Sentences with phrase «as health workers»

Actions include making sure teachers, as well as health workers and social care staff, better understand autism.

In these phase 2 and phase 3 trials, thousands of people who are at risk of contracting the virus, such as health workers, will receive the vaccine to determine whether it can protect against infection.

The prescribers tended to be volunteers from the community trained as health workers, or shopkeepers who sell toilet paper and soft drinks along with dispensing medicine.

As health workers cast around for ways to combat Zika, he hopes this paper will give them pause.

Dr Isamotu emphasised that the programme will be used to mobilise communities against preventable diseases as health workers will now be compelled to visit more remote villages to reach out to the health needs of the people particularly in the rural areas.

Burnout was first identified in the 1970s in studies of overworked, overstressed «helping professions,» such as health workers and teachers, who found all their efforts never slowed the flow of pain and despair.

She has extensive experience in Indigenous health, as a health worker and researcher in urban and rural communities across south - east Queensland.

Not exact matches

In fact, 41 percent of the on - demand workers we surveyed had faced a personal financial hardship in the past year (such as a job loss, health emergency or unexpected major expense).

Close to 40 % became shareholders, a development that seemed to inspire workers to look beyond their own wages and working conditions and consider the health of the company as a whole.

The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

A Liberian health worker speaks with families in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia.

At benefits company Stride Health, which sells and manages healthcare benefits to «gig» workers like Uber drivers, CEO Noah Lang said that he would want to be sure that the replacement plan has tax credits available to people as they need them, rather than at the end of the year only.

Unifor will initially represent more than 300,000 workers across roughly 20 sectors of the economy, primarily in manufacturing, communications and transportation, as well as some public sector employees in the health, education and transit sectors.

(Nevertheless, the company offers other benefits and protections, such as health insurance through a partnership with Freelancer's Union, plans for business insurance, as well as payment guarantees for workers.)

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

The site reportedly gives its workers benefits like health insurance as they establish themselves in the network once they work 20 hours a week or more.

They often suffer from both mental and physical health problems at a higher rate than workers in other industries as a result of their working conditions, which include operating under hard - nosed management practices and getting yelled at all day by irate customers.

«These freelancers come on board as subcontractors and save the small business owner the burden of paying overhead associated with payroll taxes and expenses such as health insurance and worker's compensation, as well as the space constrictions that growing a company in - house can present.»

Over the past few years, businesses have added 14 million jobs as regional economies have rebounded; their workers have gained access to health insurance, and a new flock of startups has brought economy - altering innovations, some of which have changed the nature of work itself.

Panjabi is using his $ 1 million 2017 TED Prize winnings to fulfill his wish of creating a digital health education system that can be used to «recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in health education system that can be used to «recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in April.

Attracting good workers is very important, and I know where I have not been as competitive because I don't have health insurance to attract better workers.

As consumers continue to seek out digital health solutions, employers have an opportunity to provide them with health services that can improve workers» overall wellbeing.

Outlook: Employment and Social Development Canada categorizes «dental hygienist» as a «technical occupation in health care,» and measures the employment outlook for this job alongside dental technologists, lab bench workers, denturists and dental therapists.

Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.

Several of those groups, including the National Restaurant Association, the Retail Industry Leaders Association and the Food Marketing Institute, had been fighting hard for what they referred to as «transition relief,» extra time for companies that must provide health insurance to their workers under the new law to implement the changes without having to fear financial penalties for not doing so properly.

That argument is taken from the position of the employer, usually the small - business owner who has to adjust her growth plans to not cross the 50 - worker, full - time threshold that requires companies to provide qualifying health plans to its workers or face the penalties known officially as the «shared responsibility payments.»

As the nation's single largest employer, with more than 1.5 million workers, acquiring an insurer could ostensibly help Walmart bring down health costs for its own workforce.

Michele Meagher, age 66, appreciates the way she's treated as an older worker by her employer, Tufts Health Plan, a nonprofit health insurance organization in Watertown, MassachuHealth Plan, a nonprofit health insurance organization in Watertown, Massachuhealth insurance organization in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Although there is increasing concern that the costs paid by workers such as deductibles and co-insurance continue to mount, having increased access to health insurance overcomes a big hurdle for many entrepreneurs.

[74] In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government workers and teachers earn $ 7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.

As with health risk assessments, most large firms offering health benefits (53 %) offer workers biometric screenings, which are health examinations that measure such things as body weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, stress, and nutritioAs with health risk assessments, most large firms offering health benefits (53 %) offer workers biometric screenings, which are health examinations that measure such things as body weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, stress, and nutritioas body weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, stress, and nutrition.

Further, union workers have better benefits options, such as health insurance and paid time off.

We then must not just promote care work but also accord these workers decent wages, legal protection, and basic social security rights such as health care, pension, and employment insurance.

Profits from Solms - Delta estate, which produces 30,000 cases of wine annually under labels such as Cape Jazz and Africana, allow the workers and tenants to pay for health care, school fees, and a social worker to tackle issues of alcoholism and domestic violence.

«We will expand the capacity of health workers and emergency responders to identify and treat hurricane survivors with mental health needs and connect them to services, as well as support health workers» own needs,» said Americares Vice President of Emergency Programs Kate Dischino.

Former President Bill Clinton and Americares President and CEO Michael J. Nyenhuis announced «Healing for Health Workers: Building Mental Health Capacity in Post-Maria Puerto Rico» as a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery meeting in Miami today.

Indeed, Mindspace's research goes so far as to claim that poorly designed workspace can have a detrimental effect on workers» productivity and mental health, with one - quarter of respondents connecting their workplace to feelings of fatigue and exhaustion, and a further 20 % stating that it leads to stress.

While about half of the 65,000 worker visas issued in 2014 under Zuckerberg's favored immigration program, H - 1B, go to the tech industry, the other half go to people working in various other occupations such as architecture, food service, and health care.

Certain industries in particular, such as computer and IT, medical and health, and education and training, increasingly offer compensation for flexible employees that is on par with salaries and benefits paid to traditional workers.

A group of workers at Venezuela's state - owned oil company is requesting wages in dollars as well as meal plans and better health insurance to make up for what they called «suffocating» economic conditions.

«Stable, affordable housing is intimately linked to the health and success of families, workers and the economy as a whole.

As our caucus spokesperson for mining, Norm did the responsible thing and took these concerns about health and safety for workers — and the potential environmental concerns — to Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett and Environment Minister Mary Polak.

The Times went further, saying that the island's total financial collapse will only make things worse: «Government workers will forgo pension money, public health and infrastructure projects will go wanting, and the «brain drain'the island has been suffering as professionals move to the mainland could intensify.»

We also fight for strong and accessible public services such as universal health care, education, worker training, elder / home care and child care and early learning.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

Kansas City fared better than New York City and Los Angeles in metrics such as tech workers per capita, share of workers with a Bachelor's degree or higher, entrepreneurial growth and share of «knowledge» workers, defined as those in occupations such as architecture, social science, health care and education.

Red Cross disaster workers are also providing health services such as replacing lost medications and eyeglasses, emotional support and spiritual care to people affected by this devastating storm.

This can crudely be described as putting American workers and factories first (second - order economics be damned), less regulation, and a terrific health care system.

For example, churches may participate in interracial dialogue programs, preschool education programs such as Head Start, nursery school programs for children of working mothers, alcoholism education programs, sex education programs, open housing programs, health and education programs for migrant workers.

As such a center works its way into the lives and needs of disadvantaged peoples, however, more and more expert persons are brought into the picture in some capacity — health center personnel, social agency workers, persons who can find jobs, vocational training teachers, and many others.