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Responses from the 3,430 participating law enforcement agencies helped provide a statistical snapshot of communications interoperability capacity for emergency response agencies across the nation. Depending on a law enforcement agency's technology approach, police officers may play a direct or indirect role in establishing and maintaining interoperable communications. By providing a clear picture of current interoperability capabilities, the Baseline Survey findings help equip law enforcement leaders and policy-makers with the essential, foundational data needed to evaluate next steps and define future milestones.
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The Accelerated Benefits (AB) demonstration project provides health benefits to Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries who have no health insurance during the 24-month period most beneficiaries are required to wait before Medicare benefits begin. This article describes the project and presents baseline survey results on health insurance coverage among newly entitled beneficiaries and the characteristics of those without coverage. A 6-month follow-up survey provides information on the effects of the AB health benefits package on health care utilization and on reducing unmet medical needs. The article also reports the costs of providing the health benefits package during the 24-month Medicare waiting period.
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WASHINGTON, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched a survey of private sector employers as a tool toward better designing future rules, compliance assistance and efforts. As many as 19,000 employers nationwide will receive the Baseline Survey of Safety and Health Practices, which asks questions about workplace safety and health management practices. The survey will be sent to private sector employers of all sizes and across all industries under OSHA's jurisdiction. Questions include whether respondents already have a safety management system, whether they perform annual inspections, who manages safety at their establishments and what kinds of hazards they encounter at their facilities. Pa...
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Physical inactivity is a major contributing factor to prevalence of obesity and diabetes along the Texas-Mexico Border. Walking has been identified as a popular activity, but appropriate distances are seldom attained. This investigation was performed to evaluate self-monitored pedometer use, stage of change movement, and psychosocial mediators using walking as the physical activity. Seventy students enrolled in university kinesiology activity classes (age 22.53 ± 4.5, percent M/F 8/92) volunteered to wear pedometers for nine weeks and record weekly step averages. Weekly step averages were compared with an ANOVA and psychometric variables were analyzed with MANOVA. Participants completed pre- and post-intervention survey packets containing scales measuring exercise behavior change, barri...
... steps a day (about 1 mile) over baseline activity levels (Bravata, Smith-Spangler, Sundaram...
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The classic universal model of social welfare policies paid for public services such as health and education, and provided social insurance money transfers that covered risk through contributory payments for items such as retirement and unemployment insurance. According to a study presented in 2007 by World Bank?s economist Pedro Olinto,4 the impact of these programs on the reduction of the proportion of households below a certain poverty line (headcount poverty line) was -2.07 percentage points in Mexico (Progresa/Oportunidades), -1.38 in Honduras (Programa de Asignación Familiar [PRAraF]), -6.69 in Nicaragua (Red de Protección Social Mi Familia [RPS]), while in Brazil the baseline survey for Bolsa Família conducted in 2005 showed a reduction of -3.67 percentual points.
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FORT KENT - A University of Maine at Fort Kent professor has been awarded a $5,000 L.L. Bean Acadia Research Fellowship to conduct studies on lichens and fungi this summer in Acadia National Park. Dr. Steven B. Selva, professor of biology and environmental studies at UMFK, will focus on an under-reported and very difficult group of organisms to identify: caliciod lichens and fungi. Both play an important role in old and mature forests. The study will conduct a baseline survey of the species in the maritime forests of the national park's Schoodic Peninsula. The research is part of a larger assessment being carried out in forests from the Adirondacks to Prince Edward Island.
