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- Schools may serve as swine flu immunization centers
- Kansas confirms first death of someone with swine flu; different …
- Health Care and the Unborn: Why We Need Free Prenatal Care
Schools may serve as swine flu immunization centers
USA Today
“That would be the optimum place to have that happen” he said noting that there was “consensus in the room” about the wisdom of using schools as vaccination sites. It was less clear he said whether schools would serve the same function for wider communities nationwide. Federal officials put “a much stronger emphasis — stronger than I’ve heard in years” — on encouraging school districts and local health departments to open schools as immunization centers said Amy Garcia executive director of the National Association of School Nurses. “If we’re facing a difficult flu season having this kind of conversation up front will help protect kids and will save lives. At a swine flu summit in Maryland last month Education Secretary Arne Duncan said schools “are natural places” to offer flu vaccines even if schools rarely offer vaccination clinics. Meanwhile educators nationwide are waiting to hear whether the federal.
Kansas confirms first death of someone with swine flu; different …
Kansas City Star
The individual died of a chronic medical condition but also was infected with swine flu. “It’s a reminder to all of us in public health that we are dealing with a potentially fatal infection. he child was likely exposed to the virus during the Riley County Fair in late July where the child had direct contact with pigs.
Health Care and the Unborn: Why We Need Free Prenatal Care
Huffington Post
online 26 June 2009) the proportion of American women receiving adequate prenatal care is only 75 percent — which means 1 in 4 women in America are bearing fetuses in danger of compromised development. As you might expect the major reason for any lack of adequate prenatal care in low-income families is economics — it costs money. If a family with a pregnant woman just has enough income to put food on the table and new shoes on the growing feet of children the pregnant woman either delays prenatal care or tries to avoid it as much as possible if payment for the care must come out of the family budget. Can anyone name another industrialized country where a pregnant woman needs to worry about the cost of prenatal care? It’s a uniquely American misery in our current health care circus — a circus in which various clowns in Congress are trying to convince the American people that everything can be left in the hands of private enterprise.
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