Support for National Health Insurance among U.S. Physicians: 5 Years Later Background: The increasing costs of health care and health insurance have concerned Americans for some time (1). The number of uninsured Americans increased by 2.2 million to 47 million in the most recent census. This is the largest increase reported by the U.S. Census Bureau since 1992 (2). In a 2002 survey of physician...

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to testify today. My name is Nicolas Rossignol. Since 2003 I have been working as an Administrator within the European Commission, in the division in charge of the European Community pharmaceutical legislation. The European Commission has three main roles in the area of pharmaceuticals: it proposes new legislation; it implements existing legislation; and ...

As taxation is one of the key public policy domains influencing population health, and as there is a legal, strategic, and programmatic basis for health impact assessment (HIA) in Finland, we analyzed all 235 government bills on tax legislation over the years 2007–2014 to see whether the health impacts of the tax bills had been assessed. We found that health impacts had been assessed for 13 bil...

Some people think the vast amount of pornography on the internet is submerging, even threatening. Debates have started on the topic of cyberporn and legislation has been created to gain some control and set boundaries. Filter software has been built and people are coming up with solutions for what seems to be a problem: the great extent of cyberporn and the high chance of encountering it withou...

The effect of varying donor X in otherwise structurally similar O(2)S(2)X-macrocycles (L(1): X = S, L(2): X = O and L(3): X = NH) on the corresponding assembly reactions with Cu(I) halides has been demonstrated to yield three supramolecular complexes with different architectures: L(1) resulted in a discrete dimeric complex (1), while L(2) and L(3) gave respectively 1D (2) and 2D (3) coordinatio...

The importance of atmospheric air cannot be overestimated. Meanwhile, in most large cities, the state does not meet requirements legislation on content harmful substances. article is devoted to analysis protection air. It necessary determine place system Russian law. legal outdoor distinguished by features that need reflected legislation. There currently little new research this topic. Traditio...