Search Results for "Articles On Impact Future Health Policy 2011"
Original Source: Japan's new global health policy: 2011-2015.
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Public health is the scientific, political and sociological approach by a society to maximise the health of the population through disease preventaion and mainenance of healthy life-styles. The main...
Health IT Information Technology
Why Health IT? Health information technology (Health IT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information - e...
Mental health, although not being as obvious as physical health, is very important, causing great unhappiness to those affected, causing additional physical health problems and costing the economy m...
The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of sexual health; "the state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being related to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, d...
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Political Cartoon: 'Four Out Of Five Politicians?'
Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "Four Out Of Five Politicians?" by Matt Wuerker. Meanwhile, here is today's health policy haiku: SEQUESTER SEQUELA Se...
Is being inactive really ‘as bad as smoking’?
In July, top medical journal The Lancet published a series of articles looking the worldwide health problems caused by people being inactive, in the hope of galvanising action. The articles containedÂ...
Political Cartoon: 'Without Anesthesia?'
Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with 'Without Anesthesia?' By Chris Wildt. Meanwhile, here is today's health policy haiku: WEIGHING THE FUTURE OF HEALTH EXC...
The Impact Of Occupational Injuries And Illnesses Among Low-Wage Workers
Low-wage workers, who make up a large and growing share of the U.S. workforce, are especially vulnerable to financial hits that can result from on-the-job injuries and illnesses, according to a policy...
Calorie Calculator can help assess impact of health policy choices on childhood obesity
Dieters often use online calorie calculators to stay true to their weight-loss plan. Translating the concept to the population health arena, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Publ...
Political Cartoon: 'Towing The Line?'
Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "Towing The Line?" by Gary Varvel. Meanwhile, here is today's health policy haiku: FUTURE TENSE? First term agenda dom...
PLOS 'Q&A' blog post highlights PLOS Medicine series
In the latest installment of the PLOS "Speaking of Medicine" blog's Q&A series, Pamela Collins, director of the Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health at the National Institute of...
Obesity rates in North America are a growing concern for legislators. Expanded waistlines mean rising health-care costs for maladies such as diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. One University of...
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Theories of the policy process in health promotion research: a review.
The Ottawa Charter laid the ground work for a new research and practice agenda by urging health promoters to advocate for healthy public policies. After more than 20 years, it is now time to reflect o...
In 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a policy of not paying hospitals for the care of several preventable hospital-acquired conditions. The CMS policy is a unique va...
The experiences of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth from 2002 to 2008 in re-framing a major public health issue and influencing public policy offer lessons for other public health movements....
The representation of mental illness in bermudian print media, 1991-2011.
OBJECTIVE Stigmatization of persons with mental illness may be perpetuated through media depictions. This study analyzed changes in the depiction of mental illness by Bermudian newspapers over 20 year...
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study are to: (1) profile the production of Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) published between 2000 and 2008 in 12 countries in the Eastern Medit...
