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01-31-12  IOM Call for Public Health Action: Living Well with Chronic Illness
Chronic illnesses have emerged as major health concerns of Americans in recent decades. People are increasingly focused not simply on living longer, but on maintaining or even improving their capacity to live well over their entire lives.

In general, chronic illnesses are slow in progression and long in duration, and they require medical treatment. All chronic illnesses have the potential to limit the functional status, productivity, and quality of life of people who live with them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the nonprofit Arthritis Foundation sought assistance from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to help identify public health actions to reduce disability and improve the function and quality of life for people living with chronic illness. The IOM committee appointed to study the issue presents its findings in Liv­ing Well with Chronic Illness: A Call for Public Health Action. Read the IOM Report Brief or the Full Report.

01-01-12  Cancer Program Accreditation - Changing Standards

The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons has accredited Cancer Programs for many years, a designation that signifies that a Cancer Program is giving its cancer patients optimum quality care. There have been some dramatic changes in the standards recently making it important for facilities that are accredited or are seeking accreditation to be familiar with these new standards and eligibility requirements. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has provided a webcast to help facilities to become familiar with these standards and requirements. Click here to view the webcast and related materials.


11-30-11  Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health(WISH) Public-use Cancer Module

A new WISH Cancer Module provides public access to comprehensive incidence and mortality data for policy planners, health care professionals, researchers, and the general public. Development of the new cancer module was a collaborative effort between the Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System and the WISH technical team. The WISH Cancer Module supports interactive, tailored access to data currently published in standard reports. The module also provides county-level data, stage at diagnosis data, and race and ethnicity data, for 25 cancer sites, subject to confidentiality restrictions. Click here to read more about the WISH cancer module. Visit the WISH website.