Sentences with phrase «for health policies»

Insurance companies maintain the following age criteria for health policies (may vary from insurer to insurer).

Women opting for these health policies also get an access to other value added benefits like free health checkups, health helpline, etc..

#This does not apply for health policies or single premium life insurance policies, and policies which have been reinstated earlier.

These findings may have important implications for health policies directed at improving physical fitness, he added.

Ed Miliband has attacked the Conservatives for their health policies and told the Labour party conference: «We have to rescue the NHS.»

Dana Goldman, a health economist, is the director of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.

Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush speaks to «Squawk Alley» about the consolidation in the health - care space with the CVS - Aetna deal, the state of his own business and what he sees for health policy next year.

«Walking meetings are a great way to energize your workday while providing essential exercise for yourself,» notes the Center for Health Policy.

To illustrate the issue, over the past 20 years, the cost of a new drug per year of a patient's life has risen from $ 50,000 to $ 250,000 after adjusting for inflation, according to Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who also spoke at the conference.

Dr. Dana Goldman, Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair and Director, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics USC Dr. Kathy L. Hudson, Deputy Director for Science, Outreach, and Policy, National Institutes of Health James Park, Co-founder, Chairman, President, and CEO, Fitbit Sue Siegel, Chief Executive Officer, GE Ventures and healthymagination Moderator: Dr. David B. Agus, Co-chair, Fortune Brainstorm HEALTH; Professor of Medicine and Engineering; Director, Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, USC

While in Opposition, Labor launched a blueprint for its health policy which promised that a Rudd Government would «treat preventative health as a first order economic issue».

Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (Discussion Group) and lunch lecture.

The study's lead author, Mr Jason Bentley from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy commented: «There is an urgent need for strategies to inform more judicious clinical decision making about the timing of planned birth.»

The study's senior author, Associate Professor Natasha Nassar from the University of Sydney Menzies Centre for Health Policy said: «While the association between being born earlier — lower gestational age — and poorer developmental outcomes is well established, our results revealed that poor development is further exacerbated in the case of planned birth, where a considered decision made to deliver an infant determines gestational age.

It is a critical moment for health policy, says Laudan Aron

In a Viewpoint published in the March issue of JAMA, Researcher Jeremiah Brown of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice and colleagues, Hal Sox and David Goodman, question whether the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services» use of financial penalties is the right tack for changing the behavior of hospitals.

She is also an attending physician in the emergency department at the UCSF - affiliated San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center and a faculty member of the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies.

The authors used data from the 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2009 California Health Interview Surveys, conducted every two years by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and the 2013 Adult National Health Interview Survey, which is conducted annually by the National Center for Health Statistics.

«CER is focused on actual choices that patients are having to face,» says Kathryn McDonald, executive director of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University.

Flibanserin was approved by the FDA on its third attempt, but the agency's clinical reviewers recommended that it be rejected, wrote Drs. Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in an editorial.

«For several years, the emphasis in the tobacco industry has been on this sort of direct marketing, especially to young people who are highly price sensitive and who may find coupons, samples, and promotions appealing,» said lead author Samir Soneji, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

The findings are published in JAMA Cardiology by a team led by members of the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

''... our results may have important implications for health policy and medical practice.

The study is part of a critical national conversation led by researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to find evidence - based interventions that lower health care costs and unnecessary use of health care.

«Community health centers have been leading the way in promoting the coordination of medical and behavioral health care, with a more integrated vision for primary health care,» said Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH, a professor of health policy and director of the Center for Health Policy Research at SPHHS.

Dr. Ahmedani is a researcher at the Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research.

«So much of our funding for children in adversity focuses on girls,» said Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at the Duke Global Health Institute.

An evaluation of the program, the Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme (VAS), funded by the World Bank Group and led by Neeraj Sood, professor and director of research at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics found that:

«This paper demonstrates that our policies around schizophrenia may be penny-wise and pound foolish,» says Dana Goldman, director of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California.

In the first analysis of the National Survey of ACOs, the research team from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice found that the majority of ACOs identified as physician led, with another third jointly led by physicians and hospitals.

Materials provided by The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.

This is still going to be a top priority issue for families, and for health policy, now and in the coming decades.»

Thus, according to the authors, an open and honest discourse on this topic would be of great importance for health policy - makers and providers of health services to have.

«These findings suggest residual unmet needs for food - insecure participants and thus have clear implications for health policy.»

«Policymakers at both the state and federal level must act to support medically underserved communities that depend on health centers,» says lead author of the report, Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH, a professor of health policy and director of the Center for Health Policy Research at Milken Institute SPH.

«Without continued support, community health centers will not be able to meet the rising demand for primary care in underserved parts of the United States,» said the lead author of the report, Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH, a professor of health policy and director of the Center for Health Policy Research at SPHHS.

The high proportion of SSDI recipients who are chronic opioid users — in many, at high and very high daily doses — «is worrisome in light of established and growing evidence that intense opioid use to treat non-malignant [non-cancer] pain may not be effective and may confer important risk,» write Dr Nancy Elizabeth Morden and colleagues of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Lebanon, N.H.

These trade agreements may have important implications for health policy, as NAFTA is seen as a blueprint for future free trade agreements.

Samir S. Soneji, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College.

«Although the tobacco industry markets e-cigarettes as a tool to help adult smokers quit smoking, e-cigarette use actually only marginally increases the number of adult cigarette smokers who are able to successfully quit,» says principle investigator Samir Soneji, PhD, Associate Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

This «remarkable era» has been driven by concerted efforts to improve care, as well as strong leadership among health care professionals treating people with the disease, and resources from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, write David Stevens of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in New Hampshire and Bruce Marshall of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

In an article recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), investigators on The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice's Open Recordings Project explain the often - confusing laws around recordings clinical visits.

Policy Forum Policy Forum articles provide a platform for health policy makers from around the world to discuss the challenges and opportunities in improving health care to their constituencies.

CORD provides a strong common voice to advocate for health policy and a healthcare system that works for those with rare disorders.

Corresponding Author: Wade Harrison, MPH, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 35 Centerra Pkwy, Lebanon, NH 03766 ([email protected]).

She completed a Pew Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies.

Director, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, University of California, San Francisco Website Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF Tracey Woodruff is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco and the director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment.

H. Gilbert Welch of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, calls this the overdiagnosis paradox.

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care is based at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and is supported by a coalition of funders led by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, including the WellPoint Foundation, the United Health Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, and the Charles H. Hood Foundation.

AllTrials is an international initiative of Ben Goldacre, BMJ, Centre for Evidence - based Medicine, Cochrane Collaboration, James Lind Initiative, PLOS and Sense about Science and is being led in the US by Sense About Science USA, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.