Sentences with phrase «by health populations»

They are stable when heated and have a long tradition of use by health populations.

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• VirtualHealth, New York City - based provider of population health and care management technologies, raised $ 7 million from investors led by Edison Partners.

Using this particular matrix, McQuaid's team quickly scans both the factual attributes (population, on the y - axis) and emotional attributes (accompanied by introspection, on the x-axis) of 16 potential customer segments for the health - and - wellness tool.

As noted by senior executives at Rodale, just having an organic landscape can improve the health of the whole employee population, through reduced use of chemicals from lawn maintenance, while creating a space that is more engaging, educational, and productive.

The health care industry, in general, continues to be an attractive field, driven in large part by the aging population.

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Kevin Page, the parliamentary budget officer, recently estimated that an aging population — which means a smaller tax haul and bigger health and other outlays — will leave Ottawa and the provinces with a $ 46 - billion - a-year fiscal gap to fix by cutting spending or hiking taxes.

To achieve this goal, several approaches are envisaged: identifying small populations with severe disease where a medicine's benefit - risk balance could be favorable; making more use of real - world data where appropriate to support clinical trial data; and involving health technology assessment bodies early in development to increase the chance that medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systems.

By targeting eight health centers strategically located in eight of the ten departments (or states) in Haiti, Direct Relief will reach a population of 563,000, including approximately 60,000 pregnant women.

Ministers and mental health professionals both are aware that a certain segment of the population is afflicted by such a condition.

A more recent 1990 survey of more than 10,000 persons by the National Center for Health Statistics indicates that homosexuals and bisexuals combined amount to approximately 1.5 percent of the population.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

Let's work through the ABCs of these classic controversies: Contraception: A. «The use of contraception in the West has led to a stabilising of the population... However, in less developed countries, the population is rising by as much as 3 \ % a year... This is placing great pressures on food supplies, health services and education».

In reality, the amount of protein associated with optimal human health, as supported by science and epidemiology (the incidence of disease amongst various populations), is much lower than you think.

Melinda's growth is being propelled in large part by four key factors: the increasing popularity of spicy foods; America's rapidly expanding population of Central, South American and Caribbean immigrants; the widely recognized health benefits of chile peppers; and the growing purchasing power of Millennials who are more apt to experiment with new spices and flavor profiles.

Abstinence from Kona, tobacco, and alcohol by many Adventists has afforded a near - unique opportunity for studies to be conducted within that population group on the health effects of Kona drinking, free from confounding factors.

The aim of the flagships is to significantly improve health and attainment across the whole population by transforming the food environment, using schools as a catalyst to drive this change.

A study commissioned by the Canadian health minister suggests that maternal or newborn programmes in Ontario can maintain low caesarean section rates over time, regardless of their size, location, level of care they provide, and population they serve.

Our study illustrates that a randomized intervention trial with good socioeconomic information can help assess interventions designed to improve population health not only by examining the intervention effects on primary outcomes but also by evaluating the intervention's impact on socioeconomic inequalities.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

The paper is Influence of definition based versus pragmatic birth registration on international comparisons of perinatal and infant mortality: population based retrospective study, written by multiple scientists at Fetal and Infant Health Study Group of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System.

So they're not saying that the existing guideline is too low — just that pushing it further (such as to the 1500 mg recommended for some groups and that some organizations have recommended population - wide) is not well - supported by the evidence for health outcomes.

Of course, you won't want to donate them to children's organizations, but there are some great options that will enable the products to be re-used by populations that won't be at risk for reproductive damage by phthalates — and where the health benefits of a shower or bath would far outweigh any other potential risk!

The problem is when this devolves into the claims that 1) homebirth in the US is an acceptable alternative to hospital birth and 2) the main reason for poor outcomes in hospitals is opposition to natural birth (and the inevitable c - section)-- all the while completely ignoring much more real problems such as the huge disparity of outcomes by race; the high prevalence of pre-existing health conditions in the general population; and access to healthcare.

All facilities, regardless of the racial / ethnic composition of the populations they serve, can support the breastfeeding decisions of their patients by implementing evidence - based policies and practices shown to be critical for establishing breastfeeding, so that more infants are able to reap the numerous health benefits of breastfeeding.

Home breastfeeding support by health professionals: findings of a randomised controlled trial in a population of Italian women

«Health and care services need to rise to the challenge of responding to the increasingly complex conditions suffered by our ageing population,» said Dave Behan, CQC chief executive.

The legal age to purchase cigarettes has risen progressively to 18, but for the adult population smoking remains a legal pursuit, albeit surrounded by aggressive health warnings.

A Brexit, on the other hand, will remove the protective layer afforded by the EU in pursuit of a greater market efficiency, and inevitably cost the UK consumers in the long run as the health of the population would become a suboptimal consideration compared to profitability.

Rather than viewing the measures from a compliance mind - set, which can supress effective implementation, the rules encourage businesses to be more ethical, responsible, and accountable by internalising the real costs of their activities upon the health of the wider population.

Surveys of public opinion indicate that Germans by and large are satisfied with their health care system (as opposed to the U.S. where a large portion of the population thinks that system needs substantial changes).

Increased community development funding is included for Erie County Soil and Water Conservation and the Cooperative Extension along with continued funding for the important healthcare and community work conducted for Buffalo's refugee population by Jericho Road Community Health Center.

A new report from FPI looks at the importance of jobs in the nonprofit health care and social assistance sector in New York City, and examines how the hardships facing the city's low - income population — the main constituency served by the nonprofit human services sector — have grown in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009 and the weak recovery over the past three years.

Last week, de Blasio released a «roadmap» for phasing out the incarceration center, which mostly reiterated steps he called for when he announced a plan to shutter Rikers in March: combining sentencing, bail, mental health and rehabilitation reforms to reduce the city's inmate population from 9,300 to 7,000 by 2021 and 5,000 by 2027.

The New York State of Health exchange is reaching just 22 percent of the target population for private ACA plans, the second - lowest rate in the country, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In the meantime, New York health officials can help examine Puerto Rico's insurance claims data to see if there are areas in which costs can be reduced by finding efficiencies in the system, which is crucial because more than two - thirds of the population rely on either Medicaid, Medicare or Medicare Advantage.

ROCKLAND COUNTY: Health Department Continues Mosquito Breeding Prevention The Health Department in New City has begun to prevent the population growth of mosquitoes by treating catch basins and storm drains.

The argument that hunting is supposedly insignificant in managing the fox population, as claimed by the anti-hunting groups, once again fails to understand that as a wildlife management process, it is not about the numbers killed, but the health and reduced level of the population left alive that is important.

Report author James Gregory said by the ago of 30 public sector tenants born in 1970 are twice as likely as the population at large to suffer from mental health problems and 11 times more likely not to be in employment, education or training.

Therefore, while we appreciate that the President is not in the best of health condition, it is far - fetched that he would communicate on this occasion in a language that is not understood by more than half of the population.

Democratic strategist Jim Manley, a former spokesman Senate Democratic Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason ReidMcConnell not yet ready to change rules for Trump nominees The Hill's Morning Report — Sponsored by CVS Health — Trump's love - hate relationship with the Senate Trump to press GOP on changing Senate rules MORE (Nev.), said he believes Clinton will ultimately eke out a victory in Nevada because the state is «tailor - made for her» with its large population of minority voters.

Evergreen Health is committed to fostering healthy communities by providing medical, supportive and behavioral services to individuals and families in Western New York, especially those in marginalized populations and / or threatened by chronic or life threatening disease.

«It's going to be person by person, because literally each homeless person has their own challenge,» he added, touting the city's commitment to create 15,000 units of supportive housing over the next 15 years, as well as new behavioral health services for the city's homeless and mentally ill population.

Health Department Continues Mosquito Breeding Prevention The Health Department in New City has begun to prevent the population growth of mosquitoes by treating catch basins and storm drains.

Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker says as he examined numerous completed and still on going studies on fracking's effects on drinking water, air quality and other health issues, several «red flags» were raised, and he says he has «identified significant health risks in the current data» that have not been answered by conclusive long term studies with «large population pools».

According to a new analysis by Empire Center health policy director Bill Hammond, a $ 1.1 billion - dollar state program to reimburse hospital charity care is shortchanging hospitals that serve poorer patient to the benefit of those that serve more affluent populations.

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Despite the long gap since then, mean concentration of the chemicals in the blubber of some populations of Europe's killer whales exceeds — often by a lot — a high threshold for health damage.