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To the Editor:
Re "Bush Plan to Avert Work Injuries Seeks Voluntary Steps by Industry" (front page, April 6):
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations set aside by the Bush administration early in 2001 had been more than a decade in development.
Concerns about the validity of the relation between repetitive workplace stress and injury led to a congressionally requested study by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, both at the National Academy of Sciences.
A panel of 19 experts concluded after two years that the scientific evidence is clear in implicating workplace injury as an incremental cause of musculoskeletal injury and in supporting the utility of selectively applied ergonomic measures in reducing such injuries.
Government support of workers at risk should be based on the scientific evidence, and the government should be vigorous in applying it.
JEREMIAH A. BARONDESS, M.D.
President
New York Academy of Medicine
New York, April 8, 2002
Posted on April 10, 2002
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The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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