Sentences with phrase «average health outcomes»

There is a large number of residents on Medicaid with poorer - than - average health outcomes who use the emergency room for primary care at disproportionately high rates.

Not exact matches

Lastly, the rankings factored health care costs based on three data points: (1) the average health insurance premium, sourced from KFF.org; (2) portion of health costs covered by Medicare, sourced from CMS.gov; and (3) state rankings on senior health outcomes from AmericasHealthRankings.org.

The study also found that if people consumed on average more than 20g of nuts per day, there was little evidence of further improvement in health outcomes.

The study, Developing an Interventional Stroke Service: Improving Clinical Outcomes and Reducing Cost and Delivering Great Cost Savings Benefits to Health Economy, conducted at the University Hospital of North Midlands, Stoke - on - Trent, U.K., found that mechanical thrombectomy (the use of a device to retrieve a clot from the vessel) in the treatment of stroke reduced the average stroke patient's hospital stay to 14 days when compared to previously recorded 90 days.

Those classes of products with higher than average reports of serious health outcomes were: baby, unclassified product classes, personal cleanliness, hair care and hair coloring products, according to the results.

Researchers analyzed health outcomes over an average of five years of follow - up.

During the study, the researchers tracked the pre-and-post treatment diets and ultimate health outcomes of more than 400 cancer patients for an average of 26 months after they were first diagnosed and treated for squamous - cell carcinoma of the head or neck.

The researchers analyzed data from 148 previously published longitudinal studies that measured frequency of human interaction and tracked health outcomes for a period of seven and a half years on average.

So with enough sweet potatoes and exercise, maybe a little extra fat isn't the end of the world (or maybe there are in fact significant differences in long term health outcomes that aren't being addressed), but unfortunately these nuances often get lost in translation and the average reader thinks oh goody, coconut oil ad libitum, and will surpass what the islanders were eating in total fat consumption, without incorporating all of the other health promoting diet and lifestyle factors: activity, sweet potatoes and other low fat high fiber foods, community, stress reduction, etc..

But my experience has lead me to conclude that whole grains are healthful to the average person (not withstanding someone truly having a disease like celeriac, etc.) Coumpounding the ease with which our bodies digest grain * flours * is that we as a society eat so much of it in breads, breadings, cakes, cupcakes, etc, leading to worsening health outcomes overall.

Students who graduate college have, on average, significantly better health outcomes with lower rates of obesity and heavy drinking.

Compounding this problem, children from low - income families, on average, begin kindergarten approximately a year behind their peers in preliteracy and language skills.106 This fluency gap widens as students continue in school and has a significant impact on economic success later in life.107 As a result, gains from high - quality preschool programs — including improved health, better social - emotional skills, and better cognitive outcomes — are particularly beneficial for children from low - income families.108

For that, the U.S. health system generally delivers worse health outcomes than any other developed country, all of which spend on average about half what we do per person.

Community controlled health service delivery commenced on the premise that to achieve the best health outcomes for our people, we need to provide comprehensive services, not just your average primary care services, and consequently there has been much attention across the sector to build and strengthen this approach over time, with great outcomes.

Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

Relative to children with no ACEs, children who experienced ACEs had increased odds of having below - average academic skills including poor literacy skills, as well as attention problems, social problems, and aggression, placing them at significant risk for poor school achievement, which is associated with poor health.23 Our study adds to the growing literature on adverse outcomes associated with ACEs3 — 9,24 — 28 by pointing to ACEs during early childhood as a risk factor for child academic and behavioral problems that have implications for education and health trajectories, as well as achievement gaps and health disparities.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study looked at over 17000 middle class, middle - aged Americans (average age in the 50s) and found dose - dependent associations between the number of adverse childhood experiences (see Table 1) and a wide array of outcomes, including markers for social functioning, sexual health, mental health, risk factors for common diseases, and prevalent diseases (see Table 2).4, 6 The retrospective ACE Study and several smaller but prospective studies indicate that adverse experiences in childhood influence behavior, mental wellness, and physical health decades later.1, 2,5,10

This will further disadvantage Aboriginal peoples, who on average have lower incomes and poorer health status, lower levels of access to primary health care and poorer health outcomes once they enter the health system, than non-Indigenous Australians.

Despite our average ranking, we have made great strides in improving the health outcomes of our children with improvements seen in all 4 indicators.

There was a clear effect of the duration of exposure to poor mental health for all of the child outcomes: those children exposed to repeated poor maternal mental health had poorer outcomes than those exposed «briefly» who, in turn, had poorer outcomes than those whose mothers were defined as having good or average mental health throughout.

For two health outcomes (limiting long - term illness and social, emotional and behavioural difficulties) and two health behaviours (screen time and fruit and vegetable consumption), children of parents with average skills were also more likely to have poor health and poor health behaviour than children in the high parenting skills group.