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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.
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A Georgetown University Center for Children and Families analysis says West Virginia's Medicaid redesign that stresses personal responsibility for wellness has led to limiting benefits primarily for children and hasn't had a significant impact on the stated goals of improving beneficiaries' health and increasing healthy behavior.
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The latest Fiscal Survey of States by the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) says FY 2008 "marked a turning point for state finances with a significant increase in states seeing fiscal difficulties, in stark contrast to the preceding several years."
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Lapses in personal protective equipment and training could soon become a lot more costly. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed a "clarification" of rules, including the respirator protection and bloodborne pathogen standards, that give it authority to magnify fines for hospitals and other employers.
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Many hospitals would be happy to lift their rate of health care worker influenza immunization past 60% or 70%, but in Iowa, the bar is quite a bit higher than that. In fact, it is near perfection.
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It just takes an evening of viewing the television drama E.R. to know that hospital work is stressful. But the stress that evolves into an occupational hazard isn't from treating trauma victims or mysterious illnesses.
