National Health Policy

Matherlee K. The Public Stake in Biomedical Research a Policy Perspective. National Health Policy Forum, November 1999, USA. http /www.cdc.gov/nih ... 

Hamburg, P. (2002, January). How can we prepare Paper presented at the 2002 National Health Policy Conference, Washington, DC. 

Despite all our efforts of recent years, then, health care costs continue to increase... There is undoubtedly waste in the health care system, but no solid proposals have been advanced to recapture the 100 billion, plus or minus, that some believe can be saved. I believe that we will not reshape our national health policy agenda unless and until we achieve a broad consensus on the key issues. Do the American people, for example, desire to ensure access to health care for the entire population In that case they must agree to pick up a sizable additional tab, which they have thus far avoided. 

In the National Health Policy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1997 it heis been stated that all governments of the Federation are convinced that the health of the people not only contributes to better quality of lives but is also essential for the sustained economic and social development of the country cis a whole . 

After the National Health summit in 1995, a revised National Health policy emerged recently and it stated inter alia, under Drugs, Vaccines, Dressings and Quality Control, the following ... 

Federal Republic of Nigeria, National Health Policy. 1997 Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja. 

This analysis has been the source of State (National) Health Policy, which was introduced in 1994 and innovated in 1995. It consists of long and short term state activities designed to improve health conditions of the population. Those activities should be provided by cooperating governmental and nongovernmental organisations. 

The State (National) Health Policy is derived from the Constitution of the Slovak Republic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Programme Hecilth for cill by the year 2000 , the Declaration of Life Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro 1992) cmd the European Chart on Life Environment and Health (Frankfurt 1989). This policy is provided by the State through the government in cooperation with... 

Active promotion within a country should take place only with respect to drugs legally available in the country. Promotion should be in keeping with national health policies and in compliance with national regulations, as well as with voluntary standards where they exist. 

A compendium of drug and therapeutic information, the AMH is an initiative of Australia s National Health Policy in response to professional, consumer, and government concerns about the lack of independent drug information resources in Australia. AMH was developed to provide pharmacists, doctors, other health professionals, and their students with independent and comparative information about drugs. 

E. Elsinga and RRH. Rutten, Economic evaluation in Support of National Health Policy The case of the Netherlands, Social Science and Medicine 45 (1997), 605-620. 

Dr. Tieraona Low Dog s extensive career in natural medicine began more than 25 years ago. A graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Tieraona has served as president of the American Herbalists Guild and is currently the Director of the Fellowship at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona School of Medicine. She has been involved in national health policy and regulatory issues, serving previously on the White House Commission of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and as a member of the Advisory Council for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and is currently chair of the US. Pharmacopeia Dietary Supplements and Botanicals Expert Committee. 

The American Hospital Association (AHA) represents and serves all types of hospitals, health-care networks, their patients, and local communities. AHA uses representation and advocacy activities to ensure members perspectives and needs receive fair treatment in national health policy development, legislative and regulatory debates, and judicial matters. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health-care leaders and serves as an informational resource on health-care issues and trends. 

The National Health Policy (NHP) launched in 1993 includes as core elements the development of preventive, promotive and curative health care assurance of health care accessibility for all segments of the population and the promotion of private sector and NGO participation... 

TGE (1993a) National Health Policy of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. 

Greenwood, Judith. A Historical Perspective on Workers Compensation in the Context of National Health Policy Debate. In Workers Compensation Health Care Cost Containment, edited by Judith Greenwood and Alfred Taricco, 1-26. Horsham, Penn. lrp, 1992. 

Center for Health Policy Research and Development, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan... 

However, these results are not applicable to compulsory pubhc insurance, nor to National Health Systems. The most notable differences between drag co-payment in an insurance market and in a National Health System or compulsory public insurance environment lie in their voluntariness or otherwise (users ability to choose their coverage) and the ultimate financing of the services (risk-adjusted premiums as opposed to taxes or social insurance contributions adjusted according to economic capacity). Hence, in compulsory public insurance systems, co-payment regulation is used not only as a health policy instrument but also as one of redistribution of income. 

It is extremely difficult to forecast what the Spanish health system of even the near future will be like, particularly if it continues to be anchored in the dynamics offered today by national health services services as if they were just another administrative service, national implying a strong tendency towards uniformity and health denoting an intention that is not always translated into the best integration (for instance, between ultimate objectives and the provision of services, or between health sector policies and all the other economic and social sector policies). 

Reports of racial disparities in medical care and health status in the United States are common. The United States government has targeted the elimination of racial disparities in health status as a national priority in health policy [18]. Examples of racial disparities include differences in the aggressiveness of treatment ordered for white patients and black patients with cancer [19] and heart disease... 

Our survey consisted of randomly dialed telephone interviews of 1796 individuals across the country performed by Telesurveys Research Associates of Houston, Texas, under contract with the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law of the University of Louisville School of Medicine. The research was funded by the following three Institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (lead institute),... 

One assumption frequently made by researchers and policy makers about individuals willingness to participate in genetic research (as well as other forms of medical research) is that as the research involves greater disclosure of personal health information, individuals will be less likely to participate. Prior research supports this assumption (National Health Council, 2000, p. 18). We asked the following four questions (Questions 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D) related to this issue ... 

Disclaimer This chapter has been reviewed by the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and approved for publication. Approval does not signify that the contents necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Agency, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. 

A native of London, England, Bernard Miller lived and worked in twenty different nations over a period of thirty years. Travel and adventure shaped his life and work as an employee of the United Nations, the European Parliament and the European Union. In the following narrative he comments on the environmental health policies he has seen in action in various countries. Those comments are inspiring but bittersweet to me, because the U.S. compares so unfavorably. 

Medline. The Medline data base, which comes from the National Library of Medicine, is a superb, indispensable reference library that is particularly strong in its wide coverage of research activities in the biomedical literature. It also encompasses the areas of clinical medicine, health policy, and health care services. Each year, over 300,000 articles are reviewed and indexed into the data base. The full bibliographic citations of these articles, usually including the abstract of the published work, are available from numerous vendors in CD-ROM format and are usually updated on a monthly basis. 

In countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, many European countries and certain others food regulations have existed for many decades. Many countries have yet to formulate national food policies, responding appropriately to their health situation and economy, or, where these policies have been formulated, they often do not reflect appropriately the tme nature and extent of current or emerging food safety problems. The advances in science and technology are important stimuli for modification of the laws.1... 

Policy Integrate TM/CAM with national health care systems, as appropriate, by developing and implementing national TM/CAM policies and programs... 

The Australian National Medicines Policy aims to establish an appropriate balance between health, economic and industry objectives. It has four central elements ... 

Government policy makers wear two hats vis-a-vis the pharmaceutical sector (1) seeking to promote economic growth by increasing national employment and income, key objectives of industrial policy, and (2) promoting personal health and life expectancy and averting the spread of pandemics, key objectives of health policy, the latter being more likely to succeed as a consequence of the widespread availability and use of innovative pharmaceutical... 

Rosenthal, Meredith B., Ernst R. Berndt, Julie M. Donohue, Arnold M. Epstein, and Richard G. Frank. 2003. Demand Effects of Recent Changes in Prescription Drug Promotion, chapter 1 in Frontiers in Health Policy Research, vol. 6, ed. Alan M. Garber, 1-26. Cambridge, MA MIT Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research. 

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