Wisconsin Environmental Health Network--a new resource for Wisconsin physicians.

An assessment of emergency preparedness in western Wisconsin.

BACKGROUND Emergency preparedness is important for our national defense. Preparedness has been prioritized in Wisconsin, but little has been done to gauge the knowledge, training, and resource gaps that remain-especially those that are necessary for a coordinated community response. OBJECTIVE To determine the emergency preparedness knowledge, training, and resource needs of community-based pr...

Wisconsin Medical Society launches DRconnection: a new resource designed to help patients and physicians.

The National Children's Study Waukesha County, Wisconsin Vanguard Center.

The National Children's Study (NCS) is a large, longterm study designed to detect environmental influences on the health and development of children. Waukesha County, Wisconsin, was selected as 1 of 7 "Vanguard Centers" currently funded to finalize and lead the implementation of the study protocol. The authors provide an overview of key design and planning processes that will be used at all NCS...

Wisconsin physician opinions on health care reform.

OBJECTIVE To determine Wisconsin physicians' opinions regarding health care reform. METHODS The University of Wisconsin Survey Research Center performed a 46-question mail survey of 2500 randomly selected physicians from the Wisconsin Medical Society master list of practicing physicians. Respondents rated opinions on a 5-point Likert scale. Demographics of respondents (sex practice type, geog...

Partnering with citizens to reform Wisconsin health care: a report of Citizen Congress II.

INTRODUCTION Commissioned by the Wisconsin Medical Society in 2003, the Wisconsin Citizen Congress project aims to get at least 5000 physicians and 100,000 citizens in a partnership for health and health care improvement in Wisconsin. The power of activated citizens and a citizen-physician partnership is one of few hopeful answers to current policy failures in health care. Citizen Congress II a...