Sentences with phrase «failing health systems»

The IPCC recommends that policy makers look at strategies like early warning systems, preserving ecosystems such as forests and mangroves, and overhauling failing health systems.
And there are the «old old» who have advanced years plus failing health systems and whose medical and maintenance care needs are complex and individual.

Not exact matches

Employers are not penalized for failing to provide health care coverage to their employees if those workers obtain coverage through the Medicaid system.
The damage includes factors like a rise in mortality rates as health and safety systems fail, a decline in trade as ports shut down and transportation chaos as infrastructure collapses.
What these groups have in common is that they are all broadly making the point that the political system and those in power are failing them — be it in the ability to offer basic education, affordable health care, or keeping kids safe in classrooms.
«British Columbians deserve to have a government that is an ardent defender of a robust public health care system, but the Liberals utterly failed
The representative's report, Tragedy in Waiting: How B.C.'s mental health system failed one First Nations youth, reveals a system struggling to offer basic services to children in need through the story of a child who committed suicide after he was unable to access basic mental health services.
Which country's universal health care system is failing, exactly?
Rob and Gerald, you should also realize that under the current system, many women are paying for health insurance that fails to meet their basic health needs.
Mr White said the current Percentage of Daily Intake system and the new Health Star Rating system both fail to consider the role of phytonutrients in vegetables, many of which have been linked to the prevention of several health conditions and disoHealth Star Rating system both fail to consider the role of phytonutrients in vegetables, many of which have been linked to the prevention of several health conditions and disohealth conditions and disorders.
Rather than informing consumer choice, Australia's year - old health star food rating system is failing customers, and allowing food manufacturers to give an aura of health to junk foods.
We are committed to improving the current medical liability system, which fails to justly serve society, families, and health care providers and contributes to:
Public Citizen claims that by supplying US healthcare providers with product samples to distribute to parents, the firms have failed to adhere to the principles of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - notably Articles 5.2 («Manufacturers and distributors should not provide, directly or indirectly, to pregnant women, mothers or members of their families, samples of products») and 6.2 («No facility of a health care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula&raHealth Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - notably Articles 5.2 («Manufacturers and distributors should not provide, directly or indirectly, to pregnant women, mothers or members of their families, samples of products») and 6.2 («No facility of a health care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula&rahealth care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula»).
e are committed to improving the current medical liability system, which fails to justly serve society, families, and health care providers and contributes to:
While repeated calls from academia and public health have failed to convince most politicians, the group hopes calls from within the criminal justice system will finally make them listen.
If David Gauke wants to draw a line under the failings of his predecessors, he must help offenders tackle mental health issues that can contribute to their entry into the criminal justice system in the first place.
The Federal Reserve Board props up all the worst speculators in the name of saving the American financial system, in a way that it would never prop up the failing American health system.
Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.
Nancy Pelosi's cabal of far - left liberal recruits would rather maintain her failed status quo, causing taxes to increase, wages to flatline, and America's health care system to collapse.»
Joe Lhota, the leader of the MTA, acknowledged that the failing health of New York City's subway system imperils not only the city's financial future, but the well - being of the surrounding region.
He cited homelessness, the criminal justice system and mental health care as issues that The Bronx continues to struggle with, and although he criticized the city for its handling of the homelessness issue, his overall tone was milder than in his 2016 speech, when he hinted at a run for mayor and said the city had «failed» the borough during its outbreak of Legionnaires» disease.
Our criminal justice system needs a major overhaul and mental health care in this city is failing our citizens.
Four Democratic Congress members representing parts of Brooklyn rallied with unions and Mayor Bill de Blasio's head of the municipal hospital system against what they claimed was the deadly threat that Republicans in Washington will go through with longstanding plans to erase President Barack Obama's signature health care bill — and then fail to replace it with a comparable program.
Trump's selection of a secretary of health and human services to replace Tom Price could be a turning point in a health care debate that has polarized Washington, as he faces a choice of working with Democrats to fix the current system or continuing his so - far failed efforts to dismantle his predecessor's program.
Organized labor looks forward to working with Congressman - Elect Owens to bring more jobs upstate, reform our nation's broken health care system, and turn the page on the failed economic policies of the Bush Administration.»
ALBANY, Jan. 31 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer proposed to radically restructure aid to New York's sprawling health care industry in his first budget Wednesday, saying that the system props up failing hospitals and too often overlooks patients» needs, while consuming roughly a third of the state's budget.
Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city wosystem City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city woSystem (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workers.
And, in an argument President Obama failed to sell four years ago to Congress before compromising, he urged, «Take health care off the business budget by having a single - payer system for the state.»
If the propositions fail, the governor said he will have to make cuts to schooling and health care and would likely need to release a large number of inmates from the state's prison system.
Published in the peer - reviewed journal Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, the study, «Sperm RNA elements as markers of health,» from the lab of Stephen A. Krawetz, Ph.D., the Charlotte B. Failing Professor of Fetal Therapy and Diagnosis in the Wayne State Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, indicates that RNA found in male sperm not only shows promise as a determinant in successful live birth, it may also tell us more about the health of a child as it matures.
These genetic miscues can cause cells to grow out of control, evade the immune system, or fail to execute essential functions needed to maintain health.
If the situation does not change very soon, the health system will fail to cope,» says Ghulam Popal, World Health Organization representative forhealth system will fail to cope,» says Ghulam Popal, World Health Organization representative forHealth Organization representative for Iraq.
He wants to fix disparities in a health system that benefitted his family when he was young — but whose complexity has, at times, failed those who need it most now.
This system is failing millions of Americans suffering from chronic health conditions.
Elle shares her personal journey of fighting with two severe bouts of hypothyroidism, with the Thinking Podcast, in which she was forced to take matters into her own hands after being failed by the public health care system.
Elle shares her personal journey of fighting with two severe bouts of hypothyroidism, in which she was forced to take matters into her own hands after being failed by the public health care system.
I take pride in empowering psoriasis sufferers just like you across the world to take control of their own health instead of relying on a failing medical system that continues to do nothing to improve treatment standards and ignores the very research that holds the keys to the psoriasis puzzle.
I personally think that sugar is the bane and burden to the failing American health care system.
Code Blue is a feature - length documentary that sheds light on lapses in our current health care system, which regrettably fails to promote plant - based nutrition and optimal lifestyle in preventing, reversing, and managing disease states.
If — due to poor gut health — your gut fails to stop the enemies at the gate, your immune system is automatically activated to protect your body and clean up the mess.
I considered it for a bit, but I didn't want to be a part of the same western medical system that had failed to help me with any of my health issues.
Our current education system is failing the emotional well - being of our teachers so to expect these same teachers to be in an emotionally good place to enhance the mental health of children is unlikely.
In both countries, new groups have joined in, venting frustration over health care, corruption, inequality, extravagant spending on the World Cup and the Olympics in Brazil, megahydroelectric power projects in the Patagonia in Chile, and the remaining failings of publicly funded education systems.
The federal government now controls two major car companies, has wasted over $ 860 billion on a failed economic stimulus plan, taken over our health care system, put the nation's banks and financial systems under its enormous thumb and attempted to restructure our entire economy with cap - and - trade legislation.
Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.
Using as her touchstone the writings of James Baldwin, a teller of painful truths himself who lived in Istanbul throughout the 1960s, Hansen examines not only the Middle East but also an America that once broke Baldwin's heart, and that remains painfully at odds — whether in the failings of its public - education system or its aversion to providing essential health care to all — with its self - identifiers of goodness and grace.
Normal, healthy dogs don't typically experience any negative side effects, but older dogs with failing health or puppies with undeveloped systems won't see any benefits from melatonin.
Declawing should only be considered after all other solutions have failed or if the cat poses a health risk to a family member (families where one member has a weakened immune system).
And in a blistering September 2005 report, the inspector general found an ineffective monitoring and inspection system and concluded the USDA failed to take action against «violators who compromised... animal health
The absence of such contributes to many social ills, whether failing to understand how health risks should be borne by a broad support to help curtail individual risk, the purpose of insurance, performance of social systems, or how reducing individual costs by allowing coastal construction in flood zones is based upon a lottery mindset.
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