Community Health Resilience

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Thu, 2011-09-29 09:25 — mdmcdonald

The Community Health Resilience Collaboratory is focused on exploring the advancement of community health resilience.

The mission of the Community Health Resilience Collaboratory is to advance community health resilience.

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More Arizona parents refusing to vaccinate kids

Tue, 2011-10-25 06:12 — JRees

by Ken Alltucker - Oct. 23, 2011 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

A small but growing group worries public-health officials:
parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids.

Thousands of Arizona schoolchildren skipped their recommended vaccines during the 2010-11 school year under a "personal beliefs" exemption allowed by state law, Arizona Department of Health Services records show. In kindergarten alone, more than 2,700 Arizona students, or 3.2 percent, skipped vaccines, more than double the exemption rate claimed by parents one decade ago.

These aren't children who lacked access to health care or had a medical reason for not immunizing. Their parents or guardians chose to keep them vaccine-free because of religious or personal beliefs such as fears that the vaccines may do more harm than good.

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FDA's Jensen Says Drug Shortages Largely Result Of "Quality Issues"

Mon, 2011-10-03 21:01 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Luis Kun

HealthDay (10/3, Gardner) reports, "Prescription drug shortages in the United States, which reached a record high last year, are getting worse, the US Food and Drug Administration said Friday." Valerie Jensen, associate director for the Drug Shortage Program within FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said that "so far this year, some 200 drug shortages have occurred compared to 178 in all of 2010." Jensen added that "many of the scarce drugs are injectables...used to treat serious conditions such as cancer. Some are only given in hospitals and are 'absolutely critical.'" Causes listed for the shortages include "quality issues, such as sterility or drug impurities," "delays or manufacturing capacity problems," "discontinuation" and "raw material shortages." The first is the largest cause by far responsible for over half of the shortages.

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IT and Information Sharing Environments for Community Health Resilience

Thu, 2011-09-29 09:44 — mdmcdonald

Information Technology (IT) and Information Sharing Environments (ISEs) are crucial to the evolution of community health resilience. Most people working to improve community health resilience do not understand the nuances of Information Sharing Environments, and how the rapid shifts in IT, mobile devices, social media, cloud computing, peer to peer parallel processing, smart grids, and the linking of millions of people, mobile devices, computers, and sensors are creating a societal mind, which is transforming community health resilience and the health and human security of Americans.

If you have thoughts on these topics, please comment within this collaboratory thread.

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