June 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
This American Lung Association (ALA) convened a work group of international health professionals to discuss broader involvement of the health community in matters of environmental health and global climate change.
November 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
Investigators at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Mich., compared two health surveys released in the early 1990s to assess differences in use of preventive services (such as breast and cervical cancer screening), hospital admissions, and outpatient visits between residents of Ontario, Canada and those of the Midwestern and Northeastern United States.
October 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
During 1997 and 1998, researchers at the Sunnybrook Foundation examined the charges for 16 well-defined hospital services in different parts of the United States in order to test the hypothesis that there are wide price differences for the same hospital services.
September 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
The American Medical Association and the Canadian Medical Association sponsored the 1998 International Conference on Physician Health entitled "Managing Our Own Care: Surviving the Health Care Revolution," which was held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, from April 29 to May 2, 1998.
September 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
In 1998, The University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine convened the Sixth Annual International Cochrane Colloquium. View the grant results report from this colloquium.
May 31, 2000
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Program Result Report
From 1994 to 1997, Health Research, Inc., Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., analyzed the information collected in the National Cancer Institute's Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) study.
March 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
Jeffrey Merrill, Ph.D., then at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York, wrote a comparative study of other countries' health systems that identified components that might be relevant to the redesign of the U.S. health care system.
February 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
The University of Maryland Baltimore County's Center for Health Program Development and Management contributed to the design, project management and evaluation of Maryland's High-Risk Patient Management Initiative.
September 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
As the cost of long-term care for the disabled and the elderly continued to rise during the early 1990s, policymakers and others sought new ways to control costs while maintaining or increasing satisfaction among those served.
October 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
The County of San Diego, Department of Health Services used a combination of improved information systems, technical assistance, training and education to overcome barriers in treating tuberculosis along the US/Mexico border in San Diego County.
