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- From: decvax!r-node.gts.org!ndallen@decwrl.dec.com (Nigel Allen)
- Subject: Public Health Advocates Rally at Capitol for Health Issues
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- Here is a press release from the American Public Health Association.
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- Public Health Advocates Rally at Capitol for Health Issues
- To: National Desk, Health Care Writer
- Contact: American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting
- Press Office, Omni Shoreham Hotel, 202-387-3401
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- WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- Several thousand public health
- professionals rallied today at the U.S. Capitol to tell incoming
- president Bill Clinton and the new Congress that we must
- take specific steps to improve our national health.
- Participants at the rally, who are attending the 120th annual
- meeting of the American Public Health Association, called for
- * a universal health program with comprehensive benefits;
- * protection of the environment for future generations;
- * adequate funding to improve the nation's health; and
- * attention to women's health issues.
- Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) spoke to a rally about a national
- health program; Rep. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) made the case for aggressive
- environmental protection; Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) called
- for the recognition and elevation of women's health issues, which
- have been ignored too long; Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio) called for
- funding critical public health programs; and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
- looked at the future of prevention in the new Congress.
- Addressing the rally, APHA President Joyce Lashof declared that
- "historic opportunities...are before us" to reform our health system
- and improve our national health.
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