Public outlines funding and data needs to battle smoking cancer
In Annapolis the public urged Maryland task forces to fund proven programs support families and share county data. Hearings heard calls to back coalitions mobile cancer prevention units regional data collection and sustained support groups to aid cancer patients and survivors as governors set spending plans from tobacco settlement funds.
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Paris Glendening
Maryland
To Conquer Cancer
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Centers For Disease Control
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Smoking Task Force
Barbara Frush
Prince George’s
Health Department
Virginia Thomas
Empha
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Dana Russell
St. Mary's Hospital
Leonardtown
Russell
St. Mary’s
Charles
Calvert
Cancer Task Force
Georges Benjamin
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Harriet Fine
St Mary's Hospital
Frank Kemo
Maryland sees sharp rise in uninsured children in 1998
Census figures show 211,000 Maryland children under 18 were uninsured in 1998, up from 126,000 in 1997, making them about a quarter of the state's 837,000 uninsured. Analysts cite high costs and welfare reforms as driving factors, with CHIP expanding to cover 58,000 children and pregnant women under 19.
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Maryland
Steven
John Colmers
Maryland Health Care Commission
CHIP
Ned Wollman
Office of Eligibility and Administration
Nate
Mr. Findlay
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