Public Health and the Uninsured

Speaker:
Robert Fullilove, EdD
Assoc. Dean, Community and Minority Affairs, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Nearly 50 million Americans are without health insurance. Dr. Fullilove will focus on the relationship between living without health insurance and the burden placed on public health systems to meet the needs of the uninsured. A history of health care and health insurance will be presented to help viewers understand "how we got into this mess in the first place."

Originally broadcast December 15, 2005

For the purposes of providing continuing education credits, this program was reviewed in June, 2008 and renewed until June 2010.

School of Public Health, University at Albany, is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This activity has been assigned code 6VKSFE-PRV-06-074a and has been approved for 1.0 contact hour.

School of Public Health, University at Albany is accredited by the MSSNY to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s).TM Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive 1.0 Category 1 CECH in health education.