http://kyvoicesforhealth.com/ Kentucky Voices for Health Online Blog en-us Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:23:00 -0500 Copyright: (C) 2010 Kentucky Voices for Health Improving Your Health Literacy Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), offers brief, easy-to-understand advice columns for consumers to help navigate the health care system. In her latest column, Dr. Clancy highlights the issue of health literacy, alerts readers to the importance of understanding health terms and information, and offers advice on what consumers can to do improve their understanding of health care information. To read Dr.... Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:23:00 -0500 http://kyvoicesforhealth.com/blog/understandinghealthtermsandinformation-21.html Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Blah Blah Health Care Reform Blah Blah By Dean L. Johnson, Vice President, Community Relations, Seven Counties Services, Inc., Louisville, KY Seems to me there's plenty of nonsense reporting and self-interested revelations surrounding the health insurance reform act passed earlier this year. If the mass media is your only source of information about what the act does and how it might affect you, your family, your business or your employer, then you've been shortch... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:14:00 -0500 http://kyvoicesforhealth.com/blog/blahblahhealthcarereformblahblah-20.html http://www.healthcare.gov/news/blog/getkidscovered.html# Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:22:00 -0500 http://kyvoicesforhealth.com/blog/gettingyourkidcoveredandinthegame-19.html Posted by Amy Barkley, Director Tobacco States and Mid-Atlantic Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids As you’ve read in this space before, public health and medical authorities agree that disease prevention is an absolutely critical component of health care reform. As Congress negotiates a final health care reform bill, our elected leaders should seize this unprecedented opportunity to invest in proven measures that prevent costly diseases from occurring in the first place to both improve h... Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:37:00 -0500 http://kyvoicesforhealth.com/blog/makingpreventionapriority-18.html Posted by Gil Friedell, M.D. Friedell Committee for Health Transformation We began a discussion in an earlier blog of the roles of responsibility, accountability and authority in the health system. At this point, however, before proceeding further, it would be well to pause and define “health system” as we will use the term in these blogs.. This is particularly apropos now when ‘health system reform” is the major topic of concern in Washington and elsewhere in the country, In those d... Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:34:00 -0500 http://kyvoicesforhealth.com/blog/definitionanddisscussionofhealthsystem-17.html