Contents tagged with public health
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All hands on deck
By Dale Ragle, MD
TAFP President, 2014-2015Welcome colleagues to a new year, a new Congress, and a new Texas Legislature. On all fronts, health care is evolving. These changes present family physicians tremendous opportunities to shape our future health care system. It’s up to all of us as family physicians to advocate for our specialty in the halls where decisions are made that affect our patients and our practices.
In Washington, D.C., the 114th Congress is well under way and is busy on a number of health care issues. AAFP’s advocacy work is focused on fixing Medicare’s broken payment model, changing Meaningful Use requirements, delaying ICD-10, and reforming graduate medical education funding. Another area in which AAFP is concentrating efforts is in making payment for direct primary care services a qualified health benefit under IRS rules. This would enable patients to pay for direct primary care with pre-tax HSA and FLEX account dollars, a move that would aid the expansion of this emerging and promising model of practice.
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TAFP celebrates Hard Hats for Little Heads anniversary
TAFP celebrates Hard Hats for Little Heads anniversary
posted 8.26.14
To help the Texas Medical Association celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hard Hats for Little Heads, the TAFP Board passed an … more
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Member of the Month: Tracey Haas, D.O., M.P.H.
Member of the Month: Tracey Haas, D.O., M.P.H.
Austin physician interested in helping the world’s underserved and fellow physicians alike
posted 3.21.14
While Texas native Tracey Haas, D.O., M. … more
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Poll reveals Texans broadly support women’s access to health care and state funding for programs
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Poll reveals Texans broadly support women’s access to health care and state funding for programs
By Kate Alfano
Texans believe that access to family planning and birth control is … more
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Damage control: Mending Texas’ women’s health care safety net
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By Kate Alfano
Severe budget cuts from the 82nd Texas Legislature left the women’s health care safety net in tatters, but supported by a strong fiscal and public health policy … more
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Texas Family Physician - Vol. 64 No. 1, Winter 2013
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Meet TAFP’s Physician of the Year: Justin Bartos III, M.D.Currently practicing at … more
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Texas Family Physician - Vol. 63 No. 4, Fall 2012
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A workforce imperative: Change medical educationTwenty years ago, TAFP called for … more
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Overwhelmingly, stakeholders support family medicine residencies
By Clare Hawkins, M.D.
TAFP President-electWith another legislative session underway, our Academy is poised to make great gains for family medicine and recoup budget losses from 2011. We’re building on a decade of work educating legislators and the public about the value of family medicine, but it’s evident that our work particularly since the last session has led to a deeper understanding of the current and coming crisis in the primary care workforce.
This summer TAFP held a legislative training seminar in Austin and attendees of that conference formed the core of a new Key Contacts program. These leaders actively share resources provided by the Academy with their state representative and senator, which include not only our own policy briefs and legislative magazine features, but editorials and news stories from the major daily newspapers. People are “getting it.”
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Tar Wars celebrates 25 years
Join this public health effort and help decrease
youth tobacco useBy Rebecca Hart, M.D.
Happy anniversary, Tar Wars! Did you know that Tar Wars, AAFP’s tobacco-free education program, celebrated 25 years in 2012? To mark this milestone, the National Tar Wars Advisory Group wants to re-energize the program.
Remember Tar Wars? Most of you may have been involved in medical school or residency, giving talks to fifth-grade students at local schools. You went into the classroom with about 30 kids and had a fun interactive session talking about smoking, questioning them about what they knew, educating them, and inviting them to do their own creative thinking about how to stay smoke free. You then invited them to make a smoke-free poster and enter the national poster contest. Kids love the interactive presentation, and really enjoy the contest. It was fun for you and was a great community service.
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Member of the Month: Troy Russell
Member of the Month: Troy Russell
Student member chooses specialty through passion for public health, research
posted 07.15.12
Troy Russell, a fourth-year medical student at the University of … more