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Show Me the Money: States Invest $0.23 Per Capita in STD Prevention
With 19 million new STD infections each year in the U.S. (a rate of 36 every minute), it might be surprising that states invest on average only $0.23 per capita for STD prevention. A new study conducted by the Policy Resource Group, LLC for the American Social Health Association found that states could do a better job at investing in health. “Investing in STD prevention would significantly reduce the cost of treatment for sexually transmitted diseases and for their health consequences,” says Dr. Beth Meyerson, the co-director of the study. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that in 2006, the U.S. spent $773.68 in treatment costs for every reported case of an STD. The study found that on average states fund less than ¼ of their STD prevention effort…..more
Ready to Go: The History and Contributions of U.S. Public Health Advisors
CDC Public Health Advisors are ready within minutes to go anywhere in the world to provide public health service. Since 1948 PHAs have been the logistics, operations and management backbone of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, their history and contributions have been virtually unknown to those outside the small world of CDC because, with minor exception, there has not been a single published title focused on PHAs.
Ready to Go: The History and Contributions of U.S. Public Health Advisors tells the story of how a U.S. Public Health Service 1948 experiment in the VD program would grow to become a core of CDC’s leadership and its central human resource contribution world wide in times of epidemic, health catastrophe, and disaster. .... read more