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How the ACA changed health insurance for the better

Association of Health Care Journalists

1, 2014, all individual and group health plans were required to issue policies to all applicants, regardless of their health status or health history, according to this KFF report in 2012. When the law became fully effective on Jan.

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#WNTD Blog: Tobacco and Mental Health - Untangling the relationship and identifying opportunities to progress policy

Institute of Public Health

Dr Ciara Reynolds and Dr Joanna Purdy pictured at the European Conference on Tobacco or Health Smoking and mental health Later this year the Institute of Public Health plans to publish a new report on the relationship between mental ill-health and tobacco use in Northern Ireland. and McMahon, SA.

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Raspberry Pi Health Care

The Health Care Blog

In 2012 – February 29, to be exact – they released the Raspberry Pi. Our expectations about what computers could do grew as our expectations about what we had to do diminished. Between 2006 and 2011, Eben Upton and his collaborators sought to change this. They wanted to make a computer that was programmable, fun, affordable, and robust.

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Why Kaiser bet on Cone Health for its N.C. expansion

NC Health News

We already know exactly what we got from the fee-for-service world, said former Triad Healthcare Network executive director Steve Noerr during a 2020 Duke health policy webinar. Does the patient end up healthier? Itll deliver expensive, inefficient care, fragmented, low quality, and its a sick care system.

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

NC Health News

The second study, in 2012, examined data from 2001 to 2010. More Coverage of Children’s Health What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year. Officials at Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg, were concerned about the data, Vitaglione said. percent, to 1.9

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Remembering Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter at HJ12 in Atlanta

Association of Health Care Journalists

Its unlikely any of us who attended AHCJs Health Journalism 2012 conference in Atlanta will ever forget hearing from former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.