Sentences with phrase «revised national health policy»

The 1988 national health policy designed to provide quality healthcare for all Nigerians declared publicly was reviewed in 2004 under the Revised National Health Policy officially launched in September 2004.

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Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

The National Institutes of Health is dropping a policy that gave researchers only one chance to revise a rejected grant application before having to start over with a new idea — a rule that was especially hard on young investigators.

Kathy Hudson, a former National Institutes of Health (NIH) official who helped shape the revised rule, says she still thinks informed consent «was and is the right and respectful thing to do,» but said that the Common Rule was «a very clunky policy instrument» for achieving that goal, and that the research community's concerns «had to be considered.»

Revised the policies, procedures and business associate agreements of several national health care providers and other large companies