...DOH adds vaccine vs pneumonia to immunization program July 17, 2013 10:31am Tags: Department of Health The Department of Health has added free anti-pneumonia vaccination to its immunization program for children in the country's health centers. DOH Secretary Enrique Ona said this is another historic milestone to the DOH's Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). “We are introducing the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) to the Philippine vaccination program for infants,” Ona said on the DOH's Facebook page. “This is part of our goal to achieve better health outcomes and meet our health-related Millennium Development Goals by strengthening existing public health programs, such as expanding immunization interventions,” he added. Ona said the vaccine would have cost P2,050 per child, including three doses of the PCV. He added Filipinos may have to spend up to P23,500 for hospitalization, including professional fee, consultation, laboratory tests and medication. The DOH cited Philippine health statistics for 2010 showing pneumonia is the second leading cause of infant mortality, accounting for 2,628 deaths. ARMM, Caraga first beneficiaries The DOH said the integration of the PCV will be done by phases, with Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and Caraga being the first beneficiaries of the program. "Additional regions will be included every year for administration of pneumococcal vaccines until 100 percent of the regions are covered," the DOH...
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...Fragile Administration is a big hurdle for Pulse Polio Immunization program. Vijay, 1 Fragile Administration is a big hurdle for Pulse Polio Immunization program. Gautam Vijay Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Author Note This paper is prepared as a review of Pulse Polio Immunization Program monitored by the author on behalf of WHO-INDIA as an external monitor. FRAGILE ADMINISTRATION…. Vijay, 2 Introduction Year 2007, Pulse Polio Immunization Program was conducted in the Northern part of Gujarat, a state/province in the western part of India. In past few years, despite of repeated periodical Pulse Polio Immunization programs, Government had failed to curb the menace of Polio in this region. This review points out the various loci of laxity observed, while monitoring the program as an External Monitor on behalf of WHO – India, under following headings: - 1. Polio – long standing challenge 2. Emergence of Pulse Polio 3. Role of External Monitors 4. Personal experience with the programme in North Gujarat in 2007 Polio – long lasting challenge Polio, also known as Poliomyelitis is a viral contagious disease, caused by Polio virus. It is an intestinal virus which attacks the nervous system. The disease is contracted through contact with contaminated feces or through airborne droplets in food and water. Port of entry into the human body is via nostrils or oral cavity, the virus then reaches the intestines. After incubation it enters...
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...Periodic Intensification of ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION PRE-PRINT RELEASE Lessons Learned and Implications for Action Cover photos courtesy: TopLeft: UNICEF TopRight: UNICEF/El Salvador/Gonzalo Bell BottomLeft: WHO BottomRight: AED/Berengere DeNegri Periodic Intensification of ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION Lessons Learned and Implications for Action e Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals thanks the donors whose unspecified financial support has made the production of this document possible. is document was produced by the IMMUNIZATIONbasics Project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (Cooperative Agreement #GHS-A-00-04-00004-00) and the Expanded Programme on Immunization team of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Ordering code: WHO/IVB/____ Printed: _____2009 is publication is available on the Internet at: www.who.int/vaccines-documents/ www.immunizationbasics.jsi.com Copies of this document as well as additional materials on immunization, vaccines and biologicals may be requested from: World Health Organization Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland • Fax: + 41 22 791 4227 • Email: vaccines@who.int • © World Health Organization 2009 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization can be obtained from WHO Press, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland (tel: +41 22 791 3264; fax: +41 22 791...
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...guided the actions of the group; and lastly, for her professional and motherly approaches which both disciplined and encouraged the students. Prof. Zussette O. Villar, Prof. Lawrence O. Pamintuan, and Prof. Kenneth E. Librea, for their diligence and hard work in guiding the students throughout the span of the community immersion; for the friendship and seniority that they offered to the students; and for extending their time and efforts in criticizing the works of the students towards continuous improvement. This study would not have been a success without them. Presidents Evangeline Borja and Nicomeded Aguilar of Dilang I and Dilang II, for warmly welcoming the PLP College of Nursing and for actively cooperating and participating in the programs implemented by the students; The students’ parents and friends, for all of the material...
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...CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM Introduction Health is a right of every human being. Healthy people are a pre-requisite to national development. The department of health uses the life span approach to design programs and assist in the delivery of health services to specific age groups. It views health care of individuals within the context of the family. The term family is defines as the basic unit of the community. All members of the family are empowered to maintain their health status. The health of the family is considered as a whole and not individually. (Cuevas, 2009) In the Philippines, three million pregnancies occur every year, half are unintended, one third of which end in abortions. An estimated eleven mothers die of pregnancy related causes everyday, most of these deaths could have been avoided in a properly functioning health care delivery system. Among the leading direct causes of maternal deaths in the country are: post partum hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, abortion related complications and obstructed labor. Beyond the glaring data of mortality lies a huge toll of ill health and disability due to pregnancy related complications and infant and child deaths and deepening poverty in families where a mother has died. It is estimated that for every maternal death there is at least twenty to thirty other women who suffer from serious complications, some of which are life long. Maternal health conditions are the leading causes of burden of disease among women...
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...Millennium Development Goal INTRODUCTION The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all 193 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. The aim of the MDGs is to encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the world's poorest countries. They derive from earlier international development targets, and were officially established following the Millennium Summit in 2000, where all world leaders present adopted the United. The Millennium Summit was presented with the report of the Secretary-General entitled ‘We the Peoples: the Role of the United Nations in the Twenty-First Century’. Additional input was prepared by the Millennium Forum, which brought together representatives of over 1,000 non-governmental and civil society organizations from more than 100 countries. The Forum met in May 2000 to conclude a two-year consultation process covering issues such as poverty eradication, environmental protection, human rights and protection of the vulnerable. A major conference was held at UN headquarters in New York on 20–22 September 2010 to review progress to date, with five years left to the 2015 deadline. The conference concluded with the adoption of a global action plan to achieve the eight anti-poverty goals by their 2015 target date. There were also major new commitments on women's and children's health, and major new initiatives in the worldwide...
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...Introduction Dr. C.E. Winslow defines Public Health as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort for the sanitation of the environment, control of communicable diseases, the education of individuals in personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health, so organizing these benefits as to enable every citizen to realize his birthright of health and longevity. Public health nursing is defined by the World Health Organization Expert Committee of Nursing as a special field of nursing that combines the skills of nursing, public health and some phases of social assistance and functions as part of the total public health programme for the promotion of health, the improvement of the conditions in the social and physical environment, rehabilitation of illness and disability. Community diagnosis is the process of identification of the various factors that affect the health of an individual in the community and to detect certain problems that a community has. As a community it involves all the individuals that are living in it. Assessment of these factors is done by the Public Health Nurse. It is not an easy task for it requires thorough investigation by surveying families present in the community...
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...for free or low-cost health care has grown, and FQHC capacity has expanded in response (see Figure 1). Since the mid-1990s, the ranks of uninsured Americans grew faster than the general population, while the willingness of private physicians to provide charity care declined.2 In addition, the proportion of the U.S. population covered by Medicaid increased from approximately 10 percent in 1999 to 17 percent in 2010.3 Federal support for FQHCs ramped up during the Bush administration (2001-08) and has continued under the Obama administration. Direct federal funding for FQHCs increased from roughly $750 million in 1996 to $2.2 billion in 2010, helping to increase the number of FQHC organizations nationally from about 700 to 1,200—with more than 8,100 sites of care. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 added another $2 billion in temporary FQHC funding for capital and service improvements through 2010. http://www.hschange.com/CONTENT/1257/ What Happens to Indian Health Services? _Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA) was permanently reauthorized for IHS, Triballyoperated programs, and Urban Indian Programs. _Authorizes more IHS services - ex: behavioral health, prevention programs, hospice, assisted living, long term, home & community-based care. _Numerous grants opportunities under the ACA for workforce development, trauma centers, preventive care, early childhood programs, innovative healthcare models, Medicaid outreach. Why Medicaid...
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...Student’s name Teacher’s name Course name Date The impact of immunization on the development of autism In recent years, a worldwide concern over immunization and its schedule has increased dramatically. The vaccine-autism hypothesis belongs to the most extensively debated theories related to the origins of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Critics of dangerous ingredients contained in vaccines designate that such preservatives may contribute to, or cause, a range of cognitive disorders in children. When administered at early age, immunization may seriously affect neurological and not completely developed immune systems. In contrast, both biological and epidemiological studies tend to contradict the vaccine-autism theory. Given this fact, it is of vital importance to thoroughly examine both sides of the coin and come to a reasonable conclusion. PECULIARITIES OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER Autism, or, more broadly, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), includes a number of complex cognitive and communicational disorders. According to Richard Lathe, the molecular biologist, autism is difficult to define (20). However, there exists a range of distinctive peculiarities, by which one can recognize ASD. Repetitive patterns of behavior, a withdrawal from social relatedness and interaction, and specific movement patterns characterize autism. The symptoms occur from early childhood, usually at age of 2-3 years, and affect daily functioning (Lathe 32). The diagnosis of ASD incorporates the evaluation...
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...Demographics Paper University of Phoenix HCS 490 - Healthcare Consumer: Trends and Marketing Demographics on Youth The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) is a state public health agency in Maryland, where the mission is to provide, protect and promote and improve the health and well being of Maryland citizens in a responsible way. This paper will highlight the agency functions and description of how the agency relates to other public agencies, the structure of the agency and the funding that is received to maintain quality and access to healthcare. The text reads that today, the state health departments have expanded their activities to include improving the health of children and pregnant women, controlling health care facilities, developing emergency medical services and other health care resources, and protecting the environment. The DHMH believes that responsibility of the agency is to ensure that citizens of Maryland are protected by living a free life and threats of communicable diseases, tainted foods, and dangerous products. The text states that each state health department must identify the goals and strategies to improve the health of its citizens. To encourage and implement improvements, the state health department must has to access the health status and needs of the population by incorporating the strategies, costs, and assistance that will support these plans. The DHMH assures residents receive appropriate access to...
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...Assignment 7.1: Children’s Health Insurance Program Jennifer Heuring Maryville University Dr. Jean Gordon NURS602 Assignment 5.1: Children’s Health Insurance Program Introduction It is of vital importance for Americans to have the ability to access health care to maintain health and wellness. Many disease processes are modifiable and even avoidable but the lack of proper access to healthcare can heighten the risk of people’s ability to reach their full potential in life. This issue ranges from older adults to newborn children. According to the Children’s Defense Fund (n.d.), 7.2 million children under the age of 19 remained uninsured in 2012. That is 1 out of every 11 of our children. The pediatric population does not have the ability or choice to change the circumstances that their life has handed them. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) seeks to provide health insurance to uninsured children. Working cooperatively between the federal government and individual state governments, SCHIP provides an alternative to families whose wages are too high to qualify for Medicaid yet too low to make private coverage affordable. The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was created by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, enacted Title XXI of the Social Security Act. It has allocated about $20 billion over 10 years to assist states insure low-income children. Problem definition Research has found that people within the United States...
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...Obamacare allegedly is supposed to provide the families access to quality healthcare with lower fees/insurance. II. President Obama and the Origins of the AHCA Obamacare was modeled after Mitt Romney’s “RomenyCare”, a health care reform passed in the state of Mass. Obamacare was passed on March 23, 2010 by President Obama President Obama assured that in 2014 all of the insured 85% of Americans with Obamacare have been experiencing what the program has to offer since 2010 In 2015 President Obama announced that will Obamacare the patients will not have experiences with out-of-pocket costs. III. What does Obamacare offer its patients? (BRIEF) Obamacare offers Americans a number of new benefits, rights, and protections in regards to their healthcare Obamacare allows Americans to purchase federally regulated and subsidized Health Insurance during open enrollment Obamacare Expanded Medicaid to all adults in many states Obamacare Improved Medicare for seniors and those with long-term disabilities Obamacare Expanded employer coverage to millions of employees “As of 2013 there were around 44 million Americans who went without health insurance (about 16% of the population). The majority of uninsured were working families and others who simply could not afford health insurance. One of the major aims of ObamaCare is to help these individuals to get health insurance through expanding Medicaid eligibility and offering cost assistance through health insurance marketplaces...
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...million people, 40 percent of whom are living in poverty (HIES 2005). The Bangladesh National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction (NSAPR 2005) considers in particular the human dimensions of poverty (deprivation of health, education, nutrition, gender gaps) and commits the MoHFW to reach the poor and vulnerable, especially women and children. The Health and Population Sector Strategy (HPSS), which commenced in 1998, sets the stage to develop the SWAp and for the development of the Health and Population Sector Programme (HPSP) which was to include reforms such as improved and more efficient service delivery by unifying the two wings, health and family planning (FP), under the MoHFW. The current Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Program (HNPSP) outlines activities from 2003-2010, with objectives to improve health outcomes, reduce health inequities, enhance quality of care, modernize the GoB health sector, and attain the health related MDGs. This document has tried to incorporate the MDG (4, 5 and 6) targets, while offering slightly different targets for HNPSP. The Revised Programme Implementation Plan (RPIP) of Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Programme (HNPSP) 2003-2010, proposed budget for the whole sector by dividing it into four sub-sectors: Health Programme (HP), Nutrition Programme, Population Programme (PP) and Ministry Level Sector Development. Major Reproductive Health (RH) components are under HP and PP. There are mainly four levels of health facilities...
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...communities and population”. Nurses are providing care in all different heath care settings like hospitals, nursing homes, schools, medical offices, natural disasters, immunization clinic, research centers, pharmaceutical research and or any health related emergency like Ebola outbreak. Impact Of IOM Report On Health Care Practice The Institute Of Medicine (IOM) IOM (The Institute Of Medicine) is started in 1970. IOM is nonprofit, independent organization. It governs independent of government and give wise, reliable, and legal advice by providing reliable evidence. “The IOM is health arm national academy of science which was charted under president Abraham Lincoln in 1863.Nearly 150 years after national academies of science has expanded in to what is collectively known as national Academies which comprises the national Academy of science, national academy of engineering, the national research council and the IOM”. The IOM gives answer the nation’s most critical questions about health care. The nursing profession and medical field growing fast, nurses playing vital role with patient care. In 2008 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Institute of Medication (IOM) started a two year program to the transform the nursing profession with detail assessment. The committee of IOM on RWJF (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) program of the future of nursing at the IOM. The goal was to create the report that would make recommendation for the Nursing and its future detail planning with specific...
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...In what ways have recent health care reform measures expanded or inhibited access to care? After more than a year of debate and countless meetings, votes, and speeches, Congress passed sweeping health reform legislation last month, and President Barack Obama signed it into law. By an overwhelming majority (89%), leaders in health care and health policy think the new reform law will successfully expand access to affordable health insurance to the millions of Americans who currently go without it. The latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders survey—which was fielded while the legislation was still pending in Congress—also found that virtually all key features of the health reform law are supported by a large majority of opinion leaders. The Patient Care and Affordable Care Act created and signed into law to ensure that all Americans have access to health care at affordable costs and to help control the rising cost of health care. Opposed from the beginning, this reform measure creates opportunities for individuals to access insurance with pre-existing conditions, preventative service, and immunizations, dependent coverage up to age 26, and to develop information for consumers to make informed comparisons when shopping for health insurance. This Act will be implemented in 2014 and the impact of the costs that will have to be covered by employers is a huge concern. Employers are finding ways to get around paying for employees health care costs by reducing...
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