Reducing hospital-acquired infections and other avoidable health-center acquired conditions through rigorous reporting and transparency.
The most recent edition of HWR, hosted by Jared Rhoads of the Lucidicus Project, contains the work of a number of left-of-center health policy types (and a few market-oriented types to boot), who often have interesting perspectives on health care because they are directly involved in the field.
Diabetics who are infected with TB become ill with the disease at three times the ratio of the general population because their immune systems are compromised, said Dr. Seaworth, who is also a professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center-Tyler.
"We do all the things a school nurse used to do, but now instead of having to send a child to the ER or having Mom come and pick them up, we can treat them in the school-based health center, " says Chris Kjolhede, Bassett's school-based health program director.
There is a small cohort of left-of-center health policy analysts who remain in denial about the poor health outcomes caused by Medicaid.
The city has long been a center of health-related research, having given rise decades agoto medical-device maker Stryker Corp.
John's Clinic, a community health center for low-income families.
The biggest toll from the disaster is likely to come from those who drowned as the giant wave swept over cities and farmland and then withdrew back toward the sea, according to Pascal James Imperato, the Dean of the School of Public Health at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.
His Atlanta-based Carter Center has also established health programmes which have all but eradicated guinea-worm disease, and is successfully tackling river blindness.
Glenn Cohen, a lawyer and Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard University and Eli Y.
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In Africa, it is a different story, as my colleagues and I found out in 2006 when we re-opened a rural health center in Rwanda that had been essentially abandoned.
On May 3, 2012, Alexia Kelley, Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships visited the C.
But Dr. Cheryl K. Olson, co-director of the Center for Mental Health and the Media at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, isn't convinced.
Yolanda Reid-Chassiakos, director of the student health center at California State University, Northridge, once saw a college student whose parents suspected she was suffering from anorexia nervosa.
Howard Adelman, co-director of the Center for Mental Health in Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles, believes that teachers and other school officials are usually adept at picking out kids at risk without screening programs.
Royal Castle Child Development Center offers an arts-based health curriculum called Eat Sleep Play that is designed to teach children, parents and caregivers how to eat healthy, get the right amount of sleep and lead an active lifestyle.
On the second floor, just past the occupational-health clinic, you will find the Special Care Center.
We're investing in Bucksport Regional Health Center in Maine, where doctors are double-booked and the waiting rooms are often standing room only.
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According to the Center for Studying Health System Change, direct-payment practices increased from 9.2 percent of the market in 2001 to 12.4 percent by 2008.
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Like many maternity clinics in rural parts of Africa, the health center in Atitiri is lacking several necessary resources -- shortage of running water, electricity challenges, broken beds and scarcity of medicines all make Madudu's job very difficult.
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Dr. Boustani, who is also associate director of the Healthy Aging Brain Center, says he is working with health-care systems in other states to duplicate the program, with an aim to affordably scale up the model to a national level.
In addition to what he felt would be explosive costs, Emanuel also argued against personalized medicine by observing that behavioral and lifestyle changes like diet, smoking and exercise, which account for 40% to 60% of all disease, are far likelier to have an impact on longevity and health-care affordability than genetics and thus should be the center of focus.
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She stumbled upon the Web site of the Hilton Head Health Institute, a self-billed "weight loss spa retreat center" in South Carolina, and signed up.
Moreover, with the wide array of hospitals across the country--from large university teaching hospitals such as University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to multi-state systems like Adventist Health to small critical-access facilities--there are numerous variables to consider.
At the Witwer Senior Center in Cedar Rapids last Monday, surrounded by health-care professionals, Bradley looked as if his mind were a million miles away.
Bernard Project recently expanded to rebuild homes in New Orleans and opened a center for wellness and mental health, offering residents one-on-one and group counseling, among other clinical services.
Dr Scott Delaney, research director of emergency medicine at McGill University Health Center in Montreal, Canada, has also researched soccer-related head injury and agrees that head-to-head or elbow-to-head blows are the real risk.
"The official statistics in India rely on the National Crime Records Bureau, basically what are police reports of suicide, " says Prof Prabhat Jha, one of the study's co-authors and the director of the Center for Global Health Research in Toronto.
On Nov. 28, Sebsebila traveled to a health center where a midwife was at her bedside during her seven-hour labor.
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