Senators Ted Kennedy – a Democrat – and Orrin Hatch – a Republican – teamed up with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her staff in 1997, and succeeded in passing legislation forming the State Children's Health Insurance Program ( SCHIP ), the largest ( successful ) health care reform in the years of the Clinton Presidency.

Health care providers and public health officers are among the first lines of defense.

Outcomes based research on quality of life improvements and psychosocial benefits associated with breast reconstruction served as the stimulus in the United States for the 1998 Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act, which mandated health care payer coverage for breast and nipple reconstruction, contralateral procedures to achieve symmetry, and treatment for the sequelae of mastectomy.

* Cardinal Health, a health care services company

Health care is a large sector of Columbia's economy, with nearly one in six people working in a health-care related profession and a physician density that is about three times the United States average.

The Dutch Public Health Service provides medical care for the natives of the Dutch East Indies, May 1946

Health care is cheaply available where it exists, and there are state-run campaigns concerning issues such as HIV infection and female genital mutilation.

Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes — for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place.

Health care reform typically attempts to:

A study of international health care spending levels in the year 2000, published in the health policy journal Health Affairs, found that while the U. S. spends more on health care than other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), the use of health care services in the U. S. is below the OECD median by most measures.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ), in 2000, ranked the US health care system 37th in overall performance and 72nd by overall level of health ( among 191 member nations included in the study ).

Along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( signed March 30 ), the Act is a product of the health care reform efforts of the Democratic 111th Congress and the Obama administration.

The universal health care proposal pending in the U. S. Congress is called the United States National Health Care Act ( H. R.

Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care.

Health care professionals such as physical therapists play a large role in assisting these patients in their recovery.

Health insurance covers most of the cost of outpatient care.

* Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) of 1996 requires the adoption of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers.

The International Classification of Diseases is published by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) and used worldwide for morbidity and mortality statistics, reimbursement systems, and automated decision support in health care.

On August 21, 2008, the US Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) proposed new code sets to be used for reporting diagnoses and procedures on health care transactions.

Health economics examines the organization of health care systems, including the role of the health care workforce and health insurance programs.

The new fee schedule also was supported by Commissioner of Licenses and Inspections Barnet Lieberman and Health Commissioner Eugene A. Gillis.

It already included a large country house called Larrard House or Muntaner de Dalt House, and was next to a neighborhood of upper class houses called La Salut ( The Health ).

As an MP, Widdecombe expressed conservative views, including opposition to abortion ; it was understood during her time in frontline politics that she would not become Health Secretary as long as this involved responsibility for abortions.

The results of this work was the report A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections, which was published in December 2005 and concluded that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of 190 million artifacts that are in need of conservation treatment.

On April 8, 1995, a staged concert was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a benefit for the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

In 1928, BCG was adopted by the Health Committee of the League of Nations ( predecessor to the WHO ).

the sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance was suggested as well-tested means for enhancing the monitoring of infections and parasitic agents, for practical implementation of the International Health Regulations ( 2005 ).

The National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) was the first federal agency to assume regulatory responsibility in the United States.

* Edwina Currie resigns as a junior Health minister for incorrectly claiming that millions of British eggs were infected with salmonella, stating that " most of egg production " was infected ( 1988 )

Until June 2007, plague was one of the three epidemic diseases specifically reportable to the World Health Organization ( the two other ones were cholera and yellow fever ).

Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

She was the author of the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Christian Science textbook and which, along with the Bible, serve as the permanent " impersonal pastor " of the church.

Twain also expressed grave doubts about the authorship of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, showing through content analysis that the quality of the writing was much better than any of Eddy's previous or subsequent work ( for example her autobiography and her later writings in the Christian Science Journal ):

After an initial release in August 1935, the Commonwealth Department of Health decided to ban future introductions until a study was conducted into the feeding habits of the toad.

The chief advocate and driving force for improving public health in Chicago was Dr. John H. Rauch, M. D., who established a plan for Chicago's park system in 1866, created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with festering, shallow graves, and helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health in 1867 in response to an outbreak of cholera.

A turning point for the industry occurred on November 9, 1959, when the secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming announced that some of the 1959 crop was tainted with traces of the herbicide aminotriazole.

" Nevertheless, the bill was withdrawn in January 2007 at the request of Minister of Health Xavier Bertrand.

In 2006 the Danish military budget was the fifth largest single portion of the Danish Government's total budget, significantly less than that of the Ministry of Social Affairs (~ 110 billion DKK ), Ministry of Employment (~ 67 billion DKK ), Ministry of the Interior and Health (~ 66 billion DKK ) and Ministry of Education (~ 30 billion DKK ) and only slightly larger than that of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (~ 14 billion DKK ).

For example, in June 1979, the California Department of Health Services was permitted to use DDT to suppress flea vectors of bubonic plague.

The initial impetus was to make the DSM nomenclature consistent with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ( ICD ), published by the World Health Organization.

An illustrated history of smallpox eradication, Smallpox Zero, was published with the support of Sanofi Pasteur and distributed on May 17, 2010, in Geneva during an event sponsored by the World Health Organization.

Where trade barriers are raised on the disputed grounds of public health and safety, the WTO refer the dispute to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was founded in 1962 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization.

The term was adopted at the third conference of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and in 1991 the WHO recommended its use to the United Nations.