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Challenges
Challenges
Challenges
Established 1996
Over 400 articles
Over 400 articles
Challenges Section
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Remodeling. Please pardon the heterogeneity and potsherds. < ; )
Challenges
Challenges
Challenges
Established 1996
Over 400 articles
Challenges Section
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Meeting the Challenges
Note: Paragraphs preceded by a ((())) are hidden, except for their heading. They may or may not be of interest to you, but they are germane to the topic. If you want to read them, click the heading to display their text. (Works in both IE and Firefox Dynamic Drive) Pharmaceutical Assistance "The Partnership for Prescription Assistance brings together America’s pharmaceutical companies, doctors, other health care providers, patient advocacy organizations and community groups to help qualifying patients who lack prescription coverage get the medicines they need through the public or private program that’s right for them. Many will get them free or nearly free. It offers a single point of access to more than 475 public and private patient assistance programs, including more than 150 programs offered by pharmaceutical companies." Web: https://www.pparx.org/Intro.php. Telephone: 1-888-4PPA-NOW (1-888-477-2669). Insurance Coverage, free medical care Cover the Uninsured raises public and political awareness about health care issues and the uninsured, through a variety of activities, such as health fairs and during the Cover the Uninsured Week "mobilized thousands of individuals and organizations from many sectors of society to plan activities to tell Congress that health care coverage must be their top priority." It is a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Web: Cover the Uninsured at http://covertheuninsured.org/. An Inconvenient Truth "If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves." An Inconvenient Truth is a passionate and inspirational look at former Vice President Al Gore's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. Gore re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. Web: An Inconvenient Truth at http://www.climatecrisis.net/ Together Rx Access™ is a collective corporate endeavor to reduce prescription drug costs by 25 to 40% for those less able to afford prescription medicine - that is, those with low incomes who are not covered by any prescription drug coverage. The plan is confidential, has a wide network of participating pharmacies and pharmaceutical suppliers, and is totally free to participants. (http://www.togetherrxaccess.com/) The Center For Health Transformation is "a collaboration of transformational leaders dedicated to the creation of a 21st century intelligent health system in which knowledge saves lives and saves money for all Americans." It is visionary in approach. (http://www.healthtransformation.net/home/) Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, John Edwards, Director, University of North Carolina Law School. The Center brings the best minds in the country together with some of America's best and brightest young people to ask the hard questions and find answers to poverty. Poverty is at the heart of most health care funding questions. MedPage Today The well known McDonald's fast food corporation announced that it will begin providing nutrition information on their fast food packaging. The information on most items will provide information on calories, total fat, protein, carbohydrates, and sodium. (Trans-fat would also be important information.) Fast food has found wide acceptance in the US and other countries as convenience and price have met income access points - even Presidents sometimes eat at fast food restaurants. However, many people have no idea what a normal diet is, or what is in the food that they eat. Fast food is typically very high in calories. There is a strong link between eating habits that encourage continuously high levels of fat and glucose in the bloodstream, and the disease combination of diabetes and heart attack. One or both have devastating impact on health and longevity. Fast food restaurants can't make people control their eating, but it is very difficult to control something that you know little about. Nutrition is a joint responsibility. It is the responsibility of the restaurants to provide information, and the responsibility of their customers to be aware of nutrition information and control their health. McDonald's Corporation - Scott
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