Sentences with phrase «policy barriers include»

This is one of the first papers examining the integration of behavioral and medical care at community health centers, and this paper is the first to address policy barriers including same - day billing restrictions.

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Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

Other policies related to federalism include working to remove inter-provincial trade barriers, establishing an Alberta police force to end provincial reliance on the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); reforming the Canadian Senate after the Triple - E model; and recognizing that all Canadians have equal status under the Canadian Constitution.

Levine said she saw Clark as a mentor and someone who thought a lot about science policy leadership, including «the challenges, barriers and opportunities for women in science and her deep appreciation of the social and behavioral sciences.»

A revised Medicaid sterilization policy that removes logistical barriers, including a mandatory 30 - day waiting period, could potentially honor women's reproductive decisions, reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and save $ 215 million in public health costs each year, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Over the course of the past two decades, a series of court cases — including a 2007 Supreme Court decision that struck down voluntary integration policies in Seattle and Louisville, Ky. — have created tough barriers for public schools attempting to pursue integration.

Educate your staff about the barriers to learning for siblings and include this group in your policies on anti-bullying, young carers, safeguarding and SEND.

individuals with disabilities continually encounter various forms of discrimination, including outright intentional exclusion, the discriminatory effects of architectural, transportation, and communication barriers, overprotective rules and policies, failure to make modifications to existing facilities and practices, exclusionary qualification standards and criteria, segregation, and relegation to lesser services, programs, activities, benefits, jobs, or other opportunities;

The President will direct federal agencies to identify and remove barriers to making climate - resilient investments; identify and remove counterproductive policies that increase vulnerabilities; and encourage and support smarter, more resilient investments, including through agency grants, technical assistance, and other programs, in sectors from transportation and water management to conservation and disaster relief.

Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the United States has acted under existing laws to cut emissions with sector - specific policies, including: emissions regulations; tax incentives for clean energy technologies; standards for energy - efficient appliances, buildings, and vehicles; and voluntary partnership programs to address market barriers to low - carbon strategies.

These other factors include the economy, confusion over colder weather and other perceptual biases, general distrust of government, climate policies such as cap and trade that are not easily sold as effective or in line with public values, the absence of White House leadership on the issue, institutional barriers in Congress and at the international level, and the continued communication and policy missteps of some scientists and environmental advocates.

Barrier removal includes correcting market failures directly or reducing the transactions costs in the public and private sectors by e.g. improving institutional capacity, reducing risk and uncertainty, facilitating market transactions, and enforcing regulatory policies.

It also seeks to expand research on the scale up of EV deployment, including such topics as policy efficacy, barriers to adoption, the electrification of public transportation, grid integration and load management, and synergies with automated, connected and shared vehicles.

Agencies will identify and remove any barriers to resilience - focused actions and investments — for example, policies that encourage communities to rebuild to past standards after disasters instead of to stronger standards — including through agency grants, technical assistance, and other programs in sectors from transportation and water management to conservation and disaster relief.

Investment Provisions: Will the Trans - Pacific Partnership FTA include so - called «investor - state» provisions that allow individual corporations to challenge environmental, consumer and other public interest policies as barriers to trade?

The survey questionnaire included extensive, in - depth measures of public climate change beliefs, attitudes, risk perceptions, policy preferences, behaviors, barriers to action, motivations, and values.

Questions included the following: Where large up - front financial barriers to the adoption of energy - efficient technologies exist, what policies most effectively persuade consumers to adopt those technologies?

That need translates into native voices breaking through societal barriers and to «be included in the development of policy and regulation...»

This includes instances of making offers of employment, and notifying successful candidates of their policies for providing reasonable accommodations to employees disabled by barriers.

Persons with disabilities face barriers to accessing justice because of the negative attitudes of those who design and implement laws and legal policies and practices, including those that are paternalistic, judgmental, stigmatizing, stereotyping or invalidating.

Ensure that (a) accessibility measures, policies and practices include a requirement that any aspect of the organization's built environment intended to facilitate barrier - free access to the goods or services it provides are available for use in the intended manner; and (b) if such an aspect is unavailable for use, notice of the following be given: (i) the reasons why the aspect is unavailable and an estimate of when the availability will be restored, (ii) details of alternate means, if any, available to access the organization's goods or services.

From a legal point of view there are two priorities which stand out: Priority 2.3, to «uphold the rights of people living with mental health problems and illnesses,» which includes recommendations relating to the removal of barriers to full participation, stopping disclosure of police apprehensions under mental health acts for «police record checks,» aligning legislation and policies with the UN Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities, moving away from methods of seclusion and restraint, and supporting advocacy.

The other barrier to the beginning life insurance industry was the legal restrictions that barred women from entering into contracts, including insurance policies, or even legally inheriting an estate.

However, access to economic development for the Indigenous peoples of the Murray - Darling via their lands and waters has to date been significantly limited by the priority of water allocations being given to industrial and agricultural activities, and the policy barriers to having their rights to their lands, waters and natural resources recognised, including the recognition of native title.

Information barrier policies include the possible legal and employment - related ramifications on non-compliance.