision of basic information, including on how a patient's health concerns may relate to violence, and referrals for additional assistance when patients disclose abuse. (hhs.gov)
  • A thorough physical examination is necessary to evaluate the patient's overall state of health, comorbidities, nutritional status, and mental status. (medscape.com)
  • The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) named Brazil the sixth largest destination for global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows in 2019 with inflows of $72 billion, which increased 26 percent since Brazil announced its privatization plan that same year. (state.gov)
  • Ayalde served as Civilian Deputy to the Commander and Foreign Policy Advisor at the United States Southern Command in Miami. (irex.org)
  • 2011). Additionally, nearly one in ten women in the United States (9.4%) have been raped by an intimate partner in her lifetime (Black et al. (hhs.gov)
  • 10. Max W, Rice DP, Finkelstein E, Bardwell RA, Leadbetter S. The economic toll of intimate partner violence against women in the United States. (netce.com)
  • This study had the objective to conduct a systematic literature review on interventions aimed at chil- dren and their mothers exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). (bvsalud.org)
  • Yet communities vary considerably in their commitment to the collective health of children and in the resources that they make available to meet children's needs. (nih.gov)
  • But the country should not be blinded by these facts-several indicators of children's health point to the need for further improvement, children in the United States do not fare as well as their European counterparts on many aspects of health, and there are marked disparities in health among children in the United States. (nih.gov)
  • Recent improvements in children's health need to be sustained and further efforts are needed to optimize it. (nih.gov)
  • To accomplish this, the nation must have an improved understanding of the factors that affect health and effective strategies for measuring and using information on children's health. (nih.gov)
  • It then moves to a discussion of why measuring children's health is important. (nih.gov)
  • The chapter concludes with an examination of why critical differences between children and adults establish the need for children's health to be held to a standard different from that used for adults. (nih.gov)
  • West and Lowe showed that for children's services need and provision were badly matched. (bmj.com)
  • 2 Given the lack of strategic planning centred on children and the low priority given to the commissioning of children's services, this situation is unlikely to have changed. (bmj.com)
  • Prostate cancer : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, special hearing. (upenn.edu)
  • Stuart Butler is vice president for Domestic and Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. Butler, an expert on health, welfare, and Social Security policy, plans and oversees the foundation's research and publications on all domestic issues. (harvard.edu)
  • Community-based mosquito control incidence and pathogenic roles of matics/btg180 programs, adoption of personal pro- these organisms in both humans and 7. (cdc.gov)
  • The police department of Durham, North Carolina, uses AI to observe patterns and interrelations in criminal activities and to identify hotspots with a high incidence of crime, thus allowing for quicker interventions. (deloitte.com)
  • Diagnoses of melanoma that more than 1 million people will be diagnosed are anticipated in approximately 55,000 people and will as having the two most common types of skin cancer- account for 7900 deaths, more than three quarters of basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma- all skin cancer fatalities.2 and approximately 2300 deaths from both cancers In the United States, although the incidence of most combined are predicted. (readkong.com)
  • Estimates are based on Department of Environment figures for caravans on official sites. (bmj.com)
  • The number of doses of vaccine administered during the 4-year demonstration and the percentage of the Medicare population vaccinated in the intervention areas increased from 477,316 (26%) during 1989-90 (the first full year of the project) to 995,884 (51%) during 1991-92. (cdc.gov)
  • For 1991-92, the overall vaccine coverage estimate for the 10 intervention sites was 59%, compared with 46% overall vaccine coverage in the comparison sites with no enhanced vaccine delivery or promotion activities. (cdc.gov)
  • 2013. Environ Health Perspect Feb;121(2):a43 [accessed 2016 Sept. 21]. (cdc.gov)
  • Arch Environ Health, Massachusetts youth cohort. (who.int)
  • This amount would support outreach and treatment services to approximately 19,500 persons with AIDS and up to 63,000 HIV-infected persons out of the estimated 247,000 health center patients who are currently infected with the HIV virus. (co.ke)
  • She is also recognized for her contribution to increasing awareness of, and providing outreach services on, sexually transmitted infections and cancers in women, especially in rural areas of Cameroon. (who.int)
  • She was also the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Latin American and Caribbean Bureau for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), guiding high priority development assistance in Mexico, Haiti, and Central America. (irex.org)
  • It is important to measure and monitor growth over time in all children as an indicator of health and development. (aafp.org)
  • On the one hand, Taiwan consistently expresses gratitude for the aid it has received from the United States when still poor and underdeveloped, and acknowledges aid as one of the key factors in its development. (brookings.edu)
  • Water Management in Islam, N.I. Faruqui, A.K. Biswas and M.J. Bino, eds.Ottawa, Canada: United Nations University Press / International Development Research Centre (IDRC). (preventionweb.net)
  • Professor Judith Ndongo Embola Torimiro has made an extensive contribution, since 1992, to health development in Cameroon. (who.int)
  • AFR/RC54/R9: Road map for accelerating the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals relating to maternal and newborn health in Africa, 2004. (who.int)
  • The effects of Sacramento, CA, California Department of taxes and bans on passive smoking. (who.int)
  • RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California - 1992. (collegeparkchiro.com)
  • The science of tobacco and health, including disease causation. (who.int)
  • Increased or renewed reports of AI viruses, especially high pathogenicity H5N8 and H5N1 in birds and H5N1, H5N8, and H5N6 in humans globally, have established the need for a comprehensive review of current global AI virus surveillance data to assess the pandemic risk of AI viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • Continued monitoring for AI virus outbreaks in animals and human infections with AI viruses is crucial for pandemic preparedness. (cdc.gov)
  • Many Aetna plan benefit descriptions specifically exclude services and supplies for or related to treatment of obesity or for diet and weight control. (aetna.com)
  • What remains unknown is whether smokers who are recruited to cessation treatment trials during the New Year are as motivated to quit, or as likely to enroll in a research trial, adhere to a research protocol, and benefit from a cessation intervention compared to those who are recruited during other times of the year. (jmir.org)
  • the health effects and increasing use of SLT, some states have directed policies at reducing SLT use, including in- creased SLT taxes, educational campaigns, and cessation * Correspondence: [email protected] treatment [14, 15]. (deepdyve.com)
  • The results should serve to develop health policy and treatment guidelines for Cameroon. (who.int)
  • These findings shed an important light on violence pre- vention and intervention, suggesting that concomitant mother-child treatment favors the develop- ment of positive and healthy relationships between them. (bvsalud.org)
  • Adverse events and emergency department opioid prescriptions in adolescents. (ahrq.gov)
  • 7 - 14 Other groups, such as children from minority ethnic communities and adolescents, have poor access to services. (bmj.com)
  • Pneumonia and influenza (P&I) are the sixth leading cause of death in the United States (1), and persons aged greater than or equal to 65 years and persons with chronic conditions (e.g., lung or heart disease, diabetes, or cancer) are at greatest risk for P&I. During major epidemics, hospitalization rates for persons at highest risk may increase twofold to fivefold (2). (cdc.gov)
  • However, only 30% of persons aged greater than or equal to 65 years responding to CDC's National Health Interview Survey for 1989 reported having received the influenza vaccine during the previous year (3). (cdc.gov)
  • This amount would allow services to 50,000 persons in FY 1992. (co.ke)
  • 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)
  • A service of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. (nih.gov)
  • They recommend strategies to improve diagnosis , such as establishing a formal curricula for educating trainees about misdiagnosis and developing validated metrics to determine how frequently diagnostic errors occur and understand their downstream health and economic implications. (ahrq.gov)
  • The term "serious mental impairment" (SMI) is sometimes used to refer to more severe and long-lasting disorders while "mental health problems" may be used as a broader term, or to refer only to milder or more transient issues. (wikipedia.org)
  • In recent years, there has been an increased focus on issues that affect children and on improving their health. (nih.gov)
  • Families, communities, services and governments have had to cope with the recognition or discovery of a variety of new issues or problems that may impact on families and communities. (aifs.gov.au)
  • As a consequence, families have turned to governments and a range of family support services to assist them in dealing with the changing nature of society and the specific issues they may face. (aifs.gov.au)
  • It capitalises on people's innate sense of curiosity as well as desire to learn, question, contribute, and interact with others around issues and areas that impact a community's health and/or well-being. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The following recommendations address some general health and safety issues. (cdc.gov)
  • In the United States, active TB is tural issues pertinent to TB control. (cdc.gov)
  • He is one of the world's foremost experts on international telecommunications and Internet policies, having addressed the United Nations General Assembly and led more U.S. government delegations to major international telecommunication conferences than anyone else in modern history. (irex.org)
  • David served as head U.S. government negotiator for both phases of the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and co-led the U.S. delegation at the formal heads of state summits in Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005). (irex.org)
  • Gillian Martin Sorensen is on sabbatical from the United Nations, where she serves as assistant secretary general for external relations. (harvard.edu)
  • United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 18 December 1979. (who.int)
  • She was the U.S. Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil and prior to this appointment, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs in the Department of State overseeing relations with Central America, the Caribbean, and Cuba. (irex.org)
  • The smoking epidemic, a matter of worldwide concern : proceedings of the fourth World Conference on Smoking and Health, Stockholm, 1979 / edited by Lars M. Ramström. (who.int)
  • For more than 50 years before the 1965 enactment of Medicare, the American people repeatedly rejected the idea of government-mandated health insurance. (americanthinker.com)
  • In the years since Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) began, dramatic improvement in highway safety in the United States (US) has resulted. (druglibrary.net)
  • In recent years, Brazil received more than half of South America's total incoming FDI and the United States is a major foreign investor in Brazil. (state.gov)
  • In one study of 760 inner city hospital victims, 2.7% of the sexually assaulted victims were 60 years and older (Cartwright & Moore, 1989) and in a Texas study, 2.2% (n = 109) of the reported sexual assault victims involved women over 50 (Ramin, Satin, Stone, & Wendel, 1992). (medscape.com)
  • I have been working in the community health center for several years now. (co.ke)
  • For the last 10 years our funding for National Health Service Corps has gone down drastically. (co.ke)
  • The BSE epidemic peaked in 1992, 4 years after the introduction of the ban on ruminant feed. (medscape.com)
  • The USPSTF makes no recommendation for or against routine provision of [the service]. (aafp.org)
  • Psychological trauma ( mental trauma , psychotrauma , or psychiatric trauma ) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events that are outside the normal range of human experiences, such as experiencing violence , rape , or a terrorist attack . (wikipedia.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)
  • The insurgency in the Northeast by the militant terrorist groups Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West Africa (ISIS-WA) continued. (state.gov)
  • Our future is in some ways that of Israel or of European states who know that the opportunity for terrorist attacks is always with you and that you need to minimize the risk. (uscatholic.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)
  • The Borno State government provided financial and in-kind resources to the CJTF, a nongovernmental self-defense militia that coordinated and at times aligned with the military to prevent attacks against civilian populations by Boko Haram and ISIS-WA. (state.gov)
  • Many Aetna benefit plans specifically exclude coverage of weight reduction medications under the pharmacy benefit and/or under the health benefits plan. (aetna.com)
  • Some recent studies found a reduction in health effects when the dose was delivered at lower dose rates, indicating a potential application to future protection guidelines and regulations. (cdc.gov)
  • 10-15 One intervention with scheduled opportunities for cleaning hands throughout the school day produced as much as a 50 percent reduction in absences. (apha.org)