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- Health Care Reform: Good for Patients Good for Workers Good for …
- Healthcare Spending Growth Slowed in 2007
- Smokers may harm kids via third-hand smoke
- Wake health director heads to Asheville
Health Care Reform: Good for Patients Good for Workers Good for …
AlterNet CA
Posted January 5 2009. Health care reform would give us the opportunity to create jobs that pay us back tenfold.
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Healthcare Spending Growth Slowed in 2007
MedPage Today NJ
Health Care Spending Accelerates Slightly) “Do we feel glad that in 2007 the cost growth overall was the lowest in quite some time? Sure we’re happy about that” said Richard Foster chief actuary for CMS at a press briefing on the report. 1% was still faster than the GDP [growth] so we still have this affordability problem” he added. While the growth rate slowed total spending on healthcare was still enormous — $2. 2 trillion or $7421 for every man woman and child in 2007.
Smokers may harm kids via third-hand smoke
Times of India India
A new study has shown that tobacco smokecontamination lingers even after a cigarette isextinguished. Researchers atMassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) describe this phenomenon as”third-hand” smoke. Lead researcher Jonathan Winickoff assistant director ofthe MGHfC Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy claims that histeam?s study is the first to examine adult attitudes about the healthrisks to children of third-hand smoke and how such beliefs may relate to rulesabout smoking in theirhomes. “When you smoke ?anyplace ? toxic particulate matter from tobacco smoke gets into your hairand clothing. When you come into contact with your baby even if you’re notsmoking at the time she comes in contact with those toxins. And if youbreastfeed the toxins will transfer to your baby in your breastmilk” he says. He however still insiststhat nursing a baby if one is a smoker is still preferable to bottle-feeding.
Wake health director heads to Asheville
WRAL.com NC
— Wake County Health Director Gibbie Harris has been named director of the Buncombe County Health Center in Asheville. Harris has headed Wake County’s public health programs for nine years. She also is a member of the state Child Fatality Task Force and the Accreditation Commission for Health Care and is incoming vice president of the state Association of Local Health Directors. “Gibbie Harris is the complete package – a recognized leader in public health highly respected among her colleagues and a team player who understands the benefits of community collaboration" State Health Director Dr. Leah Devlin said in a statement. "Buncombe County is fortunate to have her.
