Sentences with phrase «affect access to care»

Practice decisions made by doctors in response to financial incentives will affect access to care for newly insured patients.

«Our findings indicate the need to understand how Medicaid expansion affected access to care, out - of - pocket expenditures, and clinical outcomes among liver transplant recipients, given the changes in their insurance status occurring due to this policy.»

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«Although I was previously aware of the many social circumstances affecting my patients» access to care and the circumstances contributing to their overall health,» writes Jessica K. Willett, a California physician, «I'm now able to relate to it on a more personal level.

This area covers the impact of policies affecting Canadians» health and long - term care choices and outcomes, for example regarding access to and quality of care, funding arrangements and incentives, pharmaceuticals policies, intergenerational equity considerations, and the impact of these choices on the public purse.

By supporting the local medical infrastructure, Heart to Heart International will continue our commitment to support communities affected by Hurricane Harvey and to ensure that those who need it have access to health care.

The ministry for which my sister worked takes in children affected by HIV - AIDS, so Bharathi is now well cared for, and enjoys access to a good education and healthcare.

Rural and remote areas are particularly affected, and many pregnant women travel long distances to urban centers to access care [30].

We will continue to shed light on pressing issues that affect maternity care like evidence - based are, obstetric violence, informed consent, access to midwifery care, access to vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), and racial and economic disparities, while helping local communities make the changes that best work for their own populations.»

The association joins together those affected by the violence in order to find support and navigate the immense and opaque bureaucracy needed to access health care, government welfare and the budding investigation.

As our own U.S. Representative, John Faso, refuses to attend public town halls to explain his vote for the American Health Care Act, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney from neighboring NY20 stepped in to answer questions from local residents concerned about how AHCA would adversely affect their access to quality health cCare Act, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney from neighboring NY20 stepped in to answer questions from local residents concerned about how AHCA would adversely affect their access to quality health carecare.

«In the Senate, I want to fight for public safety and criminal justice reform, education programs, affordable housing, increased access to mental health care, economic development and opportunities, and social service reforms, especially as they affect middle class families and the working poor,» he said in a statement.

Others will reduce choice, affect public health, eliminate protections, and curtail access — no indication is given that these proposals may actually cause costs to rise — imposition of copayments and onerous limits on community - based care and rehabilitation are notable.

«If adopted, this unfunded mandate would ironically force providers to cut direct care staff, threaten the viability of many facilities and adversely affect access to high quality services,» the coaltion said in a letter to lawmakers.

«This is worrisome because there is extensive evidence that weight - based stigma negatively affects health, equal access to employment, earnings, education, and medical care.»

«We would expect to see less disparity in hypertension rates across racial groups due to equal access to health care and equitable social and economic status; however, black, non-Hispanic service members remained disproportionately affected,» said Army Colonel William Corr, the deputy director of AFHSC's division of Epidemiology and Analysis.

A new study has found access to electronic health records in acute care situations may influence the care given to that patient, and in some cases, failure to review the EHR could have adversely affected the medical management.

Rather, they directly affect salary, status, and access to benefits such as quality health care, employee programs, and retirement investment options.

Other factors that also affect admission and attendances at emergency departments are: how easy it is for patients to access GP surgeries and primary care providers; the distance the patients live away from the emergency department; and the number of confusing options patients had for accessing emergency care.

The plan, drawn up after months of meetings around the country with affected communities, also calls for increasing access to quality care, reducing stigma, and better coordinating the response from the many government branches that now address HIV / AIDS.

They also see access to medical care, personal behavior, stress, and pollution as affecting health,» said Robert J. Blendon, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In the meantime, they examined how the coordinated care organization model, an innovative approach implemented in Oregon in 2012, affected access to and use of prenatal care, Harvey said.

According to the HDSA, the goal of the Center of Excellence program is to increase access to the best possible multidisciplinary clinical care and services for individuals affected by Huntington's disease.

Both diseases disproportionately affect people living in poverty, both are chronic conditions requiring prolonged, expensive treatment, and as with patients in the first two decades of the HIV / AIDS epidemic, most patients with Chagas disease do not have access to health care facilities.

He said factors of poverty that affect achievement in lower socioeconomic rungs — such as violence, mental illness, housing, and access to health care — must also be addressed by the community as a whole.»

But if we care about getting kids to college, we can no longer avoid collecting, analyzing, and reporting key data points that affect students» ability to gain access to education.

«Estimates suggest up to two million people have been affected, and our reports suggest that many of them don't have shelter, they don't have access to clean water and food, and there is little access to even basic health care.»

In contrast, increased access to electricity and health care seem not to affect mortality on extremely hot days.

Improved access to water and sanitation support HIV / AIDS - affected households and may improve the impact of health care programmes

In Virginia, a court may consider any of the following factors, among others, in making a decision: The age and physical and mental condition of the child, giving due consideration to the child's changing developmental needs; the age and physical and mental condition of each parent; the relationship existing between each parent and each child, giving due consideration to the positive involvement with the child's life, the ability to accurately assess and meet the emotional, intellectual and physical needs of the child; the needs of the child, giving due consideration to other important relationships of the child, including but not limited to siblings, peers and extended family members; the role that each parent has played and will play in the future, in the upbringing and care of the child; the propensity of each parent to actively support the child's contact and relationship with the other parent, including whether a parent has unreasonably denied the other parent access to or visitation with the child; the relative willingness and demonstrated ability of each parent to maintain a close and continuing relationship with the child, and the ability of each parent to cooperate in and resolve disputes regarding matters affecting the child; the reasonable preference of the child, if the court deems the child to be of reasonable intelligence, understanding, age and experience to express such a preference; any history of family abuse; and such other factors as the court deems necessary and proper to the determination.

Legal Billing Software for Health Law Attorneys Health law attorneys deal with cases that relate to health care access, providers of care, insurance coverage, disease prevention and care, the food and drug supply industry, and many more other issues that deal with the health industry and the people affected by it.

Business Development: Brokering various business dealings that further the diversification of Indian economies Developing and accessing commercial financial programs and services for tribal governments, including tax - exempt offerings and federally - guaranteed housing loans Serving as issuer or underwriter's counsel in tribal bond issuances Ensuring tribal compliance with Bank Secrecy Act and other federal financial regulatory requirements Handling federal and state income, excise, B&O, property and other tax matters for tribes and tribal businesses Chartering tribal business enterprises under tribal, state and federal law Registering and protecting tribal trademarks and copyrights Negotiating franchise agreements for restaurants and retail stores on Indian reservations Custom - tailoring construction contracts for tribes and general contractors Helping secure federal SBA 8 (a) and other contracting preferences for Indian - owned businesses Facilitating contractual relations between tribes and tribal casinos, and gaming vendors Building tribal workers» compensation and self - insurance programs Government Relations: Handling state and federal regulatory matters in the areas of tribal gaming, environmental and cultural resources, workers» compensation, taxation, health care and education Negotiating tribal - state gaming compacts and fuel and cigarette compacts, and inter-local land use and law enforcement agreements Advocacy before the Washington State Gambling Commission, Washington Indian Gaming Association and National Indian Gaming Commission Preparing tribal codes and regulations, including tribal court, commercial, gaming, taxation, energy development, environmental and cultural resources protection, labor & employment, and workers» compensation laws Developing employee handbooks, manuals and personnel policies Advocacy in areas of treaty rights, gaming, jurisdiction, taxation, environmental and cultural resource protection Brokering fee - to - trust and related real estate and jurisdictional transactions Litigation & Appellate Services: Handling complex Indian law litigation, including commercial, labor & employment, tax, land use, treaty rights, natural and cultural resource matters Litigating tribal trust mismanagement claims against the United States, and evaluating tribal and individual property claims under the Indian Claims Limitation Act Defending tribes and tribal insureds from tort claims brought against them in tribal, state and federal courts, including defense tenders pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act Assisting tribal insureds in insurance coverage negotiations, and litigation Representing individual tribal members in tribal and state civil and criminal proceedings, including BIA prosecutions and Indian probate proceedings Assisting tribal governments with tribal, state and federal court appeals, including the preparation of amicus curiae briefs Our Indian law & gaming attorneys collaborate to publish the quarterly «Indian Legal Advisor ``, designed to provide Indian Country valuable information about legal and political developments affecting tribal rights.

Each year NJP provides critical civil legal assistance and representation to thousands of low - income people in cases affecting basic human needs such as family safety and security, housing preservation, protection of income, access to health care, education and other basic needs.

Participants referred to existing evidence that indigenous peoples affected by HIV have a long and enduring history of mistrust of health services, which results in poor access to health care, late testing for HIV and poor or no care and support for people living with HIV.

Depression is the leading cause of disability adjusted life years globally.1 The WHO recommends integrating mental health treatments into primary care in order to increase access to effective treatments.2 Alongside increasing prevalence, many economies are facing fiscal pressure that affect their health services.

«In 2012, inequities in access to quality health care and health disparities continue to disproportionately affect communities of color.

Those regulations will affect more than women's access to early abortion care, because most abortion care providers offer a full array of safe, affordable, preventive health services, including breast and cervical cancer screening, STD prevention and treatments, and birth control.

With mental health concerns affecting as many as one in four adults and one in ten children, access to effective care is critical.

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Sir Michael said his key insight is that health is not simply a matter of lifestyle or access to health care but is related to inequality of economic and social conditions that affect all of us.

An end to the freeze on Medicare rebates, which has caused «profound pressure» on ACCHS and «adversely and disproportionately affected Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their ability to afford and access the required medical care».

Grandfamilies: State Law and Policy Resource Center Provides access to a searchable database of laws and legislation affecting grandfamilies inside and outside the foster care system for all 50 States and Washington, DC.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund works to ensure that people continue to have access to those health care and education services — by advocating for laws and policies that protect women's health, and educating voters about how candidates» positions would affect women's health.

Men's relative reluctance to access health care services stands in stark contrast to the range and severity of the problems that affect them.

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