Sentences with phrase «health model in»

Roffey summarizes both approaches separately at the end of every chapter, highlighting the ongoing need to move beyond the deficit model and embrace the health model in the classroom.

The concentration places a major emphasis on Coordinated School Health Model in Texas and the American School Counseling Association (ASCA) National Model for school counseling inclusive of mental health promotion and positive youth development, early mental health intervention and development, substance abuse prevention and intervention, and suicide prevention in the school setting.

It is essential that schools have an effective and comprehensive school health model in place during these critical years of social, psychological, physical, and intellectual development.

Not exact matches

The situation is analogous to health care policy in the years before Obamacare, when, in the absence of a federal consensus, Massachusetts pioneered its own law aimed at reforming health insurance (which later became a model for the Affordable Care Act).

«We wanted to make sure that our own country was part of the conversation about global health issues in two ways — one, making sure that we're not thinking of it as issues that affect other people that don't have anything to do with us, but also acknowledging that we can learn so much from what has gone well or new models that are effective in other countries,» Bush tells Business Insider.

«The traditional food model is shifting and we continue to see an increase in more health - conscious consumers who are seeking new options and services that fit easily and effortlessly into their lifestyle,» said Jeff Hamilton, president of Nestle Foods Division, in a prepared statement.

Sheehan goes on to explain that this was the moment that forever cemented her commitment to developing innovative and sustainable models that change the way health care is delivered in the developing world.

One is an agreement with Harvard Pilgrim, a nonprofit health plan covering 1.2 million people, to pay rebates if a patient's vision doesn't meet certain thresholds in 30 to 90 days, and then 30 months after treatment, under a model known as outcomes - based pricing.

When federal politicians finally did intervene in health care with the passage of Medicare in 1965, the insurance company model had been developing for decades.

In order to build up the private sector as a means for fighting government health care reform, AMA leaders designed the insurance company model.

The model, called Lean LaunchPad, is based on a method of starting new companies that has been largely championed by Steve Blank, a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who partnered with UCSF in 2013 to offer the program for students with ideas for health - related businesses.

Under the model of such a «patient - centered medical home,» for instance, health care providers could give people practical (and personally tailored) advice on the «next best action» they may be able to take in order to improve their health, perhaps by improving their diet or boosting how much exercise they get.

In health care, however, new models take time to take hold.

Despite expressing reservations in regards to entering the heavily regulated space, the company has begun collecting anonymous genetic information from 175 volunteers in order to build a perfect model of human health.

With new business models springing up in the health - care industry, it is getting increasingly difficult to label what companies do.

Companies involved in fields ranging from health care to climate modeling have already tapped into the potential from open government data.

In the wake of failed health insurance mergers earlier this year, some of its competitors are now eyeing the UnitedHealth model of vertical integration.

Heinz, a company in reasonable financial health and with growing sales, might be a closer model for recovering Tim's.

For example, in one activity called «Stem of the Living Dead,» students explore the exponential growth of a zombie hoard and how the spread of the infection creates limited resources using World Health Organization and CDC models and graphs.

Fedo works with health insurance providers in the B2B sector, along with having plans of working with state governments in India to develop predictive healthcare models.

In addition to the new iPhone models, Apple also unveiled an update to its iOS software, and revealed that the 5S will carry improved camera features as well as a special M7 motion detection chip that will work in conjunction with a host of new health and fitness appIn addition to the new iPhone models, Apple also unveiled an update to its iOS software, and revealed that the 5S will carry improved camera features as well as a special M7 motion detection chip that will work in conjunction with a host of new health and fitness appin conjunction with a host of new health and fitness apps.

In early 2013, he chose several versions of his working model — a mallet and stainless - steel jack, all with slightly different handles and teeth of various shapes and sizes — and traveled to California to get feedback from his target market of health - conscious consumers.

Paul Black lists out three big trends to watch for in health IT this year, namely: a continuing shift to value - based care models (rather than the fee - for - service, volume - oriented paradigm which still dominates the sector); digital health infrastructure interoperability that makes it possible for different systems to talk to each other and coordinate care; and an increased focus on precision medicine and «genomically aware care» that can help take a lot of the guesswork out of medicine.

The modeling entailed building portfolios of CHAA - participating companies that scored high in either health or safety, along with CHAA - participating companies that scored high in both categories.

The Hartford site, which is yet to be determined, will help the company reach the New England market and expand the local workforce to help customers compete in insurance, health care and manufacturing sectors that are increasingly establishing digital business models.

We were was a single, 104 - bed psychiatric hospital looking for an investment partner who believed in our model to deliver specialty behavioral health programs to patients in under - served markets.

«BRAC and Living Goods have worked together since 2008 to build this entrepreneurial community health worker (CHW) model in Uganda.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

In a recent survey by Rock Health, 61 % of companies that launched with a B2C model had converted to a B2B or B2B2C model.

As the digital health sector matures we expect to continue seeing more and larger deals, greater diversity in both private and public investors, and business models that continue to be refined as startups gain market experience and understanding.

Digital health companies are increasingly pivoting to a B2B model, said Zweig in the opening presentation.

In regard to health care delivery, the Party promises to develop and implement a decentralized model for health care services, which encourages local accountability and community participation.

Following a detailed description of engagement and interventional models, we will review important studies in the digital health literature, both to understand the current advantages of the technology as well as its limitations.

Whelp, so much for my solemn promise to god to stay with you in sickness and health, I'm going to find a better model.»

The church's capacity to involve itself in every aspect of community life has served as a model for the development of certain aspects of the community mental health centers.

One facet of teaching with particular relevance to preventing mental ill - health is that which encourages children to feel their emotions, and to work them through in creating imaginative stories, finger - painting or clay - modeling.

The scientist engineers better crops, investors and entrepreneurs refine their business models, and non-partisan experts advise governments on how best to invest in infrastructure, education, and public health.

The Wholistic Flealth Centers pioneered by Granger Westberg offer an innovative model of whole - person health care in which the spiritual dimension of healing is integrated with conventional medical resources.

(6) This emphasis on self - responsibility seeks to counteract a major cause of unwellness in Western societies — the «medical model» in which people view themselves as passive «patients» and view physicians as having primary responsibility for their health and healing.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

It presents the Kerala model as something from which the Union Government and other Indian states like UP and Bihar have to learn their lesson that without a basis in social development like literacy, health and women's education and social security there can be no participatory economic expansion which is necessary if economic growth has to serve society.

Social development has already made a contribution to the economic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources».

In recent years we have been fascinated by the models of health defined by Freud, by Eastern religion, by technology, by philosophy.

The organization created a first - of - its - kind proposal to address the challenges in North Minnesota with a goal of «closing the food and health gap and becoming a model for similar efforts nationwide.»

Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally estimated.

Briggs A, Mytton O, Scarborough P, Rayner M. Appendix 8: Modelling the effects of a 10 % sugar sweetened drinks tax on obesity and overweight in Ireland: a report to inform the Health Impact Assessment.

-LCB- Project -RCB- COWCALF: Developing robust and economically viable models for cow - calf suckling in organic dairy systems, fulfilling high standards for animal health, welfare and ethics.

If I even suggested at my grandmother's age she'd kill me, but she is a great role model for good health and still gets her butt in the kitchen to cook herself dinner.

But its undeniable health benefits have led product innovators to put it in drinks like Rebbl's turmeric golden milk and Temple Turmeric's entire business model.

Through innovations in production and assurance models, we shall empower individuals and communities toward holistic achievement of best practices leading to health and prosperity for current and future generations.