Recently added articles from The Nation's Health:
APHA's Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia this month: 10,500 attendees expected Nov. 7-11.
Nov 01, 2009 ... FROM health reform to H1N1 flu, the latest issues will be on the agenda at APHA's 137th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia this month. About 10,500 public health professionals are expected to come together Nov. 7-11 for the APHA meeting, which has an overarching theme of "Water and ...
Prevention key to reform, APHA says.(APHA ADVOCATES)
Nov 01, 2009 ... The value of prevention should remain a centerpiece of current health reform efforts, APHA said in September. In a letter to members of the Senate that was initiated by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, APHA and fellow prevention advocates called on policymakers to use health ...
APHA members: take action on reform.(APHA ADVOCATES)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009 ... APHA is calling on its members to speak out against "co-ops" in national health reform and in support of a public option. Health insurance cooperatives, better known as "co-ops" and defined as a non-profit, member-run system for offering insurance, will not be as effective as a ...
Rabies cases a continuing threat to global public health: ancient disease still a modern problem.
Nov 01, 2009; ... THOUGH IT IS one of the world's oldest diseases, rabies continues to surprise the vigilant public health researchers and workers who keep the disease at bay in the United States and labor to control the often fatal disease around the world. Every year, 55,000 people, or about ...
Value of prevention debated as part of U.S. health reform: studies ask: is prevention cost-effective?
Nov 01, 2009; ... PREVENTION, a touchstone of public health, has landed in the crosshairs of the national health reform debate, with cost-effectiveness pitted against the sometimes incalculable value of a healthy life. Recent questions about prevention's ability to save health care dollars have ...