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Healthy eating is a good target area for education, because people are confused about what healthy eating means, contends Andrea Giancoli, MPH, RD, an American Dietetic Association spokesperson who lives in Southern California.
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An innovative pilot program in Massachusetts will soon be implemented, with the goal of improving the care of children with asthma, reports David Polakoff, MD, chief medical officer of MassHealth, the Massachusetts Medicaid program. "We hope to implement this as soon as possible," he says. "This is an idea that has been kicking around for awhile; it has been tried in some small-scale pilots."
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Over the past year, eight states Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia have been working with the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) to develop medical home programs in their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs.
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Forty-six states are actively building delivery and distribution systems to ensure that programs in chronic disease self-management are readily available to individuals with chronic conditions, especially older adults, says Sue Lachenmayr, MPH, program associate at the Center for Healthy Aging in Washington, DC.