Sentences with phrase «health model which»

In contrast, the Triple P multilevel system of parenting support is based on a population - based public health model which seeks to shift prevalence rates across the community.

The implementaion activites started with the formation of the District wide Health Council and included sub committes addressing the ten key components of the CDC's Coordinated School Health model which is guiding the work.

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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).

HOWEVER... said the report summary: «Under the assumption that e-cigarette use increases the rate at which adults quit conventional smoking, modeling projects that use of e-cigarettes will generate a net public health benefit...»

HealthEquity uses a so - called business - to - business - to - consumer model, which allows for distribution of its products through health insurance companies and, by extension, giant companies including Google and American Express.

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 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.

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.

Yakobi, Here is a little secret, while you are working so hard be on the look out for that heart attack or stroke or sometype of cance which seems to creep up on even the «models of health».

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 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».

«FSANZ's approval process, which ensures the highest standard of health protection, provides a model for decision - making in all countries wishing to reap the benefits of Golden Rice» asserts Morell.

In follow - up studies, we did some modelling which showed it would only take 2 % of people to switch to healthier choices for traffic light labels to deliver the type of health benefits that would save the government money in the long term.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

For this guide, once we narrowed down the brands of pumps we wished to test and a selection of specific models (explained in further detail below), we reached out to those manufacturers to ask which pumps were most reliably covered by mothers» health insurance.

By the early 1970 s, artificial feeding had become the rule, and the model by which both lay people and health professionals understood infant feeding.

The American Association of Pediatricians statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk (2005) states, «Exclusive breastfeeding is the reference or normative model against which all alternative feeding methods must be measured with regard to growth, health, development and all other short and long - term outcomes.»

Description: Based on interviews with over 100 mothers and many of their health care professionals, this dissertation applies a model derived from symbolic anthropology to the pregnancy / childbirth process which interprets this process as a year - long initiatory rite of passage.

We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

The breastfed infant is the reference or normative model against which all alternative feeding methods must be measured with regard to growth, health, development, and all other short - and long - term outcomes.

Modelling a new way of talking about breastfeeding that clarifies the evidence and acknowledges the fact that improving breastfeeding rates is not the responsibility of individual mothers; rather, this is a public health imperative for which government, policy makers, communities and families all share responsibility

She has 20 years experience delivering clinical psychology services to children and families which included the establishment of an infant mental health service framework in primary care psychology setting and co-creating an interdisciplinary infant mental health (IMH) training model and learning network group.

New Legacy intends to follow Colorado's Coordinated School Health Model, which addresses all eight components of a healthy school.

Non-midwife models of care include obstetrician - provided; family physician - provided; and shared models of care, in which different health professionals share responsibility for the organisation and delivery of care.

Although such a calculator may provide more specific information about the chance of VBAC, which can be used by health care providers and their patients to further the process of shared decision making, no prediction model for VBAC has been shown to result in improved patient outcomes.

Play therapy is a form of counseling or psychotherapy by which licensed mental health professionals use play - based models and techniques to better communicate with and help clients, especially children, achieve optimal mental health.

The second process of analysis used the element of Social Cognitive Theory and the Health Belief Model as an analytical framework from which identified themes were considered.

Information about using the School Health Index to assess the extent to which the WSCC model is fully implemented in your school or school district can be found on the Healthy Schools website.

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objectives.

This model, which advances New York's goals for improving health care quality and reducing costs, is the type of inventive approach not contemplated in existing statute or regulation.

The Mall will utilize an «Inter-Professional» health model, which offers comprehensive health services to patients by multiple health providers working collaboratively to deliver quality care within and across settings.

«It's a new health care delivery model, which we think will revolutionize the way we do things.»

«What is a nuisance for rich - country researchers (constant emails) is a major corruption for developing - country science — a corruption of the legitimate and vital open - access publishing model and a corruption of the vast funds, much of which are public, invested in global health research.

To mitigate the impact of future smoke events, the team developed a model framework which could help governments and policymakers in Southeast Asia identify, in almost real time, the fires with the highest potential to cause damage to human health.

In 2010, Radovitzky's group, working in concert with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, a part of the U.S. military health system, developed a highly sophisticated, image - based computational model of the human head that illustrates the ways in which pressurized air moves through its soft tissues.

From 2006 to 2008, Massachusetts implemented widespread health reform, which expanded access to public medical insurance, created a health insurance exchange for more affordable private insurance, and served as a model for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Schizophrenia researcher Daniel Weinberger of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda agrees that the paper adds to evidence that epistasis — which has been shown in model organisms such as yeast but difficult to prove in humans — is «robust and ubiquitous.»

The National Institutes of Health had agreed to fund the study, which involved creating an animal model of anthrax infection in baboons, and the university's animal use and care committee had given it the green light.

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

«The mouse models don't recapitulate the human disease,» said Ravi Basavappa of the National Institutes of Health, which gave Fine one of its 12 Pioneer Awards for «unusually bold,» high - risk, and potentially high - impact research.

This type of integrated care model is more common in other medical disciplines, Woolf - King said, citing pediatric oncology as an example in which recommendations have been established as part of standard care to assess mental health routinely and over time for parents of children with cancer.

The tool itself, which projects a worse - case scenario of 14,176 Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by October 26, is currently built on a model developed by a Toronto - based team of medical and public health researchers, although HealthMap may try other methods down the road, says John Brownstein, HealthMap co-founder and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

The challenge is modeled on, and being coordinated with, the Grand Challenges program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports high - risk, high - payoff approaches to solving global health and development problems.

Specifically, the researchers tested a hypothesized model which confirmed that both the functioning of the family and the health of the survivor contributed to the caregiver's sense of competence.

This information will provide unique insight into the eddy's duration, stability, and influence on the ocean systems; and will improve current ocean models, which are critical for developing expectations on the health of future oceans.

Oregon implemented the CCO model — which includes coordination of physical health care, mental health care and dental care — for providing Medicaid services in 2012.