Unmet Health needs of Uninsured Adults in the United States. Securing insurance to ensure access to care for long-term uninsured adults could have substantial benefits. The study consisted of a random household telephone survey conducted in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Providing the opportunity to have care, including cancer screenings, cardiovascular risk reduction and diabetes care could reap benefits. Effectiveness of a hospital-wide program to improve compliance with hand hygiene.
Compliance is commonly poor in hospitals, thus producing cross infections.
More than 20,000 opportunities for hand hygiene were observed during routine patient care in a teaching hospital in Geneva, Switzerland. The promotion of bedside antiseptic hand hygiene contributed largely to the increase in compliance. Measles eradication may be near in the Americas. The western hemisphere is very close to obliterating measles. Eradication of indigenous measles in the Americas seemed a long way off in 1997 when outbreaks occurred in 11 member countries and more than 53,000 people were infected, according to experts attending the IXth Meeting of Pan American Health Organization's Technical Advisory Group on Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil.