Sentences with phrase «for national health policy»

Large companies «need to attract and retain employees and they'd be at a competitive disadvantage if they stopped offering health benefits,» said William Kramer, executive director for national health policy for the Pacific Business Group on Health.

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Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

Health insurer Aetna Inc expects approval of the Portola drug to gradually increase use of Xarelto and Eliquis, said Edmund Pezalla, Aetna's national medical director for pharmaceutical policy and strategy.

Dr. Kathy L. Hudson, Deputy Director for Science, Outreach, and Policy, National Institutes of Health Moderator: Alice Park, Time

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We call on governments at all levels to come together as a matter of urgency to develop in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, health and community sector peak bodies and other key stakeholders, a policy framework, funding commitments and national action plan for food sovereignty and food security.

The NASBE Center for Safe and Healthy Schools encourages state and local government agencies, national associations, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions interested in school health policy to link to the State School Health Policy Dathealth policy to link to the State School Health Policy Datpolicy to link to the State School Health Policy DatHealth Policy DatPolicy Database.

July 11, 2013 — In light of the recent attention on safe birthing practices and the newly released AAP policy statement on Planned Home Births, the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) hosted a national webinar,» A Home Birth Primer for MCH Programs,» on Thursday, July 11, 2013.

BPNI seeks to work towards optimal nutrition of women and children, especially on enhancing breastfeeding rates in the country through countering commercial influence, capacity building of health and nutrition care providers, advocacy for maternity entitlements and other national policies.

Breastfeeding is now included in the National Performance Measures of Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant partly because of the Roundtable's work.My «business» for the past 16 years has been to build the very foundation of «breastfeeding - related businesses:» starting the LC profession; establishing the credential; forming the professional association; and creating / changing health pHealth Block Grant partly because of the Roundtable's work.My «business» for the past 16 years has been to build the very foundation of «breastfeeding - related businesses:» starting the LC profession; establishing the credential; forming the professional association; and creating / changing health phealth policy.

This article is intended to illuminate the scientific evidence for I - ECMH policies; examine issues faced by national, state, and local program directors and mental health practitioners in providing I - ECMH services; and propose a set of recommendations for policy improvements at the federal level.

That's why we're proud to be partnering with the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition, the Department of Health and Human Services, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and others to launch text4baby — a free text messaging program for pregnant women and new moms.

Funding: This study combines the Evaluation of Maternity Units in England study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation (NIHR SDO) programme, and the Birth at Home in England study funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme (DH PRP).

Advertising of breastmilk substitutes and sweet processed foods for young babies flies in the face of all health recommendations and conflicts with national health priorities and policies of many EU countries.»

The National Youth Sports Health & Safety Institute will be the recognized leader and advocate for advancing and disseminating the latest research and evidence - based education, recommendations and policy to enhance the experience, development, health and safety of our youth in sHealth & Safety Institute will be the recognized leader and advocate for advancing and disseminating the latest research and evidence - based education, recommendations and policy to enhance the experience, development, health and safety of our youth in shealth and safety of our youth in sports.

The National Youth Sports Health & Safety Institute is dedicated to being the recognized leader and advocate for advancing and disseminating the latest research and evidence - based education, recommendations and policy to enhance the experience, development, health and safety of our youth in sHealth & Safety Institute is dedicated to being the recognized leader and advocate for advancing and disseminating the latest research and evidence - based education, recommendations and policy to enhance the experience, development, health and safety of our youth in shealth and safety of our youth in sports.

We are also advocating for national and global change in infant feeding policies to prioritize avoidance for starvation - related complications, particularly in breastfed infants to hospitals, major health organizations, health insurers and elected officials.

The 2012 National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention provides actions in surveillance, research, communication, education, health care, and public policy to guide efforts in saving lives by reducing injuries.

Funding: This study was part of a larger study jointly funded by the Department of Health's Policy Research Programme and the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation programme.

Ideally, an intersectoral team — including, for example, programme managers and staff responsible for nutrition and maternal and child health, academics, and national and international nongovernmental organizations — will use the tool as a basis for strengthening national policies and programmes that contribute to improved infant and young child feeding.

Intended for use by policy - makers, national breastfeeding committees, breastfeeding advocates, women's health activists and others working for public health in the community, the Resource sets out why breastfeeding in the context of HIV has never been as safe as it is today.

The audience for this Framework includes national policy - makers, programme managers, regional advisory bodies, public health authorities, Country Coordinating Mechanisms, United Nations staff, professional bodies, nongovernmental organizations and other interested stakeholders, including the community.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, National Forum on Early Childhood Program Evaluation, and National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, A Science - Based Framework for Early Childhood Policy: Using Evidence to Improve Outcomes in Learning, Behavior, and Health for Vulnerable Children, Cambridge, Mass.: Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, 2007.

Lack of political and national leadership, uneven health professional training, formula milk marketing, poor data collection and patchy community support for mothers were identified as gaps in UK policies and programmes.

Jeffery Miller, Senior Vice President for Player Health and Safety Policy at the National Football League, testified in Washington that while «football has earned a vital place in the rhythm of American life,» helmets for players have not caught up to what is necessary to protect players.

The Guiding Principles for Complementary feeding of the Breastfed Child (2003) developed by the Pan American Health Organization, summarize the current scientific evidence for complementary feeding and are intended to guide policy and programmatic action at global, national and community levels, while the Guiding Principles for feeding the non-breastfed child 6 - 24 months of age (2005) provide guidance for feeding children who are not receiving breast - milk.

The resource is intended for policy - makers, breastfeeding advocates, national breastfeeding committees, public health advocates, women's health activists and others working in the community.

All sectors involved in developing and policies and programmes to deliver on fuel poverty targets should attend including representatives from local government and RSLs; central government; the energy industry; Green Deal installer organisations; health agencies; voluntary and not for profit agencies at a national and local level.

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objectives.

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, «Infrastructure, National Asset Management and National Productivity, Education, Health, Human Capital and Social Policy», «Taxation, Governance, Democracy and Development», «Intergenerational Discourse on Getting Government to Work for Development and Democracy in Nigeria.»

Those attending the People's State of the State Rally included advocates and officials from The Fiscal Policy Institute, the Hunger Action Network of New York State, Interfaith Impact of New York State, the New York State Labor - Religion Coalition, Physicians for a National Health Program and Reform Jewish Voice of New York State, according to the Times Union of Albany.

The Director - General of Ghana Health Services, Dr Anthony Nsiah - Asare, expressed the hope that the launch of a five - year National Adolescent Health Service Policy and Strategy would help achieve the overall health sector goals for adolescents and young pHealth Services, Dr Anthony Nsiah - Asare, expressed the hope that the launch of a five - year National Adolescent Health Service Policy and Strategy would help achieve the overall health sector goals for adolescents and young pHealth Service Policy and Strategy would help achieve the overall health sector goals for adolescents and young phealth sector goals for adolescents and young people.

[6] He was particularly critical of the high unemployment that the government's economic policies had resulted in, as well as condemning the wait for treatment that many patients had endured on the National Health Service.

Letwin co-authored Britain's biggest enterprise: ideas for radical reform of the NHS, a 1988 Centre for Policy Studies pamphlet written with John Redwood which advocated a closer relationship between the National Health Service and the private sector.

On January 18, AAAS reaffirmed its support for the current public access policy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), stating that it does not endorse the Research Works Act, which would prevent NIH from requiring its grantees to make biomedical research findings freely available via the National Library of Medicine's Web site.

(The National Institutes of Health changed its GRE policy for its institutional training grant and individual fellowships in 2015.

I work in the Science Policy Department of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), the Spanish national centre for cardiovascular research, which was established by the Spanish ministry of health as a centre of excellence to give impetus to biomedical research in this area.

On the other hand, you still have to say something to your inquisitive relatives and friends, so I did come up with a few choice things in answer to the «What are you going to do when you're done» question: science policy; educational policy; working for funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, or the Packard Foundation; teaching at a minority - serving institution; university administration.

However, most science policy analysts are wringing their hands over the tiny increase sought for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a small rebound for the National Science Foundation (NSF) after a cut in 2005, and reductions in the science budgets at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the departments of energy and defense.

Bisakha Sen, Ph.D., associate professor of health care policy at UAB, used health behavior data for whites and blacks from Alabama and Mississippi taken from the national Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and took a method used in economics to analyze gender wage disparities.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

Research funders in the United States (including the National Institutes of Health, with its policy for the inclusion of women and minorities as subjects in clinical research), Canada, Norway, and Spain have adopted similar policies.

She tapped into the communication and policy skills she gained while serving as a member of the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) Board of Directors as she applied for a diverse number of jobs: a patent clerk, a science review administrator at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and an industry researcher.

Research at Oregon State University suggests that photographs of your food are good for a lot more than just entertaining your friends on social media — those pictures might help improve your health and also national nutrition policy.

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.

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has launched an updated and enhanced edition of its 50 - State Policy Tracker, a unique online tool for comparing safety net policies that are critical to the economic security of working families.

Spokespersons for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, declined to comment on the report.

In the meantime, a spokesman for the National Institutes of Health says that no study has yet been funded and the institute's policy is «not to comment on whether such a grant was submitted or is under review.»