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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

Set up prior to the signing of the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement in 1998, IPH has been shaping public health policy across the island of Ireland for 25 years. Shifting the policy focus has the potential to secure a healthier economy, healthier communities, and a healthier future for all.”

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This Bill Aims To Help Firefighters With Cancer. Getting It Passed Is Just the Beginning.

KFF Health News

Firefighters have a 14% higher chance of dying from cancer than the general population, according to a 2024 study, and the disease was responsible for 66% of career firefighter line-of-duty deaths from 2002 to 2019. The Los Angeles wildfires brought the fear generated by these statistics into bold relief. Learn more about KFF.

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Fewer NC children dying at the hands of a parent or caregiver, new report shows

NC Health News

That initial 2002 report found that 378 North Carolina children were killed by parents or caregivers from 1985 to 2000. More Coverage of Children’s Health What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year. That amounted to 2.2

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Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part two)

The Health Care Blog

George Halvorson is Chair and CEO of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding and was CEO of Kaiser Permanente from 2002-14.

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Defanging HIPAA: How Your De-identified Data Was Re-identified For Profit.

The Health Care Blog

But its commercial worth quickly became evident resulting in a sale to GE Health in 2002, becoming their “must-have” MQIC database. The doctors were assured that the data housed in their proprietary medical record system was de-identified and intended for altruistic purposes.

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Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part one)

The Health Care Blog

A significantly large number of health policy people in settings like MedPac carefully avoid mentioning, discussing or even considering those additional benefits and those direct member savings because, they say, those benefits in Medicare Advantage happen for individual people. Part 2 coming soon).

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Medicare Advantage Saves Lives, Limbs, Sight, And Major Amounts of Money – (Part 1)

The Health Care Blog

Part 2 coming soon) George Halvorson is Chair of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding and was CEO of Kaiser Permanente from 2002-14. Plans do the right thing to keep people from needing emergency room care, and they do it very consistently by providing better direct care.