PPACA epitomizes comprehensive health care reform legislation. Public health, disease prevention, and wellness were … framework for health care reform in the United States Senate and reviews activity in the United States House of Representatives …. This insider's perspective delineates PPACA's positive effect on public health by examining the infrastructure Congress …

"This short primer of health information is designed as a concise but effective health care guide for seniors 60 years … and older. Seniors today find themselves in the digital age where rapid changes in health care delivery are confusing and …

The U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) represents the Obama administration’s new strategy for international … development assistance in health. With a pledge of $63 billion over six years, GHI aims to fund PEPFAR and a set of broader global … health issues (e.g., maternal and child health, nutrition, and neglected tropical diseases). GHI is also being framed as …

choice; this is the Pure Choice view. The article critiques this position by comparing it with an alternative: Public Health … Pluralism. It is argued that there are good reasons to prefer the latter, including the following. (1) Public Health Pluralism … through to its logical conclusions, may have unpalatable implications, such as extending choice well beyond health screening …

In recent years policy makers and public health professionals have described obesity and its associated diseases as a … major global public health problem. Bioethicists have tried to address the normative implications of proposed public health … interventions by developing guidelines or proposing ethical principles that ethically grounded health policy responses should take …

drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the … health. We find that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D was associated with a 70% increase in the … health care services or health, as measured by functional status and self-reported health. Among those in poorer health, we …

medical preventive measures improve expected health, they do not save money. Various lifestyle and early childhood … interventions, however, may both save money and improve health. Second, preventive measures, including medical and lifestyle …, generalizations in everyday discourse about the value of prevention can be overly broad. Third, health insurance coverage for medical …

, which halted in-person, non-COVID-19 public health and information sharing activities and field visits. To reach … intervention to share health and nutrition-related advisories among the communities using digital media tools like WhatsApp and … interactive voice response (IVR). Digital Green repurposed its videos on health and nutrition in order to share them via digital …