What Canada Tells us About Government Health Care
In a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 76 percent of registered voters said that health care was very important to their vote. Democrats ranked health care their most important issue; Independents slotted it as their second most ...
Comment of the Day: Health 2.0 Web Apps
Today's winning comment comes from our post Top Health 2.0 Web Apps. At the end of that post we asked for your suggestions of innovative, potentially ground-breaking web apps that will change how healthcare is done. ...
Health Care Disparities
An important recognized weakness of health care delivery in the US is that of disparities. There are close to 50 million people without health insurance, and those who have public insurance such as Medicaid have limited access to ...
Employers Are Cool to Candidates' Health Care Plans
When it comes to new health insurance proposals, most firms are bipartisan -- they don't like the contenders' ideas very much.
Animal Diseases and Your Health
Also called: Zoonoses. Animal diseases that people can catch are called zoonoses. About 75 percent of the new diseases affecting humans in the past decade can be traced to animals or animal products. You can get a disease directly from ...
Health Insurance
I am, however, paying significant health insurance premiums subsidizing many less-healthy people who are so grossly overweight that they are experiencing chronic medical problems. The obesifying of America is only going to make it worse ...
The Human Rights Initiative Spring Lecture Series: Health as a ...
The Human Rights Initiative Spring Lecture Series “Health as a Human Right: The Right to Health in Theory and Practice” Professor Stephen Marks François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights Director, Program on Human ...
Morocco: Health Care
Abdelilah Boukili of Regular Comments Based on Issues Raised by BBC World Haveyoursay questions the practice of Western countries recruiting health care professionals from developing countries.
12:00 pm - Ethical Conflicts of Health Professionals in Wartime
What role do health professionals have in wartime when it comes to issues related to torture and human rights? The Iraq Action Group at UCSF presents another lecture in The Health Effects of War Grand Rounds Series: Ethical Conflicts of ...
12:00 pm - Universal Health Insurance and Regulated Competition ...
Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Institute for Health & Aging presents: David Chinitz, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel. ...