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Managed Care
October 2007 |
Compensation Monitor How primary care doctors are paid affects quality in Medicaid MCOs. |
Managed Care
October 2000 |
Physicians Praise New Aetna Stance On Kids' Vaccines In California, Aetna U.S. Healthcare has addressed a major complaint of the state's leading physician organization -- that relatively low capitation rates force pediatricians to eat the cost of recommended vaccines.... |
Managed Care
October 2000
Kevin A. Wilson |
Public Policy Largely Ignores Adult Immunization Needs Although four fifths of the nation's children are fully immunized, tens of thousands of adults die each year from diseases preventable by vaccination... |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2005
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Global Report: Wanted: Attention Bird flu is number one on the media's agenda. But other diseases need better immunization, too. WHO estimates that in 2002, 2.1 million people died from diseases that could have been prevented by vaccines that WHO currently recommends. |
American Family Physician
December 1, 2002
Sanford R. Kimmel |
Vaccine Adverse Events: Separating Myth from Reality Vaccines have turned many childhood diseases into distant memories in industrialized countries. However, questions have been raised about the safety of some vaccines because of rare but serious adverse effects that have been attributed to them. |
Salon.com
October 26, 1999
Jon Bowen |
Disease parties Some parents in Britain are deliberately exposing their children to kids with contagious illnesses. |
Managed Care
March 2000 |
NCQA Unveils New PPO Accreditation Program, HEDIS '01 |
Scientific American
February 2006 |
To Banish a Cancer Two vaccines that are nearing approval by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. have demonstrated in clinical trials that they can prevent infection from the two types of the human papillomavirus (HPV) that account for up to 70 percent of cervical cancers. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2001
Richard Kent Zimmerman |
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine for Young Children Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, approved in 2000 for use in the United States, was designed to cover the seven serotypes that account for about 80 percent of invasive infections in children younger than six years... |
U.S. Banker
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Goldman Uses Capital Markets To Pay for Children's Vaccinations Goldman Sachs helped the International Finance Facility for Immunization recently complete its first debt issue, raising $1 billion to fund the immunization and health programs of the GAVI Alliance in 70 of the world's poorest countries. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 10, 2014
Fitzpatrick & Mohan |
Vaccines: Fire in the Cold Chain It's only recently that vaccine producers experienced the commercial returns commensurate with vaccines: long record of positive public health performance. |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2000 |
Letters to the Editor On Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations... etc. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2004
Lo Re & Gluckman |
Travel Immunizations The approach to vaccine recommendations should be based on a thorough assessment of the risks for travel-related diseases, the time available before trip departure, and current knowledge of the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases. |
Managed Care
March 2007
Tom Reinke |
NCQA Shifts Focus On Physician Performance NCQA's 2007 HEDIS physician performance manual puts greater emphasis on cost of care. Many organizations, including some health plans, use these specifications to evaluate physician performance. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2003
Matthew Neff |
Newsletter AAFP Launches Initiative to Strengthen Patients' Voices in Congress... New Guide Available Online to Help Physicians Counsel Older Drivers... Fact Sheet Outlines Health Issues for Patients to Address with Physicians... etc. |
