Not only the health service but also several other humanitarian institutions and societies were active in Abbazia÷Opatija, the most important town on the once Austrian Riviera, the town that was also known as the Austrian Nice. The most important of the societies was The Health Resort Opatija Volunteer Fire Brigade and Rescue Society. The authors of this article have been particularly intereste...

School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) have improved access to primary and preventive health care for underserved children and youth by bringing comprehensive health services into the schools while addressing critical health problems that make it difficult for students to learn. Despite the findings on the positive effects of SBHCs on health outcomes, the literature investigating the relationship ...

Children with insurance have better access to care and health outcomes if their parents also have insurance. However, little is known about whether the type of parental insurance matters. This study attempts to determine whether the type of parental insurance affects the access to health care services of children.I used data from the 2009-2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and estimated mult...

One goal of health insurance is ensuring people have timely access to primary and preventive care. This issue brief finds wide differences in primary and preventive care access among adults under age 65--across states and within states by income--before the Affordable Care Act's major insurance expansions took effect. When comparing experiences of adults with insurance, the analysis finds that ...

International Family Planning Perspectives Since the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, international donors to population and AIDS programs have been called on to respond to the ICPD goals for expanded and holistic reproductive health services. How have they met the call? Do donors really support post-Cairo sexual and reproductive health services, or d...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether Portuguese family physicians perform preventive health services in accordance with scientific evidence, based on the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Primary healthcare, Portuguese National Health Service. PARTICIPANTS 255 Portuguese family physicians selected by a stratified cl...

Information on the health needs of rural populations is meager in most parts of Latin America. This presents a critical problem for Bolivia, a country actively planning the expansion of medical and preventive health services to rural communities. While the Bolivian Government has established a health information system to report births, deaths, and utilization of medical services, marked underr...

TheNSWPublicHealth Bulletin has achievedmuch over the past 24 years and there is a great deal to celebrate. To support an agile, contemporary, public health environment the Bulletin is about to enter a new phase in its evolution – one that builds on its proud history and strongly positions public health for the future. The Bulletin will be renamed Public Health Research & Practice and will stre...

This article examines the effect of parents' Medicaid status on the use of preventive health services by young children. Using data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we analyzed a logit model for receipt of any well-child visits (WCVs) that compared three groups of low-income children. The three groups, defined by the joint insurance status of children and their parents, in...