Sentences with phrase «ensuring access to health care»

«We know how to reduce the teen pregnancy rate in this country: years of research shows that high - quality sex education, encouraging parents to talk with their children about sex, and ensuring access to health care services makes a measurable difference,» continued Kantor.
It's not a political issue: Health insurance is not about single - payer systems and private insurance companies; it's about ensuring access to health care and guarding against financial hardship for you and your loved ones during times of illness.
If the global community is serious about ensuring access to health care for all, it must invest in health workers who can reach the most remote communities.»
* Funding certainty for CSRs: Cost - sharing reduction subsidies play a pivotal role in ensuring access to health care services for very low - income enrollees, helping these individuals better afford their co-pays, deductibles, and other out - of - pocket costs.
The Child Health Plus program will be expanded to ensure access to health care for every child in New York up to the age of 19.
The mission of the [company name] is to make the county a safer and healthier place by working with community partners to promote health, prevent disease, reduce environmental hazards and ensure access to health care for all community members.
Your gift will help support Planned Parenthood's clinical services, comprehensive sex education programs, and our advocacy efforts to ensure access to health care.

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but, how do we ensure every American gets access to health care?
Under Goal no. 3, which is about global health, I note a need to «achieve universal health coverage,» as well as to «ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health - care services.»
«When this merger is complete, the combined company will be well - positioned to reshape the consumer health care experience, putting people at the center of health care delivery to ensure they have access to high - quality, more affordable care where they are, when they need it,» said Larry Merlo, chief executive officer of CVS.
Specific policies include a Doctors and Nurses Fund to increase training capacity for new health care professionals; working with Aboriginal communities to close the gap in the health status of Aboriginal peoples; and the introduction of a drug plan to ensure Canadians have access to catastrophic drug coverage.
By supporting the local medical infrastructure, Heart to Heart International will continue our commitment to support communities affected by Hurricane Harvey and to ensure that those who need it have access to health care.
State - sanctioned unions are thus driven by the need to ensure rights like access to health care, Francis added.
The new law ensures health care access to women but also preserves religious liberties in important ways.
First of all — check the definition of «Universal» — the purpose of health care reform is to ensure that all citizens of this country have access to reasonable health care.
Partner with schools and early childhood programs to ensure children and families get access to health insurance and quality health care.
Programs that promote breastfeeding and ensure access to nutritious foods, such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, the school meals and summer feeding programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and child care food assistance, improve health outcomes, school achievement, and workforce competitiveness.
The Sustainable Development Goals include ensuring access by infants to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food (2.1); ending all forms of malnutrition and achieving targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age (2.2); addressing the nutritional needs of lactating women (2.2); reducing neonatal mortality (3.2); ensuring access to reproductive health - care services (3.7); and recognizing and valuing unpaid care provided by women and girls (5.4).
As advocates for the health and well - being of infants and their families, we are committed to working with all interested stakeholders to ensure that families have access to the timely and skilled care they need and that mothers have the information and support needed to make the best feeding decisions for themselves and their babies.
The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.
«She will be an invaluable member of the Senate Democratic Conference and with her support we will be able to finally take action on ensuring New Yorkers have access to good paying jobs, real mandate and tax relief, high - quality public education, and affordable health care,» Stewart - Cousins said.
«The State Department of Health will continue to work with other area health care providers in the Bronx as well as the insurance plans that cover Soundview patients to ensure that those individuals will have ready access to quality health care.&Health will continue to work with other area health care providers in the Bronx as well as the insurance plans that cover Soundview patients to ensure that those individuals will have ready access to quality health care.&health care providers in the Bronx as well as the insurance plans that cover Soundview patients to ensure that those individuals will have ready access to quality health care.&health care
The proposal was praised by Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts, with the group's CEO saying it would help ensure women have access to health care.
Under Governor Cuomo's direction, New York State is striving to ensure that all women have access to vital health care services during pregnancy and is undertaking a comprehensive review of clinical and systemic factors leading to maternal mortality.
Governor Cuomo's proposals will ensure New York moms have access to the health care - including mental health care - they deserve during pregnancy, birth, and the post-partum period.
To strengthen and support the ability of New York's health care providers to deliver care to mothers experiencing maternal depression, Governor Cuomo will advance an aggressive strategy to ensure that all new mothers have access to screening and treatmenTo strengthen and support the ability of New York's health care providers to deliver care to mothers experiencing maternal depression, Governor Cuomo will advance an aggressive strategy to ensure that all new mothers have access to screening and treatmento deliver care to mothers experiencing maternal depression, Governor Cuomo will advance an aggressive strategy to ensure that all new mothers have access to screening and treatmento mothers experiencing maternal depression, Governor Cuomo will advance an aggressive strategy to ensure that all new mothers have access to screening and treatmento ensure that all new mothers have access to screening and treatmento screening and treatment.
Earlier, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Health, Dr. Olufemi Onanuga, said the State Government is committed towards giving residents the best as far as healthcare delivery is concerned, adding that the Governor's passion about the people of the State is responsible for his resolve to ensure access to quality and affordable health care delHealth, Dr. Olufemi Onanuga, said the State Government is committed towards giving residents the best as far as healthcare delivery is concerned, adding that the Governor's passion about the people of the State is responsible for his resolve to ensure access to quality and affordable health care delhealth care delivery.
«New York is committed to ensuring that women receive high quality health care at every stage of their lives, and with these new, comprehensive efforts, we are once again taking action to break down barriers to health care access and provide skillful and compassionate care to all New Yorkers,» Governor Cuomo said.
«I told the Secretary that the health care system in New York is undergoing a rapid transformation, and that these funds — up to $ 10 billion — would ensure that New Yorkers continue to have access to a top - notch level of health care.
«These women are leading the fight to protect middle class families by raising the minimum wage, ensuring equal pay for equal work, protecting funding for Planned Parenthood, women's health care access, and reproductive rights,» Matthews said of the endorsements in a statement.
She has become a leader on the issues important to our members — creating good jobs in New York State, strengthening the middle class, and ensuring access to quality education and health care
A Department of Health spokesman said it was «committed to the principle of ensuring that NHS patients have access to the spiritual care that they want, whatever faith or belief system they follow».
«We must find more ways to protect taxpayers and create good jobs, ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all New Yorkers, ensure voting rights, protect women's rights, ensure our education system receives the resources it deserves, repair and fully fund our decaying infrastructure and MTA, and stand up for vulnerable communities under attack by the Trump administration.»
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, when announcing the Assembly plan to add tax brackets for the super rich, said it would generate $ 5.6 billion in additional revenue that would ensure «our communities have better schools, New Yorkers have better access to health care and that tax burdens do not crush those who are struggling to make ends meet.»
«New York continues to lead the nation in taking action to ensure that New York women have full access to health care,» Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo said.
Ensuring access to high quality care for people with diabetes Diabetes UK and the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) believe that all people with diabetes should have equal access to the best possible diabetes care and health outcomes provided on the basis of clinical need..
We will executive, over the next couple of years, social infrastructure in the area of medical facilities and we will be linking this with the health insurance we have already to ensure that Lagos residents have access to medical care at affordable prices,» Runsewe said.
President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Primary Health Care Centre for Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria at Kuchigoro with a promise to ensure access to quality basic healthcare.
«I want to assure Nigerians that Government will continue to ensure that great numbers of Nigerians have access to quality basic health care services.;;
«Serious candidates running for state - wide office respect New Yorker's beliefs in ensuring women's access to comprehensive reproductive health care services — including abortion,» M. Tracey Brooks, the president of Planned Parenthood Advocates, said then in a statement comparing Astorino to «radical statements of the national Republican Party» and saying his «position reflects his inability to represent the people of the state of New York.»
Department of Health Commissioner Richard Daines, M.D., said: «As New York's health care system continues to modernize, so must the State's regulations for ensuring New Yorkers have access to a full range of serHealth Commissioner Richard Daines, M.D., said: «As New York's health care system continues to modernize, so must the State's regulations for ensuring New Yorkers have access to a full range of serhealth care system continues to modernize, so must the State's regulations for ensuring New Yorkers have access to a full range of services.
President Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress have said they will repeal the health care act as soon as possible, and that is why New York must act fast to ensure women's access to coverage and care, Cuomo said.
«These regulatory actions will help ensure that whatever happens at the federal level, women in our state will have cost - free access to reproductive health care and we hope these actions serve as a model for equality across the nation,» Cuomo said.
«Under my leadership, the HHC will continue its mission of ensuring New Yorkers have access to quality health care options — from major hospitals to neighborhood clinics — no matter where they live.»
That is why we would ensure that patients suffering from mental health will have equal rights to access diagnosis and treatments as those requiring physical health care.
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that the Federal Government will continue to ensure that more Nigerians have access to quality basic health care services.
Throughout the year, you've helped others secure a living wage and affordable housing, expanding access to health care, limiting discrimination and disenfranchisement on the basis of color or gender, and ensuring a fairer, more ethical, more participatory democracy and government that work for us all.
Beyond health care, she supports investments in «cradle - to - career» education to ensure the U.S. can compete in a global economy, ensuring women have access to family planning and health services and listening to scientists by recognizing that climate change is a «critical challenge.»
«We need to ensure people in their darkest times have access to quality, affordable health care so they can receive the treatment they need,» Miner said.
«I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care
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