'Public Health Policy'
Anchorage Citizen’s Coalition Critical of New Freeway
It is a health hazard
While proclaiming the benefits of building a freeway connecting the Glenn and New Seward Highways, officials are not acknowledging the health threats to people who would live near the proposed highway.
In 2005, local air quality officials studied how constructing all proposed projects in Anchorage’s Long Range Transportation Plan would affect air [...]
Commonwealth Fund Compares Candidate Health Plans
The following is the executive summary of a longer analysis of Obama’s and McCain’s health plans. The analysis was conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, a widely respected foundation that analyzes national and international health plans. The full report is available on their website.
INTRODUCTION
With the 2008 presidential election just weeks away, health care reform [...]
August 20 Debates: Clean Water and Clean Elections
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Alaskans Go To The Polls on August 26; Have Your Questions Answered Before You Vote
Alaska Common Ground along with AARP, the League of Women Voters and Commonwealth North presents a forum on two of the initiatives on which we will be voting on August 26.
When: August 20
7:00 to 9:30 [...]
Future State Toxic Toys Laws to Be Preempted Under Federal Consumer Protection Legislation
Consumer and safety groups are rightly applauding an agreement by House and Senate lawmakers to move forward a bill which bans lead and most phthalates — plastic chemicals that can cause developmental disorders — in most children’s products. The bill, already approved by the U.S. House, will also increase funding for the Consumer Product [...]
Washington State to Hold Insurance Companies Accountable
On Friday [February 29, 2008], the Washington State Legislature enacted SB 5261 which will restore state oversight of the individual health insurance market. The law authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to disapprove unreasonable rate increases and establishes a sliding-scale medical loss ratio for insurers.
As Families USA discusses, medical loss ratios require insurers to spend [...]
Online Tutorial of Women’s Health policy Issues
KaiserEDU.org presents a newly expanded tutorial on women’s health policy by Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D., Kaiser vice president and director of women’s health policy. The narrated slide tutorial provides an overview of women’s health care needs and concerns, discusses issues of importance for women related to their health coverage and access to care, and reviews the [...]
Hungry Children Can’t Learn
Last week Food Bank of Alaska and the Alaska Food Coalition released a new report on school breakfast in Alaska. In conjunction with the release of the study and a request for funding for school breakfasts, the Coalition held a breakfast for legislators at the Capitol Tuesday, February 12.
The Coalition’s report says that 8,500 [...]
An Expiration Date on Health?
Here in America, turning “sweet sixteen” is a coming of age; a rite of passage into a new phase of life and the beginning of what we hope to be great. However, for the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA), it has been sixteen years since it was last authorized in 1992. And it is [...]