* Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council ( EPSCO ): Composed of employment, social protection, consumer protection, health and equal opportunities ministers.

The Irish health system, being administered centrally by the Health Service Executive, is seen to be poor by comparison to other countries in Europe, ranking outside expected levels at 25th according to the Euro Health Consumer Index 2006.

* Consumer Network-community forum with specific relevance to patients or health care consumers

In June 2006, the Health Consumer Powerhouse ranked the Irish health service as the second least " consumer-friendly " in the European Union and Switzerland, coming 25th out of 26 countries, ahead of Lithuania.

These include health statistics, National Accounts, Retail and Consumer Prices and Labour Market Statistics.

Moss chaired the Consumer Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee where he sponsored a measure requiring detailed labeling on cigarette packages noting the health hazards of smoking and banning tobacco advertising on radio and television.

Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1981 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1985 ; Award of Excellence, by the Triangle J Council of Governments, in 1985 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Research Triangle Group of the Sierra Club, in 1986 ; Service Award, by the Orange-Chatham Alliance for the Mentally Ill ; Triangle Conservation Award, by the Triangle Land Conservancy, in 1987 ; Consumer Advocate of the Year, by the North Carolina Consumers Council, in 1987 ; Honorary Citizenship of the City of Raleigh, by Mayor Avery Upchurch, in 1987, for efforts in the passage of the phosphate detergent limitation ; Resolution of Appreciation, by the Governor's Crime Commission, in 1987 ; Service Award, by the Joint Orange Chatham Community Action, Inc. Board of Directors, in 1988 ; Service Award, by the North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club, in 1988 ; Legislative Award, by the North Carolina Chapter, American Planning Association, in 1989 ; Legislative Award, by the N. C. Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the N. C. Pediatric Society, in 1989 ; Appreciation Award, by the Chatham County Advisory Council of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, in 1990 ; " Best Bets For 1990 ", by the Center For Policy Alternatives, Sustainable Growth Program, in 1990, " For Leadership in Reducing Environmental Hazards by Sponsoring Legislation to Establish Free Disposal Sites for Used Tires "; Service Award, by the Environmental Quality and Natural Resources Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference, in 1991, " In Appreciation For His Outstanding Leadership As Chairman .... 1989-1991 "; Recycling Merit Award, by the North Carolina Recycling Association in 1991 ; Appreciation Award, by the North Carolina Property Mappers Association, in 1993 ; Jake Alexander Public Service Award, by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Students Against Driving Drunk, and the Governor's Highway Safety Program, in 1993 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1996 ; Legislator of the Year, by North Carolina Citizen Action, for " your years of outstanding leadership and dedication to the fair protection of North Carolina families, workers and environment ", in 1996 ; Certificate of Commendation, by the North Carolina Psychiatric Association, for " persistence and legislative commitment to improving mental health in North Carolina ", in 1997 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1998 ; Friend of Education Award, by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Association of Educators, in 1999 ; Public Service Award, by the Child Care Services Association, for " outstanding advocacy and service on behalf of young children and their families ", in 2003.

The five specialty journals are the Environmental and Energy Law and Policy Journal ( environmental law, energy law ; founded in 2005 ), the Houston Business and Tax Law Journal ( business law, tax law ; founded in 2001 ), the Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy ( health care law ), the Houston Journal of International Law ( international law ), and the Journal of Consumer & Commercial Law ( commercial law ).

Consumer sentiments are the attitudes of households and banchaut entities toward the economy and the health of the fiscal markets, and they are a strong constituent of consumer spending.

The U. S. data is evidenced in a 2007 Consumer Reports study on the U. S. health care system which showed that the underinsured account for 24 % of the U. S. population and live with skeletal health insurance that barely covers their medical needs and leaves them unprepared to pay for major medical expenses.

When added to the population of uninsured ( approximately 16 % of the U. S. population ), a total of 40 % of Americans ages 18 – 64 have inadequate access to health care, according to the Consumer Reports study.

Consumer Health Informatics ( CHI ) helps bridge the gap between patients and health resources.

Consumer Health Informatics include technologies focused on patients as the primary users to health information.

Consumer health informatics is the branch of medical informatics that analyses consumers ' needs for information ; studies and implements methods of making information accessible to consumers ; and models and integrates consumers ' preferences into medical information systems.

Consumer informatics stands at the crossroads of other disciplines, such as nursing informatics, public health, health promotion, health education, library science, and communication science, and is perhaps the most challenging and rapidly expanding field in medical informatics ; it is paving the way for health care in the information age.

In 1994, the U. S. FDA Consumer magazine said: " No health claims for Gerovital have been substantiated, and FDA considers it an unapproved new drug.

* Health Canada: Consumer products ( Product Safety Bureau branch ), pharmaceutical drugs, health supplements.

Our Mission is to promote right choices in a volatile and dynamic market place by providing consumer education for all through integrating experiential good practices and scientific knowledge for the safety and health of consumers and the environment .. Consumer VOICE Pakistan ( CVP ) publishes monthly Consumer VOICE magazine in Pakistan.

He has received the Rosemary Delbridge Memorial Award from the National Consumer Council ( U. K .) for the person “ who has most influenced Parliament and government to act for the welfare of society .” He also received the Key to Tohoko University ( Japan ) for distinguished contributions to human rights in mental health.

* Philips Consumer Products, Guildford provides sales and marketing for televisions, including High Definition televisions, DVD recorders, hi-fi and portable audio, CD recorders, PC peripherals, cordless telephones, home and kitchen appliances, personal care ( shavers, hair dryers, body beauty and oral hygiene ).

In Missouri, 12, 000 home care attendants in the Consumer Directed Services program voted to unite in the Missouri Home Care Union, a joint local of AFSCME and SEIU.

The Center for Consumer Freedom is publisher of the website PetaKillsAnimals. com, which alleges People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals unnecessarily euthanizes animals in its care.

SMH offers care in 40 different specialties and is ranked as one of " America's Best Hospitals " by U. S. News & World Report, and has won the Consumer Choice Award for the best hospital in the area for 12 consecutive years.

The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that treating nail gun wounds costs at least $ 338 million per year nationally in emergency medical care, rehabilitation, and workers ' compensation.

Norelco is the American brand name for electric shavers and other personal care products made by the Consumer Lifestyle division of Philips.

# Lewis D, Eysenbach G, Kukafka R, Stavri PZ, Jimison H. Consumer health informatics: informing consumers and improving health care.

The charges were driven by the testimony of children interviewed by mental health professionals using techniques later discredited as a contemporary version of witch hunts.

Since the 1970s, the introduction of a recovery approach to mental health, which has been driven mainly by people who have experienced psychosis ( or whatever name is used to describe their experiences ), has led to a greater awareness that mental illness is not a lifelong disability, and that there is an expectation that recovery is possible, and probable with effective support.

In a health care system that is driven largely by medical models, OTs can play an important role in promoting psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery when addressing the underlying issues associated with SAD.

The US Army, driven by a reformist attitude at home, had an intolerance for prostitution on the basis of public health.

In the years following Ontario's founding, the economy was driven by its reputation as a health resort.

Critics argue that microcredit has driven poor households into a debt trap, that the money from loans is used for consumption, that men actually use the money for which their female relatives get into debt and that microcredit does not alleviate poverty or improve health and education.

Number Six has repeatedly been under the influence of psychotropic and hallucinogenic drugs, and undergone periods of severe mental or physical stress without apparent effect on his health, although he has occasionally been driven to exhaustion by his ordeals.

Aiming for Prevention has been driven by IPPNW affiliates from the global South — primarily Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia — whose members live and work in areas where armed violence is a constant threat and consumes significant portions of health care budgets.

Dorrell acknowledged that resources would become tighter but changes driven by new medicines and new expectations were inevitable and integration of health care and social care would be both better and more efficient.

While those industries remain important, the state's economy is now driven by banking, computers, and health care.

However, while HSAs and HRAs are almost exclusively used as components of a consumer driven health care plan, medical FSAs are commonly offered with more traditional health plans as well.

The key issues of the day were environmental health and access to health services, the former driven by widely-shared alarm over deteriorating environmental conditions and fallout from the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and the latter by expectations that national health insurance would soon be realized.

Thus, through what was essentially a historical accident and a political compromise, a system of competition among health plans driven by consumer choices was created.

Paul Starr suggests in his analysis of the American health care system ( i. e., The Social Transformation of American Medicine ) that Richard Nixon, advised by the " father of Health Maintenance Organizations ", Dr. Paul M. Ellwood, Jr., was the first mainstream political leader to take deliberate steps to change American health care from its longstanding not-for-profit business principles into a for-profit model that would be driven by the insurance industry.

Critics of managed care argue that " for-profit " managed care has been an unsuccessful health policy, as it has contributed to higher health care costs ( 25-33 % higher overhead at some of the largest HMOs ), increased the number of uninsured citizens, driven away health care providers, and applied downward pressure on quality ( worse scores on 14 of 14 quality indicators reported to the National Committee for Quality Assurance ).

A core class / political duality in the episodes ' storylines tend to be driven by comparisons and contrasts ( and often cooperation ) between liberal Delgado, and her fellow women's health practitioner across the lobby, who sees paying patients and generally has more conservative values — this role has been filled by various characters, most recently Dr. Dylan West.

However, share prices are driven by many factors, such as the general health of the economy which will increase the correlation and reduce the benefit of diversification.