Sentences with phrase «better child health»

Similarly, the researcher's view of what makes for an effective community program may not coincide with that of the politician or administrator, who, similarly, is concerned with an investment strategy that must take into account available funding, staffing, and the ultimate savings, in whatever form they may come to the community (ie., lower crime rates or better child health).

She advanced the mental health consultation model developed by the Early Childhood Committee of the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership, and managed implementation of the Assuring Better Child Health and Development Initiative with the Illinois Medicaid agency, which focused on primary health care's role in developmental, social - emotional, and maternal depression screening.

According to the Department of Labor, in addition to allowing you to properly bond with your baby and recover at home, paid family leave is important for four main reasons: it increases female labor force participation, leads to better child health outcomes, encourages men to take paternity leave and serve as caregivers, and increases worker retention and reduces turnover.

The evidence further suggests that parental leave may be a cost - effective method of bettering child health.»

Not exact matches

The decree also calls for research into all the potential health benefits of marijuana, as well as programs that prevent children and adolescents from having access to marijuana and programs for those who develop addictions.

Even if you don't get a flu vaccine before October, as is considered ideal, public health officials recommend that everyone — including pregnant women in any trimester — aged 6 months and older, as well as those with compromised immune systems such as small children and the elderly, get their seasonal flu shots in order to protect both themselves and those around them.

Along with expected benefits like health and life insurance, employees enjoy three free meals every day during their shift and no - interest student loans for employees, their spouses and children — which the company forgives if the student does well in school.

Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care and Long - Term Services and Supports (LTSS), in addition to other state - sponsored programs, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly known as «Part D»), dual eligible programs and programs with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

With access to the food these benefits provide, experts say these children are more likely to do better in school, have better health and do better economically as adults than children that live in chronically food - insecure households.

In 2016, the Swedish royal couple Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling created a foundation and invited donations instead of wedding gifts to prevent social isolation and promote good health among children and youth in Sweden.

Instead, Sari Sairanen, health and safety director for national union Unifor, doesn't think the problem will get better until governments themselves step in to provide better child and elder care so that workers have options outside of just missing work.

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

One study recently published in Child Development found people with best friends enjoyed better mental health well into adulthood.

But Packard money also looms large in other areas, such as women's reproductive health and children's well - being.

And in the larger context of the sharing economy that Uber had become the poster child for, the shakeup at the top levels raises questions about the health and sustainability of the growing community of younger, smaller startups as well.

Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care and Long - Term Services (LTSS), in addition to other state - sponsored programs, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly known as «Part D»), dual eligible programs and programs with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Training covers diagnosis, treatment, and recognizing danger signs that require referral to health facilities, as well as business and sales skills.6 After a CHP passes training, she spends her first two weeks conducting a census of all of the households in her designated area and collecting phone numbers and other key information.7 During this census, CHPs note which households have children under - 5 and pregnant women.8

Fidelis, a nonprofit health plan with more than 1.6 million members, currently offers plans on the ACA marketplaces as well as Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Dual Advantage, Child Health Plus, Essential Plan and managed long - term care polhealth plan with more than 1.6 million members, currently offers plans on the ACA marketplaces as well as Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Dual Advantage, Child Health Plus, Essential Plan and managed long - term care polHealth Plus, Essential Plan and managed long - term care policies.

Budget 2018 continues this Ottawa - knows - best trend for issues that are wholly constitutionally provincial: the opioid crisis (health care), early learning and child care (education), more cash for «seasonal industries» via the provinces, a learning bond experiment in Ontario, apprenticeship programs, funding for harnessing «big data» at universities (again, education and health care in that list).

Selina Robinson speaks about the importance of supporting winter sports in BC: «it's good for our health, it's good for our communities and it's great for our children».

Horgan noted that last Christmas, Christy Clark pledged to improve child and youth mental health services, saying «we should do more and we can do more,» and then failed to make good on her promise.

Elementary children at the least equipped to deal with, and get help for, any issues of mental health, especially in dysfunctional homes that aren't the «worst of the worst»... there is likely a better chance the kid getting beaten black and blue will get notices (but not necessarily, sadly), then the child that is being psychologically or emotionally abused.

Just $ 7 — say, the price of a matinee movie ticket — could give a child a week's worth of food and education, as well as the initial clothing and health supplies needed upon rescue.

We all lve our familes, want better education for our children, want access to affordable health care, want privacy and freedoms and the individual liberties.

So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.

For families with serious mental, physical or emotional health problems, or who are experiencing dire financial troubles, bearing children might best be delayed.

It is important to know that in developing nations, where many women are living on less than $ 1 or $ 2 per day, the systemic challenges of extreme poverty create obstacles for good health, especially among women and children.

... The UN Commission for the nutrition challenges of the twenty - first century, in its Report submitted on March 20, 2000, has pointed out that» about one in four new - born children in developing countries - around 30 million each year - suffer retarded growth in the womb, an indication of how the nutritional well - being of mothers in pregnancy remains one of the most neglected areas in world health.

Despite a mounting body of research showing that high rates of divorce and out - of - wedlock births pose serious threats to the well - being of children, mainline Protestantism has had remarkably little to say in recent years about the nature, health and prospects of the family.

The growth counselor's function is to help such persons as they work through their resistance to bury a dead relationship; uncouple without infighting so as to avoid further hurt to each other and to their children; agree on a plan for the children that will be best for the children's mental health; work through the ambivalent feelings that usually accompany divorce — guilt, rage, release, resentment, failure, joy, loss — so that each person's infected grief wound can heal; discover what each contributed to the disintegration of their relationship; learn the relationship - building and love - nurturing skills which each will need either to enjoy creative singlehood or to establish a better marriage.

The blessings she counts include employer - provided health insurance for her children, which makes her better off than 41 million Americans who don't have health insurance.

But health is not in us, as we seek the lower levels of our own will and way; health or wholeness, the full well - being of our existence as God's children, is in God; it always was and always will be in God, who is the fountain of life and light and love.

One male faculty member said, «Having children is both a lifestyle choice and biologically / medically contingent on good health.

The study found that the children were 33 per cent more likely to abstain from sexual activity over a two - year period than children who attended interventions stressing the importance of safesex or of maintaining good health generally.

They have parents in bad health, spouses struggling to pay the bills and children they want to do well in school.

Some 20 percent of American children live in officially calculated (and therefore underestimated) poverty; over 40 million Americans have no health care insurance; and well over 20 million are underinsured.

Taking unnecessary chances is «tempting fate,» and hence is sin against the God who desires all his children to live out their normal span of years in health and well - being.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

In every area - education, law - abidingness, health, and life chances generally - children raised in two - parent families do dramatically better than others.

If prayer worked, everyone would do it, because prayerful people would experience better health, less divorce, fewer children on drugs, greater success, lower death rates, less obesity... there would be no war or starvation or murdered babies.

Recreational intimacy is essential to the mental health of the partners, refilling the wells of energy and allowing one's «Child» side, in Eric Berne's (14) terms, to rejuvenate the personality through stress - relieving play.

His survey of the social science literature on the topic usefully, if sometimes turgidly, compiles the growing evidence that homeschooled children learn more than their counterparts, at least to the extent that standardized tests measure learning, and are emotionally healthier as well, at least to the extent that psychologists» «self - esteem and self - concept» scales truly capture emotional health.

It is well known that most indices of child welfare — income, access to health care, physical safety, poverty, self - esteem — have been declining in the United States.

In many cases, this is a health and well - being issue for women and families, either to space children or to avoid pregnancy during a time of illness which could be fatal to the mother or transmitted to the child.

In Sicily, the hospital's doctors determined Abdel's wife and unborn child were in good health.

Pope John Paul was emphatic in teaching that» [t] he use of the infertile periods for conjugal union can be an abuse if the couple, for unworthy reasons, seeks in this way to avoid having children, thus lowering the number of births in their family below the morally correct level.This morally correct level must be established by taking into account not only the good of one's own family, and even the state of health and the means of the couple themselves, but also the good of the society to which they belong, of the Church, and even of the whole of mankind.

Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things, Amen Brother, them atheist better watch this cause im not sure what Jesus thinks about health care but i know this is what God thinks about the atheist, this is FACT!

Parents naturally want their children to enjoy good health.

The bill's backers insisted that runaways are a social rather than criminal problem, and that receiving homes, crisis centers and mental health agencies are better prepared to handle abandoned children than punishment - oriented law - enforcement agencies.

By proposing a measure that capitalizes on the religious autonomy of parents, allowing them to select the best way to raise their child, the Board of Health aims to ensure that parents selecting this religious ritual have done so out of religious conviction and not medical ignorance.