| Child Health Plus for residents of New York State | | Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 9:31:26 PM by Rose Martins | The health of your child is an issue that should not be taken lightly. You should read up on all the necessary information regarding your child's health and use the child health services as a source of advice and knowledge.  There are many options when it comes to choosing child health insurance that best suits your needs and your pocket.
Child Health Plus is a health care plan that is funded by the state. Children need to be under the age of 19 and reside in the New York State area in order to qualify. Child Health Plus covers dental costs, vision care, speech and hearing, mental health issues and so much more.
There are two choices of plan offered by Child Health Plus. The first is Plan A, which is totally state funded and the second is Plan B, which is state subsidized by the family is required to pay a premium based on the size and income of the family.
In order to apply for health care cover for your child for Child Health Plus, contact your local Department of Social Services office or an agency that can assist you with your application.
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| | | Well Child, Communicable Disease clinics may move | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:49:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Vigo County health officials are seeking to relocate the Well Child and Communicable Disease clinics into one office in a section of the Vigo County Annex, which will become available in April.However, Paul Mason, president of the county Board of Commissioners, said commissioners first want to review which county agencies pay rent for space and which county facilities are not fully used. The annex, at First and Oak streets, has about 25,000 square feet now rented to Union Hospital. The county receives $15,000 a month for that space until April 1.Joni Foulkes, director of operations for county Health Department, told commissioners Tuesday that the county's Well Child Clinic is the only agency remaining in the Hyte Center."Several major concerns with the Well Child Clinic being kept at Hyte Center include it is an unstable environment.... | |
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| | | California, New York Governors Say They Will Expand Health ... | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 12:49:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | The governors of California and New York have said they will announce proposals to expand health coverage to all children in their states. Summaries of recent news coverage of the proposals appear below. California: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Monday is expected to propose a plan that would extend health care coverage to all children in the state, including children of undocumented immigrants, according to sources familiar with the plan, the Los Angeles Times reports. The proposal likely will not detail funding, but officials estimate that it could cost the state up to $400 million annually to cover the estimated 763,000 uninsured California children (Rau, Los Angeles Times, 1/4). Jim Keddy of PICO California, a children's health advocacy group, said he was informed that Schwarzenegger would propose expanding eligibility for Healthy Families, the state's SCHIP program, to families whose annual incomes are lower than 300% of the federal poverty level (Benson, Sacramento Bee, 1/4).... | |
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| | | Health inequalities are a growing problem worldwide | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:50:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | Global health inequalities are substantial, growing, and influenced by economic, social and health-sector variables as well as geography, a study concludes in the November issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. "Particularly disturbing findings from this study are that countries with high mortality in young children are making slow progress, gaps in adult mortality are becoming wider, and countries with the highest adult mortality have reversed their trend from mortality reduction," said lead author Jennifer Prah Ruger, assistant professor of public health in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. This is the first systematic study of global inequalities in adult and child mortality to identify three distinct mortality groups--better off, worse-off and mid-level--using cluster analysis methods to reveal new associations and structure in data, and examine the underlying risk factors associated with inequality in mortality.... | |
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| | | PM to discuss global child health with international experts | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 6:53:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | New Delhi, Nov 9: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will meet a delegation of 25 international experts to discuss the importance of global child health on November 13.The experts are presidents and secretaries of associations from 50 countries who are in the country to participate in the 20th Congress of the Asian Association of Paediatric Surgeons (AAPS) and the World Federation of Association of Paediatric Surgeons (WOFAPS) Executive meet from November 12 to November 15.A record number of 600 delegates, including 60 experts from all over the world are participating in the Congress being held in Delhi for the first time in 35 years, besides the SAARC Association of Paediatric Surgeons.The Congress will deal with issues relating to paediatric surgery."Sixteen sessions will be held during the Congress on a number of subjects on surgery in children below 12 years, new born and premature children.... | |
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| | | Monash gets nod as child health centre | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:56:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | THE Government has flagged its intentions to establish a second major children's health service at the Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs, if it retains power. The election sweetener courts voters in several marginal seats, including residents affected by the Government's decision to impose tolls on the Scoresby Freeway. Health Minister Bronwyn Pike will announce today a commitment to planning for the new facility, which is expected to cost about $120 million. Construction is likely to start in the next term, should Labor retain government. The children's "wing" would be attached to the main hospital in Clayton. The announcement comes after The Age reported in April that the Monash Medical Centre was discussing with the Government expanding and raising the profile of its pediatric service.... | |
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| | | 'Systemic failures' in child welfare | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:51:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | ONE child had died and hundreds more cases of abuse and neglect remained uninvestigated because of "serious system failures" within Tasmania's child welfare services, the State Government admitted today. Minister for Health and Human Services Lara Giddings today announced sweeping changes to the service following the release of four damning reports that show a system overwhelmed by increasing demand. Ms Giddings said the failures were most graphically demonstrated by recommendations of an investigation into the death last year of a child known to the child protection service. "In the case investigated, it was found that the system did fail and the government is determined to ensure that we learn from what has happened to minimise the risk of similar tragedies in the future," she said.... | |
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| | | Salmonella strikes child in Bucks | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:54:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Bucks County child contracted a case of salmonella linked with a national outbreak, a county health official said. The outbreak has produced 172 cases nationwide, including one case each in Adams, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland and Philadelphia counties, state Health Secretary Dr. Calvin B. Johnson announced last week. No one in Pennsylvania has been hospitalized due to salmonella. Bucks County found out about the local case in early October, said Barbara Schellhorn, the health departments director of personal health services. Her departments attempts to contact the childs family have been unsuccessful, she said. She declined to identify the childs gender or town of residence. .... | |
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| | | Nigeria: CLAP Builds Health Centre for Community | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:51:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | Residents of Aso 'C' in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State will now enjoy improved health care delivery services following the launching of a healthcare centre for maternal and child health. The centre, which is being built by the Community Life Advancement Project (CLAP), would also serve as a place to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS cases. CLAP President, Dr. Remi Obinatu, said poverty, disease and HIV/AIDS are devastating the lives of women and children in the rural areas while many who are capable to render assistance to save the lives of the most vulnerable groups of the society fold their hands and watch. Dr. Obinatu lamented that in spite of the modern knowledge in health technology, Nigerian women and children still die in large numbers from preventable and treatable diseases, pointing out that poverty has been made worse in the society by the arrival of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.... | |
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| | | Child welfare hurting blacks | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 6:51:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | There is a higher proportion of black children in the nations child-welfare system than white, and they suffer worse consequences, according to a new study. "We know that children who currently are or have been in the child-welfare system are at an increased risk of dropping out of school, suffering serious mental-health problems, going to juvenile detention or prison, abusing drugs and alcohol outcomes that ultimately translate into significant costs to American taxpayers," said Khatib A.F. Waheed, spokesman for the Washington-based Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity, which issued the study last week Nationwide, nearly 37 percent of the children in foster care are black, although only 15 percent of children nationwide are black. In Ohio, 42 percent of kids in temporary care are black. In Franklin County, its nearly 55 percent.... | |
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| | | Ghana: Ghana's Integrated Child Health Campaign | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 10:50:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | SO SOON the time has come again to immunize children and protect them against killer diseases, such as malaria, measles, polio and some others, as part of the regular Ghana's Integrated Child Health Campaign (GICHC) on November 1st to 5th. During this period, all children between birth and five years of age will receive polio vaccinations. Those between nine months and five years will also receive measles vaccination, while those between six months and five years are eligible to receive vitamin A supplements as well. Also, children between the ages of two to five years will be dewormed in the three northern regions: the Upper East, Upper West and Northern regions. Children from birth to two years old will receive free long-lasting treated bed nets to prevent the mosquito bites that cause malaria.... | |
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