Health Reform and Healthy People Initiative

Healthy People 2010 Initiative

Healthy people 2010, is an all inclusive countrywide promotion for health and prevention of diseases. The initiative formed a road map on whose basis the health of all American people was supposed to be improved in the first ten years of the 21st century. The initiatives predecessor was the Healthy people 2000 initiative that was supposed to improve the overall health of the nation during the e...

Health care reform and people with disabilities.

As a group, people with disabilities or chronic conditions experience higher-than-average health care costs and have difficulty gaining access to affordable private health insurance coverage. While the Americans with Disabilities Act will enhance access by prohibiting differential treatment without sound actuarial justification, it will not guarantee equal access for people in impairment groups...

Keeping health care reform healthy, patients informed.

ANA has advocated for decades to secure meaningful health care reform. Passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a comprehensive law that aims to protect consumers, increase access to care, promote health, improve and refocus the health care delivery system, and control costs. Prior to full implementation, it has been reported that the law has provided 54 million Americans free access to preven...

Assuring Health Coverage for Rural People through Health Reform

Integrated Family Health Initiative: Catalysing change for healthy communities Integrated FamIly HealtH InItIatIve