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PubMed2006

Strengthening the supply of routinely recommended vaccines in the United States: a perspective from the American Medical Association.

Influenza virus vaccine shortages and delays in distribution require continued collaborative efforts by all stakeholders to ensure that Healthy People 2010 goals are met. Problems with supplies of other vaccines jeopardize at-risk populations. The American Medical Association recommends that the US Department of Health and Human Services establish a task force to explore the causes of vaccine shortages and maldistribution. The task force should commission an appropriate body of experts to identify solutions for breakdowns in vaccine manufacturing and distribution systems. Potential areas for improvement include earlier notification of shortages to the US Food and Drug Administration, improved communication to physicians, financial incentives to market medically necessary but unprofitable products, and a national stockpile of certain vaccines. The American Medical Association believes that the strategies proposed by the National Vaccine Program Office (i.e., increasing financial incentives, streamlining the regulatory process, establishing government-directed programs, creating and maintaining vaccine stockpiles, and increasing liability protection) could improve vaccine availability; however, increasing vaccine stockpiles is the most promising strategy.

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PubMed2005

American Medical Association's Youth Violence Prevention Training and Outreach Guide.

This article describes the development and contents of a training and outreach guide Connecting the Dots to Prevent Youth Violence: A Training and Outreach Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals (the Guide) on youth violence prevention for healthcare providers developed by the American Medical Association. The Guide, was developed to help translate recommendations made by the Commission for the Prevention of Youth Violence in their 2000 report, Youth and Violence: Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health: Connecting the Dots to Prevent Violence, into healthcare practice. The Guide, which will also be available in Spanish in early 2006, is structured as a speaker's kit and includes prepared speeches, case studies, issue briefs, and copies of screening tools and patient education materials from a variety of sources appropriate for use in the clinical setting. Results of a preliminary evaluation of the Guide indicate that the training can be effective in increasing providers' awareness about the problem of youth violence and encouraging them to incorporate into healthcare visits violence prevention activities such as screening youth for exposure to violence and educating patients and caregivers on strategies for reducing the risk for violence.

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PubMed2004

Expanding insurance coverage through tax credits, consumer choice, and market enhancements: the American Medical Association proposal for health insurance reform.

Recent reports showing an increase in the number of uninsured individuals in the United States have given heightened attention to increasing health insurance coverage. The American Medical Association (AMA) has proposed a system of tax credits for the purchase of individually owned health insurance and enhancements to individual and group health insurance markets as a means of expanding coverage. Individually owned insurance would enable people to maintain coverage without disruption to existing patient-physician relationships, regardless of changes in employers or in work status. The AMA's plan would empower individuals to choose their health plan and give patients and their physicians more control over health care choices. Employers could continue to offer employment-based coverage, but employees would not be limited to the health plans offered by their employer. With a tax credit large enough to make coverage affordable and the ability to choose their own coverage, consumers would dramatically transform the individual and group health insurance markets. Health insurers would respond to the demands of individual consumers and be more cautious about increasing premiums. Insurers would also tailor benefit packages and develop new forms of coverage to better match the preferences of individuals and families. The AMA supports the development of new health insurance markets through legislative and regulatory changes to foster a wider array of high-quality, affordable plans.

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PubMed2001

Diagnosis and management of foodborne illnesses: a primer for physicians.

This primer is directed to primary care physicians, who are more likely to see the index case of a potential food-related disease outbreak. It is a teaching tool to update primary care physicians about foodborne illness and remind them of their important role in recognizing suspicious symptoms, disease clusters, and etiologic agents, and reporting cases of foodborne illness to public health authorities.

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