Sentences with phrase «better health of the child»

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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.
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.
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.
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
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».
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nowinski — as well as many others in the field — agrees that «the most important change for all of football to improve football player health is to eliminate tackle football for children
I am so excited to now dedicate my energy to supporting women & children's health, good food, and the beautiful art of cooking!
In 2010, Eat»n Park Hospitality Group launched its «LifeSmiles» program and through this initiative it has strengthened and expanded its commitment to the health and well - being of children.
As CEO of the Royal Children's and Royal Women's Hospitals Melbourne from 2000 to 2004, Alexander's passion lies in providing good public health services.
As well as a thousand children picking up good nutritional habits, a thousand families are becoming aware of the campaign, as what the kids learn about health and sustainability is coming home with them.
The aim of the Standards is to combat childhood obesity and other health problems, and to help children enjoy balanced meals containing good sources of protein, starch, fruit, vegetables and salad.
Even if measures supported by the best available evidence (such as traffic light labelling on the front - of - food packaging and removing advertising junk food to children between 6 am and 9 pm as recommended in the Government's response to the National Preventative Health Taskforce) are implemented, regulation is no panacea.
This prestigious award is presented to a company that has gone above and beyond in promoting the Half Your Plate program and / or the Freggie ™ Children's Program, aligning with the CPMA's goal to increase the consumption of fresh produce in Canada for better health.
Sizzling Generosity Results in $ 14.3 Million Raised During Auction Napa Valley Weekend: The Napa Valley Vintners trade association announced that this year's Auction Napa Valley has raised $ 14.3 million for children's education and community health nonprofits during a weekend of feverish bidding and Latin - infused fun at the annual celebration of the best of America's leading wine region...
That's why it's not unusual for parents of food allergic eaters to focus so much on making sure there are no traces of a certain allergen (which is the number one priority), that they do not concern themselves with other ingredients — allergens, toxins, food additives and colorings, that could be contributing to other, seemingly unrelated health issues that their child is facing as well.
We find that to bring the greatest benefits, parenting leave design must walk a tight - rope between providing for the health and welfare needs of mothers and infants without marking women down as uniquely responsible for caring for children; and that therefore it is best if much of the birth - related leave is available to mothers without being limited to uptake by them.
They want their children happily married and they are interested in health, well being and emotional state of their husbands and children.
Tell them that the World Health organization now recommends AT LEAST 2 years of nursing as the optimal standard, and you are doing the best for your child, and that comes first.
Part of the answer has to do with basic issues of health: Poor children, on average, eat less nutritious food than well - off children, and they get worse medical care.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is «an organization of 64,000 pediatricians committed to the optimal physical, mental, and social health and well - being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.»
The Lucy Daniels Center is a nonprofit agency in Cary that promotes the emotional health and well - being of children and families.
The most thorough of these studies, which has tracked for decades 1,000 children born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in the early 1970s, showed that children with strong noncognitive capacities go on to complete more years of education and experience better health.
Your body really knows what is best, sometimes it is a fine line between nursing for the health of the baby and for the ease of the child going to bed.
«Health Visitors are well placed to engage with fathers of young children [1].
If you do your research, you would find that the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization both promote nursing until 2 or 3 and beyond this as long as both child and mom are comfortable with it.WIC also promotes long term nursing as well.
It is a nurse home - visiting programme designed to improve the health, well - being and self - sufficiency of young first - time parents and their children.
The film is of very high quality and can be used to awaken health and other family professionals, as well as young fathers and mothers, and their wider families, to young fathers» potential in their children's lives.
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