Sentences with phrase «early life interventions»

Our evidence shows the potential of early life interventions for preventing disease and promoting health.

«If vitamin D is associated with cholesterol in early childhood, this may provide an opportunity for early life interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk.»

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Katherine High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease with a one - time intervention.»

Crisis intervention is never a long - term activity, and the counselor must continually be aware that although he will become intimately involved in the person's life for a short time, he must be prepared to withdraw from it at the earliest possible moment.

I've used them with infants in early intervention therapy, and they have also come in handy for promoting my own son's development during his first years of life.

For 30 years, her clinical experience has been in the areas of prevention and early intervention services for families and young children living in conditions of risk.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Train wrecks are usually the result of insisting birth is as safe as life gets, not having access to interventions early on and not having a clear transfer plan in place.

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

If they had a difficult birth, or they had a difficult start or lots of medical intervention, or separation early in life, they can need an extra big dose of connection to help them recover.

* I don't know about where you live, but in NYC the doctors are very proactive about referring kids to Early Intervention for any speech, physical, or developmental delays.

It's important every pregnant woman be made aware of the potential complications associated with dehydration so it can either be avoided altogether, or early and potentially life - saving intervention can occur.

The study suggests that interventions aimed at improving parent - child interaction in the early postnatal period may be beneficial to the child's behaviour later in life.

A range of early intervention services offers very young children the opportunity to develop the skills and abilities that will ready them for school and life.

Early intervention focuses on helping eligible babies and toddlers learn the basic and brand - new skills that typically develop during the first three years of life, such as:

The CIMI ® Certified Infant Massage Instructor program is an evidence - based program (discipline: prevention) designed for Nurses, Early Intervention Specialists, Occupational and Physical Therapists, Massage Therapists, Developmental Specialists, Home - based Visitors, Parent Educators, Child Life Specialists, Social Workers and other interested professionals who are licensed and work with infants, toddlers and children.

The scope and depth of racial disparities across various health indicators and in breastfeeding — life's earliest health intervention — can not be ignored.

The CIMI ® Certified Infant Massage Instructor program is an evidence - based program (discipline: prevention) designed for Nurses, Early Intervention Specialists, Occupational and Physical Therapists, Massage Therapists, Developmental Specialists, Parent Educators, Child Life Specialists, Social Workers and other interested professionals who are licensed and work with infants and children.

Ask any early intervention therapist no matter what their specialty what they think about tummy time and they will all recommend supervised belly time from day one of an infant's life.

Detection, treatment, and control of hypertension in adulthood does not reduce cardiovascular disease risk to normotensive levels (9), supporting efforts to identify primary prevention interventions that could be started in early life.

This may include care provided by family members, early childhood intervention, home - delivered meals, adult day care, case management, assisted living, personal care services, nursing, physical therapy and nursing home care.

«If we are to deal most effectively with criminality in our country, we need to call criminal offences crime, move away from the unproductive and costly antisocial behaviour structure and all the rhetoric surrounding it, and remember that at the root of it all, it is crime prevention and early intervention, particularly in the lives of young people, that we will see reaping real rewards, when we come to look back at our time in office.

(BRONX, NY)-- Today, State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), Assemblyman Luis Sepúlveda (D - Bronx) and Comunilife's Life is Precious Program ™ (LIP) hosted an expert panel and guidance counselor roundtable to raise awareness of the suicide epidemic for Latina teens, highlight early intervention measures, assess current state response and promote community - based, culturally sensitive solutions.

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The search for neurobiological markers that precede atypical trajectories is important in infants with a high risk for developing autism - related disorders because early recognition allows for early intervention and mitigation of difficulties later in life.

«This speaks to the importance early life events can have on adolescent experiences and the need for early intervention when problems first arise,» Connell said.

To close the gap, the researchers are using technology that facilitates intervention early in the child's life and empowers parents to play a very important role: «baby's first and best teacher,» said Ashley Darcy - Mahoney, assistant professor and neonatal nurse practitioner at The George Washington University School of Nursing and director of infant research at its Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute.

Rozelle's earlier experiments on health interventions in China had «a real impact on the lives of poor people,» says Howard White, a developmental economist with the Oslo - based Campbell Collaboration, which reviews economic and social studies.

This sort of prescreening can lead to earlier, life - saving interventions.

«Our results show that associations between eating behaviours and cardiovascular risk appear early in life and may be a potential target for early intervention,» writes Dr. Navindra Persaud, family physician and researcher at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario.

Observing early behaviors may give researchers and clinicians indicators to look for early in life so they can recommend timely diagnostic testing and interventions to improve a baby's adaptive responses and outcome.

Co-author Professor Cyrus Cooper, Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, says: «Our unit seeks to develop interventions to improve bone health early in life.

Early detection offers the opportunity to begin medical interventions to delay birth or increase fetus viability to save lives and reduce lifelong disabilities.

«If we can find interventions that slow down early - stage disability, we might be able to help people live healthier and ultimately longer because decreased physical functioning is associated with excess risk of mortality,» Kail said.

«Our results show the potential importance of interventions happening much earlier in life.

This might be a promising strategy because intervention would occur early in a child's life and would reduce the incidence of early smoking onset, which is related to sustained smoking and addiction.

«Early childhood is protective and presents a very short - lived window for intervention to ensure cardio - metabolic health in the future,» notes Melinda Sothern, PhD, LSU Health New Orleans Professor and Jim Finks Endowed Chair in Health Promotion, the study's principal investigator.

«The detection of markers associated with autism early in life, before a child can be diagnosed with autism, is important to help identify children at the greatest need for early interventions.»

«This study shows that a well run early childhood intervention program can have benefits well into adult life,» said James Griffin, Ph.D., Deputy Chief of the Child Development Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health.

The biomarkers also point to other underlying mechanisms that contribute to the progression of CF and could lead to better therapeutic interventions earlier in life.

The fact that these changes are epigenetic means we can do something about it, possibly by targeting these children for interventions early in life.»

Thus, increasing women's representation in academic science not only requires a shift in emphasis toward GEEMP fields in particular, but also a shift away from alleged bias in the academy toward interventions that are targeted at earlier time points in the lives of girls and women.

Autism Spectrum Disorder is usually diagnosed in early childhood, but genetic detection of this brain disorder could mean more timely interventions that improve life for the patient and their carers.

8/4/2008 Lowering Cholesterol Early in Life Could Save Lives UC San Diego Researchers Advocate Intervention Beginning in Childhood With heart disease maintaining top billing as the leading cause of death in the United States, a team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine physician - researche... More...

If further progress is to be made then infants with cystic fibrosis or neuromuscular disease will require more attention with earlier intervention to improve the quality of life using new targeted biological approaches [17].

«However it is possible to speculate that consumption of a low glycaemic index diet late in life still has beneficial health effects and it may extend lifespan, although the effect may not be as dramatic as an intervention earlier in life.

Discover how early intervention and treatment, and life - long support can make a difference for individuals with autism and their families

Early intervention is key to preventing the life - altering outcomes of cardiovascular disease, such as heart attack, stroke, and death.

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