Halvorson is chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
"When I went to medical school, global health was almost a nontopic, " recalls Tadataka Yamada, 62, the former GlaxoSmithkline executive who now leads the Gates Foundation health efforts.
The trial was supported by the University of Edinburgh, the Stroke Association UK, the Medical Research Council, EME, the Health Foundation UK and NHS Lothian Health Board.
The Mental Health Foundation has also produced Promoting Mental Health in Primary Schools - a pack for teachers.
However, you could face potentially higher premiums as a result, says Phil Lebherz, executive director of the Foundation for Health Coverage Education.
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And two pillars of that foundation are health care and education, and each has long suffered from problems that we chose to kick down the road.
When I talk to Stephen and Elizabeth Alderman, whose foundation trains health-care professionals around the world to work with victims of trauma, or Judith Broder, who founded The Soldiers Project, which works with returning veterans, they rarely talk about stress.
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Prevention is the foundation of public health, and prevention is the foundation of my work as Surgeon General.
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We formed the Haitian Health Foundation (HHF) and began to build a health system.
Lesley Warner, of the Mental Health Foundation, said the suicide figures highlighted their concerns about the mental health of young men in particular.
The Mental Health Foundation said there needs to be a dramatic rethink on the way mental health is perceived.
Dr Subhadra Menon is Head, Communication, The Public Health Foundation of India and author of No Place to Go: Stories of Hope and Despair from India's Ailing Health Sector, published by Penguin Books.
In a statement the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust said adults could be referred to a community mental health team for an assessment to get their appropriate treatment.
The foundation shifted its focus to combating obesity, said James Marks, director of the foundation's health group.
Ruth Lesirge, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said friendship was vital for the mentally ill.
Scientists at the British Dental Health Foundation suggested mouth bacteria could play a part in causing obesity.
The foundation also conducts health camps, where doctors screen villagers for everything from water-borne diseases to chronic illnesses.
The contribution clearly falls outside the main focus of this foundation: global health.
The study, published in the PLOS ONE online journal, was funded by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship and The Health Foundation.
The Mental Health Foundation (MHF) says up to 20% of children suffer some form of mental problem, while 10% need professional help.
Leigh Greenwood, of the British Dental Health Foundation, said people should not think that drinking red wine was good for their teeth.
Health-insurance premiums in the Bay State have risen significantly faster than the national average, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health foundation.
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Lowney, Jr. is the Founding President of The Haitian Health Foundation.
According to the same Kaiser Foundation survey, health insurance costs for firms with less than 200 employees have risen more than 10% a year on average since 2003.
But many high-profile organisations, such as the British Dental Health Foundation, Unison, the National Obesity Forum, the British Medical Association and Friends of the Earth, believe this does not go far enough.
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Friends were found to provide practical help, transport, child care and housework as well as emotional support, and the Mental Health Foundation said it was important this burden is recognised and the carers helped.
For the second year in a row, residents of Vermont are the healthiest people in the nation, according to a new state-by-state survey by the nonprofit United Health Foundation, which is funded by insurer UnitedHealth Group .
June McKerrow, director of the Mental Health Foundation, said that, although some of the illnesses included in the report were temporary and mild, research suggested that if they were not properly dealt with they could develop into something worse.
"These clauses will cover the key areas of the bill, including the role of the secretary of state, clinical commissioning groups, the NHS Commissioning Board, the role of Monitor, foundation trusts, Health and Wellbeing Boards, and Healthwatch, " he said.
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