Sentences with phrase «address health challenges»

She is particularly drawn to adolescent mental health and development, as well as social enterprise as a tool to address health challenges around the globe.

Medical providers can help address health challenges; transit and housing agencies can resolve other barriers to attendance; volunteers from businesses and faith communities can mentor students and support families.

Pharmaceutical companies sell their products to you indirectly, through doctors, by convincing us they're the best way to address your health challenges.

Canada has taken a leadership role in addressing the health challenges facing women, infants and children in the world's poorest countries.

The research highlights the important role that big data, including streams from social media and environmental sensors, could play in addressing health challenges, Ram said.

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This serial entrepreneur — he founded Internet companies Infospace and Intelius — believes that the moon holds precious metals and rare minerals that can be brought back to help address Earth's energy, health and resource challenges.

By integrating PokitDok's solutions into their offerings, Health IT and Service providers can supercharge the capabilities of legacy infrastructure to address healthcare's most pressing challenges.

Join us for a discussion that addresses the unique challenges founders face in getting things done, as well as the importance of personal time and health.

These include Mindful Scientific, a medical device company addressing concussion diagnostics and management that won the startup competition at the Wall Street Journal WSJ.D Live global technology conference and the Medical Device track at the HealthKick Challenge; abridean (acquired by nCipher PLC), a software company that develops application provisioning and identity management solutions; and i - HRx (acquired by HealthConnex), a digital health company focused on chronic disease management.

Over time, we have perpetuated a dangerous stigma against those with mental health issues that minimizes their challenges and ignores addressing the root of it which is often a chemical imbalance or natural disposition that is outside of their control.

The organization created a first - of - its - kind proposal to address the challenges in North Minnesota with a goal of «closing the food and health gap and becoming a model for similar efforts nationwide.»

DuPont Nutrition & Health addresses the world's challenges in food by offering a wide range of sustainable, bio-based ingredients and advanced microbial diagnostic solutions to provide safer, healthier and more nutritious food.

The report, Overweight, obesity and cardiovascular disease — past, present and future, released by The Australian Heart Foundation and Deakin University, has sought to address the ongoing health challenges we will face in the future due to obesity related diseases such as cardiovascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes.

New Report Shows More FMCG Companies Partnering with Communities to Address Local Health and Wellness Challenges

With innovative industry initiatives, ABA members have a longstanding commitment to finding better ways to address public health challenges and support healthier communities nationwide.

Some of these challenges may be addressed with the new health care overhaul, which seeks to require large employers to provide a working environment that is more conducive to allowing a mother a chance to obtain breast milk.

We address some of the leading challenges with infant health and development, and teach exciting home care plans to facilitate optimum development.

In addition to presenting health practitioners and decision - makers with realistic, achievable, sustainable, and evidence - based strategies, the papers address current key issues and challenges affecting the provision of such care.

Hayden Panettiere was brutally honest about postpartum depression on Twitter, and moms everywhere rejoiced because finally someone was addressing this mental health challenge and dissolving the stigma.

Several reasons appear to contribute to home visitors» lack of attention to maternal depression, including feeling they do not have appropriate training on approaches to discussing the topic with clients, perceptions that depressed clients are more difficult to engage, challenges in prioritizing discussion of poor mental health in the context of clients» other pressing needs, and lack of clarity on the extent to which they should address maternal depression.

Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) EWEC is a global movement that mobilizes and intensifies international and national action to address the major health challenges facing women, children and adolescents.

Home visitors typically do not identify or respond to maternal depression during the course of their home visits with clients.11, 12,17 Several reasons appear to contribute to home visitors» lack of attention to maternal depression, including feeling they do not have appropriate training on approaches to discussing the topic with clients, perceptions that depressed clients are more difficult to engage, challenges in prioritizing discussion of poor mental health in the context of clients» other pressing needs, and lack of clarity on the extent to which they should address maternal depression.13, 14 Systematic screening and referral at time of home visitation enrollment can help identify women needing supports for maternal depression.

In response to the emerging challenge of conflicts of interest in nutrition, the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development at WHO headquarters convened a WHO technical consultation on «Addressing and managing conflicts of interest in the planning and delivery of nutrition programmes at country level» in Geneva, Switzerland, on 8 — 9 October 2015.

This patient - centered approach allows the health care provider, the patient, and her family to anticipate challenges, develop strategies to address them, and collaborate to develop a feeding plan that is compatible with the family's individual values, circumstances, and concerns.

The result is that in the UK we have a major public health challenge that is being inadequately addressed with policy making that is neither consistent, nor comprehensive, nor integrated across departments.

Established pursuant to Executive Order No. 5, the Medicaid Redesign Team's 27 members will bring vast experience as health care providers, consumers and industry experts to address the challenge of refocusing our health care system to provide quality health care at lower costs.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

We must mobilize all our resources at all levels to address this behavioral, physical, and public health challenge — with understanding and support, policy and insurance reforms and coalition building.

Lawmakers this spring included money in the state budget to address a number of legal challenges centered on health care in the prison system, including the treatment of inmates with hepatitis and inmates with disabilities and mental - health issues.

Alhaji Rashid said, his leadership will address some of the major challenges in the Zongo communities including unemployment, education, health, water and sanitation, adding that, with the establishment of the Zongo Ministry and the Zongo Fund, problems of the Zongos will be reduced but propel the Zongo communities for massive development.

Mr. Haberstro discussed the health of the Buffalo - Niagara region, challenges it currently faces, and progress being made to address them.

In a letter to the Welsh Assembly's Public Accounts Committee, the Chief Executive of NHS Wales Dr Andrew Goodall said that the health board needed support to ensure it was able to address the challenges it faces.

«The fact that 25.4 percent of New Yorkers are obese is a reminder that we need to do more to address the health needs of populations that face the most significant social, economic, and health challenges.

«While the (Affordable Care Act) is not perfect, it has made great strides to address America's challenge of delivering affordable access to health care and provided insurance to millions of Americans,» Miner wrote.

The forum, under the auspices of Organised Labour, in collaboration with the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), is a nationwide programme aimed at soliciting inputs from workers» unions on how to address the challenges of the NHIS to ensure quality health service delHealth Insurance Authority (NHIA), is a nationwide programme aimed at soliciting inputs from workers» unions on how to address the challenges of the NHIS to ensure quality health service delhealth service delivery.

She has collaborated with New York State and national policy experts to address the challenge of confidential adolescent sexual health services as a health policy issue.

Borough President Adams will speak about Brooklyn's commitment to its veterans, including his efforts to restore the Brooklyn War Memorial and to address mental health challenges facing the community.»

Such an approach can effectively address the policy challenges facing the country and in some cases the world, including those raised by concerns such as climate change, health care issues, trade, terrorism and agriculture, said Pearl.

Recent work by Paul Farmer and others challenges bioethics to address urgent questions of global health equity not only on the level of method but in the form of strategic partnerships with the most vulnerable populations.

I wanted to work toward understanding and addressing society's broad and interlinking health and educational challenges, especially those that are particularly acute in the black community.

I think that is a challenge, constantly reminding the sexually active individuals, adolescents and even older persons — as well as health care providers — that this is still a problem, that this is still to be reckoned with and addressed.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging challenges and makes 14 recommendations for the U.S. government and other stakeholders to address these challenges, while maintaining U.S. status as a world leader in global health.

«Addressing the capacity constraints may turn out to be as challenging as developing an effective treatment for Alzheimer's,» said Dr. Soeren Mattke, the study's senior author and managing director of RAND Health Advisory Services.

The resulting increases for agencies like the National Institutes of Health would be critical for addressing Alzheimer's disease and other pressing health challHealth would be critical for addressing Alzheimer's disease and other pressing health challhealth challenges.

In advance of this month's World Health Assembly and the G7 summit in June, world leaders should consider the establishment of a global biomedical research and development fund and a mechanism to address the dearth in innovation for today's most pressing global health challenges, according to Bernard Pécoul, from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues in an Essay published in PLOS MedHealth Assembly and the G7 summit in June, world leaders should consider the establishment of a global biomedical research and development fund and a mechanism to address the dearth in innovation for today's most pressing global health challenges, according to Bernard Pécoul, from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues in an Essay published in PLOS Medhealth challenges, according to Bernard Pécoul, from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues in an Essay published in PLOS Medicine.

«The multidisciplinary collaboration in this study combines clinical expertise, health services knowledge, electronic health records, and non-traditional big data sources to address the major health challenge that is asthma,» she said.

As health science diplomacy becomes further established as an effective way to bring nations together to address local and regional health challenges, key principles are taking shape, said Alan I. Leshner, the chief executive officer of AAAS and the executive publisher of the journal Science, at...

«One of the challenges of addressing mental health is that there are so many facets,» Clark says.

This would also offer an important avenue to address some of the challenges and barriers this population faces in the health care system.

These include a new «at - risk» code in Oregon that allows young children to receive Medicaid - covered mental health services before they have a full - blown mental health disorder; Medicaid coverage in Oregon and Michigan for evidence - based parenting programs that can help parents learn parenting practices that promote a positive parent - child relationship and address challenging child behavior; and extensive training and support for pediatricians in Minnesota who want to conduct maternal depression screening during well - child visits and respond appropriately when the screen indicates that the mother needs further evaluation and support.