title: HCV Health Policy Developments in Response to the National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan: A Brief Update.
abstract: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) kills 366,000 people worldwide and 17,000 people in the United States each year. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a national viral hepatitis action plan to control and combat HCV in the United States. This article provides a brief update of HCV health policy developments that have emerged since publication of HHS's national viral hepatitis action plan and concludes with a discussion of the public health impact of these recent HCV health policy developments.
authors.affiliation: a The University of Alabama, School of Social Work , Tuscaloosa , Alabama , USA.
authors.forename: Yuqi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: b Department of Social Work , College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham , Birmingham , Alabama , USA.|c Department of Health Behavior, School of Public Health , The University of Alabama at Birmingham , Birmingham , Alabama , USA.|d Center for AIDS Research, The University of Alabama at Birmingham , Birmingham , Alabama , USA.|e Center for Comprehensive Healthy Aging, The University of Alabama at Birmingham , Birmingham , Alabama , USA.
authors.forename: Omar T
authors.initials: OT
authors.lastname: Sims
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion; D016174:Hepacivirus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011050:Policy Making; D011634:Public Health; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services
keywords: Hepatitis C; health policy; testing