This year’s theme is ”Creating the Healthiest Nation: Ensuring the Right to Health” focusing on health equity and ensuring the right to health.
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2 events,Education sessions that address the most pressing issues for aging services professionals, including technology, care programs, payments, wellness and policy. |
9 events,The Forum provides education programming, tailored specifically to meet the needs of chief information officers and other health care IT executives. This month is the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) annual celebration of home care workers and and its efforts to raise awareness of the important role of home care in peoples’ lives. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization promotes awareness and importance of end-of-life care. This year’s theme is “Take Care to Give Care” promoting the need for caregivers to take care of themselves first. The focus is on honoring a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer’s. Programs and events happening throughout the country. Open Enrollment starts for the 2017 ACA coverage season. First day to sign up, renew a plan, or choose a new one for coverage that can start as early as Jan. 1, 2017. |
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This 30-minute webinar led by author and freelancer Brooke Borel, author of the recently published, “The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking” will provide step-by-step tips on how to check your story for errors, how to annotate your stories for a checker, materials you need and when to start annotating. If you’re one of the first 50 who log in to the webcast, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a copy of Borel’s book. Note: This webcast is for AHCJ members, so you will need to have your login and password to participate. |
7 events,A public workshop to discuss “strategies that can be taken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and others to address the opioid epidemic while taking into account the needs of pain patients.”
Reporters will gain a better understanding about how the environment impacts the health struggles of various communities as well as how those health struggles have been tackled over time, particularly when it comes to children, race and equality. The webcast will help provide context and ideas for those covering environmental health, public health or specific readership areas. Note: This webcast is for AHCJ members, so you will need to have your login and password to participate. |
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5 events,David R. Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H., will be the featured speaker at the 2016 Fairfield University Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies Annual Lecture. The event will take place on Nov. 9 at 5:30 p.m. at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. Dr. Williams’ lecture, entitled “Social Inequalities in Health and What Can We Do About Them,” is sponsored by the McKeen Fund. |
5 events,More than 100 million Americans struggle with chronic pain, according to one Institute of Medicine estimate, at an annual cost of as much as $635 billion in treatment and lost productivity. Further, the misuse of potent opioid painkillers, while increasing risk of addiction and abuse, can confuse the conversation around appropriate chronic pain management. This Forum brings together a panel of experts to discuss the causes, treatment and impact of chronic pain, while exploring the neuroscience behind the pain experience. |
5 events,The American Heart Association’s annual scientific conference is five days of science and cardiovascular clinical practice covering all aspects of basic, clinical, population and translational content. |
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6 events,This event features speakers from a range of institutes, including University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Novartis and National Cancer Institute, among others, and “will focus on cancer treatment, palliative care, and survivorship care in low-resource areas.” |
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Note: This webcast is for AHCJ members, so you will need to have your login and password to participate. |
8 events,National thought leaders will bring evidence and insights on the scientific understanding of addiction, innovations in the prevention of misuse of legal substances, and initiatives to treat and manage addiction. On Nov. 8, Americans will elect a new president and the members of the 115th Congress. Join the Alliance for Health Reform for a look ahead at the health policy agenda for the coming year. |
8 events,Focus is on older-adult quality of life.solutions in active aging — including program development and delivery, partnerships, leaderships, marketing and management. On National Rural Health Day, the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health will host a series of webinars. Each thirty-minute web session will cover relevant topics specific to rural issues, including one that addresses how rural Americans will be impacted by policy changes to the Affordable Care Act as a result of a new administration. Other sessions will cover the expanding role of non-physicians in rural communities, as well as how patient data collection impacts population health management. |
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5 events,The New Jewish Home’s 14th annual Palliative Care Conference, Being Comfortable with Life and Death: Effective Models of Advance Care Planning and Medical Orders, will explore the most recent models in training clinicians in and reimbursement for end of life conversations. With an estimated 50% of Americans over 85 suffering from dementia, elderly patients’ ability to make decisions has become one of the most important issues in geriatric care today. |
1 event,The workshop, held by the Institute of Medicine, will cover a wide range of violence directed toward children (including maltreatment), women and youth as well as the role alcohol can play. |
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