Public Health and Science

State Studies Drug Disposal

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) asks physician offices to participate in its survey on the disposal of pharmaceuticals. (Action, July 1, 2010)

Law Requires Electronic Death Registration

Texas law requires all cause-of-death information and medical certifications to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to be submitted electronically through the state's online death registration system, the Texas Electronic Registrar (TER). (Action, May 17, 2010)

A County-by-County Look at Health Status in Texas

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released 2010 County Health Rankings (PDF), a look at the health of counties in all 50 states. The report ranks Texas counties based on health factors such as tobacco and alcohol use, and health outcomes such as mortality and morbidity

FAQs
Answers to the public health and science questions most commonly asked of TMA.

Alerts and Updates
Learn about the latest Public Health issues affecting health care in Texas. Includes updates from the Texas Department of State Health Services. 

Committee on Infectious Diseases Cocooning Project
TMA’s Committee on Infectious Diseases is working on an initiative to promote targeted immunization, or cocooning. The project is aimed at reducing high rates of pertussis in Williamson County.

Education and Quality Projects
Information about TMA’s current Education and Quality Projects, including the Physician Oncology Education Program (POEP).

Health and Science Initiatives
Community projects on immunizations, science teaching, bicycle helmet safety, organ donation, and healthy lifestyles. Learn how to become involved.

Physician Resources
A regularly updated list of resources that provides information about Public Health issues affecting health care in Texas.

Project Access Resource Center
Everything you ever wanted to know about Project Access programs, links to programs around the country, and resources to launch a Project Access of your own.

Science Policy Papers
Papers and articles on issues ranging from genetics to immunization to mental health.

The Texas Public Health Coalition: "Our Future Is in Jeopardy"
TMA is a charter member of the Texas Public Health Coalition. Created in 2006, the coalition is a collection of organizations that share an interest in advancing core public health principles at the state and community levels. In particular, the coalition addresses the leading causes of death and disability in Texas – cancer, tobacco usage, stroke, and obesity. 

 

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TMA Public Health Opportunities

Excellence in Science Teaching Awards

The TMA Excellence in Science Teaching Awards provide cash prizes to recognize outstanding elementary, middle, and high school science teachers.


Hard Hats for Little Heads
Hard Hats for Little Heads is a matching bicycle helmet donation program for Texas physicians, county medical societies, TMA Alliances, medical student section chapters, and specialty societies to help prevent head injuries in their communities.

Be Wise — Immunize
This joint initiative of TMA and the TMA Alliance, funded through a grant from the TMA Foundation, aims to substantially increase statewide immunization rates.

AMA Healthier Life Steps
The Texas Medical Association brings you the American Medical Association (AMA) Healthier Life Steps program to help you improve the lifestyles and overall health of your patients. The comprehensive toolkit offers physicians and their patients practical resources for making positive, coordinated lifestyle changes. It focuses on healthy eating, increasing physical activity, quitting smoking, and reducing risky drinking.

Live and Then Give
More than 80,000 people in the United States are waiting for life-saving organ transplants. Many of those people live in Texas.  Thousands of people die needlessly each year due to lack of donors. Transplantation is often the only hope for these people suffering from organ failure.

Project WATCH
Project WATCH, TMA's cardiovascular disease and stroke prevention education program, aims to knock the No. 1 and No. 3 killers of Texans off the charts.


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