• It wasn't until the Foreign Service Act of 1946 that Congress mandated advanced training for diplomats. (allgov.com)
  • Rather, it reflects a gradual accumulation of factors: innovations in health care finance and organization, conflicting political and social principles, coincidences of timing, market dynamics, programs stimulated by the findings of health services research, and spillover effects of tax and other policies aimed at different targets. (nih.gov)
  • This strike held the nation's attention in part because it dealt with some of the most important and vexing questions posed by contemporary capitalism and its organization of work: part-time jobs and the contracting out of services. (solidarity-us.org)
  • At baseline, data were collected using the following validated questionnaires, Patient Health Questionnaire, Generalized Anxiety Disorder questionnaire, Stigma Assessment and Reduction of Impact Scale, World Health Organization QOL BREF and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale among persons affected by leprosy or BU. (bvsalud.org)
  • The U.S. was unchallenged ruler of half the world, wages were rising rapidly if not steadily, and after 1947 inflation was a minor annoyance. (libcom.org)
  • Saigon's leading Trotskyist, Tạ Thu Thâu, worked with Nguyễn Văn Thinh to demand colonial reforms. (newmandala.org)
  • Vietnam's Stalinist communists attempted to form a popular front with Nguyễn Văn Thinh's Indochinese Democratic Party in the late 1930s, reporting to Moscow that they were "progressive capitalists" favouring "radical/progressive reforms. (newmandala.org)
  • The National Health Service enjoys strong support among the public, making it almost impossible to introduce radical reforms, even if the performance of the NHS is relatively poor compared with systems in other developed countries. (iea.org.uk)
  • Environmental pollution may also play a role in producing harmful free radicals. (healthcentralusa.com)
  • Rooted in both the child guidance and mental hygiene movements of the early twentieth century as well as contemporary social scientific research, social psychiatry was "a preventive psychiatry", an epidemiological approach to mental health dedicated to identifying the environmental causes of mental illness-ranging from overcrowding and poverty to social exclusion and racism-and eradicating them. (nature.com)
  • Christopher Sellers is a historian with a long-standing interest in the environmental, cultural, and health history of the 20th-century United States, and the ways this history has compared with that of other parts of the world. (usc.edu)
  • His research concentrates on the history of occupational and environmental health, of cities and suburbs, of industrial development and its hazards, and of the environmental movement. (usc.edu)
  • Sadly, closure went unacknowledged, even though it signalled the end of an institution which made a valuable contribution to youth and community work in Britain, and of the YMCA's 135-year engagement with the professional education of youth workers. (youthandpolicy.org)
  • From 1947 to 1974, American workers brought home most of the wealth they produced. (sott.net)
  • professional employees represented 18 percent of the labor force, while service-sector workers accounted for only 12 percent. (shrm.org)
  • When UPS workers went out, they not only fought for themselves, but-with their demand that the company create more full-time jobs for part-time workers-they also fought for millions of other people. (solidarity-us.org)
  • The UPS workers' sixteen-day strike was seen by the public as a fight between ordinary working people and a gigantic multinational, multibillion dollar company greedily demanding concessions from its workers-and so it was. (solidarity-us.org)
  • This protocol describes a study in which we would assess the effect of using community lay counselors, self-help groups (SHGs), and trained frontline health workers to reduce mental disorders and improve quality of life (QOL) of persons affected by leprosy or Buruli ulcer (BU). (bvsalud.org)
  • The intervention will last for 2 years and will involve use of community lay counselors, SHGs, and appropriately trained frontline health workers in reducing mental disorders and improving QOL of persons affected by leprosy or BU. (bvsalud.org)
  • This project postulates that the reduction of burden of mental health problems and improved QOL among persons affected by leprosy or BU could be achieved through a holistic approach involving SHGs, appropriately trained community opinion leaders, and general health-care workers as well as a functional referral system. (bvsalud.org)
  • Many of the values, pressures, and conflicts that have shaped the evolution of employment-based health benefits persist and should be factored into evaluations of this system and proposals for restructuring it. (nih.gov)
  • Unfortunately, and amazingly, problems with the Indian Health Service seem to persist … recently [in the early 1990s], in South Dakota, IHS was again accused of not following informed-consent procedures, this time for Norplant, and apparently promoted the long-acting contraceptive to Native American women who should not use it due to contraindicating, preexisting medical conditions. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • He was lured by the promise of a free education, health insurance, and the chance to own a rifle and shoot it. (brooklynrail.org)
  • The services so provided shall be free of charge except where any provision of this Act expressly provides for the making and recovery of charges. (sochealth.co.uk)
  • Antioxidants play a major role in helping to fight against destructive, cell damaging free radicals in the body. (healthcentralusa.com)
  • Private firms should be free to bring in low-cost medical professionals from abroad and at liberty to determine rates of pay and working conditions through private contract. (iea.org.uk)
  • We make this online version available as a free, public service. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • The functions which serve the whole population such as preventive medicine, health education and occupational health services have been sorely neglected in the past, and the present policy of cuts in government expenditure will delay progress even more, whilst encouraging the growth of the private sector. (sochealth.co.uk)
  • Present day problems of health care are not unique to this country. (sochealth.co.uk)
  • strengthening an effectively involved but s ebook, L. In curriculum to several acquisitions of web and installment, daily agents of such international understanding problems was several to identified matter and foundation-funded Cartoonist, encompassing the consideration of professional Find entrance with Competence and its mid-way on European and Quarterly value. (literary-liaisons.com)
  • That the employee group existed for purposes other than the provision of insurance (that is, to produce a product or service) was an important although not sufficient condition for dealing with biased risk selection and some of the other problems described in Chapter 1 and discussed further in Chapter 5 . (nih.gov)
  • Finally, it should be noted that internet technology has mitigated many of the information asymmetry problems that have previously been cited as a rationale for heavy state regulation of health. (iea.org.uk)
  • In the face of affluence and contentment was alarm that many more Americans were mentally disordered than previously thought, and that new preventive approaches to mental health were required. (nature.com)
  • Our basic position is that when some people get suicide prevention while other people get suicide assistance, and the difference is the person's age, disability or health status, that's unlawful discrimination," said Prizio. (blogspot.com)
  • The prosperity of the post WWII era coincided with the birth of 76 million people between 1947 and 1964-the biggest "baby boom" in U.S. history. (libcom.org)
  • It shall be the duty of the Minister of Health to promote the establish-ment in England and Wales of a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement in the physical and mental health of the people of England and Wales and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness. (sochealth.co.uk)
  • All the factors that had slowly been eroding Americans' economic lives over the preceding three decades - globalization, deunionization, financialization, Wal-Martization, robotization, the whole megillah of nefarious - izations - have now descended en masse on the American people. (sott.net)
  • The disability, psychosocial, and mental health status of people affected by these NTDs are still overlooked in global NTD discourse. (bvsalud.org)
  • The objective of this systematic review was to synthesize the existing evidence describing the disability, psychosocial, and mental health status of people affected by leprosy, podoconiosis, and LF prior to developing a holistic physical and psychosocial care package for these individuals. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the first enthusiasm for the N.H.S. the serious implications of these concessions were not fully appreciated, but over the years they have snow-balled into a threat to the very structure of the service which set out to meet a common need for society as a whole and not merely for individual needs, dependent upon ability to pay or to persuade. (sochealth.co.uk)
  • Foresters from Michigan were conspicuous for the thoroughness of their professional training, their practical ability, enthusiasm, and their high ideals. (umich.edu)
  • Located at the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center (NFATC) in Arlington, Virginia, FSI prepares American diplomats and other professionals who man overseas embassies and consulates. (allgov.com)
  • Located at the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center (NFATC) in Arlington, Virginia, FSI prepares American diplomats and other professionals to advance American interests overseas and in Washington, DC. (allgov.com)
  • Among the available courses are Promoting American Wine Overseas, Singles in the Foreign Service, and Encouraging Resilience in the Foreign Service Child. (allgov.com)
  • American / English Speaking Customer Service Reps / Domestic Returns. (healthcentralusa.com)
  • The Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center reports that one woman was recently told by her doctors that they would remove the implant only if she would agree to a tubal ligation. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • But also arising out of the American experience of the Second World War were mounting concerns about mental health, due in part to the large number of American military recruits rejected on psychiatric grounds and American soldiers granted psychiatric discharge. (nature.com)
  • Thousands of North American and international newspapers, plus hundreds of wire services and broadcast news transcripts. (rutgers.edu)
  • The brief also expresses concerns about the context of health care cost-cutting in which assisted suicide is being advocated. (blogspot.com)
  • This chapter provides a rather detailed overview of some important bases for present public and private arrangements for insuring health care. (nih.gov)
  • On almost every front, the thrust in the United States is still expansionist-the uninsured want basic protection, the insured want restrictions on coverage eased, and researchers, providers, and entrepreneurs devise new technologies and services that further stimulate demand for care. (nih.gov)
  • This concept has passed into both economic and political discourse, and the phrase remains an indispensable tool for thinking about the "Sovietized" parts of modern capitalist economies such as health care and educational systems. (nybooks.com)
  • This is a follow-up to the July 1947 PM article about my hometown titled " Utopia in the Catskills " that appeared on the September 30 CounterPunch. (counterpunch.org)
  • The author wishes to thank Jane Slaughter for allowing her article on health and safety issues to be reprinted here. (solidarity-us.org)
  • We searched papers reporting on disability, psychosocial, and mental health status linked to these 3 NTDs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Ten studies provided evidence on the association between the 3 NTDs and mental health or psychosocial outcomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • The most commonly reported mental health impacts were depression and mental distress. (bvsalud.org)
  • In conclusion, disability and poor psychosocial and mental health status are associated with leprosy, podoconiosis, and LF. (bvsalud.org)
  • been siè the deficits for speaking, service files, and local theoretical loop and finance effects. (geotrade-gmbh.com)
  • Most importantly of all, they economically demonstrated the relationship between education and growth which helped to justify the significant post-war expansion in public education services. (wikipedia.org)
  • FSI programs train Foreign Service Officers to perform administrative, consular, economic/commercial, political and public diplomacy tasks. (allgov.com)
  • Governments at all levels helped establish a college education as a status elevator and meal ticket by building many public universities and creating demand for colleges via grants, loans, G.I. bill, etc. (libcom.org)
  • A constituency for broad access to health coverage has existed for nearly a century, pressuring both public and private sectors to find new and better ways of extending that access. (nih.gov)
  • a system of private and public health coverage that has for most of the last 50 years increased financial access to these advances but placed few controls on medical price inflation or overuse of medical services. (nih.gov)
  • They often legitimised some sensible ideas for educational change which were previously considered radical & progressive by the educational establishment. (wikipedia.org)
  • The doctors' threat to emigrate, not always only to better conditions of work, but more often to obtain higher incomes, served as a brake on any radical attempt to change the status quo. (sochealth.co.uk)
  • Five decades of social upheaval and lawmakers response to it have stimulated radical change in the HR profession. (shrm.org)
  • Students desiring professional training met the usual requirements for the degree of bachelor of arts, taking a number of forestry electives, and then, after a year's work in the Graduate School, qualified for the degree of master of science in forestry. (umich.edu)
  • Planning is constantly seeking to assess the merits of development against the demands of conservation. (fig.net)
  • It was also Shultz who advocated the creation of the new campus because other government employees in addition to Foreign Service officers would attend classes. (allgov.com)
  • At that time Aneurin Bevan , in order to gain the agreement of the medical profession, felt compelled to sacrifice certain of the basic principles which were originally built into the socialist conception of the health service. (sochealth.co.uk)
  • It has now become so difficult for even the most ambitious HR professional to master the alphabet soup of employment statutes and regulations that the trend toward specialization in the profession is increasing and is unlikely to let up. (shrm.org)
  • Lets take a closer look at how five decades of labor and employment law developments have contributed to making the job of HR professional the multidisciplinary phenomenon that it is today and speculate a bit about what the future for the profession may hold. (shrm.org)
  • Other courses, both of professional and nonprofessional character, were added as the profession of forestry developed. (umich.edu)
  • This pamphlet opens the issue of private medical practice so that the discussions about the future of the National Health Service as a valuable social institution not operating in the competitive market can be placed in a political and not merely a social context. (sochealth.co.uk)
  • Dr. Jemison is the Founder and President of The Jemison Group, Inc. (JG) - a technology consulting firm integrating critical socio-cultural issues into the design of engineering and science projects, as well as BioSentient Corporation - a medical devices and services company focused on improving health and human performance is such a company. (harrywalker.com)
  • Perhaps most importantly, the compulsory licensing of medical professionals should be abolished. (iea.org.uk)
  • Douglas had established herself as an expert on Florida history and the environment in 1947 when she published The Everglades: River of Grass, a path-breaking book that later became the green bible of Florida environmentalists. (historycooperative.org)
  • The move to the current campus coincided with serious budget cutbacks for the State Department during 1990s, along with a significant drop in Foreign Service recruitment and a corresponding increase in pressure on personnel to reduce or even forgo time in training. (allgov.com)
  • The central role of employment-based health benefits and the very substantial discretion accorded employers rest, in considerable measure, on federal laws and regulations (in particular, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) that did not explicitly plan or envision that structure. (nih.gov)
  • For example, a surge in demand due to a celebrity using a certain product or a social media video with the product that has gone viral. (healthcentralusa.com)
  • In addition, in the early 1920s there was emphasis on a notion of citizenship mostly based on service to the community, duties, responsibilities, and social integration, while by the end of the decade the dominant discourse was beginning to be influenced by progressive education notions of education and democracy. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • An interest in radical politics drew her to the Independent Labour Party and she became a prominent local campaigner for female suffrage, as secretary-organiser of the Huddersfield branch of the Women's Social and Political Union. (hud.ac.uk)
  • The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) opened in 1947 in the Mayfair Building in Washington, DC. (allgov.com)
  • House-building in England has fallen to historic lows, with reports of a "yawning gap" between supply and demand, especially in the south east of England (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002). (fig.net)
  • The result was the reports often became the definitive documents on a particular education service and were sometimes best sellers in their own rights. (wikipedia.org)
  • Higher education, with all its flaws, appears to be in better health than its fellow institutions of religion and family. (wallawalla.edu)
  • Since 1947, Americans at all points on the economic spectrum had become a little better off with each passing year. (sott.net)
  • THE TEAMSTERS' VICTORY over United Parcel Service in August 1997, represents the biggest strike and the most important labor union victory in the United States in the last twenty-five years. (solidarity-us.org)
  • Starting in 1966, Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall began to make use of newly available Medicaid money to set up sterilization programs at federally funded Indian Health Services (IHS) hospitals. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Empower your body and lead a healthy, fulfilling life with Health Central USA . (healthcentralusa.com)
  • The first class to receive this degree graduated in 1904 and consisted of two men, Harry D. Everett, who later lost his life while on active service in the Philippine Islands, and Clyde Leavitt, who became assistant dean of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. (umich.edu)
  • There is a single ideological current running through a seemingly disparate collection of noxious modern political and scientific movements, ranging from militarism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, and radical environmentalism, to socialism, Nazism, and totalitarian communism. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • The curriculum in 1903-4 consisted of ten courses of professional caliber and one course "designed to meet the needs of teachers, students of political economy, and others who wish to acquire a general knowledge of Forestry. (umich.edu)
  • A part of the US Department of State, the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is the federal government's primary training institution for America's diplomatic corps. (allgov.com)
  • At Health Central USA, we are proud to be the largest supplier of high-quality health supplements and vitamins in the United States. (healthcentralusa.com)
  • But radical regulatory reform is necessary if a dynamic private health sector offering low-cost, high quality and innovative treatment is to emerge. (iea.org.uk)
  • Making employment decisions based on sex, race or national originthe mere thought of which gives modern HR professionals the shakeswas commonplace. (shrm.org)
  • In 1903 a separate Department of Forestry, offering instruction of professional caliber, was organized in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts under the leadership of Professor Filibert Roth ('90, LL.D. hon. (umich.edu)
  • The NSWLC has led the country in areas such as reduced working hours, extensions of annual leave, long service leave and equal pay. (labourhistorycanberra.org)
  • A combination of new technology and a dynamic, entrepreneurial private health sector could make the NHS increasingly irrelevant. (iea.org.uk)
  • However, it is important to note that this sense of urgency is in reaction to relatively recent threats against urbanism, and to the UK urban economy - in the shape of an overheated housing market and threats to consumer health - and not direct threats to the rural economy. (fig.net)
  • Robinson flatly rejected it despite having initiated it, concluding that direct administration of the services could be "more effectively dealt with" by government than by an elected board. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today, the school is experiencing high demand for all of its courses. (allgov.com)
  • Under this ideology, the only human goal is earning money and buying consumer products - TVs, cars, high-speed internet service, etc. (slingshotcollective.org)
  • The expectation that senior members, college graduates, professionals and businessmen would transition to fill these vacancies had by 1880 proved erroneous. (youthandpolicy.org)
  • In the plebiscite taken of British residents, which excluded members of the Imperial and Civil Services, the vast majority favoured a board with a majority of members elected by residents. (wikipedia.org)
  • The current U.S. system of voluntary employment-based health benefits is not the consequence of an overarching and deliberate plan or policy. (nih.gov)