Please forward widely!  We welcome your research.

http://www.cami-health.org/2011MPTRH/abstracts.html

Feel free to contact Liz with any questions, or check out the CAMI website.

Liz Cretti

lcretti@cami-health.org

http:www.cami-health.org

Controversy continues regarding the impact of prevention on health care costs.  I understand that prevention was not properly quantified by the budget analysts assigned to score the health reform measure.  Thankfully, in Canada we do not have to condend with as much  skepticism.  So I was rather taken aback by an article from the Kaiser group.  Two (non-physicians of course) were making the case for prevention as a means of addressing health care costs.  It is a good try, but the authors do…

“Imagine one product that would prevent BOTH unintended  pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections...”

Despite significant advances in women’s health over the past 50 years, women are still too much at risk for unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV.  For millions of women, consistent use of methods to prevent either unintended pregnancy or HIV is a challenge for a variety…

PHI Insists U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Ground in Prevention, Public Health in Federal Budget Process



OAKLAND, CA – While President Obama’s newly proposed 2012 budget reflects the difficult choices that must be made in this troubled economic time, it also contains a…

There is some really promising news this week about women-controlled prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV! Two unique scientific research studies were published that show the promise of multipurpose prevention technologies (MPTs), or prevention products that could offer simultaneous prevention of two or more sexual and reproductive health needs, namely STDs, including…

Public health practitioners and advocates can claim 2010 as a turning point in the public health landscape. As imperfect as it may be, there was the passage of health reform. Now comes a budget from the White House with a focus on important social determinants of health. Promise Neighborhoods, the Fresh Food Financing Initiative, & a groundbreaking partnership between EPA, HUD, & DOT are only a few of the initatives highlighted in this useful policy brief.…

Passing health reform was a challenge, but implementation will be the hard part. Thankfully, there are a number of sites springing up to keep us up-to-date on how implementation is progressing. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health…

Public health has been slow in taking full advantage of the internet. The Prevention Institute has pushed the envelope by offering an online training course AND offering continuing education credit for completing the course. The Health Equity & Prevention Primer is a excellent contribution given current limitations on travel to meetings and conferences.

According the webpage, "the Health Equity and Prevention Primer (HEPP) was developed to serve as an online learning tool,…

Kaiser has a good summary of the law. It is 33 pages long, but that is an improvement over 2100+ pages.

http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/8061.pdf