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U.S. Child Health System Needs Total Overhaul

...describe as a “patchwork of disconnected programs, policies and funding” that lacks “clear accountability or performance goals.” In their report, which appears in the current issue of the journal Health Affairs, Dr. Neal Halfon, director of the Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities at UCLA...

Insulating Houses Improves Health and Wellbeing

...evidence from other housing studies, should inform policies linking housing investment to impacts on health, they conclude. Source-Newswise SM...

Can Giving More Homework Improve Test Scores For Children?

...ed impact before trying to create overall homework policies for schools. "Over the past two decades, much of...tiveness by boosting student scores. Yet, national policies aimed at simply increasing homework amounts are unlikely to produce increases in average student ach...

Susceptibility to TB is High Among the Smokers

... increasing the risk for TB. “Tuberculosis control policies should in the future incorporate tobacco control as a preventive intervention,” the authors write. “Potentially, smoking is one of the most modifiable of exposures,” they conclude. “In developing countries, where life expectancy is short, highlight...

Mozambique: Half of Tuberculosis Cases Go Undiagnosed

...y, with a government whose task is to lay down the policies to be followed", he insisted. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Culturally Specific Diabetes Management Helps Low-Income Patients

...simulates long-term effects of implementing health policies for the management of diabetes.” The model estimates the number of years of life patients gain from treatment — adjusted for quality of life — for the amount spent to deliver the treatment. Direct medical costs over a patient’s lifetime were higher...

Body Shop Founder’s New Project-against Hepatitis

...ampaigning has decided to take on the government’s policies or lack of them, on Hepatitis C. She says: "I am astounded that the Government has spent ￡40 million on telling the public about the switch-over to digital TV, but only ￡3 million on raising awareness of hepatitis C, a serious condition that can ...

Concerns About Working Overtime May Be Misplaced

...port. "Our results also raise the possibility that policies like the European Union's Working Time Directive—w...erage work hours to no more than 48 per week. Such policies may pose a challenge for private sector employers—especially those whose operations are structured i...

WHO Urges Asian Countries To Improve Infrastructure To Tackle Dengue

...o five years. The challenge is to help them adopt policies from successful examples, like Singapore. Dr Jai P Narain, Director, Communicable Diseases, WHO Southeast Asia Regional Office, said, "We need dengue control as part of public health policy. So before you start (any) development activity, you shou...

GPs Suggested to Provide More Than Just Consultations

...s. The suggestions follow the government’s recent policies aimed at bringing patient care closer to home. Says Thome, "Patients trust GPs. We're highly trained, offer high quality cost-effective services and our communities respect us, so why aren't we doing even more? Our training allows us to spot the fi...

Benefits of Fruit and Vegetable Juices

...onic disease development is “unjustified” and that policies which suggest otherwise about fruit and vegetable juices should be re-examined. The researchers who authored the paper “Can pure fruit and vegetable juices protect against cancer and cardiovascular disease, too? A review of the evidence” suggests t...

Hip Fractures Not Caused By Benzodiazepine

...mit access to these drugs among the elderly. These policies may need to be reexamined based on these new findi...ong the elderly - have prompted state and national policies intended to regulate access to them. Since January 2006, benzodiazepines have been excluded from cov...

Nurses Ease the Wounded Heart

...is study can be used to influence national housing policies for vulnerable families. Work is Good for the Heart—Dr. Glass also is leading a unique initiative to reduce health disparities for immigrant and U.S.-born employed Latina survivors of intimate partner violence. In another Oregon-based four-year st...

Food Hampers Deficient in Calories, Study Says

...unteers. The need of the hour is to put government policies in order and address the issue at the government level, so that food banks are better equipped to spruce up the quality of food hampers. SA...

Early Diagnosis of Colon Cancer Increases When Screening is Covered by Medicare

...ime period prior to the new Medicare reimbursement policies (1992-1997), 22.5 percent of patients with colon c...iagnosed at an early stage. After the new Medicare policies were enacted, there was an increase in the percentage of patients who were diagnosed with early stag...

Marketing in Schools may Discourage Healthy Nutrition among Students

... the study, says, 'Schools' newly created wellness policies as mandated by the Child Nutrition and WIC Reautho...eating habits is to develop, implement and enforce policies to create advertising-free, nutrition-friendly school environments.' Source-Eurekalert...

Contraceptive Use Helps Reduce Rate of US Teen Pregnancy

...ondoms and contraception. They suggest that public policies and programs in the United States and elsewhere should vigorously promote provision of accurate information on contraception and on se xual behavior and relationships, support increased availability and accessibility of contraceptive services and sup...

A Snapshot of the Findings of the National Family Health Survey in India

...s survey established the need to relook at certain policies concerning violence to women.” The survey found that infant mortality, for instance, is higher among abused women, as are other juvenile problems, and those of families and women themselves," said Sunita Kishor, senior gender specialist, ORC Macro. D...

Disability Factor Among Older Americans Shows Improvement

...-living options, changes in Medicare reimbursement policies and improved rehabilitation services may have fueled this decrease in institutionalization. If they continue as anticipated, the downward trends in chronic disability rates among older adults could help bolster the Medicare program’s fiscal health,...

Obstacles to Reducing Human Injury and Death Due to Medical Error

...actices in Japan could inform health practices and policies in the United States, Leflar found. Most American physicians, especially those in high-risk specialties such as obstetrics and neurosurgery, are keenly aware of the connection between medical liability insurance premiums and the volume of both insura...

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