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- US school meals may be key to better child health
- First 5 California Contribution Extends Health Coverage to More …
- 5 surprising holiday health myths
- Zimbabwe unveils cholera plan
- AP Source: Gov’s budget targets kids’ health plan
- El Camino Hospital Enters Agreement to Purchase the Assets of …
US school meals may be key to better child health
Reuters
School kids in the United States are getting too many calories from solid fats found in foods such as pizza and hamburgers and sugars from candy and soda said the report by the Institute of Medicine an arm of the National Academies. “Most Americans not just children are not eating as balanced a diet as we want” said Virginia Stallings a professor at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and chair of the committee that conducted the review. “There are so few times where we have an opportunity to touch every child’s life” she said in an interview. The Institute of Medicine conducted the review of the country’s school breakfast and lunch programs at the request of the U. Agriculture Department which oversees them. School meal programs provide 40 million meals daily and more than half of a student’s food and nutrient intake during the school day.
First 5 California Contribution Extends Health Coverage to More …
MarketWatch
First 5 California will provide $16. 7 million to the Managed RiskMedical Insurance Board the agency that administers HealthyFamilies. The funds will be used to pay health care premiums forchildren up to age 5 who are new applicants to Healthy Familiesthrough the end of the fiscal year in June. “Today’s action will allow the state to continue to enroll tens ofthousands of infants and children in the Healthy Families programensuring them access to much-needed health care services” saidGovernor Arnold Schwarzenegger. With their unanimous vote Monday State Commissioners affirmed First5 California’s ongoing commitment to helping ensure all children haveaccess to health coverage particularly during this period of highunemployment and economic instability. “First 5’s action shows that anything is possible when all sides cometogether to tackle a problem — even in the worst budget times” saidSenate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. Assembly Speaker Karen Bass added “I thank the First 5commissioners including my appointees to the panel for hearing ourappeals and stepping up to the plate with a responsible resolutionfor these children.
5 surprising holiday health myths
MSNBC
“You shouldn?t be afraid to have that midnight snack anymore than a mid-day or mid-morning snack” Carroll said. The article citing several studies suggests that Santa?s jolly belly is the result of too many calories overall not just the holiday treats laid out for him in the evening. Carroll and Vreeman?s book “Don’t Swallow Your Gum: Myths Half-truths and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health” will be published in 2009 by St. © 2008 LiveScience. All rights reserved.
Zimbabwe unveils cholera plan
Xinhua China
dollars Cholera Outbreaks Coordinated Preparedness and Operation Plan to enable the country to mount a predictable and coordinated response to the epidemic The Herald reported on Thursday. The cluster was constituted by Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Welfare the World Health Organization UNICEF UNFPA Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Assistance World Vision the international Organization for Migration Doctors Without Borders from Spain Holland Luxembourg and local nongovernmental organizations. Health and Child Welfare Minister David Parirenyatwa said the Zimbabwe government welcomes the operational plan hoping it will help arrest the epidemic. “The ministry directed the strategies and needs that will be taken by health partners while the partners mobilize resources for the battle against cholera. It means whatever happens in the country is in terms of the national policy on health in line with the ‘three ones’ which are one national strategy one coordinating system and one monitoring and evaluating system” he said. All the practices and responses are directed by the government which is the custodian of the country’s health system.
Related from Wateresources: Polluted Water Spreads Cholera in Zimbabwe
AP Source: Gov’s budget targets kids’ health plan
Seattle Times United States
Democrats have made taxpayer-aided health care for kids a major priority in recent years and the state is officially on record as pledging to help cover all children by 2010. But Gregoire apparently sees a suspension of those plans as a necessary hardship amid falling tax revenues. The state official told AP that Gregoire would suspend plans to increase child health coverage to 300 percent of the federal poverty level which is about $64000 a year for a family of four. That plan was part of a bill Gregoire signed into law in 2007. It would charge premiums on a sliding scale and is set to take effect next year although the program always was conditioned on the Legislature budgeting enough money to pay for it. As enacted officials said it would extend coverage to more than 8000 children. Another program that will be cut the state official said is referred to as General Assistance-Unemployable which gives cash grants to disabled people who cannot work.
El Camino Hospital Enters Agreement to Purchase the Assets of …
MarketWatch
Since 2005 HealthGrades a national rating company has named El Camino Hospital a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence placing it in the top 5% of hospitals nationwide. El Camino Hospital is one of only 14 hospitals in California designated as a nursing magnet hospital by the American Nursing Credentialing Center. Specialties include cardiac care dialysis cancer care maternal child health services orthopedics neurosurgery and behavioral health. The hospital is also recognized as a national leader in the use of health information technology to promote patient safety including computerized order entry electronic medical records and wireless communications. To learn more about El Camino Hospital and its services visit our web site at.
