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More Community Health Care Now, That's The Remedy For Our Ailing Hospitals, Australia
In response to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report on hospitals, Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) said the best remedy for Australia"s hospitals is to keep people out of them.
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U.S. Must Do More To Address Maternal Mortality In Developing Countries, Rep. Moore Writes In Opinion Piece
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama"s visit to Africa this weekend "will send a powerful message to the world about their commitment to ensuring Africa"s continued progress," Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) writes in an opinion piece in The Hill. She continues that "for Africa to make this long-forestalled progress, a renewed promise must be made to provide highly cost-effective solutions to ensure that women are healthy before, during and after pregnancy."According to Moore, "More than 500,000 women worldwide die from pregnancy each year, and millions more endure life-threatening complications." For example, in Ghana, women"s risk of pregnancy-related death is one in 45, compared with one in 4,800 in the U.S., she writes. "In some of the world"s poorest countries, including Afghanistan, the maternal death risk is as high as one in eight," Moore adds. Access to health care is a significant part of the problem, she writes, noting that "[o]nly 40% of births worldwide take place in a health facility" and that "[s]ix of the seven countries with the highest levels of maternal mortality have less than one doctor per every 10,000 people."Moore continues that she is "encouraged" that the House Appropriations Committee recently approved increased funding for family planning and maternal and child health as part of the fiscal year 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations bill (HR 3081). "However, more remains to be done by the United States and our partners around the world if we are truly going to fulfill the promise of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, one of which is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters and achieve universal access to reproductive health," she adds. Although there has been progress in fighting HIV/AIDS and working toward other Millennium Development Goals, "[w]e must recognize the appalling lack of progress that has been made in the area of maternal mortality, child mortality and family planning as major barriers to progress on all of the other goals," according to Moore."Pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood should not be a death sentence," Moore writes. She concludes, "Improving impoverished women"s chances of survival before, during and after pregnancy is an issue of rights and social justice. It is also a sound economic and social investment, given the importance of women to the well-being of their children, families and societies" (Moore, The Hill, 7/7).
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1957-58 Flu Pandemic Can Provide Clues To Planning For H1N1
As the U.S. prepares for a resurgence of H1N1 influenza this fall, much can be learned from looking at a previous pandemic that had similar patterns. In an article published today in Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, researchers at the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) examined historical documents, published material, and newspaper coverage related to the 1957-58 influenza pandemic to compare the progress and severity of that outbreak with the current one. The simple, practical actions taken in 1957 allowed the country to continue functioning with minimal disruption.
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Wall Street Journal Examines Patients' Confusion Over Coverage Of Preventive Exams

As employers increasingly offer no-cost preventive care as a means of controlling health costs, some people under such plans are being charged for services not deemed preventive by the insurer, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to Watson Wyatt Worldwide, 72% of large employers in 2009 cover 100% of preventive care -- such as physicals, colonoscopies or mammograms -- for employees, an increase from 55% of large companies in 2008. The Journal reports that the charges often result from billing errors or from a physician"s office being unaware of an insurer"s procedures. Charges that are the result of billing errors often can be reversed. However, others -- such as a test or treatment not being defined by the insurer as preventive -- force some patients to "wage a protracted battle" to get the charges reversed, according to the Journal. When unexpected charges appear on patients" bills, physicians and employers often receive complaints but they have little control over how insurers classify treatments. The Journal reports that patients can prevent being charged for preventive services by checking with their insurer before seeking care; asking for specific, covered screenings and treatments at physicians" offices; reviewing explanation of benefits forms supplied by insurers; asking supervisors at insurers to review disputed claims; and seeking help from employees in company human re departments (Wilde Mathews, Wall Street Journal, 5/21). Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/healthpolicy. The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. © 2009 Advisory Board Company and Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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