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HealthCorps was designed in 2003 as a 10-month pilot in partnership with Columbia Presbyterian Hospital as a response to "Healthy People 2010", an initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to advance a nationwide disease prevention agenda that included fighting childhood obesity.
The International Society for the Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) is the umbrella organization responsible for accrediting the Joint Commission accreditation scheme in the US and Accreditation Canada International, as well as accreditation organizations in the United Kingdom and Australia. [1]
Global Health Corps is a U.S. non-profit organization that offers a competitive fellowship to support emerging global health leaders. [ 2 ] Global Health Corps selects young professionals for paid, 13 month fellowships with organizations promoting health equity in East Africa , Southern Africa , and the United States.
H. Health Brigade; Health Data Consortium; Health Volunteers Overseas; Health World Inc. HealthCare Volunteer; HealthCorps; HealthRight International; Hearing and Speech Agency of Baltimore
The Joint Commission is a United States-based nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c) organization [1] that accredits more than 22,000 US health care organizations and programs. [2] The international branch accredits medical services from around the world.
The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) is an umbrella organisation for such organisations providing international healthcare accreditation. [8] Its offices are based in the Republic of Ireland. ISQua is a small non-profit limited company with members in over 70 countries.
The WHO rankings are claimed to have been subject to many and varied criticisms since its publication. [citation needed] Concerns raised over the five factors considered, data sets used and comparison methodologies have led health bodies and political commentators in most of the countries on the list to question the efficacy of its results and validity of any conclusions drawn.
The International Sanitary Conferences (ISC), the first of which was held on 23 June 1851, were a series of conferences that took place until 1938, about 87 years. [13] The first conference, in Paris, was almost solely concerned with cholera, which would remain the disease of major concern for the ISC for most of the 19th century.