Sentences with phrase «national health funding»

Writing for The Conversation, Grattan Institute health program director Stephen Duckett outlined the need to simplify Australia's highly complex hospital funding arrangements (which he described as resembling spaghetti in the National Health Funding Body's flow diagram), and said there were many risks inherent with the taskforce plan.

The future of the AIHW is also unclear — it's slated to be merged into a new Health Performance and Productivity Commission with the National Health Performance Authority, the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, the National Health Funding Body, the Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool, and the Safety and Quality Commission.

Doctors are under scrutiny of the National Health Fund (the central public body, responsible for disposing of public expenses on healthcare), from the point of view of correctness of their prescription decisions (e.g. whether a given patient's health condition justified the prescription of a reimbursed drug).

Not exact matches

The National Health Service is not «going broke» (although there is a debate over how much funding it should get).

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

For instance, Gingrich is a strong advocate for funding scientific research and has even endorsed doubling the budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and medication - assisted treatment for opioid addiction.

But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

Some of Trump's proposals would slash funding for the National Institutes of Health by $ 1.23 billion, Bloomberg reports, and could bring research spending levels back to their level in 2000.

She currently serves as President and Executive Director and as a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), an independent 501 (c)(3) charitable organization established by Congress to support the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by raising private funds for biomedical research and fostering partnerships and alliances around the world.

«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

They include extending government funding to avert an Oct. 1 government shutdown, reauthorizing the National Flood Insurance Program and the Children's Health Insurance Program, and raising the debt ceiling to avoid a disastrous federal default.

As of 12/31/14, Oracle represented 3.9 %, CVS Health 2.7 %, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 2.6 %, TE Connectivity, Ltd. 2.5 %, MasterCard 2.2 %, National Oilwell Varco 2.1 %, Ultra Petroleum 0.4 %, Dover Corp. 2.7 %, Glencore PLC 1.2 %, Baker Hughes, Inc. 1.2 %, General Motors Co. 3.2 %, Diageo ADR 2.3 %, General Dynamics Corp. 0 %, Union Pacific Corp. 2.1 %, Rowan Companies plc 0.1 %, Flowserve 0.2 %, WESCO International 0.4 %, Southern Copper 0.1 %, Laboratory Corporation of America 0 %, Varian Medical Systems 0 %, and HNI 0 % of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund's total net assets.

As of 06/30/15, Bank of America Corp. represented 3.8 %, Omnicare, Inc. 1.3 %, MasterCard, Inc., Class A 2.0 %, Philip Morris International, Inc. 1.5 %, Foot Locker, Inc. 2.4 %, General Motors Co. 3.2 %, TE Connectivity, Ltd. 2.6 %, Oracle Corp. 3.6 %, Union Pacific Corp. 1.5 %, Flowserve Corp. 1.7 %, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 1.8 %, Lear Corp. 1.5 %, CVS Health Corp. 2.8 %, National Oilwell Varco 1.6 %, Glencore PLC 1.2 %, Dover Corp. 2.7 %, Ultra Petroleum Corp. 0.4 %, Knowles Corp. 0.3 %, General Electric Co. 1.0 %, Kate Spade New York 0.2 %, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. 0 %, FNF Ventures 0 %, and Lonmin PLC 0 % of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund's total net assets.

The holdings mentioned above comprise the following percentages of the Oakmark Global Fund's total net assets as of 12/31/15: Baidu, Inc. 1.5 %, Alphabet Inc., Class C 4.5 %, The Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. 3.6 %, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 2.6 %, Daimler AG 3.7 %, Tenet Healthcare Corp. 2.1 %, Credit Suisse Group AG 5.4 %, Chesapeake Energy Corp. 0.5 %, LafargeHolcim, Ltd. 3.2 %, Union Pacific Corp. 2.0 %, Health Net, Inc. 2.7 %, Julius Baer Group, Ltd. 4.0 %, National Oilwell Varco, Inc. 0.7 %, Applied Materials, Inc. 0 %, Grupo Televisa S.A. 0.6 %, MTU Aero Engines Holdings AG 1.4 %, General Electric Co. 0 %, United Technologies Corp. (Pratt & Whitney) 0 %, OMRON Corp. 2.3 %, Franklin Resources, Inc. 0 %, and Nestle SA 0 %.

As of 6/30/11, Mastercard, Inc., Class A represented 2.6 %, Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. 1.7 %, Intel Corp. 2.8 %, Snap - On Inc. 5.0 %, Sara Lee Corp. 2.0 %, Applied Materials, Inc. 2.0 %, Equifax Inc. 2.7 %, ROHM Ltd. 2.6 %, Hirose Electric Co., Ltd. 3.0 %, Credit Suisse Group 3.0 %, Oracle Corp. 4.4 %, Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings 4.2 %, Bulgari SpA 0 %, Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. 3.8 %, Cisco Systems, Inc. 0 %, Texas Instruments Inc. 3.0 %, National Semiconductor Corp 0 %, Tenet Healthcare Corp 1.6 %, Conifer Health Solutions 0 %, Nestlé SA 1.1 %, and Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA 0 % of the Oakmark Global Fund's total net assets.

A quick look at the National Institute of Health's distribution of funds seems to support this.

Funds come primarily from the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.

About two years ago, and for the first time, the federal government through the National Institutes of Health set up a special fund concerned with the care and treatment of alcoholic persons.

The recent fight over taxpayer funding of abortion in the national health - care bill revealed not only that pro-life Democrats exist in the U.S. Congress but also that they come in three distinct types: stalwarts, sellouts, and snakes.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for samples of some human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line... from $ 500 per vial of frozen cells to $ 1,000.

A panel of nineteen experts appointed by the National Institutes of Health has recommended government funding for conceiving human embryos in the laboratory for the sole purpose of using them as materials for research.

His article is occasioned by the National Institutes of Health proposal to fund producing human embryos in the laboratory solely for the purpose of research (see «The Inhuman Use of Human Beings,» FT, January 1995).

One sign of that is increased funding from the National Institutes of Health, which has helped establish new contemplative science research centers at Stanford University, Emory University, and the University of Wisconsin, where the world's first brain imaging lab with a meditation room next door is now under construction.

We call on governments at all levels to come together as a matter of urgency to develop in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, health and community sector peak bodies and other key stakeholders, a policy framework, funding commitments and national action plan for food sovereignty and food security.

The study was funded by the chocolate manufacturer Mars along with the National Institute of Health and several other research foundations.

The Pork Checkoff funds national and state programs in advertising, consumer information, retail and foodservice marketing, export market promotion, production improvement, technology, swine health, pork safety and environmental management.

Jo Salmon receives funding from the National Heart Foundation of Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council, and the Diabetes Australia Research Trust.

Rob Moodie has received funding from the Australian Department of Health, and chaired the National Preventative Health Taskforce from 2008 - 2011.

New research led by Healthy Dining and funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), reveals that restaurant consumers accept, and in most cases even prefer, menu choices that were reduced in sodium content.

She spent a decade in academia — during which time she was awarded prestigious fellowships from the National Institutes of Health to fund her Ph.D. research at Queen's University and joint - appointment postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts Institutes of Technology.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

Living in the UK, with our state - funded National Health Service, I was very aware that the midwives were already so, so busy.

None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement an interim final or final rule regarding nutrition programs under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.) that --(1) requires crediting of tomato paste and puree based on volume; (2) implements a sodium reduction target beyond Target I, the 2 - year target, specified in Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, «Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs» (FNS — 2007 — 0038, RIN 0584 — AD59) until the Secretary certifies that the Department has reviewed and evaluated relevant scientific studies and data relevant to the relationship of sodium reductions to human health; and (3) establishes any whole grain requirement without defining «whole grain.»

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.

Donor contributions help us buy medical supplies and food for the poor and fund the salaries of national midwives in the Philippines, and help us travel to train health workers in lifesaving skills around the globe.

And Why It's A Good Thing For C - Section Babies A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health suggests that you not...

Funding: This study combines the Evaluation of Maternity Units in England study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation (NIHR SDO) programme, and the Birth at Home in England study funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme (DH PRP).

These pilot programs were funded through the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom; along with SNF, the partners include the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF), and National Education Association Health Information Network (NEAHIN), and funded by the Walmart Foundation.

Over two decades of scientific research, much of it funded by the National Institutes of Health, has shown that the Baby Signs ® Program:

In December 2013, the Department allocated # 80,000 of funding for UNICEF to develop two projects to maintain and develop the National Infant Feeding Network and promote care and compassion through infant feeding as part of midwifery and health visiting services.

Funding / Support: The Infant Feeding Practices Study II was funded by the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, and Maternal and Child Health Bureau in the US Department of Health and Human Services.

One concern, according to the public comments, is that the federal panel deemed studies funded by industry and conducted by industry scientists to be more «appropriate for consideration» than papers by academic scientists funded by NIH and National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.

«It's ironic FDA would choose to ignore dozens of studies funded by [the National Institutes of Health]-- this country's best scientists — and instead rely on flawed studies from industry.»

The related study formed part of a project funded by the National Institute for Health Research Research for Patient Benefit Programme through grant PB - PG -0107-12209.

Funding: This study was part of a larger study jointly funded by the Department of Health's Policy Research Programme and the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation programme.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

First UK study funded by UNICEF shows that investing in breastfeeding support could save the National Health Service millions of pounds.

One large study funded by the National Institutes of Health found that belonging to a strong social network correlates with better mental functioning.

The study drew data from the Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Health (POUCH) and POUCHmoms studies, which were funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.