Sentences with phrase «for rural health»

Emma Walke, Lecturer from the University of Sydney's Centre for Rural Health in Lismore, discusses how her personal stories bring authenticity to Aboriginal health studies and how every health subject should ask as a standard question: how does it affect Indigenous health?

Led by Associate Professor Juli Coffin from the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health (CUCRH), the Solid Kids, Solid Schools project has built up strong evidence about the experience of bullying amongst Aboriginal children, as well as developing new tools to prevent bullying.

Minister for Rural Health Fiona Nash has launched an Implementation Plan to help Close the Gap by improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This collaborative action would see the Minister for Rural Health working closely with colleagues in several other portfolios: Nigel Scullion (Minister for Indigenous Affairs); Michaelia Cash (in her capacity as Minister for Women); Fiona Nash (now Minister for Regional Development and Regional Communications); his portfolio colleague Ken Wyatt (Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care); Jane Prentice (relating to disability services); Zed Seselja (multicultural affairs); and Karen Andrews (in relation to her responsibility for vocational education and skills).

As Minister for Rural Health he can play a leading role in ensuring that nursing, dental and allied health interests are appropriately considered in the Department's work.

As Minister for Rural Health, David Gillespie will have a natural interest in the means by which evidence relating to rural and remote health becomes available.

This came with the expectation that primary health networks will work closely with Aboriginal community - controlled health services «to make sure we get those Indigenous treatment services right», according to the minister for rural health.

It was produced by the Western Australian Centre for Rural Health, in association with Curtin University and the Geraldton Regional Aboriginal Medical Service.

Associate Professor Barbara Nattabi from the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health in Western Australia said there are many factors behind those figures, including: socioeconomic disadvantage, a younger and more mobile population, and poor health literacy.

I trust the new Commissioner for Rural Health will be a champion of change and see beyond the mountain just like my childhood neighbour Mr Walker.

Fiona Nash's appointment as Minister for Rural Health is to be applauded.

Gordon's vision for rural health includes: closing the life - expectancy gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; cooperative service delivery through multidisciplinary health teams; consumer empowerment for health through health promotion; health education for self - management and illness prevention; the role of the arts in establishing good health; and a broad understanding of the social determinants of health, including education, transport, fresh food, sustainable industries, viable communities etc..

Leanne Coleman, who worked with Gordon Gregory for 30 years, pays tribute to him in the article below, as a strong, determined and inclusive advocate for rural health and social justice.

The PHAA welcomes the re-appointment of Sussan Ley as Health Minister and is pleased to see the promotion of Senator Fiona Nash to Minister for Rural Health.

Croakey has contacted Minister Ley's office, who passed the inquiry to the office of the Assistant Minister for Rural Health, Dr David Gillespie.

Australia needs to do much more to recognise and respect this country's first peoples, according to Professor Lesley Barclay, Director of the University Centre for Rural Health (University of Sydney), based in Lismore.

The RDAA welcomed the appointment of the Federal Member for Lyne, Dr David Gillespie, as Assistant Minister for Rural Health.

I couldn't be more delighted — to have a minister for rural health, who lives rurally, and to have an Aboriginal man, Ken Wyatt, in the Ministry.

Sussan Ley remains as Health Minister, while Fiona Nash is now the Minister for Rural Health, and Nigel Scullion continues in the Indigenous Affairs portfolio.

The Illinois Center for Rural Health is one of many local organizations and associations that funds scholarships for health care students.

Resilient Southern Illinois Partners include: Association of Illinois Rural and Small Schools; Consortium for Educational Change; Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department; Harvard University Graduate School of Education — Education Redesign Lab; Illinois Education Association; John A. Logan College; Southern Illinois P - 20 Education Alliance; Shawnee Community College; SIU — Carbondale College of Education and Human Services; SIU School of Medicine Center for Rural Health and Social Service Development; SIU School of Medicine Children's Medical and Mental Health Resource Network; SIU School of Medicine Office of Population Science and Policy.

Regina Benjamin is the founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama, and has served as associate dean for rural health at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine.

«We know a lot about the closures and about the workforce challenges, but we don't really know how these things impact women and the health of their infants,» says Britta Anderson, a senior research scientist at NORC's Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis at the University of Chicago.

Michael Kennedy, associate dean for rural health education at the University of Kansas Medical Center said at the NRHA conference.

However, it's a challenge for rural health care professionals to keep up to date when they see only a few cases a year.

The New York State Association for Rural Health, or NYSARH, Board of Directors has announced the relocation

The second establishes a rural health council to advocate for rural health needs and advise the state commissioner of health (A. 7203).

Alleged over-provision for rural health facilities and boreholes, already provisioned for; and alleged scrapping of funds to buy drugs for major public health campaigns, like HIV / AIDS and Polio.

Not exact matches

The state government has awarded $ 91.6 million worth of contracts to four building companies for the refurbishment and redevelopment of six health service centres across rural Western Australia.

The designation of a public health emergency would expand the ways that individuals can get treatment for opioid addiction, which could particularly benefit people in rural areas.

One of the issues is that health workers in rural and developing areas don't have adequate ways to track vaccine needs and schedules for children.

The reasons for rural hospital closures vary for every community but can include decreased demand for inpatient services, consolidation in the health - care space, and a state's decision of whether to expand Medicaid, Mark Holmes, director of NC RHRP, told CNBC.

Around the same time, the so - called Health Wagon began traversing rural Appalachia, offering screening for diabetes - related eye disease to malnourished mountain dwellers.

The safety net for health services, especially in rural areas, fell apart.

In addition to partnering with Celgene (celg) to better track negative drug side effects, IBM (ibm) is applying its cognitive computing AI technology to recommend cancer treatment in rural areas in the U.S., India, and China, where there is a dearth of oncologists, said Deborah DiSanzo, general manager for IBM Watson Health.

And there's growing evidence that when mining debris and waste gets into water supplies, the toxic metals can have dire health impacts for the people and mostly rural communities living nearby.

After Jaime highlighted loss of health care access by rural Pacific County residents, Premera announces new contract for health care coverage in Astoria

CLEARWATER — Jennifer Rice, New Democrat spokesperson for northern Rand rural health, will visit Clearwater, Ashcroft and Quesnel to hear from parents, advocates and service providers about access to maternity care.

DAWSON CREEK — Jennifer Rice, New Democrat spokesperson for northern and rural health, will visit Dawson Creek on March 3 to hear from parents, advocates and service providers about access to maternity care.

PRINCE RUPERT — New Democrat MLA (North Coast) and spokesperson for rural and northern health Jennifer Rice issued the following statement on the recent deal made with B.C. midwives: «This deal is good news for B.C. midwives and a host...

«On behalf of the New Democrat caucus, and as the spokesperson for rural and northern health, I celebrate the deal recently made and promise that New Democrats will continue to advocate for smart investments in health services that benefit women and their families.»

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

To front - load the story by saying people were being treated in animal stalls, and only later point out it was a free clinic held in a county fairground (rural area, large crowd... likely the only suitable place that passed health and safety requirements for such an event), and to not mention that many if not most of those taking advantage of the free medical care were likely farm workers and not here legally... is beyond poor reporting.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

In rural areas of Greece, local home cooks love using wild weeds in their cooking, for their amazing health benefits and slightly bitter flavour.

Such action would also have broader implications for infrastructure in rural and remote areas of Australia particularly regarding critical issues such as road maintenance and health services which are shared by all.

Agri - TNCs Network - Philippines, MASIPAG (Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag - unlad ng Agrikultura), KMP (Kilusang Mangbubukid ng Pilipinas), PNSFP (Philippine Network for Food Security Programs), SIBAT (Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya), HEAD (Health action for Democracy), PAN Phils (Pesticide Action Network - Phils, TFIP (Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples Rights), CENDI (Community Entrepreneur Development Institute), SRD (Center for Sustainable Rural Development), Vietnam, SPFT (Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand), AGRA (Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement), SERUNI National Women's Alliance, Indonesia, NWFA (National Women Farmers and Workers Association), BAFLF (Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation), SHISUK (Shikha Shastha Unnayan Karzakram), Bangladesh, APVUU (Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union), ORRISSA (Organization for Rural Reconstruction and Integrated Social Services Activities), CREATE, India THANAL, India, Save Our Rice Network, India, PAN-INDIA (Pesticide Action Network - India), India, GRAIN, PAN-AP (Pesticide Action Network - Asia Pacific), APC (Asian Peasants Coalition), Consumers Union of Japan, Women's Development Federation WELIGEPOLA, MONLAR, Sri Lanka

What we need to learn is how can farms, how can rural communities, how can underserved communities benefit from supplying top - line ingredients, grown in the United States, and work with some of the greatest brands in the world, natural products industry brands, to do great things and increase the health and wellness outcomes for America.

I encourage farmers and ranchers in rural areas throughout the world to learn about the positive impact organic farming can have on protecting the environment, mitigating climate change and improving the health for future generations,» Straus added.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa