|
Colorado Department of Correction
|
DOC’s Hepatitis C
ruling for treatment of this disease |
Pdf 5,924 |
|
Colorado Dept. of Public Health and
Environment’s Viral Hepatitis Strategic Plan |
This document is
designed to highlight key issues, strategies, and principles that
reflect the Department’s approach to providing information and
services about Viral Hepatitis to our citizens |
332 kb pdf |
|
Colorado
Hepatitis C Virus exposure law |
AN ACT-
CONCERNING WORKERS' COMPENSATION COVERAGE FOR PUBLIC
SAFETY PERSONNEL EXPOSED TO HEPATITIS C. |
|
|
Colorado House Committee Passes Bill Requiring Coverage for Hepatitis C Virus
Treatment for Emergency Service Workers |
The Colorado House
Business Affairs and Labor Committee on Tuesday unanimously passed a
bill (SB
6) that would allow firefighters, police officers and
emergency services workers to receive workers' compensation coverage
for Hepatitis C Treatment , the
Denver
Post reports. The measure would allow the workers
to receive insurance coverage for hepatitis C treatments if the
disease was contracted on the job |
|
|
|
|
Dying inmate's lawyer weighs hepatitis suit |
Up to 40 percent
of prison inmates are suffering from hepatitis C and the state is
failing to treat them because of the cost, a lawyer for a dying
death-row inmate alleged Wednesday |
|
|
HEPATITIS C IN COLORADO
|
Hepatitis C is
the most common chronic blood borne infection in the United States.
Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
conducted from 1999-2002 indicate that between 3.4 and 4.9 million
people in the United States have ever been infected with the
hepatitis C virus (HCV) (1). In Colorado, it is estimated more than
83,000 residents have ever been infected with hepatitis C.
Approximately 75% of these individuals are chronically infected and
many may not be aware of their infection because they are not
clinically ill. First identified in 1988, HCV is the causative agent
for what was formerly known as non-A non-B hepatitis. The Food and
Drug Administration first licensed a serological test to detect
antibodies to HCV in 1990 . |
Pdf 411 kb |
|
The Health Insurance Cost Spiral: How It Happened |
Employers are
frustrated because they want their employees to have access to
quality health care but can no longer absorb annual premiums
increases of 15 to 70 percent. So, employees, asked to share the
rising cost of premiums, are unhappy, too. |
|
|
EDITORIAL, THE DENVER POST, 1/23/02 |
Since it is
usually impossible to prove the negative, that means public
employers, and ultimately Colorado taxpayers, would have to assume
responsibility for the vast majority of hepatitis C cases in public
safety workers that were actually contracted by illegal drug use or
multiple sex partners |
|
** In order to
view PDF files, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your
computer. Many computers already have this software; however, if you
need it, a free copy is available for download at this site:
Click
here to get Adobe Acrobat Reader.
