Sentences with phrase «health plan study»

In 2015, UnitedHealthcare in D.C. plans tied for third place in member satisfaction, according to the J.D. Power Member Health Plan Study.

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Several recent studies suggest that whether you're looking for weight loss or to improve your health, the best eating plans are based around vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins.

Premiums for health plans sold on Obamacare exchanges are about the same or cheaper than premiums for employer - offered plans, a study finds.

Countless studies have shown that declining health is one of the top reasons people retire earlier than planned.

Several recent studies suggest that whether you're looking for weight loss or to improve your overall health, the best eating plans are based around produce, plus some whole grains and lean proteins.

A recent Commonwealth Fund study co-authored by Collins looked at how much low - income people, who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid if their state had expanded the program, would pay in premiums and out - of - pocket health costs if they enrolled in «silver» Obamacare plans and if they were «medium» users of health care.

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

«The reality is these proposals prop up Obamacare instead of repealing it,» said Alexei Woltornist, spokesman for the Republican Study Committee, a large bloc of House conservatives that says the plan amounts to a taxpayer - funded giveaway to private health insurers.

Among those who plan to work in retirement out of financial necessity, a survey by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found 43 % expected to use the money to cover essential expenses, 37 % to pay for health care, and 20 % to save more for retirement.2

Studies have increasingly indicated that many baby boomers have no financial plan in place to protect themselves against outliving their assets and the rising cost of health care should they live longer than expected.

A health care plan that covers the cost of these items should be available to every woman, no matter where you work or study.

Though most Americans believe employers should be required to supply birth control in their health insurance plans, they are split down the middle on whether businesses should be required to provide wedding services for same - sex couples, as well as on whether transgender people should be allowed to use the restroom of their choice, says a study released this week by the Pew Research Center.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

A church's mental health committee profitably could study this plan and use it as a basis for action.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Informed by cutting - edge science and nutrition, along with case studies from men and women who have experienced life - changing transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making Americans sick and an action plan to clear our plates of this seemingly benign ingredient.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

I plan to present the results of this study in a presentations and an article or a book targeted to attachment parents and health / education professionals based on the data provided by survey respondents.

Supported by funding from the Canadian Institute for Health Research, Professor Vedam conducted a national, mix - methods study on factors leading to divergent attitudes among maternity care providers» regarding planned home birth.

This study examines nearly 17,000 planned homebirths with midwifery care and the results show an overwhelming benefit to positive health benefit.

Only a study following people who actually base their diet on this eating plan would give us an accurate answer as to its credibility and health effects.

Steering group — This study was planned and coordinated by Jean Davies, research midwife, Newcastle; Pat Davies, health visitor, Sunderland; Alan Fortune, general practitioner, Alnwick; Linda Hedley, senior midwife, Berwick; Edmund Hey, consultant paediatrician, Newcastle; Barbara Hinchcliffe, health visitor, Hexham; Maureen Hodgson, community midwife, North Durham; Ann Kirkpatrick, midwifery supervisor, Darlington; Jane Lumley, National Childbirth Trust, Hexham; Norma McPherson, community midwife, Barrow in Furness; Diane Packham, Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services, Newcastle; Willie Reid, consultant obstetrician, Carlisle; Marjorie Renwick, regional maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young, general practitioner, Penrith.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

My plan was to graduate, do my post-grad study and then go on to counsel families who've suffered a traumatic birth experience, and raise awareness for post-natal PTSD and other mental health conditions which are exacerbated by the feeling of loss of control during labour.

The SEC announced last week that its working group had reviewed each member school's concussion management plans, NCAA studies, the NFL's health and safety report and sideline concussion assessment tool, along with several other studies.

Planning to have a baby at home is about as safe as having one in a hospital, but unplanned home births pose a hazard, a study by federal and state health researchers in Kentucky suggests.

The study's lead author, Mr Jason Bentley from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy commented: «There is an urgent need for strategies to inform more judicious clinical decision making about the timing of planned birth.»

The study's senior author, Associate Professor Natasha Nassar from the University of Sydney Menzies Centre for Health Policy said: «While the association between being born earlier — lower gestational age — and poorer developmental outcomes is well established, our results revealed that poor development is further exacerbated in the case of planned birth, where a considered decision made to deliver an infant determines gestational age.

In today's peer - reviewed Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health (JMWH), a landmark study confirms that among low - risk women, planned home births result in low rates of interventions without an increase in adverse outcomes for mothers and babies.

This study enables families, providers and policymakers to have a transparent look at the risks and benefits of planned home birth as well as the health benefits of normal physiologic birth.

Next, Alexander and Kjerulff plan to study whether relationship and social - support factors influence child health outcomes associated with colic, such as gastrointestinal problems or food allergies, as children age.

«This study adds to the large and growing body of research that has found that planned home birth with a midwife is not only safe for babies and mothers with low - risk pregnancies, but results in health and cost benefits that reach far beyond one pregnancy.»

This information is used to create health education and intervention programs, help communities plan for services, and determine what additional studies are needed.

In this study, we ascertained outcomes of all planned home births attended by registered midwives in an entire health region with a single - payer universal health care system.

Other studies have shown that planned caesarean deliveries are associated with an increased risk of death or health complications in the newborn.

The good news is that recent studies are revealing that when all doesn't go as planned, positive impacts can be made on baby's flora and intestinal health with the use of probiotics and other healing measures, thereby reducing later risks of many chronic diseases.

Other investigators have reported a significant increase in adverse perinatal outcomes related to planned home births, especially where skilled birth attendants are not universally integrated into regional health systems, or in population - based studies that include at - risk pregnancies [20 — 22].

(3) A study by the United Nations (UNFPA) and Guttmacher Institute estimated that investing in both family planning and maternal and newborn health services together can achieve the same dramatic reductions in mortality for US$ 1.5 billion less than investing in maternal and newborn health services alone.

A study commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — the trade organization representing the drug industry — warns that Cuomo's plan will drive up health care costs, harm New York consumers and could worsen the addiction crisis.

A 2012 study commissioned by the Health Department projected that offering an Essential Plan would boost direct - pay premiums by $ 100 a year and cause 24,000 people to drop coverage.

The state Health Department is refusing to disclose any part of the study that formed the basis of plans to build a new $ 600 million public health mega-lab on the Harriman State Office CHealth Department is refusing to disclose any part of the study that formed the basis of plans to build a new $ 600 million public health mega-lab on the Harriman State Office Chealth mega-lab on the Harriman State Office Campus.

«We welcome the opportunity to share additional information about our affected populations as part of a national effort to develop a plan to study health outcomes in multiple PFAS - affected communities,» the letter states.

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

«These projects include the completion of the 2017 Farmland Protection Plan, with a grant from the NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets we have hired a Farm to School Marketing Coordinator to help our regions farmers sell locally produced food products to our public schools» lunch programs and with the support of the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Oneida County Health Department, Oneida County Planning Department, Mohawk Valley Community College ThINCubator and the Mohawk Valley Food Policy Council we will be conducting an extensive study of the total Oneida County Food system.»

The justices remanded the case to a federal appeals court and left open the possibility that McDonnell could be re-tried if prosecutors had evidence to show that the former governor agreed to pressure state researchers to study Anatabloc or force the supplement's inclusion in the state health plan.

That was part of a broader effort, prosecutors alleged, to have Anatabloc studied by state researchers or included in the state's health plan.

A Commonwealth Fund study finds — contrary to widespread belief — that the growth of premiums for employer - sponsored health plans has slowed nationwide since passage of the Affordable Care Act.

The site says the Republican proposal will incorporate all or part of the elements of health - care bills introduced by individual members, and a health - care plan introduced by the Republican Study Committee.

New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah has been looking at health studies, and said back in March that he planned to make a recommendation to the governor in weeks on whether the state should approve hydraulic fractHealth Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah has been looking at health studies, and said back in March that he planned to make a recommendation to the governor in weeks on whether the state should approve hydraulic fracthealth studies, and said back in March that he planned to make a recommendation to the governor in weeks on whether the state should approve hydraulic fracturing.

«The safety and health of the residents of Owasco is our utmost priority and through the governor's leadership, we now have the support needed to complete studies that will pinpoint the best treatment plan and upgrade our water systems as soon as possible,» said Owasco Supervisor Edward Wagner.