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7 hours ago ago from Picture of Health
An annual study of public health preparedness ranked Maryland in the middle of the pack in its readiness. The state scored 7 out of 10 on the key indicators. Called Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report, the report was released today by the Trust for America s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation . It said this year, the H1N1 flu outbreak exposed serious gaps in the nation ...
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8 hours ago ago from Thoughts~ All Things Health Care
Pub lic administrators will have to address and resolve health policy issues particularly for infectious diseases which involve deep interdependence. In other cases, such as common efforts to understand and respond to non communicable diseases, the problems are more national or local in scope. Similarly, the global public health agenda ranges widely along the scientific political spectrum. Although WHO is involved in all quadrants of the ...
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9 hours ago ago from The Users' Guide to the Health Reform Galaxy
Richard Hamburg , deputy director of Trust for America's Health, writes about the H1N1 flu outbreak as a test of the nation's public health system with important lessons for emergency preparedness and health reform. The H1N1 flu outbreak has been a real-world test of the nation’s public health system, and the results are mixed at best. The good news is that earlier investments in emergency preparedness created a larger stockpile of ...
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With Senate Dems furiously scrambling to arrive at a compromise health care bill, progressives have reached a point where most fear a health care bill more than they initially hoped for it. For politicians with reputations to manicure, a health care bill, any health care bill, at any cost, may be better than nothing. For the people of the Unites States, killing the bill would be better than a disease care reform, which from the way things ...
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