Physicians have long expressed dissatisfaction with the time they and their staffs spend interacting with health plans. However, little information exists about the extent of these interactions. We conducted a national survey on this subject of physicians and practice administrators. Physicians reported spending three hours weekly interacting with plans; nursing and clerical staff spent much la...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the development and adoption of national plans or strategies to guide public policy and set goals for services, supports, and research related to dementia. It called for distinct populations to be included within national plans, including adults with intellectual disability (ID). Inclusion of this group is important as having Down's syndrome is...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Center for Executive Medicine (CEM) concierge primary care practice on preventive colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates relative to local and national comparator data. METHODS We performed an electronic medical record search encompassing our entire patient population who are between the ages of 50 and 75 years to determine the rate of...

This paper describes the evolution of a national research plan for computers and education in The Netherlands. This approach was initiated in 1983 and includes two phases: one from 1984 until 1988 and one from 1989 until 1992. The paper describes the research plans for the second phase, based upon the experiences of the first, and draws some general conclusions about the development of national...

The plan mentions that ‘In the European Union alone, a subset of drug-resistant bacteria is responsible annually for some 25 000 deaths, with extra healthcare costs and lost productivity due to antimicrobial resistance amounting to at least €1500 million [2].’ The plan provides a framework for national action plans to combat antimicrobial resistance. Through adoption of the plan, WHO member sta...

It has been estimated that over 700 million people still do not have enough food to eat on a daily basis and that more than 2 billion are subsisting on diets that lack the essential vitamins and minerals required for normal growth and development and to prevent premature death and disabilites such as blindness and mental retardation. At the same time, millions more suffer from chronic diseases ...

Rare diseases are a threat to the health of EU citizens, in so far as they are life-threatening or chronically debilitating diseases with a low prevalence and a high level of complexity. Despite their rarity, there are so many different types of rare diseases that millions of people are affected. The focus on rare diseases and the recognition of the fact that rare diseases have common issues in...

I propose dealing almost exclusively with some methodological aspects of the National Nutrition Survey from the narrowly statistical point of view, leaving statistical inferences and general comments on the results to other speakers. The Central Statistics Office was privileged to collaborate with the Department of Health, but not in so intimate a way as to render it unbecoming for us to congra...

The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, launched in 2005, is a global initiative of 170 member bodies dedicated to ensuring that all women, neonates and children remain healthy and thrive. To do this, the partnership advocates proven, cost-effective interventions that evidence has shown can save at least 7 million of the more than 10 million children who die before their fifth bir...