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Pandemic Flu Vaccination Priorities Public Engagement Pilot Project

What Do We Do About Flu? is a handout describing this public engagement project charged with proposing guidelines for determining which groups in the population require the earliest protection against influenza in the event of a pandemic when supplies of vaccine are still limited. It will engage citizens, local/state and federal governmental officials, academics, non-governmental organizations, health care providers, and industry. Making these difficult choices will fill a notable gap in the current U.S. Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan.

Action Plan For the Provision of Useful Prescription Medicine Information, Presented to The Honorable Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services by the Steering Committee for the Collaborative Development of a Long-Range Action Plan for the Provision of Useful Prescription Medicine Information

December 1996 | Report #63 | Call 970-513-5835 to order reports | Report available on-line

The Keystone Center was asked by the Honorable Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to facilitate a mandated 120-day collaborative process to develop a long range action plan for distributing useful information to individuals receiving new prescriptions. The Secretary accepted the plan developed by the group and set the new program into action. The plan is aimed at improving patient understanding of prescription drugs and reducing the misuses of medications that result in costly hospitalizations, estimated at $20 billion per year.

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