The prevention and treatment of childhood obesity.

The effectiveness of interventions used in the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity published in a recent issue of Effective Heath Care is reviewed

Heath-Care Policy

This paper examines the Clinton health-care reform proposal.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mlw_papers/1169/thumbnail.jp

Leadership and Shared Purpose for America's Future

This report summarizes what CED calls its "unfinished agenda." At the top of this list are heath care reform, controlling our budget, trade, and savings deficits, reforming our entitlement programs, and investing in new infrastructure such as early education, sustainable energy, and the environment. We are pleased to have the financial support of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation to underwrite our efforts to enlist more American business leaders to support this reform agenda

The U.S. Heath Care Experience

This research project intends to look in depth into the U.S. health care system specifically the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The overview of the ACA will be evaluated to see if it has reached all its objectives it was pursuing prior to being signed into law in 2010. The questions we seek to answer is if the ACA is working or not. Additionally the project will also overview health care systems in other countries and understand how other private insurance functions along with how countries with universal health care and how its people are able to benefit from these specific systems. Finally we will look at the social cost of health care for different countries which can help the project understand why each system is put in place to fit its society\u27s view on health care

America\u27s heath care crisis

Currently, in the United States health care is a matter of great moral, social and political significance. A rising number of uninsured and underinsured are excluded from medical services, charged more for medical services and die because they do not receive or cannot afford timely care. There is a growing movement to overturn the current health care system. Should every citizen have a right to health care? What type of health care system is best – single-payer, socialized or market-based? What type of health care system can we, as a country, afford? In this paper we analyzed the historical origins and influences, which led to the development of our current market-based system. Our paper also examines the way the current health care systems function and explores the systems of Germany, Canada and Cuba as a way of providing a basis for thinking about health care reform in the United States. We hope to provide our readers with information that informs their deliberations about health care

‘It turned us yellow all over.’ Health Care Provision for Munition Workers During the First World War

Although much has been written about the vital role played by both women and men in producing munitions during the First World War and the impact that this had on their health, less is known about the provision of health and nursing care to this workforce. This article discusses a study which aims to increase understanding of the ways in which heath care was provided for those working in the munition factories and the contribution that nurses made to this

Early and Late Direct Costs in a Southern African Antiretroviral Treatment Programme: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis

Gary Maartens and colleagues describe the direct heath care costs and identify the drivers of cost over time in an HIV managed care program in Southern Africa

Revisiting ERISA Preemption in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual

Under the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, federal law preempts state law. In 1974 Congress passed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) governing benefits offered by employers to their employees. The purpose of this statute was ensuring the uniformity of the law applicable to employee benefts. The Supreme Court case of Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual concerns the limits of ERISA’s preemption of state law, specifically whether a state law governing employee benefits is merely peripheral to the core ERISA functions. This Commentary argues that ERISA does not preempt a state law which does not interfere with the administration of ERISA plans and which facilitates better, more affordable heath care options to the public

A Foreign Language Guide to Heath Care.

A phrase book in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish detailing phrases and words to use in the case one has to go to a hospital, doctor\u27s office, dentist, or an optometrist