be one of the days of the health week dedicated to mental health, social health, family health, and be the first to tell why this issue has become important as one of the days of the week and what services are provided in the field of family health and mental health, especially in the office. mental health is provided by the ministry of health . thank you very much. yes, i congratulate you this week and this it is a very important day for all my colleagues and all those working in the field of health. this day was dedicated to mental health at the initiative of the ministry of health . for many years, mental health and social health were among the days of the mental health week. it was not possible because of the importance of the vulnerabilities that have been proven in this field in the world and the pressures that are put on people all over the world in this field. the ministry of health, as the guardian of mental health, should increase people's access to mental health services, on the one hand , and reduce the risk factors of mental health at the community level, on the other hand

change and health.s you can tell from those introductions, we have three individuals who are deeply thinking about the issues introduced earlier. we look forward to their discussion. thank you so much for moderating this panel. we look forward to and engaging conversation -- look forward to an engaging conversation. [applause] joanne: getting everybody mic'd up and they will be up here in a minute. ♪ >> at the same event hosted by johns hopkins university, health care professionals discussed reducing waste from their sector and speak about a potential transition to reusable medical supplies. this is about one hour and 15 minutes.

health medicine and society, the sponsor of public health at the aspen institute. rounds is a time-honored feature of medicine to keep clinicians up to date about scientific and medical advancements. now in its eighth year, borrowing from the tradition to advance knowledge about population health issues of the day. sadly but most urgently, we have a topic for discussion. statistics on firearm injury in the u.s. are bleak. they threatened to become numbing. firearms killed more than 48,000 americans and injured twice as many. most firearm deaths are caused by suicide while homicides are the most common cause under the age of 18. the united states has adjusted homicide rates 22 times higher than the european union. that toll does not stop with the victims. given the trauma and fear associated with the proximity to violence, it affects millions. becoming numb is not something the nation can afford. in 2020, the cost of fatal and non-fatal firearm injuries in the u.s. topped $493 billion. according to a recent article. no one considers this acceptable , these are gun o

the length of the health system should be discussed in the ministry of health.ical treatment and education, a good step taken in the law of the sixth plan was that the supreme council of health insurance was transferred to the ministry of health, medical education, and the health insurance organization was also placed under the ministry of health, but this was not all the focus of the administration or in the same paragraph seven. he had come financial resources in the health system should be allocated through the insurance system. yes, a part of this has been done, a larger part has not yet been done, or in paragraph 10 that you mentioned in the report that basic financial resources should be provided for the health system , a good step that was taken was to allocate 1% of the value added tax. it was given to the health department. well, this was a good action in principle, but in the long run. in the last 6 years or the last 7 years that this 1% added value has been allocated, sufficient allocation of these resources for the health sector has not always been d

change and health. as you can tell from those introductions, we have three individuals who are deeply thinking about the issues introduced earlier. we look forward to their discussion. thank you so much for moderating this panel. we look forward to and engaging conversation -- look forward to an engaging conversation. [applause] joanne: getting everybody mic'd up and they will be up here in a minute. ♪ >> at the same event hosted by johns hopkins university, health care professionals discussed reducing waste from their sector and speak about a potential transition to reusable medical supplies. this is about one hour and 15 minutes. joanne: we are about ready for the panelists if people will take their seats. i want to add a few tiny additional notes to the bios. jeremy is working on a book about medical waste. it is called -- the working title is called syringe ties. it does have a jersey shore angle. jody i also wanted to mention the work she is doing at yale. she serves on the national academy of medi

you are a women's health nurse. want to each of you think of something in your clinical lives -- recently where you looked to the stuff and thought am i really throwing this out. that everybody here is a clinician. give us an example of stuff like scissors that you actually throw out. do you want to start? >> this is one of them. we have these suture removal kids and it is fascinating. what i wanted to start is the speculum. joanne: he is going to give us a history. i want people seeing on c-span to understand everything you touch gets thrown out. >> i have not been in medical practice that will. i work at a community health center. . the pelvic exam is an important part of committee health. the physical substance of what we use -- when i was in training we used a medical speculum which where every reasonable. sometimes they could be cold. sometimes they could be warm depending on who was using them. the plastic speculum was more reliably warmer. it would still have a reusable light source. it is only in the past fi

change and health.you can tell from those introductions, we have three individuals who are deeply thinking about the issues introduced earlier. we look forward to their discussion. thank you so much for moderating this panel. we look forward to and engaging conversation -- look forward to an engaging conversation. [applause] joanne: getting everybody mic'd up and they will be up here in a minute. ♪

our health meditation transmits many health-oriented demands through these health volunteers. we have health ambassadors, we have student health ambassadors who are currently 3 million active, our plan is to reach 7 million. people's participation in the field of health is the most important factor for one issue, which is the promotion of health literacy. i claim the right and i demand this from the government . in addition to this, i must be responsible and responsible , so that if this happens in my community , i can provide it, both in providing the service and in receiving the service. if the health community center in tehran we have a street, many times those who live in the area may not even know that such a comprehensive health center exists and what services it provides is that the most important factor that we have in the health week, god willing, is a week with a special slogan every day. we will serve the people. our most important issue is improving health literacy and conveying the message that many things that are done in health are things that are done at low co

there winning documentary which talks about mental health education in schools is titled "mental healthducated people >> understanding mental health challenges. >> access to resources, developing false information. >> and so do future generations. ♪ >> the current state is, in a word, abysmal. many of our illnesses and psychiatry emerged during childhood and adolescence. >> we know how troubling and how challenging covid was for for our youth in terms of isolation. >> you know, not having traditional schooling, not being able to see their friends the way they normally would, not being able to engage. >> teen mental health tanked and has never caught back up at the baseline. >> it's a huge challenge and they feel this stigma. people suffering from mental health problems and concerns have long been named and shamed. >> the average delay between symptoms and treatment is 10 years. youth deserve access to mental health care and i believe the solution lies in schools. 20 years from now mental health , education should be part of the curriculum in eighth grade across the u.s., before they ent

yes, we do health screening. we also had a screening some time ago that talked about diabetes and sugar and these things . how much can it prevent deaths and how much can it actually specify in the treatment process of the case that is actually mentioned in these general health policies. what is the status of this field? complications of diabetes, complications of eyes, complications of all heart complications, and now how much should be spent for each of these, and the quality of life of this person will no longer be the quality of life of a normal person. blood, these are the things that we must discover early and try to prevent complications. well, if there is no awareness and this principle of prevention. if the treatment is not followed , we are waiting until the complication occurs, then we are treating it, so we have to spend more, and the quality of life of our countrymen will never be the same as before. when you can't be sick, that's why this screening was done. in the case of cancer, in 1403 , there is

well, we had the national health campaign , we had the family health plan. in this government , there is the expansion of the network system. well, you know, for a while, this was not really addressed. the ministry of health is now serious about repairing the network and expanding the network. and the manpower that is necessary because health is definitely a priority over treatment, no matter how much we spend on health , we will save many times more on our treatment, and there is less need for discussion lines or, in fact, those clinical guidelines. there is a service standard that in this government, about 570 clinical guides have actually been written and communicated to the insurance companies, to the medical system organization, to the supreme council of insurance, that the insurance companies should leave these in their actual purchases. do you know that in this government , free insurance was provided for all sections of the country, and with the funding that was provided, now there should be no one who does not have basic insurance. national gross ve

naming the fourth day of health week to the topic of mental and social health for the first time with a purpose paying attention to the importance of mental health in the society and the authorities , now, not us, in the world, many physical disorders are considered to be psychological phenomena, and if we can have a healthy society in terms of discussing mental health issues, many of the problems that we see in the society now especially in young people, with effective interventions, effective counseling can reduce many of these programs. the director general of the mental health office of the ministry of health says that in general , the risk factors and harms of mental health are increasing in the world, and iran is also this rule is not an exception, but sometimes statistics of mental health the society is raised that does not have a correct basis. in the past months , you have seen this widespread news coverage that 99 tenths of iranian people are depressed. well, this is definitely not a correct analysis, but it is widely reported. after the publishing body makes a correction, t

and so i want there to be public health. i went there to be public health. i want us to be stopping every shooting. but i want public health expertise to be collaborating with political messaging and urban planning and economics. health needs to be much more i'm saying this very broadly, much collaborative junior scholars should be able to get tenure for having ten different decibels ends on their committee and getting a grant that has ten different things. like it's not just enough publish in public health journals facing the threat to democracy that we face. and so i mean, there's really i mean, i have a gun center in nashville my colleagues and i are doing you know i have a colleague is working with shotspotter i mean incredible stuff we're stopping the 50,000 the bigger threat, the 500 million right now and. so public health needs to build out totally in it. it sounds frightening to say we need to be more political. this is my soapbox. but but we need every every public health dissertations have ten disciplines and every grant have ten different things.

there is health care, which the ministry of health believes in and they do this. yes, mr. doctor, the question you asked, of course, you came to us , you raised it in the continuation of the discussion of the national health campaign. now that it has been 10 years now, i don't know from your point of view, is this part acceptable or not? see no see acceptable not really we if let's summarize our discussion now . yes, this is what i am talking about. well, efforts have been made , no one denies the efforts, but if we want to speed up this discussion, which is very vital , the policies should be implemented. we want the results of the general health policies in all dimensions of the health system. vision means that since it will benefit the patient, the treatment process will be corrected. as far as the discussion , the costs actually decreased through insurance and the structure of the health system itself, so this is beneficial for everyone. what should we do to speed it up? get faster than it is. where are the bottlenecks? where are the places that need to be solved? yes,

health medicine and society, the sponsor public health at the aspen institute.any of you may know, grand rounds is a time honored feature of medicine decide to keep clinicians up-to-date about scientific and medical advancement and to promote excellence in research and practice. public health now in its eighth year at the aspen institute borrowers from that tradition to advance knowledge about the cutting edge public health or population health issues of the day. and sadly but certainly most urgently we do have such topic for our discussion today. the statistics on firearm injury in the united states are so bleak that they threatened to become numbing. firearms killed more than 40,000 americans in 2021, and injured twice that many. among adults, most firearm deaths are caused by suicide, homicide should most common cause among youth under the e of 18. a global outlier the united states has aged adjusted homicide rates that are 22 times higher than those of the european union. and that terrible toll does not stop at the victims, given the widespread impact of tra

, health is a responsibility it is social, which is not the responsibility of the ministry of health alone , because many social factors affect health, so ensuring national health requires the participation of everyone, it is a duty of the organization and various institutions, the participation of the people, the people can play their role in health . health is my right, so let's get to work. in these programs, we have put all our efforts in the field of health to move the culture in such a way that people enter these programs with good intentions and take time for their own health and consciously cooperate with us in direction instead of health programs of the ministry health by carrying out various campaigns, including screening for blood pressure and diabetes, in order to identify pathogenic factors before they occur or to control the disease before it occurs. it is complications, it means the priority of prevention over treatment, a campaign that was faced with the luck and participation of the people and was welcomed by 46 million people. this year, these figures should be foll

sold and arash health products can be sold online . we have no problem. i know my problem is something else. he is sitting up and now he calls his name let's call the ministry of health whatever we want , let it be principle 90. if it had come from the beginning, he would have invited us to the discussion. now , our problem is that you have been doing this underground work for 2 years , they are putting the catering organization in front of alki-alki , they are writing by-laws, as soon as their by-laws are up, they throw out the by-laws of the caterers and bring their own by-laws. see above, you said carver company is a company that has more than ten. call it knowledge-based companies, where is knowledge foundation , they have a turnover of over 100, call it knowledge the foundation of the next company said that the companies that can do this can even have 50% foreign shares . you can see what i call all these companies. what are their names? i say that this is not what the world has done. go to japan and see what it has done. is japan

policy-making in health-related matters is based on non-experts. confidentiality of patients' health information after the intervention of platforms in the distribution of medicine, as some government officials they insist on inculcating it, it is a bitter joke and these platforms can easily end with the cooperation of one or a few syrian pharmacies. retrieve and save people's drug and health information in the data exchange between electronic prescriptions and pharmacies using patient tracking codes . amir sayah, head of the national center for improving the business environment of the ministry of economy. by registering the request to buy medicine on an internet platform, the monitoring will be more accurate and more, and in case of a violation, such as providing expired medicine, the follow-up will be easier, and the system of explaining the medicine will be clear. sajad smail spokesperson of the food and drug organization: no policy reform and changes in the type of drug supply can replace the specialized structure of the pharmacy. the pharmacy

community health volunteers have training and basic medical care and public health. when they come to our home, they ask us to speak to con powell. they bring us medicine, they tell us to purify water from the river by installing q or fires so that the water is clean all you mind we can drink and why? because of, you know, when it pre owned and coverage. the villages here to begin, let's read it to the result in feel people have difficulty in that open reducing the chances of children getting infectious diseases and then yeah, but we want to make this a good place if i didn't some latch friends and cleaning them. so that when the doctor comes to assess it and yeah, but it's like, finds it's clean or whatever. would it be so that even when we have visitors, review, no shame for them and you get think of a lot of, uh you will, he is he done your thing a community health a whole and he has, are instrumental for increasing health literacy and promoting healthy behaviors with female localities. he and can, there are about a $100000.00 of them who have to navigate every da

on the occasion of family health and mental health day , it will cover various services and issues. people can benefit from these services to the psychologists of the community centers of urban health services. refer to morteza arasani of sed and sima news agency . for several years, using the internet of things , smart buildings have reduced energy consumption to a certain extent. they save this time , sharif university researchers designed an intelligent system that increases this possibility significantly. similar techniques, for example, by specifying offices where there is no traffic. and through the application of turning off the heating and cooling of these rooms , they reduce energy consumption by 20% in the technology we developed in addition to implementing this feature. through the unique optimization algorithm that is solved every 5 minutes by our devices , we create conditions that, in addition to the temperature of all offices around the temperature of the boiler in our building should be set at the lowest possible value continuously in the winter season and in the sum

and analysis of the school mental health services program at the department of mental health. within four months hhs produced a review of the program and seven recommendations for removing barriers to getting quality mental health services in our schools. these recommendations were enacted on july 1, 2022, and produced a public-private partnership that offered schools more choice and control in giving school-based mental health services for their students. health and human services also conducted a survey at the start of the current school year to determine the availability of school-based mental health services in south carolina. the survey showed that the number of school-based mental health counselors available for public schools has doubled from 600 in january of 2022, to 1209 in september 2023. september 2023. the ratio was one counselor for 300 students and then. it is now one for 653 students. the survey also showed that students at more than 200 additional schools now have access to mental health counseling and that all 73 of our traditional school districts now have a

soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is

they get free health care.e are concerned about that because we are dependent on the government to take care of the citizens. host: ok. middleton in west srarbgs, medicare recipients. go ahead. caller: good morning, pedro. people complain about the insurance. i have to say i got aetna gold and it only costs me $25 a month. i get a card every three months for $100, like a credit card, to spend on my money for when i go see a specialist. i also get $105 every three months to buy stuff over the counter. i also get -- i got $3,000 dental that they pay. $500 for my glasses. these people are complaining all the time, they just need to look who they got the insurance with. you know that? host: ok. that's middleton in west virginia. axios reports that the biden administration monday followed through on a proposal to cut next year's base payments to medicare advantage plans. that's an average of 0.16%, despite pressure from insurers and allies in congress, saying while the plans will line up seeing a net increase once p

does "health" mean only physical heth, or does it also include mental health? general prelog: th respect to what qualifies as an emergencmecal condition, it can include grave mental health emergencies, but let me be very clear about our position. that could never lead to pregnancy termination because that is not the accepted standard of practice to treat any nt health emergency. justice alito: does the term "'rious jeopardy" in -- in (e)(11)(i) mean an immediate serious risk or may a risk of serious consequenc asome future point suffice? general prelogarthe standard is defined in terms of whether you need immediate medical treatment. and so the relevant questions, the absence of immediate medical treatment, are y gng to have this serious jeopardy to your health, dysfunction of your organswi your bodily systems start shutting down, so it is pegged to the urgency of acute ca in an emergency room. justice alito: so it has to be immediate? general prelogar: the -- the relevant staarunder the statute is phrased in terms of whether the nsequences will occur without i

naming the fourth day of the health week to the issue of mental and social health for the first time with the aim of drawing the attention of society and authorities to the importance of mental health now, not us, in the world. of disorders they know the physical as mental and psychological phenomena, and if we can have a healthy society in terms of psychological discussions, many of the problems that we see in the society now, especially in the youth, with effective interventions and effective counseling can reduce many of this program. the director general of the mental health office of the ministry of health says that in general , the risk factors and harms of mental health are increasing, and iran is no exception to this rule, but sometimes statistics about the mental health of the society are presented that have no correct basis. in the past months , you saw this widespread news coverage that 99 tenths of people iran is depressed. well, this is definitely not a correct analysis , but it gets a very wide news coverage. after the publishing body makes a correction, that correction

and psychosocial health day. siraj was opened in the country. a big national plan is being carried out in the country, which is called siraj plan it is possible to have a psychiatrist, psychologist and social worker in the fields of psychological issues such as anxiety, depression , etc. in the form of a complete package of services and various issues. people can refer to the psychologists of the community centers of urban health services to benefit from these services , morteza. sri lanka broadcasting agency, a country surrounded by the waters of the indian ocean. for many years , silasa rivers have created problems in the field of water resource management and electricity supply in this country. it has a lot of monsoon rains, but the areas that have water is not stable. in 2007. this project produces electricity with an annual transfer of 145 million cubic meters and irrigates 5 thousand hectares of agricultural land. and delivered to the employer by the iranian executive of the project. this plan includes the

this year, i will start with the first day of the health week. my topic is rib health .st topic that has been discussed in the city , god willing, it will work. it is the mouth and teeth, and next year, god willing, we will also deal with other issues. the shanghai summit is a very good opportunity for friendly countries that it can create many fields of cooperation in medical sciences. currently, family health programs in iran favored many countries in the region have been placed and achievements have been made available to them to exchange experiences. maryam bikpour, radio and television news agency. hello. in the first month of the year, the people of iraq, isfahan and semnan get free land. taking over the youth of their population. i have four children of three colons, one and one. what is the life of a family of five? thank god, it's very good. it means that when i come home from work, i was in love with these children. i come to play with them . they gave us a piece of land in baharestan city. it is very helpful for me, who is a bachelor, that this man who has 8 c

people can play their role in health. if i say that health is my right, then get to work. in these programs, we put all our efforts in the field of health to move the culture in such a way that people enter these programs with good intentions and take time for their own health and consciously cooperate with us in order to implement the health programs of the ministry of health by implementing various surveys, including qarbalgari survey blood pressure and diabetes seek to know the pathogenic factors before they occur or to control the disease before it causes complications. it means that the priority of prevention over treatment is a campaign that was faced with the luck of people's participation and 46 million people welcomed it. we saw in that campaign that when the ministry of unity. a step forward was taken by the people standing by us and figures were given that this year these figures should be followed up . because these are controlled, these are followed in the same way for diabetes and other diseases , two new campaigns are going to be started this year with the p

health announced. our plan is that during a call, all citizens will enter a web page and have a short registration. we integrate the health sector departments into the system. in the second stage, the hospital departments are also seen in the electronic file display. will be. forming an electronic health file is a legal responsibility for the officials of the ministry of health , which is emphasized in the fifth and sixth plans been. according to the electronic version, the health file is actually being implemented in the country and it is making very good progress. we hope that we can remove the obstacles. god willing, we will fully implement our electronic file by the end of this year. from the sections in this year's file available to all. it is located in the drug search section. we have prepared a possibility now , and this will be made available, so that they can get a medicine that they don't know which pharmacy has this medicine, they can search, and the system will tell them, for example, whic

i to the crisis within the health surface? ~ �* , to the crisis within the health surface?charlotte in - surface? i think it's undoubtedly... you heard from charlotte in that i you heard from charlotte in that clip there, she has mental health problems and she wants to work, but she says the thing that�*s holding her back is the lack of mental health support. so, one would assume that for her, not for everyone, but for her to have more support would enable her at least to go back in. yes, undoubtedly, the health service being in the state is, many people experiencing would say more resources would help them get back to work. ., . , resources would help them get back to work. ., ., , ., resources would help them get back towork. ., ., , ., , to work. how many of those people who are currently _ to work. how many of those people who are currently inactive _ to work. how many of those people who are currently inactive due - to work. how many of those people who are currently inactive due to i who are currently inactive due to disability would actually like to work? ~ , ., , .,

establish family health , our individual health will also suffer. the basic challenges will be social health as well. it doesn't happen to the general public and really the main focus of family health is motherhood. god forbid, a mother in the family gets sick, the family really suffers serious instability, or the mother does not pay attention to the health or literacy of the various foods that she provides for the family. whether her health is not sufficient or there are various other issues in our health, from a different perspective, a person whose physical, mental, and social health is challenged and is really the main axis of the health of the mother's family, and really the main axis of our mothers' health depends on their motherhood and child-rearing. i want to give a statistic let me tell you, it has been studied all over the world that when a woman gets married and experiences pregnancy as the number of pregnancies increases and breast-feeding experiences, the risk of women's cancers such as breast, uterus and ovaries decreases to a great e

on the occasion of the day of family health and psychosocial health of several centers. siraj was opened in the country. a large national plan is underway in the country, which is called the siraj plan. the complete service package will cover various issues. people can benefit from these services to psychologists centers refer to the city health service community. morteza azani sed and sima news agency has been saving energy to some extent by using the internet of things in smart buildings. this time, sharif university researchers designed an intelligent system that increases this possibility significantly. similar technologies, for example, by determining the offices in which there is traffic. they do not have and through the application of turning off the heating and cooling devices of these rooms , they reduce energy consumption by 20% in the technology that we recommended, in addition to implementing this feature of through the unique optimization algorithm that is solved every five minutes by our devices, we create a condition that, in addition to the temperature of

this health mean physical health or does it include mta health?as an emergen medical issue, it can include grave mental health emergencies, but oupotion is that could never lead to pregnancy term and is it termination e that is not the standard of practice to eat any mental health emergency. >> does the term serious jeopardy mean an immediate serious risk or may risk serious consequences at some fute point? >> the standard is whether you need immediate medical treatmt. the question isn the absence ofmmediate medical treatment are you going to have serious jeopardy to your health, dysfunction of your organs. will your bodily systems start shutting down? it is the urgency of acute care in an emgey room. >> sitas to be immediate? >>he standard is whether these consequences will occur without immediate treatment. it is focused on the interaction between hangome kind of urnt health crisis that takes you to an emergency health crisis and how likely these consequences are to be. >> whether the woman is in immediate jy or whether the woman needs immediate

of family health and mental health day. social centers of siraj have been opened in the country . a large national plan is underway in the country, which is called the siraj plan. the presence of psychiatrists and social workers in the fields of psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, and such cases. it will cover various issues as a complete service package . people can refer to the psychologists of the community centers of urban health services to benefit from these services. morteza azzouni of sed and cima news agency. the recipe for the geographical distance between agricultural businesses is amended by the director of licensing organization of agricultural engineering system in the program. the application of applicants for agricultural businesses has been rejected due to the so-called sanitary distance. mrs. mohammad zamani added that according to the law on facilitating the issuance of business licenses, these distances will be adjusted with the aim of attracting investment in the agricultural sector and

what do you trust in a chatbox with your mental health issues? maybe if you needed help, but couldn't find the therapist, that might be the case to many of us because worldwide one, an 8 people struggle with mental health issues. and the cobit 19 pandemic made it worse. but therapy is hard to come by for anyone and can be costly. a chatbox train for therapy designed to help the company a market overview. there are thousands of mental well being out on office. many of these come with chat box for one on one counseling. these chat box a mentor help uses with mental health issues by answering questions and offering guidance. some also routinely checking on you to see how you're doing this website here claims. it's a i can impersonate anyone amongst the ai versions of albert einstein, the giga child named eva musk. you can find an a therapist. it was created by a med student. he said at the basics of his psychology studies and then use it to vent about his exam stress. both of the others discovered the but it became super popular. it has now sent out

health center now established for the health consensus to respond to employees concerns and complaints. the health center is disciplinary consultation team that model will expands to all in the coming year. >> and finally h.r. conduct ongoing exist interviews and the biannual surveys to keep us ground in the employee feedback. next slide, please. the h.r. team building in on and on learning and innovation and here are photos from our 4 h.r. conferences in 2023 and including the employee engagement conference the hiring conference and the annual h.r. conference thank you. >> melissa i can stop sharing. >> thank you for that presentation and is incredible producing progress you have made back to 2018 and 19 a 9 month period to hire and nurse that is so incredible and it reflects to bring all the stakeholders to work with the union partners and listen to the staff that is incredible work i know we're supposed to take public comment i could not hold back and love the picture of dr. colfax and happy with the progress that's why that is any public comment on that item. >> any public comment

approval of the minutes of the health commission community and public health committee meeting of march 19, 2024, meeting. i believe secretary morewitz a few corrections. >> i'm sorry on the bottom of page 5 the word um, skilled should say guide. and actually i need to run and get a copy of the minutes. >> so i wear my sneakers and on page 6 commissioner chow asked for a correction so at the top of the page states out of the $91 million spent on health services on the spec addressing medical conditions. >> any other any additions or deletions to the agenda? all right. seeing none, a motion to approve the minutes. >> so moved. >> second. >> second. >> and any public comment and then short statement about public comment autopsy let's see - in the public comment in the room first on the minutes. >> there is a hand before we begin i have a statement members of the public can make comments up the three minutes. feedback in the individuals and community the process is in the meeting for the public comment to engage with back and forth with the commissioners and members of the public when disc

these preservative and additives have on our society's health. the fast food has become synonymous with convenience, but at what cost? fast food with its high levels of saturated fat sugars and empty calories has played a significant role in the obesity epidemic that we see today. and as we know, obesity is linked to a myriad of health issues from heart disease to diabetes because fast food produces millions of pounds of food every day. it is meant to be affordable and consumed quickly. most fast food meals are prepared from frozen canned or the hydrated products and are simply reheated before serving. these fluids are high in calories below a nutrition which means that they'll leave you feeling hungry and cause you to binge eat. aside from the usual culprits of salt and sugars and fast food, there are many hidden chemical ingredients views and preparing the meal. chemicals are added to most fast food products to make them last longer and taste better. but these chemicals compromise, the nutritional quality of the food. common chemicals include p

officials, state and city health officials, the american public health association, the american heart association, doctors for america and many more warns us of the potential damage that could be dumb if today's hearing fails to handle the subject of vaccine safety carefully and without advice. just this morning a group of six leading medical societies representing more than a 560,000 physicians issued a joint statement. they wanted to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence based science and recognize how covid-19 vaccines protect and save millions of lives. i would also like to enter the statement into the record. >> without objection. >> as a position and as ranking member of the select subcommittee, i want to ensure that today's conversation remains rooted in the facts. the facts are that while delivering effective covid-19 vaccines to the american people at a historic pace, our federal public health officials went to painstaking links to evaluate their safety and they are continuing to do so. dr. marks, your division of the fda is responsible for evaluating data to authorize and ap

programs of the ministry of health is the family health program. in the world, the cause of many physical disorders can be psychological phenomena. the director general of the mental health office of the ministry of health says that in general , the risk factors and mental health damage are increasing in the world. 14 and 7 tenth percent of people in developed countries or with high income people suffer from mental disorders and are considered middle income countries. our country is one of them , our 12th and 5th or 12th and 14th we have disorders, according to mental health experts , at the four levels of public governance, the family and the individuals themselves , mental health risk factors can be prevented. you don't have the vitality of the past for a while, i feel that there is something, you can talk to me, and i gave the person the opportunity to speak freely, not to be judged, not to be advised, but to be able to speak freely, it can be helpful . the importance of mental health and insurance coverage of services in this field has been put

and not their mental health, but our mental health. it is very refreshing. i think we made significant changes in the system. the delivery systems are still challenged by the shortage workforce shortage in mental health, but there is a lot of work underway and at the state level they are looking creating new type of job classifications that may expand the team that provides services to take care of people with emotional instabilities or mental health issues. it is really great. i think that's all i got for the director's report. >> are there questions or comments on the director's report? i understand holly has a update on the election process. >> yes are, thank you president scott. as the coordinator for the 2024 health service board election, the calendar states that nominees were required to submit all paperwork to both the ethic commission and to the department of elections today by noon and they were able to confirm the nominees who are now confirmed as candidates. there are three confirmed candidates. we will proceed with the ele