Sentences with phrase «by public health interventions»

Athens, Ga. — Sexual transmission of the Ebola virus could have a major impact on the dynamics of the disease, potentially reigniting an outbreak that has been contained by public health interventions, according to research by University of Georgia ecologists just published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.
Sexual transmission of the Ebola virus could have a major impact on the dynamics of the disease, potentially reigniting an outbreak that has been contained by public health interventions, according to research by University of Georgia ecologists just published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

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Results published in the American Journal of Public Health were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young chiPublic Health were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young chiHealth were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young chipublic health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young chihealth intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young children.
This suggests that there might be a small benefit of early interventions after birth or by public health nurses.
In a new, hospital - level analysis by health policy researcher Laura Attanasio at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Katy Kozhimannnil at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, they report that women who gave birth at hospitals that had a larger percentage of midwife - attended births were less likely to have two specific medical interventions, cesarean delivery and episihealth policy researcher Laura Attanasio at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Katy Kozhimannnil at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, they report that women who gave birth at hospitals that had a larger percentage of midwife - attended births were less likely to have two specific medical interventions, cesarean delivery and episiHealth, they report that women who gave birth at hospitals that had a larger percentage of midwife - attended births were less likely to have two specific medical interventions, cesarean delivery and episiotomy.
Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delhealth policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delHealth and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delHealth Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.
The work should begin «by identifying the most pressing research questions with the greatest potential public health impact, and by assessing existing public health interventions being implemented across the Nation to prevent gun violence,» the president's memo states.
The HOPE intervention, led by psychologist Sean Young, Ph.D., associate professor of family medicine and executive director of the University of California Institute for Prediction Technology, aims to harness the immense power of social media to improve public health.
As a public - health intervention, immunisation is already widely seen as one of public health's «best buys», but by measuring the effectiveness in terms of lives saved, it seems likely that we are undervaluing the benefits and the return on investment they offer.
Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.
The R2HC programme aims to improve health outcomes by strengthening the evidence base for public health interventions in humanitarian crises.
Social media messaging, screening and interventions offer new tools to help colleges prevent and reduce excessive drinking, according to a report authored by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher, working with a group of experts.
«Even though tobacco shops have rarely been targeted by the police or community for intervention,» he added, «based on our data, we believe tobacco shops in urban communities of color should be regulated to improve community health in the same way as alcohol outlets and other public nuisances.»
According to Malo, «public health interventions designed to increase HPV vaccine recommendation for males should focus on increasing recommendations by family practitioners and also identifying and supporting innovators and early adopters who may help diffuse HPV vaccination guidelines and encourage later adopters to support the recommendations.»
These estimates suggest that substantial health gains could be made, say the authors — a 40 % relative reduction in smoking prevalence and almost 13 million smoking attributable deaths averted and more than 154 million life years gained by 2050 — by extending effective public health and clinical interventions to reduce active smoking.
[C] onduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it.The Secretary shall begin by identifying the most pressing research questions with the greatest potential public health impact, and by assessing existing public health interventions being implemented across the nation to prevent gun violence.
By the time the results are available, they might well be irrelevant for clinical diagnostics and guiding public health interventions.
NIH Clinical Center (CC)-- Est. in 1953 The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first - in - human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state - of - the - art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.
Public health authorities are even more caught by the intersection of competing political, economic, and social interests while debating appropriate levels of intervention.
In this environment, any argument that puts risk into statistical perspective — or criticises the alarm generated by sensational copy, anti-nuclear activists and interventions from public - health bureaucracies — looks like advocacy.
They are mixed, though I note that intervention for public health (such as the sewering of London and provision of drinking water preceded socialism (and the germ theory of disease) by some time.
Under the final rule, covered entities may disclose protected health information to such individuals when the covered entity or public health authority is authorized by law to notify these individuals as necessary in the conduct of a public health intervention or investigation.
For example, requiring that covered health care providers obtain third - party review before permitting them to alert a public health authority that an individual was infected with a serious communicable disease could cause delay appropriate intervention by a public health authority and could present a serious threat to the health of many individuals.
The NPRM would have allowed covered entities to disclose protected health information without individual authorization to: (1) A public health authority authorized by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; (2) a public health authority or other appropriate authority authorized by law to receive reports of child abuse or neglect; (3) a person or entity other than a governmental authority that could demonstrate or demonstrated that it was acting to comply with requirements or direction of a public health authority; or (4) a person who may have been exposed to a communicable disease or may otherwise be at risk of contracting or spreading a disease or condition and was authorized by law to be notified as necessary in the conduct of a public health intervention or investigation.
(i) A public health authority that is authorized by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; or, at the direction of a public health authority, to an official of a foreign government agency that is acting in collaboration with a public health authority;
(iv) A person who may have been exposed to a communicable disease or may otherwise be at risk of contracting or spreading a disease or condition, if the covered entity or public health authority is authorized by law to notify such person as necessary in the conduct of a public health intervention or investigation; or
Based on public comments received, questions submitted by the public on Stage 1 and demonstrations of Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT) we have participated in, it is apparent that the prevalent time when Clinical Decision Support (CDS) interventions are presented is when the order is entered into CEHRT, and that not all EHRs also present CDS when the order is authorized (assuming such a multiple step ordering process is in place).
Findings that these effects on the hippocampus are mediated by caregiving and stressful life events suggest that attempts to enhance early caregiving should be a focused public health target for prevention and early intervention.
Therefore, reduction in the reliance on public health systems by this population is an additional benefit to participation in EBHV interventions.
In the post below, public health physician Patricia Fagan outlines the gaps in effective action in the past and says governments and communities need to be aware that the current approach to STIs in remote areas is «ineffective and wasteful, being characterised by poorly or inappropriately resourced, uncoordinated, piecemeal and often ill - conceived interventions
One Colorado study showed that paraprofessional home visiting, when combined with an early - intervention program focused on children with developmental delays, resulted in improved involvement with the program.25 In North Carolina, the combination of a public health department's home - visiting program with links into private physician's offices was helpful in overcoming personal and structural barriers to care.43 The Commonwealth Fund's Healthy Steps intervention included home visiting by masters - level healthy development specialists with significant gains in the quality of well - child care, although the multifactorial nature of this intervention made it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the home - visiting component.44 — 46 A South Carolina study showed that a program that linked school - based home visitors to group well - child visits resulted in greater retention of anticipatory guidance and improved satisfaction with care.47
Public mental health services for children in Nebraska are administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and includes the following examples: outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment services, including evaluation (by a supervising practitioner / psychiatrist / psychologist individual), group / family psychotherapy; individual / group / family substance abuse counseling, family assessment, mental / home health and personal care services, intensive family preservation services, medication checks, crisis intervention serhealth services for children in Nebraska are administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and includes the following examples: outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment services, including evaluation (by a supervising practitioner / psychiatrist / psychologist individual), group / family psychotherapy; individual / group / family substance abuse counseling, family assessment, mental / home health and personal care services, intensive family preservation services, medication checks, crisis intervention serHealth and Human Services (DHHS) and includes the following examples: outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment services, including evaluation (by a supervising practitioner / psychiatrist / psychologist individual), group / family psychotherapy; individual / group / family substance abuse counseling, family assessment, mental / home health and personal care services, intensive family preservation services, medication checks, crisis intervention serhealth and substance abuse treatment services, including evaluation (by a supervising practitioner / psychiatrist / psychologist individual), group / family psychotherapy; individual / group / family substance abuse counseling, family assessment, mental / home health and personal care services, intensive family preservation services, medication checks, crisis intervention serhealth and personal care services, intensive family preservation services, medication checks, crisis intervention services.
[2] More public health benefit is gained through interventions which aim to shift the population mean than by reducing the level of the problem in the most affected group.
A minimum of two years full - time, or equivalent part - time (3360 hours), post masters supervised clinical experience with individuals, family groups, couples, groups or organizations (public or private) for the purpose of assessment and intervention in a clinic or hospital licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Mental Health accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations or an equivalent center or institute, or under the direction of an approved supervisor.
It contributes to improvements in health care and public health by providing information about disease trends, risk and protective factors, patterns of care and health care costs, developing new therapies and treatments, and assessing the effectiveness of health interventions.
Parents, HSE speech therapists, public health nurses, psychologists, and prevention and early intervention agency youngballymun have worked together to make the pioneering Parent - Child Psychological Support Programme (developed by Professor Angeles Cerezeo, University of Valencia) available to parents of all newborns in Ballymun, as the centre piece in a network of service developments for 0 - 3's Ready, Steady, Grow.
It contributes to public health by guiding action steps for how extended family influence on teen sexual health can direct inclusion of larger family systems, beyond the nuclear family, into prevention and intervention programs.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) The NCTSN works to serves the nation's traumatized children and their families by raising public awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of America's children and youth; advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard of care; working with established systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national resource.
Because research shows promising evidence that relational agents can establish a therapeutic relationship with patients and that they are accepted by a wide variety of patient populations [18,19], relational agents have the potential to enhance reach and public health impact of efficacious interventions by overcoming limitations associated with face - to - face delivery.
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