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Community Health Workers Spread Across the US, Even in Rural Areas

KFF Health News

But thousands of Karen people — an ethnic minority from the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar — began arriving in 2006. Mickie Scheibe, one of Huron’s community health workers, recently stopped by the house of client Kelly Engebretson. Huron, a small city surrounded by rural areas, is mostly populated by white people.

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Global Warming and Disease

The Health Care Blog

For example, a cold clip near the Caspian Sea in 2006 triggered a mass exodus of swan, which unleashed an H5N1 viral outbreak in domestic birds across Western Europe. Spring migrations are now taking place earlier, with age classes, species and flyways significantly altered.

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Raspberry Pi Health Care

The Health Care Blog

Between 2006 and 2011, Eben Upton and his collaborators sought to change this. You assembled them and figured out what you might want to use them for. Then came Apple and the PC revolution. Our expectations about what computers could do grew as our expectations about what we had to do diminished.

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Remembering Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter at HJ12 in Atlanta

Association of Health Care Journalists

Following that reporting, the state closed the hospital and Oregonian editorials earned the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing based in part on her investigation. During and after the fellowship, Roberts reported on longstanding abuse and inhumane practices at a 145-year-old psychiatric hospital in Oregon.

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“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

The Health Care Blog

The authors ruled out the most obvious cost response–cost-shifting to workers by raising their deductibles or copayments–on the grounds that they found no changes in Health Savings Account enrollment in the sample during the five year study period.

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California pone gafas, guantes y máscaras a 10.000 trabajadores agrícolas para protegerlos de la gripe aviar

KFF Health News

En 2006, el gobernador republicano Arnold Schwarzenegger ordenó aumentar los planes de contingencia de California ante una pandemia, en respuesta a una amenaza anterior de gripe aviar. Sin embargo, las autoridades sanitarias de todo el país han tenido dificultades para rastrear la transmisión de la gripe aviar.

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Truth and Trust in Science: Are They Negotiable?

The Health Care Blog

It was October 17, 2006. Here were some of his 2006 reflections on 1918, a public health catastrophe at a time when the U.S. It is when people feel totally alienated and isolated that the society breaks down. Telling the truth is what held society together.”. Those words were voiced sixteen years ago in Washington, D.C.