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Federal supports for state oral health plans [PDF]
Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 2012 AbstractThe past decade has witnessed both a proliferation of state oral health plans that include very specific proposals for action and an emergence of federal laws that include support for oral health. This paper provides an overview of state oral health priorities for action as reflected in 40 oral health plans that were developed independently by ...
Burton L Edelstein
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The state of strategic plans for the health workforce in Africa [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2019 Many African countries have a shortage of health workers. As a response, in 2012, the Ministers of Health in the WHO African Region endorsed a Regional Road Map for Scaling Up the Health Workforce from 2012 to 2025. One of the key milestones of the roadmap was the development of national strategic plans by 2014.
Doris Osei Afriyie +2 more
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Controlling Health Care Costs through Limited Network Insurance Plans: Evidence from Massachusetts State Employees [PDF]
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016 We investigate the impact of limited network insurance plans in the context of the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission (GIC), the insurance plan for state employees.
Gruber, Jonathan, McKnight, Robin
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State Plan Index: A Tool for Assessing the Quality of State Public Health Plans
Preventing Chronic Disease, 2005 Introduction The State Plan Index is an evaluation instrument that uses a Likert scale to assess 60 indicators of the quality of state public health plans. The State Plan Index was needed to enable evaluation of plans that were developed using a variety
Diane O. Dunĕt, PhD, MPA +1 more
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Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2022 Background: Maternal and child health implementation plan development in districts of India lacks systematic process and capacity resulting in suboptimal health improvements.
Harish Kumar +9 more
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Content analysis of state hazard mitigation plans and their ability to address pandemics
Emergency Management Science and Technology, 2022 Hazard mitigation plans address hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, tornados, flooding more explicitly than pandemics or other public health crises. This paper analyzes and identifies pandemic-related mitigation strategies in state-level
Bhushan Pawar +2 more
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Culturally and linguistically diverse voices and views in COVID-19 pandemic plans and policies
Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2022 Objective: This paper presents a rapid assessment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic plans and explores the representation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in such plans. Four levels of pandemic plans were reviewed:
Nafiseh Ghafournia +3 more
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Self-Care Among Older Adults With Heart Failure
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2016 Background: It is estimated that 5.7 million Americans are living with heart failure (HF) today. Despite the fact that HF is one of the most common reasons people aged 65 years and older are admitted into the hospital, few studies describe the self-care ...
Sumayya Attaallah MSN, RN +2 more
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Variation in Medicaid and commercial coverage of cell and gene therapies
Health Policy Open, 2023 Growth in the availability of cell and gene therapies (CGTs) promises significant innovation in the treatment of serious diseases, but the high cost and one-time administration of CGTs has also raised concern about strain on health plan budgets and ...
Molly T. Beinfeld +4 more
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Climate change and health: An assessment of state level adaptation plans. [PDF]
J Clim Chang HealthWeber K, Bole A, Balbus J.
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