BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association of Health Care Journalists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://healthjournalism.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association of Health Care Journalists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141001T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141031T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155944Z CREATED:20231025T161652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155944Z UID:24031-1412125200-1414717200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Literacy Month DESCRIPTION:Health Literacy Month is an annual worldwide event for organizations and individuals to promote the importance of understandable health information and raise awareness. \nThe theme for Health Literacy Month 2014 is “Be a Health Literacy Hero.” It’s about taking action and finding ways to improve health communication. Health Literacy Heroes are individuals\, teams\, or organizations who not only identify health literacy problems but also act to solve them.  \nClick here for more information and tools to help. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-literacy-month/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141012T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141020T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155936Z CREATED:20231025T161652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155936Z UID:24034-1413075600-1413766800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week DESCRIPTION:Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week focuses on disorders like arthritis\, back pain\, osteoporosis and trauma. The events and projects organized by individuals and organizations worldwide are designed to raise awareness of prevention\, disease management and treatments as well as advances in a number of areas. \nTake a look at some facts that make Bone and Joint Health Awareness Week so important: \n\n\n\nNearly half the American population over the age of 18 – about 48 percent – are affected by musculoskeletal (bone and joint) conditions\, according to The Burden of Musculoskeletal Conditions in the United States.  \n\n\nResearch funding is currently less than 2 percent of the National Institutes of Health annual budget\, despite the high costs associated with these conditions \n\n\nUnless actions are taken now\, the global prevalence of musculoskeletal conditions is predicted to increase greatly due to increasing life expectancy\, changes in risk factors and availability of appropriate prevention measures.  \n\n\nMusculoskeletal conditions can lead to significant disability plus diminished productivity and quality of life. Treatment and lost wage costs associated with musculoskeletal diseases in the U.S. alone was estimated at $950 billion in 2004 to 2006 – equal to 7.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). \n\n\n\n\nFor more information\, visit the U.S. Bone and Joint Initiative or e-mail usbji@usbji.org. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/bone-and-joint-health-national-awareness-week/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141015T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155935Z CREATED:20231025T161639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155935Z UID:24025-1413334800-1413421200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Behavioral Health Management for Commercial and Medicaid Health Plans DESCRIPTION:How Medicaid plans and commercial health insurers deliver behavioral health care is changing as a result of the Affordable Care Act. During this conference\, experts will discuss strategies health insurers are using to integrate the delivery of primary care with the delivery of behavioral health care\, reimbursement for behavioral health care\, and member access to behavioral health care services. \nHealth insurance executives will discuss how manage relationships with behavioral health care providers\, best practices for care coordination and utilization management and how the Affordable Care Act affects how insurers deliver behavioral health care. More information is available at the conference website. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/behavioral-health-management-for-commercial-and-medicaid-health-plans/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141015T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141120T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155934Z CREATED:20231025T161657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155934Z UID:24038-1413334800-1416445200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:AHIP's Health Insurance Exchanges forums DESCRIPTION:AHIP’s ongoing series on exchanges provide information on regulatory and operations issues for exchanges\, best practices\, and the changing business environment for health plans.  \nOctober participants: \n\n\nKevin Counihan\, CCIIO CEO \n\n\nEsther Krofah\, program director\, Health Division\, National Governors Association \n\n\nRachel Klein\, director\, Organizational Strategy and Enrollment Program Director\, Families USA \n\n\nBen Walker\, director\, Open Enrollment\, CCIIO \n\n\nLaurie T. McWright\, acting director\, Payment Policy Financial Management Group\, CCIIO \n\n\nJeff Wu\, director\, Division of Policy and Analysis\, CCIIO \n\n\nMichael Adelberg\, director\, Insurance Programs Group and Acting Director of the Exchange Policy and Operations Group\, CCIIO \n\n\nLisa Zarlenga\, tax legislative counsel\, Department of the Treasury \n\n\nUpcoming dates:Tuesday\, October 15 Wednesday – Thursday\, November 19-20 \nLocations:Omni Shoreham Hotel\, 2500 Calvert Street NW (at Connecticut Ave.)\, Washington\, DC 20008Arizona Biltmore\, 2400 East Missouri Avenue\, Phoenix\, AZ 85016  \nStay tuned for more information on the November session. Register for either session here. For complimentary press registration\, please send name\, publication\, email address\, and phone number to asegerman@ahip.org.  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ahips-health-insurance-exchanges-forums/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T154444Z CREATED:20231103T154926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T154444Z UID:25959-1413421200-1413421200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:How Housing Matters Conference DESCRIPTION:This conference will explore how having stable\, secure\, and affordable housing affects child development and education\, physical and mental health\, and long-term economic success. \nIt is a project of the National Building Museum co-sponsored with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. To learn more and to register visit the website. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/how-housing-matters-conference/ CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155933Z CREATED:20231103T155352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155933Z UID:26003-1413421200-1413421200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Fluoridation and your community DESCRIPTION:Watch a recording of this webcast.\nResources\n\n\nAHCJ Core Topic: Oral Health \n\n\nWater fluoridation: What reporters need to know \n\n\nCampaign for Dental Health (I Like My Teeth) \n\n\n \n\nCommunity water fluoridation has been hailed as one of the public health triumphs of the 20th century. For more than 65 years\, communities across the United States have been supplementing naturally occurring fluoride in water supplies to promote oral health. At what are considered optimum levels\, numerous studies have shown fluoride reduces cavities. At the same time\, critics continue to fight water fluoridation efforts\, armed with papers they say highlight the dangers of fluoride. \nWith battles playing out in communities from Alabama to Oregon\, what do reporters need to know about the science and pseudo-science behind water fluoridation? Our webinar will feature Shelly Gehshan\, director of  children’s dental policy at The Pew Charitable Trusts\, and Mary Otto\, AHCJ’s Oral Health core topic leader.  \nDate & time:2 p.m. ET\, Oct. 16  \n \nShelly Gehshan (@SGehshan) directs children’s dental policy at Pew\, supervising work with states to expand access to prevention and treatment for children through policy changes in Medicaid\, sealant programs\, community water fluoridation and the dental workforce. She speaks frequently about an expanded dental workforce and the benefits of community water fluoridation. She helped legislators in Minnesota draft the nation’s first state law licensing dental therapists. She served on the Institute of Medicine panel that released a major report in 2011 on the dental access problem. Gehshan spent nearly 20 years working for state policy makers on a range of issues affecting low-income women and children. \nFor technical questions about fluoridation\, contact William Maas\, adviser for the Children’s Dental Policy\, The Pew Charitable Trusts: BMaas-consultant@pewtrusts.org \nMaas is the former director of the Division of Oral Health in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \n\nShelly Gehshan \n\n\nMary Otto URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/fluoridation-and-your-community/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141018T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T155932Z CREATED:20231025T161652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155932Z UID:24032-1413421200-1413594000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Green Dentistry Conference 2014 DESCRIPTION:This annual conference\, sponsored by the Berkeley\, California-based Eco-Dentistry Association\, aims to encourage wellness and environmental stewardship throughout the industry. \nOctober 16-18\, 2014Robert Redford Conference CenterSundance ResortProvo\, Utah  \n  \nFor more information call EDA at 510-841-1229 URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/green-dentistry-conference-2014/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR