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PUBLICLY FINANCED HEALTH INSURANCE IS ONLY PART OF THE PICTURE IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH PROBLEM. WE MUST RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, AND THE NEED FOR A SUPPLY-STRATEGY TO CORRECT THE MALDISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE PRESENT SYSTEM. THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE SHOULD BE OF INTEREST AND VALUE.

An evaluation of the use of national health insurance (NHI) as a public policy to improve US health care. Experiences of publicly financed NHI in Quebec Province specifically, & throughout Canada, between 1965 & 1975, & of the publicly financed Medicare & Medicaid programs in the US are analyzed, focusing on the impact on these programs of cost, access, & equity issues. Various insights are presented concerning future adoption of publicly financed NHI in the US: (1) it would bring forth a sudden initial increase in health care expenditures, (2) a continued higher rate of health care expenditures would ensue, (3) access to health care would be more equitably distributed, & (4) there would be some redistribution of the financial burden of health care across income classes. These limitations to the NHI strategy are noted: (A) it will not solve the health care cost escalation problem, (B) it will not correct the maldistribution of health care resources sufficiently to guarantee health care for all, & (C) it will only modify, but not eliminate, the regressive & inequitable system of paying for health care. It is argued that a much broader view of the factors that influence health status (including lifestyle, ecological deterioration, education, & nutrition) needs to be taken. 2 Tables. Modified HA.

Materials for Carbon Dioxide Mitigation Technology offers expert insight and experience from recognized authorities in advanced material development in carbon mitigation technology and constitutes a comprehensive guide to the selection and design of a wide range of solvent/sorbent/catalyst used by scientists globally. It appeals to chemical scientists, material scientists and engineers, energy researchers, and environmental scientists from academia, industry, and government in their research directed toward greener, more efficient carbon mitigation processes. Emphasizes material development

The terrorist attacks on America are seen as a pivotal period for the nation and for policing. They have thrust policing into a new mission that will have a wide ranging impact on the police role, organizational strategies, staffing, training and policy. State, local and tribal police are now at the forefront of Homeland Security activities, yet there remains a great deal of uncertainty about their mission.The ramp-up efforts by federal and state government are reminiscent of the staging for civil defense in the 1960's. As a result of 9/11, there has been an invigoration for cities and towns to develop response plans for any localized terrorist incidents. The safety of the public is important and falls to government agencies.Community policing was intended to encourage community input and involvement. As communities and our country attempt to put safeguards in place and raise awareness, community and business leaders, and neighborhood groups should be enlisted to assist. The tenets of community policing can be utilized to plan and engage the community as police agencies endeavor to respond to a new mission.Using a sample of New England police agencies and police practitioners, this research will query whether police agencies are changing their organizational mission to integrate Homeland Security activities. The researchers used several methods to analyze police agencies and their role in Homeland Security. First, examining police agency mission statements through content analysis, the authors found little evidence of a formal Homeland Security focus. This research utilized a web-based survey tool to elicit officer perspectives on Homeland Security objectives.

In recent years, conspiracy theories on social media have emerged as a significant issue capable of undermining social perceptions of European integration. Narratives such as the Eurabia doctrine, which would imply an ethnic replacement of the indigenous European population with migrants (Bergmann, 2018), have been a significant resonance. Thanks to computational analysis, we have collected data from Twitter over three years (2020, 2021, and 2022) during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this period, we collected over 50,000 tweets strictly related to the Eurabia doctrine topic in different European languages. Analysing the collected data, we identified the most relevant voices spreading conspiracy theories online, the emerging narratives related to the Eurabia doctrine, and the primary sources used by the most active or mentioned subjects in spreading disinformation.