Category: Healthy Food

University Health & Counseling Services and the University Wellness Program are partnering to offer the Case Western Reserve community (students, staff and faculty) a 4-week Healthy Habits Challenge that begins today, March 4.

This challenge has four parts, where participants will build on each healthy habit with a new one at the start of each week. Week one will focus on hydration. Thereafter, the weeks will focus on nutrition, physical activity, and mental health. At the end of each week, participants will be asked to complete a brief survey logging their behaviors and reflecting on how the week’s new and

Butler said the rise in private health insurance was below the annual rise in wages.

The total value of health insurance claims in Indonesia surged by 25 percent year on year (yoy) to IDR 20.83 trillion (US$1.32 billion) in 2023 and has been growing consistently at or near this rate since 2022, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic , according to the Indonesian Life Insurance Association (AAJI).

Health insurance claims only grew by around 17 percent yoy in 2019, while shrinking in several

Reinsurance programs, which were created to help lower premiums and increase enrollment in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces, may have the opposite effect for many potential marketplace enrollees, according to a study by health policy researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Duke University and University of Minnesota.

The study, published in Health Affairsis the first to examine the effects of a post-American Rescue Plan Act reinsurance waiver on the affordability of coverage for enrollees who are receiving premium subsidies in the marketplaces.

Nearly a decade ago, when the ACA

The Federal Capital Territory Administration has launched the enrollment of pregnant women into the FCT Health Insurance Scheme.

The FCTA also launched the distribution of free delivery kits to the pregnant women enrolled in the scheme.

The launch held in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development on Thursday in Abuja, is one of the efforts of the administration to reduce maternal and child mortality in the territory.

Speaking, the Minister of State for FCT, Dr Mariya Mahmoud said, the administration will extend the health insurance coverage to the formal and informal sectors.

Mahmoud, who was represented by

FOODPhilippines returned to the 29th edition of Gulfood on Monday, February 19, as the world’s biggest annual food and beverage sourcing event kicked off at the Dubai World Trade Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Central to the Philippines’ participation were food and ingredients focused on health and wellness, brought by 25 food exhibitors bannering the theme “Healthy and Convenient Food Options.”

Seeking to penetrate the fast-changing food landscape in the UAE, the delegation capitalized on the current trend of fostering healthy and easy eating across the region. The Philippine Pavilion houses an array of nutritious food products from

A local nonprofit caught in the middle of Steward Health Care’s financial crisis is celebrating the unexpected arrival of essential grant funding they were stiffed out of by a Steward-owned hospital.

Earlier this month, a GBH investigation found that St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center — one of nine Steward facilities in Massachusetts — had signed a written agreement to pay for a popular food voucher program run by the Allston Brighton Health Collaborative at the Brighton Farmers Market. The hospital promised $150,000 over three years beginning in 2022. But when it came time to pay up, a check never arrived, and