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People in health education are beginning to use a literature genre called a photonovela. This genre tells a picture story and is designed like a comic book with text in bubbles to indicate who is speaking.
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Members with bipolar disorder are getting the help they need to keep their condition under control through a new telephone coaching program from Health Alliance Plan (HAP) of Michigan.
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Ectopic pregnancy continues to be a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality during the first trimester.
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While expanding health insurance coverage is a necessary and important step in health care reform, it will fail if it is not coupled with actions to address quality and cost, according to officials with a number of quality and other stakeholder organizations.
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While dental services often have not received the attention given some other health care disciplines, many communities now are attempting to provide more services targeted to vulnerable, low-income residents.
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Coverage for mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders in state plans and proposals to cover the uninsured generally involve Medicaid expansions, parity, limited coverage, or minimal or no benefits.
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Children's Dental Health Project chairman Burton Edelstein, DDS, MPH, told the Alliance for Health Reform/Kaiser Family Foundation briefing on dental health issues that it is important to focus on children's oral health because "everything that goes wrong in people's oral health throughout a lifetime is initiated during the pediatric years.
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One in five U.S. residents reported not getting or delaying needed medical care in the previous 12 months, up significantly from one in seven people in 2003.
