Current scholarship has not addressed the systemic problems that occur in the process of implementing healthcare reform, tending instead to focus on proposing single reform measures to cure specific problems or on constitutional problems related to the Affordable Care Act. 1 To address that gap, this article carefully analyzes a case study of Medicare‘s efforts to control unnecessary hospital a...

International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), an independent international organization established in 1925, develops, maintains, and elaborates radiological protection standards, legislation, and guidelines. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) provides scientific evidence. World Health Organization (WHO) and International Atomic Energy...

M A Degail1,2, G J Hughes ([email protected])3, C Maule4, C Holmes4, M Lilley5, R Pebody1, J Bonnet4, A Bermingham1, S Bracebridge3 1. Health Protection Agency, Colindale, United Kingdom 2. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 3. Health Protection Agency East of England, Cambridge, ...

1460 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 12, No. 9, September 2006 Oliver Morgan,* Paul Crook,† Tom Cheasty,* Brian Jiggle,* Isabelle Giraudon,‡§ Harriett Hughes,¶ Stephen-Morris Jones,¶ and Helen Maguire‡# *Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom; †South West London Health Protection Unit, London, United Kingdom; ‡Health Protection Agency Londo...

U.S. DEP Dental caries and tooth loss are important oral health indicators for adults and are key measures for monitoring progress toward health promotion goals set by Healthy People 2020 (1,2). Although tooth decay and complete tooth loss have been declining in the United States since the 1960s, disparities have remained between some groups (3,4). As adults age, oral health-related quality of ...

The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., generally provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating the rule must submit a rule report to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the United States. EPA will submit a report containing this rule and other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Comptrol...

This paper reviews the applicability of commercial and social marketing to teen driving safety. It draws on a wide range of information, including evaluation studies of specific programs as well as standards of practice within these two professions. Social marketing has been widely applied for more than three decades in the fields of public health, environmental protection, and political market...

OBJECTIVE To provide state-level estimates of the size and structure of the US individual market for health insurance and to investigate the potential impact of new medical loss ratio (MLR) regulation in 2011, as indicated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). STUDY DESIGN Using data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, we provided state-level estimat...

In the early stages of drafting what would become the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the notion of including a federal health insurance issuer in the online marketplaces engen-deredanintensedebate. 1

The voluminous bill known as the PPACA of 2010 enabled substantial changes to our health care delivery system, some of which remain to be enacted for several years to come. While the overarching goal is to align incentives and improve quality and access, implementing PPACA initiatives in a highly complex environment is fraught with economic and political implications. The purpose of this and fu...