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Declaration of public health emergency in the March 2009 flood of the Red River in North Dakota was made under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act. Under section 1135 of the Social Security Act , this declaration permits the state government to request waivers of certain Medicare , Medicaid , and CHIP requirements from the Centers for ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday declared a public health emergency for California to address the health impacts of the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency in Texas after Hurricane Beryl left hundreds of thousands without power during soaring heat waves across the state.
Puerto Rico's health authorities have declared a public health emergency following a significant surge in dengue cases, totaling 549 reported cases so far this year. “This year, dengue cases ...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday declared a public health emergency (PHE) for the state of Georgia to deal with the ramifications of Hurricane Idalia.
Health and environment 2024 in climate change The Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms that 2024 was the warmest calendar year since records began in 1850, with the average global temperature reaching 1.6 °C above pre-industrial levels, surpassing the 1.5 °C warming benchmark set in 2016 by the Paris Agreement for the first time.
The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared that the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a "public health emergency of international concern."
A public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC / f eɪ k / FAYK) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response", formulated when a situation arises that is ...