Workplace Wellness Programs (Updated)
The poor health habits of many workers, growing rates of chronic disease, and the rising cost of health benefits have created new interest in workplace wellness programs. Employers value these programs...
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The Multi-State Plan Program (Updated)
One of the key mechanisms for expanding health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act is the creation of new insurance exchanges–marketplaces where people can compare and purchase qualified...
View ArticleEssential Health Benefits (Updated)
The Affordable Care Act requires that health insurance plans sold to individuals and small businesses provide a minimum package of services in 10 categories called “essential health benefits.” These...
View ArticlePremium Tax Credits
Beginning January 1, 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most Americans to be insured under a public or private health plan or be subject to a tax penalty. To make insurance affordable for...
View ArticleHealth Survey for England – 2012
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View ArticlePsychological Therapies, Annual Report on the Use of Improving Access to...
The experimental figures presented in this first annual report provide a picture of activity in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services and the people that use them in 2012/13....
View ArticleSelf-harm: half of inpatient cases dealt with by hospitals involve existing...
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View ArticleNHS Contraceptive Services, England – 2012-13, Community contraceptive...
This annual report primarily presents information on NHS community contraceptive clinics (family planning clinics and clinics run by voluntary organisations such as Brook Advisory Centres). This has...
View ArticleMen three times as likely as women to be admitted for a drug-related mental...
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View ArticleFirst drop in obesity prevalence among final year primary school children in...
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View ArticleHealth and Social Care Information Centre strategy for 2013-2015
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View ArticleMonthly Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS) Reports, England – Final...
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View ArticleBreast cancer: fall in proportion of women screened in England
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View ArticleDog bites: hospital admissions in most deprived areas three times as high as...
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View ArticleLearning Disabilities Census Report, England
Over two thirds of service users (68.3 per cent or 2,220) had been given major tranquiliser class drugs leading up to Census day. Of these, 93.0 per cent (2,064) had been given them on a regular basis....
View ArticleFocus on the Health and Care of Older People
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View ArticleDeclining transition rates to psychosis: The role of diagnostic spectra and...
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View ArticleStudents’ Perceptions of a Tobacco Educational Intervention
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View ArticleA Continuum of Violence? Linking Sexual and Gender-based Violence During...
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