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Workshop Seeks Effective Ways to Apply Ethical Frameworks to Public Health Practice; Presentations Published On March 30, 2007, the National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Center for Law, Ethics, and Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health hosted a one-day Workshop on Ethics in Public Health Practice and Preparedness.	Grant Results Reports	11/11/2008
YES Competition Winners Announced Projects on human papillomavirus (HPV) and autism take top honors in national science competition.	Video	04/09/2008
University of Virginia Develops Fellowship Program and Curriculum on Public Health Law and Ethics for Law Students, MPH Candidates Investigators at the University of Virginia created a fellowship program and a problem-based curriculum on public health law and ethics for law students and Master of Public Health candidates.	Grant Results Reports	12/28/2007
Survey Examines Portable Pension Benefits as Incentive for Recruiting and Retaining Public Health Leaders The Council of State Governments, Southern Legislative Conference conducted a 50-state survey and produced a white paper examining the portability of pension benefits for public health officials.	Grant Results Reports	07/26/2007
Physician Consideration of Patients' Out-of-Pocket Costs in Making Common Clinical Decisions The authors analyzed responses from 6,628 physicians participating in the 2004-2005 Community Tracking Study Physician Survey, to examine how frequently physicians considered patients' out-of-pocket (OP) expenses when prescribing drugs, selecting tests and... Published In: Archives of Internal Medicine	Journal articles	04/09/2007
Best Strategies Evaluated for Building Ties Between Public Health Schools and Public Health Departments In 2004, journalist Christopher Conte analyzed thematic elements of 22 proposals submitted to the Washington-based Association of Schools of Public Health requesting federal funding to establish "academic health departments".	Grant Results Reports	09/01/2006
Study Finds Most Doctors Don't Smoke; But They Don't Press Patients to Quit Mathematica Policy Research (Princeton, N.J.) conducted a national survey of 2,804 health professionals to determine their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behavior regarding smoking and smoking cessation.	Grant Results Reports	06/17/2006
Pension Portability among Public Health Officials The Southern Legislative Conference (SLC) conducted a survey of the administrative entities managing the pensions of public health employees in all 50 states to determine their rules and regulations regarding pension portability for this category of public employee....	White papers	06/01/2006
Physician-Patient Interaction for Smoking Cessation Medications: A Dance of Mutual Accommodation Twenty-seven percent of smokers who expressed interest in quitting to their physicians received prescriptions for cessation medication, but only 10 percent reported that the doctor followed up with them afterward. This study randomly surveyed smokers who had filled... Published In: The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine	Journal articles	01/01/2006
Simplicity Matters: Using Systems-Level Changes to Encourage Clinician Intervention in Helping Tobacco Users Quit This article is the concluding commentary of a special issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research that spotlights studies funded by the Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care (ATMC) program, launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1997. Although 70 percent of... Published In: Nicotine & Tobacco Research	Journal articles	04/29/2005

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