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Long-Term Care Services in the United States: 2013 Overview – National Center for Health Statistics: “This report provides information on the supply, organizational characteristics, staffing, and services offered by providers of long-term care services; and the demographic, health, and functional composition of users of these services. Service users include residents of nursing homes and residential care communities, patients of …
“Researchers conduct a memory study, scan a participant’s brain, and find more than they bargain for: a tumor. What do the researchers owe the participant? What does the participant want to know? This is an increasingly common scenario for practitioners across contexts and for recipients of unexpected results that can be discovered through a variety …
“Nearly one billion people alive today – one in every six human beings – are slum dwellers, and that number is likely to double in the next thirty years, according to UN-HABITAT’s new publication – The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003. Unprecedented urban growth in the face of increasing poverty and social …
CDC – Key findings “Pregnancy rates for women in the United States continued to decline in 2009, reaching the lowest level in 12 years: “The pregnancy rate for U.S. women in 2009 was 102.1 per 1,000 women aged 15–44, the lowest level in 12 years; only the 1997 rate of 101.6 has been lower in the last 30 …
“The ongoing congressional debate about the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, a payment formula that lawmakers have overridden repeatedly to avoid big payment cuts to doctors, may resurrect familiar questions about whether physicians are willing to take Medicare patients. A new issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation provides some answers. This review and new analysis of physician data …
The burden of air pollution on years of life lost in Beijing, China, 2004-08: retrospective regression analysis of daily deaths. BMJ 2013;347:f7139. Published 9 December 2013 “The effects of air pollution on human health have recently attracted increasing concern in China, in part due to the increasing number of days with very high levels of air pollution. In most …
FEDERAL COURTHOUSES – Better Planning Needed Regarding Reuse of Old Courthouses, GAO-14-48, Nov 7, 2013 FISCAL YEAR 2013 AGREED-UPON PROCEDURES – Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund, GAO-14-162R, Dec 9, 2013 RAIL SAFETY – Improved Human Capital Planning Could Address Emerging Safety Oversight Challenges, GAO-14-85, Dec 9, 2013 REVERSE AUCTIONS – Guidance Is …
CRS – Legislative Actions to Repeal, Defund, or Delay the Affordable Care Act – C. Stephen Redhead, Specialist in Health Policy; Janet Kinzer, Information Research Specialist. November 22, 2013. “Congress is deeply divided over implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the health reform law enacted in March 2010.Since the ACA’s enactment, lawmakers opposed to specific provisions in the ACA, …
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today released its Salmonella Action Plan that outlines the steps it will take to address the most pressing problem it faces–Salmonella in meat and poultry products. An estimated 1.3 million illnesses can be attributed to Salmonella every year. “Far too many Americans are sickened by Salmonella every year. The aggressive and …
Veterans and Homelessness – Libby Perl, Specialist in Housing Policy, November 29, 2013 “The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought renewed attention to the needs of veterans, including the needs of homeless veterans. Researchers have found both male and female veterans to be overrepresented in the homeless population, and as the number of veterans increases due to these conflicts, …
NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD – Strengthening Planning and Controls Could Better Facilitate Rail and Air Labor Relations, GAO-14-5, Dec 3, 2013 VA HEALTH CARE – Improvements Needed in Processes Used to Address Providers’ Actions That Contribute to Adverse Events, GAO-14-55, Dec 3, 2013
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration – Affordable Care Act: Improvements Are Needed to Strengthen Systems Development Controls for the Premium Tax Credit Project. September 27, 2013. Reference Number: 2013-23-119. “The overall objective of this review was to determine if the IRS is adequately managing systems development risks for the PTC Project. TIGTA evaluated the IRS’s key management controls and processes for …
