Sentences with phrase «as public health approaches»

«There is an urgent need for looking at perfectionism with a person - centred approach as an individual and societal risk factor, when formulating clinical guidelines for suicide risk assessment and intervention, as well as public health approaches to suicide prevention,» says Flett.

The nutrition study is necessary to determine the potential for Golden Rice to be used as a public health approach for reducing vitamin A deficiency.

Further, the paper raises the possibility of exercise programs as a public health approach to reduce suicidal behavior in all adolescents.

Co-authoring this paper helped to clarify my thinking about: 1) the definition of social and emotional learning (SEL), 2) the rationale for SEL, 3) the benefits of SEL, and 4) how to implement systematic SEL as a public health approach to education.

The Triple P - Positive Parenting Program as a public health approach to strengthening parenting.

Not exact matches

As urbanization brought more and more people to the cities, local officials possessed of the late Victorian concern for cleanliness and scientific approaches to sanitation led technocrats to press city - dwellers towards these professionals through enforceable public health standards.

In January 2013 the non-governmental organisation Sustain, supported by 61 health organisations, called for a 20 pence per litre excise duty on sugar sweetened drinks.4 In February, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called for a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks as part of its enquiry into clinical and public health solutions to the obesity epidemic.1 Although the UK government has indicated a preference for voluntary approaches to the control of obesity, it has not ruled out fiscal measures.14 Clearly, the idea of a sugar sweetened drink tax is gaining traction in the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertain.

The simplest approach to funding - direct funding by your municipality, a government agency, or by the state (e.g., state department of public health, school department budget), or through a government grant - may be all that is needed, particularly if you are seeking to start a Community Access Defibrillation Program (CAD) serving your entire community, or a significant segment, such as the public schools.

* Paul Tough, a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, wrote one of the best pieces on new approaches to poverty (specifically, approaching it as a public - health problem) I've read in awhile: «The Poverty Clinic» (scroll down) for the New Yorker last year.

The government stood accused of abandoning the public health argument as Andrew Lansley outlined a «non-regulatory approach» to junk food.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is pursuing a mix of approaches that include developing non-opioid pain medicines, conducting research on vaccines that may blunt the impact of fentanyl and its related offshoots, getting public health organizations to increase the availability and use of medications already available to treat opioid addiction and getting medications such as buprenorphine and naloxone, which suppress withdrawal symptoms and ease cravings, into the hands emergency room doctors dealing with patients with opioid addictions.

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, ensuring public health and sustaining a federal agency to regulate global warming emissions is crucial to the future of our nation and preservation of our planet.

More robust approaches for identifying the causal effects of factors influencing health, such as the methods applied in this study, are required if we are to make recommendations for public health based on reliable evidence.»

In the first external revision proposed to GFT, Ayers and co-researchers David Zhang, Maurcio Santiliana (both with Harvard University), and Benjamin Althouse (with the Santa Fe institute) explored new methods for using open - sourced, publicly available Google search archives to forecast influenza, an approach that can serve as a blueprint to fix broader shortcomings in public health surveillance.

The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University gathers disciplines such as public health, medicine, social science, and management to promote evidence - based approaches to humanitarian assistance.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services should develop «a public population - based approach to dealing with pain as the singularly important integrating factor,» Pizzo said.

«At present, there is little direct evidence demonstrating that electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling intervention has a meaningful population - level effect on excessive alcohol consumption or related harms in any group, and therefore its utility as a stand - alone public health approach is in doubt.

This approach serves as a basis for the development of future sequencing - based methods for predicting resistance profiles of bacterial strains in hospital microbiology and public health settings.

As in most cases, our general practitioner expressed some mild concern but continued with the wait - and - see approach until she was almost two and her expressive speech was less than five words, at which point we received a referral to public health for a speech assessment.

Hopefully, you are now convinced that labeling an item as a «health food» is a frequently used approach for selling something to the American public.

She has also conducted several educational talks on naturopathic health approaches at various pediatric as well as psycho - therapist group practices and various other public forums in the state of Connecticut.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

If these are truly risks (and, as I've pointed out previously, the public health threat argument is scaremongering more than anything else), they are risks that (1) are already present, (2) have been allowed to persist — even worsen — due to the admitted ineffectiveness of the trap - and - kill approach (where's the accountability for that, by the way?)

«Park Prescriptions takes an innovative, proactive approach to utilizing parks and public lands as health resources,» said Cleveland Justis, director of the Institute at the Golden Gate.

Instead, Martha Rudolph, who is one of the leading health and environmental regulators in the state as director of environmental programs for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental ahealth and environmental regulators in the state as director of environmental programs for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental aHealth and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental agenda.

According to the report's sponsors, this kind of comparative analysis is useful for policymakers considering regulatory approaches; public interest organizations concerned about public health and consumer costs; and financial analysts and investors assessing company risk exposure as global warming emission limits in the U.S. gain more momentum.

The topics approached included, among others, governmental strategy in the medical sector as well as measures aimed to develop the public health sector, financial solutions for the current year, financial constraints and public needs in the health sector, being discussed on a parallel between public and private health sectors.

As of 2003, the AAMA is shifting its public policy focus to approaching state boards of nursing and departments of public health in pursuit of regulations (and, less frequently, legislation) that would allow only CMAs (and, in some cases, American Medical Technologists [AMT] Registered Medical Assistants [RMAs]-RRB- to be delegated injections.

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Mark Greenberg, Edna Peterson Bennett Endowed Chair in Prevention Research at Penn State, recommends social and emotional learning (SEL) programs as an ideal foundation for a public health approach to education.

It is our view that a trial of this approach is now warranted, with a focus on costs and on coverage, uptake and costs as discriminators for the public health benefit.

It sets out establishing collaborative approaches and partnerships to address housing, adequate safe water, food supplies and waste disposal as priorities.152 The National Environmental Health Strategy Implementation Plan sets out the «challenge» of «improv [ing] the health status of Indigenous Australian communities through the development of appropriate environmental health standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plHealth Strategy Implementation Plan sets out the «challenge» of «improv [ing] the health status of Indigenous Australian communities through the development of appropriate environmental health standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plhealth status of Indigenous Australian communities through the development of appropriate environmental health standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plhealth standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plHealth Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plan.154

To assist NACCHO to strategically develop this area as part of an overarching gender / culture based approach to service provision, NACCHO decided it needed to raise awareness, gain support for and communicate to the wider Australian public issues that have an impact on the social, emotional health and wellbeing of Aboriginal Males.

It is meant for all who are interested in this approach as professionals, as clients / patients and also as policy and decision makers in health care delivery and representatives of public and private health insurance schemes seeking to comprehend what this approach can offer.

The mass media can play an important role in providing health information and related issues for parents and caregivers.10 However, adolescents are typically portrayed in the media as hostile, violent, delinquent, alienated from parents and families, and resistant to any assistance.3, 51,52 In news and television coverage, content analyses found that adolescents are depicted as perpetrators or victims of crime and violence, problem - ridden and disruptive.51, 52 In addition to the mass media images, public attitudes towards adolescents are predominately negative.51 A population approach to build a climate of public interest and responsiveness will require actively working towards counteracting the predominantly negative media coverage of adolescents.3 Media messages can raise parents» awareness and willingness to attend parenting programmes by normalizing their experiences of receiving professional support.