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Health Concerns Around Low Income Issues
Prescription Assistance Programs
- Rx Outreach Provides qualified
low-income individuals and families with access to
generic versions of brand name
medications.
- Rx
Hope RxHope is the only patient
assistance Internet initiative financially
supported by PhRMA (Pharmaceutical and Research
Manufacturers of America) and participating
pharmaceutical companies.
- Together Rx Access free savings program
that helps eligible participants save
approximately 25%-40% on over 275 brand-name prescription
drugs and other prescription products
- Partnership For Prescription Assistance
brings together America's pharmaceutical companies,
doctors, other health care providers, patient advocacy
organizations and community groups to help qualifying
patients who lack prescription coverage get the medicines
they need through the public or private
program that's right for them
- NeedyMeds provides
information about patient assistance programs which
provide no cost prescription medications
to eligible participants
- NAMI Patient Prescription Drug Assistance
Programs NAMI: The Nation's Voice on
Mental Illness has put together a list of
prescription drugs for mental health and a phone number
to contact for information on assistance
programs.
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Insurance and Benefits Assistance Programs
- Benefits CheckUp assists elderly find
prescription drugs, health care, utilities, and other
essential items or services programs
- First Step a tool for case
managers and outreach workers to assist the
homeless in gaining access to Federal benefit
programs
- Helping Patients In order to find
out what patient assistance programs you may qualify for,
all you have to do is answer a few short eligibility
questions. This site will help supply you with the
information you need to get involved in a program and
even allow you to download applications
online.
- Real Benefits web-based application,
intended for use by advocates and service-providers,
performs very sophisticated and accurate
eligibility screening for state and national
benefit programs
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Information Resources on Insurance
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Environmental Health
- Environmental
Health and Toxicology from the National Library of Medicine,
the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program
includes links to databases, bibliographies,
tutorials, and other scientific and consumer-oriented
resources.
- Toxtown An introduction
to toxic chemicals and environmental health risks you
might encounter in everyday life, in everyday
places
- Household Products Database learn about
potential health effects, and about safety and handling
of common household products
- Toxicology & Environmental Health
several resources gathered by the
Specialized Information Services (SIS) of the National
Library of Medicine
-
Environmental Protection Agency
- MedlinePlus Health Topic: Environmental
Health
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry To serve the public by
using the best science, taking responsive actions, and
providing trusted health information..
- Education, Careers, and Outreach in
Toxicology and Environmental Health aggregates
resources related to toxicology and environmental health
education, its study and teaching, career paths and
opportunities, including accreditation, and outreach for
the public.
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