The News Review:
- Two more Britons have swine flu
- Investing in Child And Maternal Health Makes Good Economic Sense
- Continuity of care is critical for children
- As the budget deficit widens here’s where additional health cuts …
- Child health interventions save billions
Two more Britons have swine flu
BBC News
The Health Protection Agency said one is from London and the other from the east adding that the source of infection was still being investigated. f all the UK cases more than half (66) are in the London area. The east of England has seen 12 cases. The World Health rganization (WH) has described swine flu as a "sneaky virus" which was likely to keep spreading. "This is a subtle sneaky virus.
Investing in Child And Maternal Health Makes Good Economic Sense
Voice of America
The consortium called the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child-Health says such investments make good economic sense. The consortium says Africa springs immediately to mind when discussing problems of child and maternal mortality. The Asia and Pacific region does not. It says the region is associated with rapid economic growth as seen in countries such as China and IndiaAnd yet progress in Asia belies the reality. Ian Pett is Chief of Health Systems and Strategic Planning for the UN Children’s Fund.
Continuity of care is critical for children
Denver Post
With more and more families losing health coverage through lost jobs that’s a gamble Colorado can’t afford to keep taking. Simply being eligible for Medicaid does not mean families and children are actually enrolled. In fact more than 78000 children are currently eligible but not enrolled in Medicaid or its partner program the Child Health Plan Plus CHP+ which covers children in the next income tier. ne of the most common reasons that eligible families cease to be enrolled is simply failure to keep ahead of the cumbersome re-enrollment process. “Continuous eligibility” – where children are able to stay enrolled in Medicaid for a period of 12 months like coverage by most private insurance policies – has long been a policy recommendation from child health advocates and health care researchers across the country and here in our state as well. A project of the Colorado Children’s Campaign and Arpegio Health to create a cost simulation model reiterates the importance of this particular policy. According to the research Colorado data show that Medicaid recipients average 8.
As the budget deficit widens here’s where additional health cuts …
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –> Maybe someone in your family has been laid off – more than 300000 children lost health insurance in the last year and a half. In response we’re going to add another 225000 children of working families to that burgeoning number (by cutting existing Healthy Families coverage – $54. Maybe your mom with dementia has been beggared by medical bills – the family home sold not a penny left. Unfortunately your chances of finding a nursing home that will take Medi-Cal just went from slim to practically none ($750 million in proposed cuts plus an increase of $18.
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Child health interventions save billions
United Press International
child is age 5 could save society up to $65 billion in future healthcare costs researchers estimate. Bernard Guyer of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore said four health problems studied — early life tobacco exposure unintentional injury obesity and mental health — constitute significant burdens on the health of preschool-age children and are antecedents of health problems across the life span.
