Sentences with phrase «control over their health status»

HETV works within the existing health framework of developing countries to establish and promote health educational programs that will provide rapid and long - term capacity - building to improve health and quality of life, and will give mothers and communities more control over their health status.

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She fought many battles with local authorities, hospitals, environmental health departments and succeeded over several years in elevating the status of feral cats from near vermin to animals worthy of humane treatment and showing that control could be achieved by neutering and not killing.

Mootness: Although the College asserted the issue was moot, as no one's registrant status was impacted, and furthermore, paramedics had recently been transitioned from the HDA to the Health Professions Act, R.S.A. 2000, c. H - 7, which gives the College control over its own forms, the court decided that due to live controversies and an ongoing relationship between the College and the technician, declaratory relief would help them with their ongoing relationship, and would address future problems.

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.