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All that time in and around water also brings a heightened risk of drowning, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
Each year, nearly 3,000 people drown in the United States. Young children are particularly at risk, Dr. Nick Jouriles, president of the ACEP, noted in a news release from the society. "It only takes a few seconds and a few inches of water for a child to drown," he said.
Drowning accounted for nearly 30 percent of deaths among children aged 1 to 4, according to 2005 statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"For every child who dies, more than 10 others are treated in emergency departments for near drowning," Jouriles said in the news release.
As families uncover backyard pools and make plans for vacation trips to the nation's lakes and beaches, emergency department physicians are bracing for the tragedies they see every summer.
Some 70 percent of child drownings in Los Angeles County occurred during June, July and August, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
In two-thirds of cases, the parents or caregivers of toddler-aged children found dead or nearly drowned in a pool or a spa thought their children were either sleeping or playing elsewhere in the house.
Drowning deaths can happen quickly. Most young children who drowned in pools had been out of sight less than five minutes and were in the care of one or both parents at the time, according to the CDC.
When it comes to water safety, particularly involving children, you can never take too many precautions, emergency physicians say. Ways to prevent deaths from drowning include:
Healthy teeth are important to your child's overall health. From the time your child is born, there are things you can do to promote healthy teeth. For babies, you should clean teeth with a soft, clean cloth or baby's toothbrush. Avoid putting the baby to bed with a bottle and check teeth regularly for spots or stains.
For all children, you should
The Government and the Pharmacy Guild recognise that beneficial health outcomes can be achieved through the delivery of evidence based professional pharmacy programs and services. To this end the Fourth Agreement will provide $500 million in funding for professional pharmacy programs and services. This represents an increase from $400 million allocated under the Third Agreement.
The Fourth Agreement will continue to fund programs that were funded under the Third Agreement, such as Home Medicines Review, and it will fund new programs aimed at improving community health outcomes, such as in the areas of asthma, diabetes and communicable diseases.
For further information on Professional Pharmacy Programs and Services refer to Part 5 of the Fourth Agreement.
Tips that may allow you to reduce your drug expenses:
1. Talk to your health care provider or pharmacist, and ask if generic medicines could save you
money. Generic medicines are the same medicines as their brand name counterparts, but are available at lower cost.
2. Ask your provider or pharmacist if another, less costly, medicine could provide a similar
therapeutic treatment for you.
3. Ask your provider or pharmacist to review all the medicines you are taking to see if you still
need to take all of them. Sometimes, patients remain on a medicine when they no longer need to be, or one medicine may duplicate the treatment of another medicine you are also taking. Do not discontinue any medicine without your health care provider's permission.
Congress passed the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) in 1988 establishing quality standards for all laboratories testing to ensure the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of patient test results, regardless of where the test was performed. The CLIA regulations are based on the complexity of the test method; thus, the more complicated the test, the more stringent the requirements.
State Survey Agencies, under agreements between the State and the Secretary, carry out the Medicare certification process. The State Survey Agency is also authorized to set and enforce standards for CLIA and Medicaid. (The State Survey Agency may partially re-delegate the functions to local agencies.)
Legitimate pharmacy sites on the Internet provide consumers with a convenient, private, way to obtain needed medications, sometimes at more affordable prices. The elderly and persons in remote areas can avoid the inconvenience of traveling to a store to purchase medications. Many reputable Internet pharmacies allow patients to consult with a licensed pharmacist from the privacy of their home. Moreover, Internet pharmacies can provide customers with written product information and references to other sources of information like the traditional storefront pharmacy. Finally, the increasing use of computer technology to transmit prescriptions from doctors to pharmacies is likely to reduce prescription errors.
Currently,the Commonwealth Government makes payments direct to pharmacists for supplying medicines listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme(PBS). These payments cover:
* the cost of the medicine
* the cost to have the medicine delivered to the pharmacy by a wholesaler
* a retail mark-up to cover pharmacists costs in storing and handling medicines
* a fee for the pharmacists professional advice and services in dispensing the medicine to the patient.
A separate payment is also made by the government where a pharmacist is required to supply a PBS medicine that is classed as a dangerous drug (for example, morphine injections) or where the pharmacist is required to mix the ingredients for a PBS medicine before it can be given to the patient (for example, antibiotic mixtures for children).
Under the Third Community Pharmacy Agreement, the government also allocated $400 million for various pharmacy programs (for example, support payments for pharmacists in rural and remote areas, and payments for pharmacists to review the medicines being taken by elderly patients in nursing homes to make sure they are taking their medicines correctly).
The Fourth Agreement has made provision for a number of reviews to be undertaken during the life of the Agreement on issues impacting on community pharmacies. These reviews include: The existing Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS) supply arrangements in the context of aged care residential facilities and private hospitals. The existing supply arrangements for drugs listed under Section 100 of the National Health Act 1953. The online collection and recording of relevant data on PBS prescriptions supplied by community pharmacy that are priced below the patient co-payment. Payment times for processing of PBS claims in the existing environment. The staged supply of PBS medicines when this is specified by the prescriber. The role of community pharmacies in drug recalls
The inquiry has based its work on patient and consumer perspectives. In other words, it has designed a proposal to benefit these groups in terms of accessibility and price. The high level of expertise, security and quality that characterises the pharmaceutical trade today is to be maintained. The inquiry has conducted international comparisons of pharmacy markets and taken into consideration their strengths and weaknesses when drawing up the proposals. Another starting point was that the state is still to be responsible for supervising and monitoring the pharmaceuticals trade and pharmacy staff.
At the end of 2006 the Government appointed an inquiry on the re-regulation of the pharmacy market. The objective was greater efficiency, improved accessibility for consumers, price pressure, and safe and appropriate use of medicinal products.The inquiry delivered its final report on the reform of the pharmacy market to the Minister for Health and Social Affairs on 8 January 2008. It contains proposals that will enable actors other than Apoteket AB to retail both prescription and non-prescription medicinal products in pharmacies. One fundamental prerequisite is that a permit must be obtained from the Medical Products Agency by anyone wishing to retail in these products and that the business has access to pharmaceutical expertise.
The inquiry also proposes that the IT infrastructure be independent of Apoteket AB so that it can be accessible to all pharmacies regardless of owner. Finally, it proposes a new pricing model for medicinal products. The report is being circulated for comment. The final date for comment was 11 April 2008.The inquiry was also required to present proposals that would allow for the sale of a limited range of non-prescription medicinal products at locations other than pharmacies.