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Kaiser Permanente says it has extended the deadline on its last offer to striking behavioral health clinicians. Kaiser will return to contract talks with union of 2,000-plus mental health workers ...
KP's California operations were subject to four labor strikes in 2011 and 2012, involving nurses, mental health providers, and other professionals. [91] The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) accused Kaiser of deliberately stalling negotiations while profiting $2.1 billion in 2011 and paying its CEO George Halvorson $9 million annually.
The Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 mandates that group health plans provide mental health and substance-related disorder benefits that are at least equivalent to benefits offered for medical and surgical procedures. The legislation renews and expands provisions of the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996. The law ...
The National Union of Healthcare Workers launched the strike Aug. 15 with a principal goal of reducing the workload for the nearly 2,000 mental health clinicians it represents at Kaiser. Picketing ...
Algeria operates a public healthcare system. It is a universal healthcare system as well. A network of hospitals, clinics, and dispensaries provide treatment to the population, with the Social Security system funding health services, although many people must still cover part of their costs due to the rates paid by the Social Security system remaining unchanged since 1987.
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Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". [1] [2] Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health. [3]
However, her life and work were embraced by early psychiatric social workers (mental health social worker/clinical social worker), and she is considered one of the pioneers of psychiatric social work along with Elizabeth Horton, who in 1907 was the first social worker to work in a psychiatric setting as an aftercare agent in the New York ...