Sentences with phrase «accessing health care as»

That's largely people who already face barriers to accessing health care as people with low incomes, people of color, people who live in rural areas — who make up the majority of Planned Parenthood's patients.

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«As the government continues to kick the can on the revised health bill, the healthcare system has no choice but to look to new cost - effective alternatives to provide greater access to care.

The widely enjoyed social benefits residents get in exchange for their taxes, such as universal health care, access to education and subsidized parental leave, could have something to do with the «strong social foundations» touted by Sachs.

This system, which currently has over 5 million Australians on it, could become a major tool for health providers to strengthen their decision making and care — they will have access to widespread clinical information such as discharge summaries, allergies, and medication usage.

Wichmann saw the company's five main focus areas — health care delivery, pharmaceutical services, consumer - centric benefits, digitizing health information and global access — as key drivers in the shift to more efficient health - care services.

To support the new law increasing access to mental health care, Barden said he met with several lawmakers and served as a «broker between different stakeholders».

It comes at a time when health insurers and hospitals are increasingly looking to technology to help boost patient satisfaction, as consumers and employers are pressing the industry to cut costs and make it easier to access care.

CVS began as a pharmacy chain, acquired pharmacy benefit management (PBM) capacity, and added numerous Minute Clinics to provide easy access and low - cost usual care, then discontinued the sale of tobacco products as it changed its name to CVS Health.

Under Goal no. 3, which is about global health, I note a need to «achieve universal health coverage,» as well as to «ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health - care services.»

In the next breath, however, Harper added: «It should not matter who delivers health care, whether it is private, profit, not - for - profit or public, as long as Canadians have access to those services through the public insurance system regardless of their financial needs.

Transgender people face numerous health disparities as well as stigma, discrimination, and lack of access to quality care.

He and his wife miss what he described as the country's inherent civility and tolerance, its access to affordable health care.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

ATHENS / NEW YORK, MAY 3, 2018 — As the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, visits Lesvos for a regional conference, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that thousands of men, women, and children in Lesvos are living in squalid, overcrowded conditions in Moria camp, with insufficient access to health care.

As it stands NAC operates as a health - care company — consulting with patients, and improving access to prescription medical marijuanAs it stands NAC operates as a health - care company — consulting with patients, and improving access to prescription medical marijuanas a health - care company — consulting with patients, and improving access to prescription medical marijuana.

More local staff members have been added as Americares expands its working network, developing and implementing plans with local organizations and free clinics to provide access to medicine, relief supplies and basic health care for people in crisis.

Too bad if more people vote FOR those who support giving poor women access to health care than vote as you do.

A few historians of Christianity in Africa claim that some Africans from the colonial era to the present, professed Christianity in order to gain access to the benefits (such as education and health care) that accompanied the colonists and their religion.

«I think it's fair to say that while there are those who take issue with the decision, millions of American women will have access to preventive services, as they should, appropriately, through the health care reform bill,» Carney said.

It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom.

As millions of destitute Americans continue to be deprived of adequate access to good health care, people of all parties in the UK regard the retention of the National Health Service, «free at the point of delivery,» as essential to our cultural healtAs millions of destitute Americans continue to be deprived of adequate access to good health care, people of all parties in the UK regard the retention of the National Health Service, «free at the point of delivery,» as essential to our cultural hhealth care, people of all parties in the UK regard the retention of the National Health Service, «free at the point of delivery,» as essential to our cultural hHealth Service, «free at the point of delivery,» as essential to our cultural healtas essential to our cultural healthhealth.

«As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a single - minded agenda: Take away women's health care, destroy Planned Parenthood, and block women's access to safe abortion care,» the Planned Parenthood Action fund wrote in a recent petition drive.

@Ken Freedom goes both ways, an employer is expected to pay an employee for work, give them lunch breaks and such as well as a clean environment, free conversation in the lunch room and access to a rest room and band aides, saftey standards and offer health care.

Workers on Rainforest Alliance Certified tea farms benefit from decent wages and housing, as well as access to safe water, health care and education for their children.

Global examples have shown that soft drink taxes fail to have a meaningful impact on obesity rates and ultimately serve as a Band - Aid solution to a complex public health issue, which first and foremost requires access to adequate nutrition education and health care.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and aHealth Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and ahealth inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

Provide a public registry of trained doulas who abide by a clear Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Provide doulas with access to resources for doula training, continuing education and networking opportunities within the doula community Educating the public, health care community and third party insurers as to the benefits of doula presence for new and expectant families Providing professional guidance to doulas

Our African woman will use the rhythm method for contraception as she has no access to a health care facility that may provide her with other options.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

As a participating provider with Medicare and most Medicaid plans and a contracted supplier with hundreds of managed care plans, MPCS helps payers by providing access to diagnosis - specific products and solutions that may lead to better health outcomes for their members.

Officials at schools — as well as hospitals, nursing homes and child - care facilities — would be able to access the data from a Web site run by the federal Department of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Agriculture Department.

Programs that promote breastfeeding and ensure access to nutritious foods, such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, the school meals and summer feeding programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and child care food assistance, improve health outcomes, school achievement, and workforce competitiveness.

The InfantRisk Center also provides resources such as a hotline, MommyMeds mobile app for consumers, InfantRisk Center mobile app for health care professionals and MommyMeds.com to make accessing safety information simple.

HOWEVER, IF infant mortality is high due to infectious diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia, or IF hygiene, sanitation, and access to clean water are poor, or IF the cost of breastmilk substitutes is prohibitively high, or IF access to adequate health care is limited, THEN breastfeeding may be the safest feeding option even when the mother is HIV - positive.

Hubs provide services such as parenting education, health education and access to health care, employment readiness activities, and facilitate access to services by offering service coordination, transportation, and meals.

It would be foolish not to look at other forces at play in perinatal mortality such as smoking, obesity, advanced maternal age, and access to health care.

As advocates for the health and well - being of infants and their families, we are committed to working with all interested stakeholders to ensure that families have access to the timely and skilled care they need and that mothers have the information and support needed to make the best feeding decisions for themselves and their babies.

In places like Iceland, Germany, and the Neverlands, every mother has access to in home care for 1 - 8 weeks after birth as part of her basic health care plan.

To navigate normal breastfeeding challenges such as knowing what medications are safe with breastfeeding, understanding normal infant feeding patterns and behaviors, handling growth spurts and teething, continuing to breastfeed when returning to work, introducing solids, and weaning, women need access to health - care professionals who are adequately trained to provide routine breastfeeding guidance and support.

It begins with properly educating all health - care professionals and including breastfeeding support as a standard of care, including access to skilled clinical lactation support and International Board Certified Lactation Consultants.

ACR 105 proclaimed the month of May every year as Perinatal Depression Awareness Month and requested that the State Department of Health Care Services, the State Department of Public Health, the State Department of Mental Health, First 5 California, Postpartum Support International, and other stakeholders work together to explore ways to improve women's access to mental health care at the state and local lHealth Care Services, the State Department of Public Health, the State Department of Mental Health, First 5 California, Postpartum Support International, and other stakeholders work together to explore ways to improve women's access to mental health care at the state and local levCare Services, the State Department of Public Health, the State Department of Mental Health, First 5 California, Postpartum Support International, and other stakeholders work together to explore ways to improve women's access to mental health care at the state and local lHealth, the State Department of Mental Health, First 5 California, Postpartum Support International, and other stakeholders work together to explore ways to improve women's access to mental health care at the state and local lHealth, First 5 California, Postpartum Support International, and other stakeholders work together to explore ways to improve women's access to mental health care at the state and local lhealth care at the state and local levcare at the state and local levels.

Immigrant advocates say some 100,000 people lost their licenses as a result, and were thrust back into the shadows, making everything from getting to work to getting access to health care more difficult.

He unveiled a two - pronged approach to narrowing the health gap; by improving access to primary care and focusing on prevention as much as treatment.

In practical terms, this may mean using taxation to assure access to key public goods such as education, health care, and a minimum income, but it also means abandoning «material egalitarianism» and, whenever possible, seeking non-statist ways to achieve social goals.

«The State Department of Health will continue to work with other area health care providers in the Bronx as well as the insurance plans that cover Soundview patients to ensure that those individuals will have ready access to quality health care.&Health will continue to work with other area health care providers in the Bronx as well as the insurance plans that cover Soundview patients to ensure that those individuals will have ready access to quality health care.&health care providers in the Bronx as well as the insurance plans that cover Soundview patients to ensure that those individuals will have ready access to quality health care.&health care.»

Doran also said that she knows that everyone from children to the newly retired should have access to a doctor when they need it and that's why she supports a single - payer health care system, as well as guaranteeing women's reproductive rights.

As a supporter of Planned Parenthood, Doran said she will fight against federal efforts to limit women's access to health care.

The plan's website says it does not cover abortion, sterilization, or artificial contraception, but adds: «As a member of Fidelis Care, you can secure such services through free access to the Medicaid program or through State Department of Health - contracted entities.»

it does not cover abortion, sterilization, or artificial contraception, but adds: «As a member of Fidelis Care, you can secure such services through free access to the Medicaid program or through State Department of Health - contracted entities.»

Calling Cuomo «cold and silent» on the health care crisis in Brooklyn and on issues such as underfunded schools, she said, «I have a vision for this state where everyone has meaningful access to health care and health facilities.