Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1991: Department of Health and Human Services

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Page 122 - Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and child nutrition programs over the next five years.
Page 619 - Workers, the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, the National Coalition of Hispanic and Human Services Organizations, the National Council of Community Mental Health Centers and the National Mental Health Association.
Page 235 - I pronounce that right? — Acting Director of the Office of Budget and Administration for HCFA. Dr. Wilensky, welcome to the subcommittee. Your statement will be made a part of the record in its entirety. And if you could highlight it, I would sure appreciate it. Thank you. [The statement follows:] (235) STATEMENT OF GAIL R. WILENSKY ; Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee, I am pleased to present to you today the Fiscal Year 1991 budget request of the Health Care Financing Administration.
Page 818 - New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. 1968-1970, Clinical Associate, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH) , Bethesda, Maryland. 1970-1971, Senior Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.
Page 392 - Service, which includes eight agencies: the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration; the Centers for Disease Control; the...
Page 414 - Health (NIH): the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Page 3 - ... we are, and then you look down at some of the other countries which we exceed and it is just incredible. When you compare the chart on the left with the chart on the right, the chart on the right shows the growth in health care expenditures from 1965 to 1988. We use 1965 as a base year, assign it as 100. Basically what this shows is that national health care expenditures as we all know are going up three times as fast as the CPI, three times as fast, with no signs of abating whatsoever. So, this...
Page 393 - Agency is to enhance the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of health care services, and access to such services, through the establishment of a broad base of scientific research and through the promotion of improvements in clinical practice and in the organization, financing, and delivery of health care services.
Page 167 - Increase awareness of, and promote action to relieve, the critical manpower needs In the field of aging, with particular attention to the need for an adequate supply of trained personnel to care for older persons at home, In the community and In nursing homes.
Page 921 - England, to devise a series of inventive experiments to see if Fabricius was correct. Contrary to Fabricius' views, Harvey found that the heart pumps the blood to circulate throughout the body- -a key discovery in the history of medicine. This turning point hinged on two researchers from two nations working together in one laboratory. As biomedical scientists face the 21st century, such international collaboration is more vital than ever for achieving the advances necessary to improve the health...

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