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A Long Hiatus

Folks, We’ve been trying to make the HEDIR page more user-friendly and in that effort we’ve ignored the blog.  So starting today I’ll start making a concerted effort to contribute.  If you’ve been following the HEDIR, there has been a major discussion on the role of CHES and its importance/relevance, licensure of health educators and [...]

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15 January 2010 at 14:03 - Comments

H1N1

Unless one has been in hiding the last week no doubt you have been inundated with information regarding the H1N1 flu virus that has been seen in various pockets of the U.S. It seems like every day there is a more information, but as of this writing it appears (and not that the emphasis is [...]

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4 May 2009 at 08:33 - Comments
So are you saying that public health is a term only to be used when referring to an official federal ...
5 May 09 at 16:41
Bill Cissell
Mark, You may be right, but I have found that many people in the communities in which I have lived and ...
11 May 09 at 20:03

Prospects for National Health Care Reform

According to the Wednesday, March 11, 2009 issue of USA Today, “The biggest problem the country has is the cost of health care.” This is a mantra that has increased in volume throughout my lifetime. There have been many efforts to fix all or parts of the problem, but the most recent effort to put [...]

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12 March 2009 at 09:45 - Comments
Bill Cissell
A new report by the Business Roundtable says Americans in 2006 spent $1,928 per capita on health care, at least ...
12 March 09 at 15:09

Healthcare Reform at Last?

When the “Hillarycare” healthcare reform proposal of 1993 went down in flames, there were many prognosticators who speculated that it would take 20-25 years before another serious healthcare reform proposal would be offered by a presidential administration. Based on Mr. Obama’s address to Congress on Tuesday, February 24, 2009, and the forecast published by major [...]

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25 February 2009 at 22:15 - Comments

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