Sentences with phrase «u.s. public health system»

He received a U.S. Public Health System Merit Award.

After an internship at the U.S. Public Health System's Marine Hospital in Chicago, he served as an assistant surgeon for the Public Health System's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he studied the pathogenesis of histoplasmosis, a fungal infection.

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Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

Surveys of public opinion indicate that Germans by and large are satisfied with their health care system (as opposed to the U.S. where a large portion of the population thinks that system needs substantial changes).

The study was conducted at Parkland, the public health system for Dallas County, the ninth largest county by population and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S.. From Parkland's system of 10 neighborhood - based pediatric clinics, researchers identified four clinics with the largest volume of patients aged 11 to 18.

«The way that the U.S. political and health systems are set up lends itself to mismanagement, confusion and uncoordinated responses,» said co-author Phillip Singer, doctoral student in the School of Public Hhealth systems are set up lends itself to mismanagement, confusion and uncoordinated responses,» said co-author Phillip Singer, doctoral student in the School of Public HealthHealth.

Public health leaders, including many experts at U-M, correctly predicted that the U.S. would be well equipped to handle Ebola if it reached the country, and could keep the disease from being the threat it was in Africa and other nations that have less sophisticated health care systems.

The U.S. public health and medical systems have had prior experience with sporadic cases of diseases such as Ebola.

In a 2015 report published in PLOS ONE, a team from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that Lyme disease costs the U.S. healthcare system between $ 712 million and $ 1.3 billion a year in return doctor visits and testing.

Drew Altman, Ph.D., of the Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, Calif., and William H. Frist, M.D., former U.S. Senate majority leader, analyzed the roles of Medicare and Medicaid in the health system using publicly available data and private surveys of the public and beneficiaries.

«Nobody would disagree that the public mental health system has historically been under - funded in the U.S.,» he said.

In a 2015 report published in PLOS ONE, a team from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that Lyme disease costs the U.S. health - care system between $ 712 million and $ 1.3 billion a year in return doctor visits and teHealth found that Lyme disease costs the U.S. health - care system between $ 712 million and $ 1.3 billion a year in return doctor visits and tehealth - care system between $ 712 million and $ 1.3 billion a year in return doctor visits and testing.

Public health in the U.S. can be affected by disruptions of physical, biological, and ecological systems, including disturbances originating in the U.S. and elsewhere.

It's even a legitimate fear about the U.S. public education system — one that the past 24 hours has done little to quell, particularly since President Trump's Education Secretary choice, billionaire Betsy DeVos, was approved 12 - 11 Tuesday by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP).

• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population

Chartered by Congress in 1991 as the nonprofit partner of the U.S. Forest Service, NFF promotes the health and public enjoyment of the 193 - million - acre National Forest System.

Furthermore, it was identified by the Davies Public Affairs 2009 national player survey of hospital executives as the preferred partner for hospitals and health systems across the U.S.

Trauma - Informed Approach and Trauma - Specific Interventions Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Provides summaries of trauma - specific interventions based upon psychosocial educational empowerment principles that have been used extensively in public system settings.