health care and public health systems, and more importantly the need to make  health literacy a public ... health literacy is fundamental to putting sound public  health guidance into practice and helping people ...... As a followup to the  Surgeon General's Workshop and in preparation for this National Action Plan to.  Improve ...
This can be called the greatest unmet oral health need in the United States.,  Many people living in the United States have poor oral health due to lack of  access to care, because oral health is not universally integrated into primary or  behavioral health-care services. As a result, dental care is usually set apart from  other types ...
This focus on evidence-based healthcare spans the development, exposition,  evaluation, replication, translation, dissemination and implementation of  knowledge about ... Prominent reports from the Surgeon General,[23] the  President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health[24] and the Institute of  Medicine[25] all ...
This chapter first reviews history and the current social contexts in which  American Indians and Alaska Natives live and then presents what is known about  their mental health needs and the extent to which those needs are met by the  mental health care system. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 4.1 million  American ...
More workers are injured in the healthcare and social assistance industry sector  than any other. This industry has one of the highest rates of work related injuries  and illnesses. In $3-the-$3-the-the-2010-the 2010 2010, the healthcare and  social assistance industry reported more injury and illness cases than any other ...
The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English.