Sentences with phrase «focused public health intervention»

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In response, the Institute of Medicine committee created recommendations that focus on prevention and intervention opportunities, seek to educate health care practitioners, and help raise public awareness of cognitive health.

Public health and research efforts must focus more intensely on identifying and implementing additional or new interventions that halt transmission in hospitals and community settings,» says Neel R. Gandhi, MD, associate professor of epidemiology at Emory's Rollins School of Public Hhealth and research efforts must focus more intensely on identifying and implementing additional or new interventions that halt transmission in hospitals and community settings,» says Neel R. Gandhi, MD, associate professor of epidemiology at Emory's Rollins School of Public HealthHealth.

According to Malo, «public health interventions designed to increase HPV vaccine recommendation for males should focus on increasing recommendations by family practitioners and also identifying and supporting innovators and early adopters who may help diffuse HPV vaccination guidelines and encourage later adopters to support the recommendations.»

The Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center focuses the Institute's strengths in immunology, virology and immune - oncology disciplines to improve public health around the globe through the creation of new and improved interventions and treatments for some of the most dangerous and widespread diseases.

Findings that these effects on the hippocampus are mediated by caregiving and stressful life events suggest that attempts to enhance early caregiving should be a focused public health target for prevention and early intervention.

From a community health and public policy perspective, about half of the effect of family income on children's cognitive ability is the home environment.46 Thus, interventions to improve cognitive development in low - income children must focus on the parents» mental health and their ability to provide the children with adequate learning opportunities.

One Colorado study showed that paraprofessional home visiting, when combined with an early - intervention program focused on children with developmental delays, resulted in improved involvement with the program.25 In North Carolina, the combination of a public health department's home - visiting program with links into private physician's offices was helpful in overcoming personal and structural barriers to care.43 The Commonwealth Fund's Healthy Steps intervention included home visiting by masters - level healthy development specialists with significant gains in the quality of well - child care, although the multifactorial nature of this intervention made it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the home - visiting component.44 — 46 A South Carolina study showed that a program that linked school - based home visitors to group well - child visits resulted in greater retention of anticipatory guidance and improved satisfaction with care.47

Parenting and Family Support within a Broad Child Abuse Prevention Strategy: Child Maltreatment Prevention can Benefit From Public Health Strategies Prinz (2016) Child Abuse & Neglect, 51 Examines child abuse and neglect prevention from a community perspective, with special attention paid to parenting - focused intervention.

Using a public health frame, we will examine how three evidence - based home visiting models form a continuum of interventions directly addressing this challenge: (1) Family Connects provides nearly universal assessment of needs for families of newborns, with connection to community services (Karen O'Donnell, Duke University); (2) Healthy Families America focuses on prevention through facilitating nurturing relationships and connection to services (Kathleen Strader, Healthy Families America); and (3) Child First targets the most vulnerable young children and families, who have experienced high levels of trauma and adversity, through a team approach providing comprehensive care coordination and mental health intervention for both parent and child (Darcy Lowell, Child First).

Direct and indirect latent - variable parenting outcomes of two universal family - focused preventive interventions: Extending a public health - oriented research base.

During the next decade we will focus on biological influences on behavior; the rigorous examination of intervention processes; and the development of effective strategies for implementing evidence - based programs in public health settings in communities.