Sentences with phrase «focus prevention efforts»

Findings were discussed regarding the need to identify developmental precursors of dating violence in early adolescence and to focus prevention efforts on components (e.g., social skills, coping strategies) necessary to prevent the onset and escalation of adolescent dating violence.

Rzhetsky said that as the first reports of the flu begin to come in each fall, these tools could be used to help public health officials focus prevention efforts.

«The application of big data methods to target soldiers at high risk of rare but important outcomes like suicide is an exciting development because it gives us a way forward in focusing prevention efforts on an ongoing basis,» said Robert Ursano, chairman of the Psychiatry Department at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and an Army STARRS Principal Investigator.

Much of the effort to change orientation from problem focused crises to solution focused prevention efforts takes a reorientation to problems.

Not exact matches

It says, «Many pro-life advocacy efforts have focused on the legal status of abortion, rather than addressing prevention of unplanned pregnancy and the needs of pregnant women and families.

Factors in both the health care and education system, as well as a lack of a culture of postpartum care all contribute to a failure to focus our efforts on prevention.

Yet, when we, as a culture, look at «prevention» of breast cancer, efforts are typically focused on secondary prevention — early detection.

A package of 14 measures to address the heroin and opioid epidemic, expected to pass the Senate yesterday and today, focuses on law enforcement efforts, following several years of legislation aimed more at prevention and treatment.

FUND early intervention and prevention efforts in our elementary schools focused on educating parents, training teachers and working with students so that kids don't turn to drugs and alcohol when they are facing challenges.

ALBANY - A package of 14 measures to address the heroin and opioid epidemic, expected to pass the Senate Tuesday and Wednesday, focuses on law enforcement efforts, following several years of legislation aimed more at prevention and treatment.

The YDVPC will focus on prevention, intervention and suppression efforts that will assist the Oneida County Youth Services Council.

The claims have come amid a shift in focus in nutrition from fat to sugar, with warnings about the artery - clogging risks of butter and beef taking a backseat to new efforts to tax sugar - sweetened beverages - even as debates continue over the science of obesity prevention.

Because diminished estrogen can contribute to bone loss, menopause - age women have traditionally been the focus of osteoporosis prevention efforts.

Her own experience in a suicide prevention training program mandatory for all civilian naval employees convinced her that focusing such efforts on the vulnerable could yield better results.

School officials focused exclusively on bullying prevention efforts might want to consider the findings of a new study showing the highly damaging effects of multiple forms of victimization on school climate.

Critically, the findings underscore the need for more research efforts focused on secondary prevention, which would include early detection and early intervention.

«If sexual assault prevention efforts solely focus on heterosexual violence, they may invalidate sexual - and gender - minority people's assault experiences and be ineffective for them,» said Coulter.

«Our studies highlight the need for college prevention and treatment programs to focus efforts on sexual, gender, racial and ethnic minority groups.»

This is particularly encouraging, as there remains great potential within the research community to identify modifiable aspects of the environment that can then serve as the focus of applied prevention / intervention efforts.»

But they say the new findings point to a need to focus more veteran suicide - prevention efforts on those who have substance use disorders, especially if they also have depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder or anxiety.

Ladd - Acosta's research is focused on integrating genome - wide genotyping, genome - scale epigenetic and prenatal environmental exposure data, at a population level, to understand how these factors influence autism risk and to identify biologic pathways that could serve as molecular targets for prevention and intervention efforts.

«This study provides specific evidence on long work hours and an increase [in] the risk of CVD, thereby providing a foundation for CVD prevention efforts focused on work schedule practices, which may reduce the risk of CVD for millions of working Americans,» study author Sadie Conway, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said in a journal news release.

«We hope these findings will help clinicians and health systems care for people with substance use disorders, with mental health conditions, and with both — and focus suicide prevention efforts accordingly,» said lead study author Kipling Bohnert.

Although bullying prevention efforts tend to focus on middle schools and high schools, bullying behavior begins at much younger ages.

Her clinical interests focus on prevention and intervention efforts in schools and promoting resiliency in children.

We have focused much of this effort toward bullying prevention.

The efforts focus on such important issues as dropout prevention, special needs, diversity, literacy and writing, STEM / STEAM, digital media, arts education, early learning and educational policy.

The training will also focus on practical tools and strategies to engage parents and community partners in bullying prevention efforts.

The fourth highlights strategies for improving student behavior that are both research - based and frequently cited by teachers themselves in their focus group responses: «Through CORE offices or Tennessee Behavior Supports Project (TBSP), TDOE could emphasize how the following teacher suggestions for improving student behavior are research - based and addressed in RTI2 - B: promoting positive behavior and prevention efforts and encouraging restorative behavior practices; involving parents in student behavior efforts; nurturing positive student - teacher relationships; and providing appropriate consequences in response to student behavior issues.»

We focus our efforts on prevention, intervention, treatment, and community outreach.

Why do Kristof and WuDunn say «it's most productive to focus efforts on prevention and putting brothels out of business» (p. 45)?

[37] Detractors [38] like to focus on authors» suggestion that «all these efforts without an effective education of people to control the reproduction of house cats (as a prevention for abandonment) are a waste of money, time and energy.»

We host on our website public - facing and retailer - focused standards of care and zoonoses prevention education documents, and our Fish & Wildlife Services - partnered Habitattitude effort educates the public on how to prevent their pet from becoming an invasive species.

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So, while knowing substantive law is important, from a claims prevention point of view you get more for your risk management efforts by focusing on improving client communications and focusing on getting things done on time.

Facebook started testing AI to improve its suicide prevention efforts in March, with initial efforts only focused within the United States.

Joint efforts should focus on prevention, training workers to recognize both types of problems, improving assessment and referral procedures, providing access to appropriate treatment programs, encouraging clients to stay in substance abuse treatment, expediting permanency decisions, supporting recovery after discharge from treatment, and advocating for a more comprehensive service system.

Their collaborative efforts and input focused on preventing child abuse and promoting healthy families were instrumental in creating the prevention Resource Guide.

Findings confirm the importance of early childhood as a key focus for health promotion and prevention efforts.

The Closing the Gap framework commits to reducing this disadvantage, with cross-government-sector initiatives and investment, reflecting the need to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of the Aboriginal community.1 Activity in the primary health care sector, with its focus on prevention, early intervention and coordination of care complements these efforts to build healthier communities.

Traditional prevention efforts have focused almost exclusively on identifying the so - called risk factors in a child's life (poverty, abuse, and community violence, for example) and then attempting to provide services that would eliminate or mitigate those conditions.

Central to efforts to build healthier communities is the Aboriginal community controlled health service (ACCHS) sector; its focus on prevention, early intervention and comprehensive care has reduced barriers to access and unintentional racism, progressively improving individual health outcomes for Aboriginal people.

This year, we're launching #LetsEndStigma, an effort dedicated to addressing HIV stigma and putting youth - focused prevention and education at the center of the conversation.

Community - wide prevention initiatives Most impressive of the pure prevention efforts are multipronged prevention initiatives designed and implemented by entire communities, particularly those that build on the strengths and interests of youth rather than focusing only on youths» problems and deficits:

Pinwheels for Prevention Prevent Child Abuse America Describes an effort to change the way individuals think about child abuse prevention by focusing on community activities and public policies that prioritize prevention right from the start to make sure child abuse and neglect never occur.

A growing number of preschool settings and other early childhood organizations are now using this three - tiered prevention model in order to establish prevention - focused systems change efforts.

Most recently, Daro's research and writing have focused on developing reform strategies that embed individualized, targeted prevention efforts within more universal efforts to alter normative standards and community context.

Current child abuse prevention efforts often focus on younger children, but our results suggest that adolescents are also vulnerable to abuse victimisation (with 32.3 % of the adolescents in this sample experiencing at least one type of frequent abuse victimisation).

The toolkit supports the building of a core team; promotion, prevention, and intervention focused services; the development of systems across the medical home; and evaluation and sustainability efforts.

Resolution's view is that too much effort has focused on the point of crisis rather than prevention, and the number of people who have no choice but to represent themselves in the family court has risen sharply.