Sentences with phrase «foundation health measures»

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Breastfeeding is now included in the National Performance Measures of Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant partly because of the Roundtable's work.My «business» for the past 16 years has been to build the very foundation of «breastfeeding - related businesses:» starting the LC profession; establishing the credential; forming the professional association; and creating / changing health pHealth Block Grant partly because of the Roundtable's work.My «business» for the past 16 years has been to build the very foundation of «breastfeeding - related businesses:» starting the LC profession; establishing the credential; forming the professional association; and creating / changing health phealth policy.

The foundation measures years of potential life lost before age 75; quality of life examines physical, mental and overall health, as well as the percentage of babies born with birth weights under about 5.5 pounds.

Exercise at a foundation level to decrease risk of disease and improve measures of health.

The solid foundation provided by following the Whole30 guidelines makes it possible to measure other health and quality - of - life markers and to tinker with them.

Its strategy draws on advances in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences to: (1) identify causal mechanisms that influence developmental trajectories; (2) formulate theories of change about how to produce better outcomes; and (3) design and test new intervention approaches and measure their effectiveness in reducing barriers to learning and strengthening the foundations of lifelong physical and mental health.

The foundations and donors supporting the education reform movement do have one enormous advantage over their philanthropic counterparts in the arts, health, the environment, human services, and any number of other fields, namely, the presence of measures of student achievement that allow real comparisons of school performance.

In a world - first, nib foundation's funding support will enable Smiling Mind to conduct the largest evaluation of an app - based mindfulness intervention program - to measure the impact of their program on increasing the protective factors associated with mental health and wellbeing such as social connection, sleep quality, and developing personal coping skills and resilience to deal with the stresses of everyday life.

The foundation, in collaboration with Advocates for Children, collect data on 16 measures that examine health, economics, family stability and education.

Drawing from insights gained through the creation of a mental health treatment centre at Pine River Institute and the development of subsequent collaborations with various clinical and research communities, the authors outline the importance of clarifying the goals and mechanisms of mental health treatment and creating better definitions and measures of treatment success as a strong foundation for moving toward decreasing wait times and increasing system integration.

With these two foundation elements in place, concerted special measures programs to address specific health issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and eliminate the gap in health status with the non-Indigenous population are possible and sustainable.