• The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • In December 1990, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Minority Health Professions Foundation responded to the growing concern of African- American and other minority communities about violence among youth by convening a conference entitled Forum on Youth Holence in Minority Communities: Setting the Agenda for Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Take all feasible precautions to avoid and minimize civilian harm, with an aim to vacate urban centers, including civilian houses. (state.gov)
  • The three chosen regions of the state included 11 county agencies with both urban and rural population centers. (umich.edu)
  • The Ministry of Health adopted the 1978 International Congress on Primary Health Care recommendations that family planning be combined with maternal and child health services and undertaken in cooperation with state hospitals, maternity hospitals, health centers, and clinics in both urban and rural areas. (photius.com)
  • Critical access hospital" is a designation given by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that provides preferential reimbursement to small hospitals in rural areas in order to maintain essential services. (carolinapublicpress.org)
  • In addition, patients at this safety-net hospital had a threefold higher rate of late-stage breast cancer at presentation compared with women accessing other Commission on Cancer-accredited centers across the country. (ascopost.com)
  • The donated medicine will be distributed by Food For The Poor to hospitals and clinics in cities throughout the Dominican Republic. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • Those hospitals and clinics are sites where the most vulnerable are able to receive free or low-cost health services and medicine to treat or control chronic illnesses. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • 8 Primary healthcare provided at public clinics in the Cape Town Metropole has been based on IMCI principles since 2000. (sajch.org.za)
  • The IHS provides health care services through a network of reservation-based hospitals and clinics. (aaanativearts.com)
  • Our clinics and essential breast cancer surgeries never stopped during the pandemic, but we are concerned that the 'stay-at-home' orders, public service announcements, and notices of limitations on health-care services may have disenfranchised these women from accessing breast cancer care at our safety-net hospital," Dr. Kapp commented. (ascopost.com)
  • There were credible reports the government directed the Ministry of Health to deprive protesters of medical attention and instructed public hospitals and clinics under the control of the Social Security Institute not to provide medical care to wounded protesters. (state.gov)
  • A network of hospitals, clinics, and health stations that are managed by IHS, Tribes or Tribal organizations, and urban Indian health programs provide IHS-funded services. (kff.org)
  • Children, older adults, persons with asthma, and immunocompromised persons are most vulnerable to air quality impacts. (nih.gov)
  • We were concerned that the public restrictions of the pandemic might further discourage our already vulnerable safety-net population. (ascopost.com)
  • Findings of the study showed that the pandemic further exacerbated health disparities in this vulnerable population. (ascopost.com)
  • The vulnerable populations have the most emphasis from the position of the community-based programs around the world. (exclusivepapers.com)
  • Data available from a large scale community-based study examining maternal and infant health for a low income urban population were used to examine relationships between SSS and a wide range of postpartum physical and emotional health outcomes. (nyu.edu)
  • The health priorities were changing from steadily declining maternal and child mortality towards the growing burden of non-communicable and infectious diseases. (mid-day.com)
  • Kate has published research papers in scientific journals in the fields of cardiovascular disease prevention, behaviour change and maternal and child health. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • The Ethiopian government introduced YFS program in the country's public health system in 2005. (biomedcentral.com)
  • But simple density has not adequately predicted the disease's course in the U.S., where the new coronavirus has spread well beyond urban areas to ravage rural communities and suburbs during the country's long summer. (scientificamerican.com)
  • During the 1950s, however, members of the political elite gradually became concerned that the country's relatively high population growth rate of nearly 3 percent was hurting economic development. (photius.com)
  • In the Dominican Republic, over two-thirds of the country's population lives in urban areas, where major health problems include heart disease. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • The most serious human rights problems included widespread corruption and inefficiency in the country's law enforcement and judicial system, leading to arbitrary arrest or detention, denial of a fair and timely public trial, and harsh prison conditions. (state.gov)
  • Additionally, firearm-related suicides increased to their highest ever recorded level in 2022, and firearms remain the leading cause of death for children and youth ages 1-19. (nih.gov)
  • For example, in 2022, firearm suicide rates among Black youth (ages 10-19) surpassed that of White youth for the first time. (nih.gov)
  • The Canadian Medical Association Journal published a peer-reviewed study Monday that looked at emergency department (ED) visit and hospital admission rates for self-harm in youth 10 to 17 years old between Jan. 1, 2017, and June 30, 2022, which includes the first 28 months of the pandemic. (ctvnews.ca)
  • During a press briefing at the American Society of Breast Surgeons 2022 Annual Meeting, authors of the study emphasized the need to minimize disruption to safety-net hospitals during future shutdowns or public health crises. (ascopost.com)
  • Public Health 2022, 19, 1522. (ukm.my)
  • These methods are based on explicit mathematical models of the heterogeneous patterns of interpersonal contacts that underlie disease transmission in a community, be it a hospital, school, or city ( 12 - 21 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Methods: Daily hospital admissions were extracted from two government hospitals in Chennai, India, and meteorological data were retrieved from the Chennai International Airport. (nih.gov)
  • While the increase in the use of modern contraceptive methods is heartening, an increase in female sterilisation coupled with continued stagnation in male sterilisation uptake shows that the onus of family planning still lies with women," the Population Foundation of India, a nongovernmental organisation, said in a statement. (thehindu.com)
  • Methods Written questionnaires on the symptom prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema and types and frequency of food intake over the past 12 months were completed by 13-14-year-old adolescents and by the parents/guardians of 6-7-year-old children. (bmj.com)
  • Methods We conducted six in-depth interviews of health care providers- four with nurses and two with obstetricians in the public hospitals in India's major city (Bengaluru). (researchsquare.com)
  • In addition to these new threats, public health officials face a large number of disease outbreaks every year in hospitals, schools, and other small communities. (cdc.gov)
  • This collaborative community-driven study is motivated by the concern of the Cincinnati school community including administrators, teachers, public health officials and nurses, parents, and others childhood exposure to traffic-related particles at schools. (nih.gov)
  • As our city and our country grapple with other pressing public health concerns with COVID-19, it's inspiring to see our community coming together to create new ways to address chronic disease in their own neighborhoods," said Wendy Nickel , MPH, President, Health Care Improvement Foundation of Philadelphia , convening partner of Cities Changing Diabetes -Philadelphia and member organization on the program's Advisory Board. (biospace.com)
  • While major components of this National Health Policy have successfully served 1.4 billion of Indian population, especially during the Covid 19 pandemic, weak spots such as the PPP model have remained unsuccessful over the last seven years. (mid-day.com)
  • The rate of hospital visits for self-harm was greater than expected for Ontario youth during the first two and a half years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study has found. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The government's mismanagement of the second COVID-19 wave exposed the flaws of urban planning, which has always ignored workers. (newsclick.in)
  • In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, some U.S. leaders and pundits pointed to hard-hit cities such as New York, Milan and Wuhan as proof that population density was to blame for coronavirus hotspots. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Even in hard-hit New York City, Manhattan has maintained the lowest COVID-19 rates among the city's five boroughs, despite having the highest population density. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Furthermore, there has been considerable public discussion and media attention around safety within schools about COVID-19. (frontiersin.org)
  • At the same time, public hospitals, overwhelmed with COVID patients, are understaffed and face shortages of PPE. (cpusa.org)
  • Findings of a cohort study, which compared breast cancer care before and after COVID-19 restrictions at an urban safety-net hospital, showed that local restrictions negatively affected breast cancer stage at presentation, time to treatment, and time to surgery, increasing the vulnerability of an already high-risk population. (ascopost.com)
  • As Dr. Kapp reported, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, women accessing this safety-net hospital had breast cancer screening rates well below the national average: 42% of patients older than 50 received screenings, whereas the national rate is 75% in this age group. (ascopost.com)
  • The concentration of BTEX in selected urban areas of Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. (ukm.my)
  • The total fertility rate of a In January 2002 the government drafted nation is directly related to the prevalence a national population policy. (who.int)
  • Substantial changes in disease burden, prevalence of comorbid conditions, or other factors that may affect the etiology of pneumonia have occurred since the last systematic set of etiology studies in children were undertaken. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions If the association between fast foods and the symptom prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema is causal, then the findings have major public health significance owing to the rising consumption of fast foods globally. (bmj.com)
  • We demonstrated that the prevalence of GDM in public hospitals according to current screening practices was merely 4.3%, compared to a prevalence of 15.4% when universal screening was undertaken(10). (researchsquare.com)
  • The National Institutes of Health (NIH) supports scientific research to develop, evaluate, and implement effective public health interventions to better understand and prevent violence, including firearm violence, and the resulting trauma, injuries, and mortality. (nih.gov)
  • This is critical work as Black men in both of these communities experience significant health disparities, bearing the largest burden of firearm injury and mortality, despite their proportionally smaller population numbers. (nih.gov)
  • These findings showed that the majority of fatal pneumonia cases in children is due to 2 bacteria- Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)-and that these deaths occurred primarily in communities with high levels of child mortality, typically impoverished settings that lack access to basic healthcare such as antibiotics and oxygen therapy [ 1 , 2 ]. (cdc.gov)
  • Population-level health outcomes in the United States, including life expectancy and infant mortality rates, lag behind those of other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, despite spending the greatest percentage of its gross domestic product on health care ( 1 - 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Diarrhoea remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children, especially in developing countries. (sajch.org.za)
  • 5 Despite initial success and reduction in mortality rates, there has been stagnation in progress rowards optimal management of diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income countries, with many children not receiving ORT, increased fluids or ongoing nutrition during episodes of acute diarrhoea. (sajch.org.za)
  • The inadequacy of health care outside the cities is reflected in the growing disparity in mortality rates for infants (50% higher in rural areas) and children under-5 (60% higher in rural areas). (socialwatch.org)
  • Cities Changing Diabetes is a global program sponsored by Novo Nordisk , a global healthcare company, that brings together the private and public sectors to find new ways to change the trajectory of diabetes, including reducing obesity which is considered the biggest modifiable risk factor of diabetes, in their neighborhoods and communities. (biospace.com)
  • The winning programs were selected by a coalition of local public health, healthcare, faith, academic and community leaders. (biospace.com)
  • In 2005, M/s Seven Hills Healthcare (Pvt) Ltd entered into a public private partnership (PPP) contract with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to set up a 1500 bed hospital in Marol, of which 20 per cent beds were to be reserved for patients from economically weaker backgrounds. (mid-day.com)
  • Twelve years later, the hospital and the BMC were at loggerheads, and the civic body terminated the contract, compelling the healthcare service provider to move court. (mid-day.com)
  • The state of the healthcare infrastructure is abysmal with only 5,190 urban primary health centres (PHCs), as per a ministry of health and family welfare report published in 2019. (newsclick.in)
  • The healthcare facilities have to be upgraded with more doctors, labs, pharmacists, medicines and staff to bridge the gap between public health and the working class. (newsclick.in)
  • She has worked in a number of NHS organisations e.g. in research commissioning with the NIHR HS&DR programme, in NHS commissioning as a Public Health consultant at regional level (where she was jointly responsible for the healthcare of over 2,000,000 people as deputy to the regional director of public health). (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Given the disparities in mental healthcare between rural and urban areas, further enhancement of the MMHUs' operation is required, as well as continuing training of their workforce. (nih.gov)
  • Prior to his position at ACLA, he was Vice President and Medical Director of American Healthcare System (AmHS), at that time the largest coalition of not-for-profit multi-hospital systems in the country. (nationalacademies.org)
  • For youth who were new to mental health care, defined as having no previous acute or outpatient claims within two years, ED rates were higher than expected at 0.05 per 1,000 compared to 0.04 per 1,000. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Rural hospitals also have been more affected than urban ones by advances in medicine that allow for more procedures to be performed as outpatient services. (carolinapublicpress.org)
  • [ 4 ] The study was approved by the Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, and King County Public Health and Washington State Institutional Review Boards. (medscape.com)
  • 6 Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. (nih.gov)
  • Overwhelming evidence shows that virtual schooling has led to devastating learning losses (concentrated among the most disadvantaged student populations), which will have profound impact on children's lifetime earnings and future health. (city-journal.org)
  • Inappropriate complementary feeding is one of the leading causes of malnutrition among children 6-23 months old and delays children's growth milestone. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, some credit goes to Mayor De Blasio who, despite Governor Cuomo's resistance, successfully instituted public pre-K programs - enriching those children's education while saving parents millions in costs for privately run childcare. (cpusa.org)
  • Children's exposure to PM2.5 and its chemical constituents in indoor and outdoor schools urban environment. (ukm.my)
  • Traffic-related particles have been shown to exacerbate existing asthma in school-age children. (nih.gov)
  • This initiative is an expansion of the pilot program Eat to Live and will provide more underserved populations with personalized non-medical interventions, including peer support, monthly produce baskets, nutrition education, and cooking demonstrations to support healthier eating and address high rates of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. (biospace.com)
  • Both Dr. Zaller and Dr. McKay's teams at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, respectively, will be developing, implementing and evaluating multi-level hospital, community-based interventions designed to decrease repeat victimization and promote health equity among Black firearm injured individuals in their communities. (nih.gov)
  • Simultaneous interventions in multiple areas, both within and outside the health care system, have the greatest sustained improvements in community and population health ( http://www.cdc.gov/chinav/docs/chi_nav_infographic.pdf pdf icon ). (cdc.gov)
  • Although the burden of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus is high in India, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus screening and management is suboptimal in public hospitals. (researchsquare.com)
  • Recognizing that adolescents face barriers in accessing services, may feel embarrassed, face stigma on sexual matters, or have concerns about judgmental providers, youth-friendly service (YFS) has been introduced to deliver health services that meet the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of young people. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 20% of married women in Sudan reported adolescents is a key to reducing the rates of not wanting another child, contraceptive use unintended pregnancy in this group of the is still low [8]. (who.int)
  • Self-harm among children and adolescents is a serious public health concern. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Bhuiyan, M.U., Zaman, S. and Ahmed, T. (2013) Risk Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity among Urban School Children and Adolescents in Bangladesh: A Case-Control Study. (scirp.org)
  • 1,655 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards, while 36 dunams were classified as built-up, urban areas. (wikipedia.org)
  • King County comprises urban, suburban, and rural areas and is served by two-tiered emergency medical service (EMS) systems that generally followed the American Heart Association Guidelines for resuscitation throughout the years of the study. (medscape.com)
  • Traditionally, public facility access characteristics, such as accessibility, equity issues and service areas, are investigated mainly based on static data (census data, travel surveys and particular records, such as medical records). (mdpi.com)
  • Intuitively, spatial interaction characteristics and service areas of different types and sizes of public facilities are different, but how different remains an open question, so we, in turn, examine this question. (mdpi.com)
  • Therefore, this study explore whether the socio-cultural norms influencing adolescent SRH behaviour vary between youth friendly service program and non Program areas in West Gojjam Zone, North West Ethiopia. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The focus of this announcement is for medium or large urban areas with populations of at least 100,000 people. (nih.gov)
  • Unintended pregnancies have signifi- greatly, especially between urban and rural cant consequences and occur most frequent- areas. (who.int)
  • Commit to safeguard the needs and necessities indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, which can include foodstuffs, agricultural areas, crops, and livestock. (state.gov)
  • Girls made up almost 49 per cent of the population studied and 90 per cent of those studied lived in urban areas. (ctvnews.ca)
  • For example, under Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)-which provides supplementary nutrition, immunisation, nutrition and education for children up to six years-for every 100 Anganwadi beneficiaries in the country, only seven are in urban areas despite 32% of the population, according to the 2011 Census, staying in cities. (newsclick.in)
  • The paucity of Anganwadi centres in urban areas means that the existing ones are heavily burdened. (newsclick.in)
  • Buses and other forms of mass transit can also get crowded, even in smaller urban areas. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Concern about the continuing high birth rate prompted the Ministry of Health in 1986 to launch a new population control campaign that concentrated on rural areas, where the fertility rate was highest. (photius.com)
  • Stray bullets travel up to a mile or more in densely populated areas, including through the walls of hospitals and primary school. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • More and more are flocking to private health services --58% of the rural population and 62% in urban areas by 2004. (socialwatch.org)
  • the ST have 12 times less access in rural areas and 27 times less in urban areas. (socialwatch.org)
  • An even bigger reversal would be to cuts made to the Disproportionate Share Hospital program, money paid to hospitals in areas with higher rates of poor and uninsured, as is often the case in rural areas. (carolinapublicpress.org)
  • Urban Indian health programs serve a wider group of AIANs, including those who are not able to access IHS- or Tribally-operated facilities because they do not meet eligibility criteria or reside outside the service areas. (kff.org)
  • Chemical Characterization and Source Apportionment of PM 2.5 near Semi-Urban Residential-Industrial Areas. (ukm.my)
  • We can make our world a safer place for our children, our elderly, and ourselves, making it easier for each member of our society to achieve her or his full potential. (cdc.gov)
  • By far, diabetes as a risk factor for stroke is more important in the elderly population. (nih.gov)
  • Non-health care partners might include public health, businesses, the local government, community members, and community-based organizations. (cdc.gov)
  • In order to address the community's concerns and the lack of quantitative data, a new partnership has been formed between environmental health researchers at the University of Cincinnati and community-based organizations including the Cincinnati Public Schools and the Cincinnati Health Department. (nih.gov)
  • The NFHS-4 was released in 2014-15 and the latest, which captured population health indicators in 2017-19, was delayed due to the pandemic. (thehindu.com)
  • For example, most of the evidence on which current empiric treatment algorithms for pneumonia in developing countries are based was collected before the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic and in the absence of antiretroviral treatment of HIV-infected children, before recent substantial successes in malaria control, and before the widespread deployment of Hib and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. (cdc.gov)
  • The researchers say their study may be a reflection of how pandemic stress, including feelings of social isolation and inadequate access to health care, affected youth at a key point in their development. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Youth who used the emergency department as a first point of contact for mental health care during the pandemic, particularly for self-harm, are another group with a distinct profile of mental health needs. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Although ED visits and hospital admissions were lower in youth 10 to 13 years old than those 14 to 17, the relative increase in rates during the pandemic was higher in the former, with girls in that age group seeing the largest increase. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The lakhs of deaths during the second wave of the pandemic due to the lack of medical oxygen, hospital beds, essential medicines and timely medical exposed the government's mismanagement of the crisis. (newsclick.in)
  • Given that our population already had a history of presenting with threefold higher rates of late-stage cancer before the pandemic, the increased risk and implications for care and outcomes are enormous. (ascopost.com)
  • Major settings of exposure include workplaces, public places, and homes. (cancer.gov)
  • It should change how public officials weigh the tradeoffs involved with various mitigation strategies. (city-journal.org)
  • Additional human rights problems included abuse by police and military officials, lack of government transparency, violence against women, trafficking in persons, vigilante justice, poor labor conditions, and child labor. (state.gov)
  • 9 Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, and. (nih.gov)
  • NIEHS is committed to conducting the most rigorous research in environmental health sciences, and to communicating the results of this research to the public. (nih.gov)
  • Professor Aileen Clarke is Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research at the University of Warwick and is Acting Director of the Division of Health Sciences at Warwick Medical School. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Professor Kate Jolly is a Professor of Public Health and primary care, Deputy Head of the School of Health and Population Sciences and Head of the Department of Public Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • We reviewed hospital records to verify survival to hospital discharge, determine preexisting comorbidities, and assess functional status. (medscape.com)
  • Survival time was calculated from the date of hospital discharge until the date of death or until December 31, 2009 when the database was last searched. (medscape.com)
  • [ 2 ] the PCPC score was chosen as a global indicator of functional outcome, and having an initial shockable arrest rhythm has been shown to predict long-term survival in adult populations. (medscape.com)
  • This initiative is a nutrition education/cooking series to help address obesity, diabetes and other chronic health conditions in a recently incarcerated population. (biospace.com)
  • 10 Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (nih.gov)
  • The NHANES National Youth Fitness Survey (NNYFS) was developed as a model of comprehensive, youth-targeted fitness and nutrition data collection. (cdc.gov)
  • [2] Despite ample resources, the Integrated Child Development Services established to provide comprehensive care to the poor and improve the nutrition of women and children has failed to close the gap. (socialwatch.org)
  • Public Health Nutrition, 16, 573-581. (scirp.org)
  • The researchers measured the rate of ED visits at 0.27 per 1,000 people, greater than the expected rate of 0.21 per 1,000, while for hospital admissions it was 0.74 per 10,000 compared to 0.43 per 10,000. (ctvnews.ca)
  • But despite concerted government efforts to encourage smaller families, Turkey's birth rate between 1965 and 1994 declined at a relatively slow pace, falling only from thirty-three to twenty-eight births per 1,000 population. (photius.com)
  • Together these regions represented 28% of the state's CHINS (Child In Need of Service) population and 20% of the child fatalities for 2004. (umich.edu)
  • Private businesses established the Turkish Family Health and Planning Foundation, which has supplemented the state's population control efforts since 1986 through its financial support for special training programs and nationwide television advertisements. (photius.com)
  • Objectives: We evaluated the association between extreme precipitation and gastrointestinal (GI) illness-related hospital admissions in Chennai, India, from 2004 to 2007. (nih.gov)
  • Conclusions: Hospital admissions related to GI illness were positively associated with extreme precipitation in Chennai, India, with positive cumulative risk ratios for a 15-day period following an extreme event in all age groups. (nih.gov)
  • These findings bust the population-explosion myth and show that India must steer away from coercive measures of population control. (thehindu.com)
  • To qualify, CAHs must have no more than 25 acute-care inpatient beds, be located no closer than 35 miles from another hospital (with some exceptions) and provide around-the-clock emergency care services. (carolinapublicpress.org)
  • Secondhand smoke exposure has been causally linked to lung cancer, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, and other serious illness in adult nonsmokers, infants, and children. (cancer.gov)
  • Only one in six children worldwide and one in ten in Eastern and South Africa are eating a minimum acceptable diet [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Implementation of World Health Organization Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guidelines and pre-hospital use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) in the Western Cape Province of South Africa are not well described. (sajch.org.za)
  • We evaluated the association between extreme precipitation (≥ 90th percentile) and hospital admissions using generalized additive models. (nih.gov)
  • Results: Extreme precipitation was consistently associated with GI-related hospital admissions. (nih.gov)
  • Hospital admissions also were greater at 0.15 per 10,000 compared to 0.07 per 10,000. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The care of those patients seems to contribute to a significant reduction in voluntary and involuntary acute admissions and in length of hospital stay. (nih.gov)
  • By rigorously updating and expanding our understanding of pneumonia pathogens, we expect that PERCH will directly lead to improved prevention strategies and therapies for one of the leading causes of child death and a major cause of serious illness and hospitalizations in children around the globe. (cdc.gov)
  • These findings support the need for accessible and intensive prevention efforts and mental health supports in this population,' the study says. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Ongoing strategies are needed to ensure optimal prevention policies, pre-hospital management and nutritional rehabilitation. (sajch.org.za)
  • Some compartmental models have been modified to include population heterogeneity and have provided insights into the long-term effects of intervention strategies ( 8 - 11 ). (cdc.gov)
  • With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the requirements for hospitals to achieve tax-exempt status include performing a triennial community health needs assessment and developing a plan to address identified needs. (cdc.gov)
  • The village's adult male population was killed by New Zealand forces in the aftermath of the Sinai and Palestine campaign, in an illegal retribution for the killing of a New Zealand soldier. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30. (hpoe.org)
  • It took 10 years of political tension to establish Australia's universal public health insurance program, known as Medicare. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Medicare provides free public hospital care and substantial coverage for physician services and pharmaceuticals for Australian citizens, residents with permanent visas, and New Zealand citizens following their enrollment in the program and confirmation of identity. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Under sequestration, the Medicare payments hospitals receive were cut by 2 percent - a significant reduction for hospitals already operating on tight margins. (carolinapublicpress.org)
  • The bill would eliminate payment conditions placed on critical access hospitals that require doctors to certify that a Medicare patient will be discharged or transferred to another hospital within 96 hours. (carolinapublicpress.org)
  • If a hospital can meet these requirements, it can receive the CAH designation and receive "cost-based" Medicare reimbursement, rather then a standard rate. (carolinapublicpress.org)
  • Fees to city colleges and universities, at one time free, are now unaffordable for working-class youth. (cpusa.org)
  • Patients less than 19 years old who experienced an OHCA and survived to hospital discharge were eligible for this investigation. (medscape.com)
  • For profit organizations are not eligible under section 317 (k) (1) [42 U.S.C. 247b (k) (1)] of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. (nih.gov)
  • To be eligible for tax-exempt status, also known as 501(c)(3) status, hospitals must meet requirements established by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). (cdc.gov)
  • With 75 percent of the U.S. population at least partially vaccinated-and many of the rest young people at low risk of hospitalization or adults with some protection acquired from natural infections-it is implausible that schools will tip the balance. (city-journal.org)
  • Even if one believes that keeping schools open will modestly accelerate the rate of infection, a claim for which there is little compelling evidence, it no longer makes sense to prioritize hospitals over schools. (city-journal.org)
  • Learning effects aside, schools serve other essential functions, including regular meals for low-income children, protection from the exploding violence on urban streets, and a place to report parental abuse and neglect. (city-journal.org)
  • The community professionals surveyed included: Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs), foster parents, judges, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), medical and public health professionals, schools, social service professionals, and mental health professionals. (umich.edu)
  • and specialized high schools are unrepresentative of the city's population. (cpusa.org)
  • But in Waco's single professional-development school, Baylor students found themselves teaching a mostly middle-class population, unlike the children in a lot of schools in this city halfway between Dallas and Austin. (edweek.org)
  • So it was a good location for the Washington-based National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education to test whether professional-development schools, modeled after teaching hospitals, can be scaled up so that all of a college's teaching candidates-not just a select few-can train in an urban setting. (edweek.org)
  • With a $150,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations in Jacksonville, Fla., NCATE began working last year with the Waco district and two other urban university-district partnerships: the University of Colorado at Denver and the Denver public schools, and the University of North Florida and the Duval County district, which includes Jacksonville. (edweek.org)
  • Schools were closed and public gatherings banned, but businesses, including restaurants, have been allowed to stay open, albeit with strict protocols in place on distancing between people. (thediplomat.com)
  • Dr. Johansen is a Senior Adviser in the Department of International Public Health at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. (nih.gov)
  • The study of Indiana's Child Welfare reform was designed to identify community professionals' perceptions of the Department of Child Services (DCS) following the release of a pilot program to reform child welfare in the state of Indiana. (umich.edu)
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of key community professionals in the three pilot regions to determine whether they perceive changes in the practices of DCS staff and, if they do, how this has affected their relationships and interactions with the Department of Child Services (DCS). (umich.edu)
  • The selection of these specific community groups was based on Department of Child Services (DCS) reporting statistics. (umich.edu)
  • The Archives and Special Collections Archives department of the University of California, San Francisco UCSF Library, seeks a support from the NNLM to digitize approximately 43,000-45,000 pages from 15 archival collections related to the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area and make them widely accessible to the public on the Internet. (nnlm.gov)
  • But the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), NYCHA's landlord, has been disinvesting for decades. (cpusa.org)
  • Many Federal agencies other than the Indian Affairs have special programs to serve the American Indian population, i.e., the Indian Health Service (IHS) , an adjunct of the Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). (aaanativearts.com)
  • Perinatal exposure to hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major public health issue, and poor testing rates leave many children with infection unidentified. (nih.gov)
  • Children were included in the study if they had perinatal HCV exposure, were 18 months to 18 years of age and had at least 1 encounter in a primary or urgent care clinic during the study period. (nih.gov)
  • Children with HIV infection are at increased risk of diarrhoeal disease and malnutrition, and HIV exposure appears to increase the risk of early presentation with diarrhoea. (sajch.org.za)
  • Public Health Management Corporation 2013) 2 , exposure to abuse, neglect, family mental illness, discrimination, parental incarceration, violence and other adverse experiences increase an individual's lifelong potential for serious health problems and engaging in health-risk behaviors. (lifespan.org)
  • Adolescent males may use coping mechanisms with less potential for a hospital visit, such as avoidance or distraction with video games, or reward-seeking behaviour with gambling. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Contact network epidemiology can provide valuable quantitative input to public health decisionmaking, even before a pathogen is well characterized. (cdc.gov)
  • Following the inception of the program, the National Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health Strategy (AYRHS 2006-2015) was developed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 4 Mobile Mental Health Unit of Chios, Child and Adolescent Center, Chios, Greece. (nih.gov)
  • Firearms deaths constitute an urgent and significant public health crisis. (nih.gov)
  • Emerging information about ambulatory care suggests that the patient safety crisis in hospitals is only the "tip of the iceberg. (nih.gov)
  • The whole approach to urban planning and crisis management is flawed. (newsclick.in)
  • Information was collected regarding the Utstein characteristics, preexisting comorbidities, and functional status at hospital discharge. (medscape.com)
  • Currently, the advent of big data offers an unprecedented opportunity to obtain large-scale human mobility data, which can be used to study the characteristics of public facilities from the spatial interaction perspective. (mdpi.com)
  • Conventional SES measures based on 'objective' indicators such as income, education, or occupation may have questionable validity in certain populations. (nyu.edu)
  • Following the military coup of May 1960, population planning became a major government objective. (photius.com)
  • 5-9 years before the survey, and 4.9 births the fertility rate is estimated at 4.6 children per woman 0-4 years before the survey [7]. (who.int)
  • We say this not to minimize the work of health professionals over the past two years but to recognize that society cannot function with hospitals alone. (city-journal.org)
  • We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all persons less than 19 years old who had an OHCA, were successfully resuscitated, and were discharged alive from a hospital in greater King County, WA, between January 1, 1976, and December 31, 2007. (medscape.com)
  • Treatment of lakhs across 16 state-run hospitals was delayed when over 60,000 medical staff were forced to manually enter clinical data, after a Bengaluru firm removed staff and services over non-payment of dues amounting to around R100 crore. (mid-day.com)
  • The public housing program administered by New York City's Housing Authority (NYCHA), the largest in our nation, provides affordable housing for 400,000 low-income families. (cpusa.org)
  • Commit to vacate and refrain from occupying, as well as to respect and protect all public and private facilities, such as hospitals and water and electricity installations, and refrain from using them for military purposes. (state.gov)
  • When PHCs are not accessible or functional, local dispensaries or private hospitals, which charge exorbitant fees, are the only options left. (newsclick.in)
  • The new Parliament passed the health care legislation in 1974, establishing free public hospital care and subsidized private care. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Degree courses in medicine, which have a minimum duration of at least six years, can be taken at public and private medical universities. (uemo.eu)
  • HIV-exposed children were significantly younger than unexposed children ( p =0.03). (sajch.org.za)
  • Some pertain to demographics: Rural populations are, generally speaking, dwindling and aging, and the younger people who stay around are more apt to opt to drive to urban hospitals. (carolinapublicpress.org)
  • Medicaid provides coverage to more than one in four (27%) nonelderly AIAN adults and half of AIAN children. (kff.org)
  • School closures will almost surely make these shortages worse because millions of health-care workers have school-aged children of their own. (city-journal.org)
  • It's not just that forced population growth leads to clogged infrastructure, cultural disruption and environmental deterioration, it also comes with financial stress. (smh.com.au)
  • Services provided by public facilities are essential to people's lives and are closely associated with human mobility. (mdpi.com)
  • We doubt, for example, that society would agree to shut down police departments, fire houses, water systems, or other essential public services on the hope that doing so might modestly ease the strain at hospitals. (city-journal.org)
  • The authors say ED visit and hospital admission rates were higher than expected in children aged 10 to 13 and 14 to 17, as well as those who were new to mental health care or had received services within two years. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The Canada Health Act of 1984 replaces and consolidates the two previous acts and sets national standards for medically necessary hospital, diagnostic, and physician services. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • A large portion of this population has limited access to health care services. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • The State faces a major challenge in formulating and implementing public policies that promote the accessibility, affordability and availability (the three A's) of basic social services to tens of millions of citizens still living below the poverty line (28% of the total population). (socialwatch.org)
  • NNLM Member organizations provide health professionals and the general public with health information resources and services. (nnlm.gov)
  • The American Hospital Association argues that, "While CAHs typically maintain an annual average of 96 hours per patient, they offer some medical services that have standard lengths of stay greater than 96 hours. (carolinapublicpress.org)
  • With the urgent need for these services, it needs to be extended to public hospitals. (researchsquare.com)
  • Introduction increase the risk of death or serious complications for people who require insulin to control their diabetes, for The aftermaths of recent natural disasters have high- heart attack survivors who take daily clot-preventing lighted the catastrophic social, economic, and public medications, for people with severe chronic lung disease health impact that these events can have. (cdc.gov)
  • The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) project is a 7-country, standardized, comprehensive evaluation of the etiologic agents causing severe pneumonia in children from developing countries. (cdc.gov)
  • The Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS) is an NCI-sponsored survey of tobacco use that has been administered as part of the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey approximately every three to four years since 1992-93. (cancer.gov)
  • For almost forty years after the establishment of the republic in 1923, the government of Turkey encouraged population growth. (photius.com)
  • It is the second most common cause of death in children under 5 years of age and is responsible for 1.4 million deaths each year. (sajch.org.za)
  • For the past 10 years Australians have been subjected to exceptional rates of population growth. (smh.com.au)
  • El-kholy, T.A., Hassanen, N.H.M. and Hassan, R.M. (2012) Demographic, Socio-Economic Factors and Physical Activity Affecting the Nutritional Status of Young Children under Five Years. (scirp.org)
  • In order to work as a general practitioner, the medical training regulations currently prescribe 42 months (3 ½ years) of training, structured in 36 months of hospital training and 6 months of training in a GP practice or a group practice recognized by the Austrian Medical Chamber. (uemo.eu)
  • This initiative will train youth ages 13 to 18 to become community advocates for policy and environmental change solutions to prevent obesity, diabetes, and pre-diabetes, through partnerships and new media platforms. (biospace.com)
  • Abstract health impact is determined by the underlying vulner- abilities of the affected population, including people with Having information about preexisting chronic diseases chronic diseases, pregnant women, and children, and by and available public health assets is critical to ensuring an the extent of damage to the local public health infrastruc- adequate public health response to natural disasters and ture. (cdc.gov)
  • ABSTRACT: Using a representative sample of public facilities surveyed in 1993 and 1997, we took advantage of exogenous changes imposed on the Indonesian health system to evaluate the contribution of physicians, nurses, and midwives to the quality of primary care. (who.int)
  • The proportion of women population [5]. (who.int)
  • Maine also has a significant larger proportion of its population without health insurance than the national average. (cdc.gov)
  • This expansion also allowed the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) to join the network as a participating NIH institute, along with the ongoing participation of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). (nih.gov)
  • Dr. Pamela Y. Collins is the Associate Director for Special Populations, Director of the Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health, and Director of the Office of Rural Mental Health Research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). (nih.gov)
  • It was reasonable for SBS to focus on immigration because this accounts for the major part of the current population boom - around 58 per cent. (smh.com.au)
  • Most specialized care is administered only in IHS facilities near a major urban population, and reservation residents may have to travel hundreds of miles to get the care they need. (aaanativearts.com)
  • We estimated the impact of the policy on changes in staffing independent of socioeconomic conditions, resource alloca- tion criteria, population health status, and other factors. (who.int)
  • Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor, speaks of the importance of this donation: "Food For The Poor's mission is to improve the health, economic, social and spiritual conditions of men, women and children in Latin America and the Caribbean. (foodforthepoor.org)
  • They know that conditions are getting worse but they don't fully understand the key role played by population growth. (smh.com.au)
  • 1 From the Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. (nih.gov)
  • Dr. Wu and her team at Eastern Michigan University in Yspsilanti, will be working with Asian Americans in a number of communities across the state as an increasingly at-risk population given a rise in racism targeting this group and the corresponding increase in firearm ownership. (nih.gov)
  • Dr. Collins obtained her MD from Cornell University Medical College and her MPH from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH). (nih.gov)
  • She has worked in the field of circumpolar health since 2007 at the Center for Health Research in Greenland at the National Institute of Public Health (University of Southern Denmark). (nih.gov)
  • Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Haas School of Business and the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and is the director of the Graduate Program in Health Management. (who.int)
  • Sometimes crowding occurs when people gather for events such as concerts or parties, notes Ann Forsyth, an urban planner at Harvard University. (scientificamerican.com)
  • She has honorary contracts and excellent relationships with local authorities including Coventry and Warwickshire and with the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • He has an honorary doctorate in public administration from Central Michigan University and is a member of the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Public Health. (nationalacademies.org)