Sentences with phrase «government health policies»

We now see the re-emergence of a new paternalism and with it a failure of institutional memory of previous government health policies.

But the sheer amount of data available will enable researchers to tackle previously difficult problems, such as finding out whether government health policies are being engaged with by the public.

Paid for by fundamentalist group Christian Voice, the advert in the New Statesman entitled, «Violent crime - sowing and reaping», condemned government health policies, including giving a key cancer vaccine on the NHS, for focusing on curbing teenage pregnancy at the expense, the advert claimed, of teenage fertility.

Infant food companies influence government health policies and have made the medical profession their handmaiden.

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Considering the sprawling, federated nature of U.S. medicine, experts warn that a combination of government policies and health IT upgrades — as well as prophylactic human measures like changing passwords — will be necessary to keep patients» data safe and health systems functioning.

Kathleen Harrington, chair of Policy of Government Relations for the Mayo Clinic, said so far she likes what she hears from Republicans on changes to health insurance.

So, grudgingly, the health care reformers and progressive politicians behind Medicare built their program of government - funded health policies for the elderly around the insurance company model.

This is a mixed bag from a public policy standpoint: Increased marijuana use can have ill effects on the health of the population but the increased sales bring in more revenue for the government.

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The doctors» lobby has warned the government not to allow health funds to price insurance based on factors such as age and lifestyle, while attacking «junk» policies that don't cover common procedures.

Across the country, enthusiasm for personal fitness — buoyed by government policies focused on health and wellness — is taking hold.

The decision your government, or any government, makes with respect to the Health and Social transfers to the Provinces / Territories will seriously impact the future size and policy role of the federal government.

The paper concludes that with the policy changes to date, including budget cuts and the changes to the Canada Health Act and to the elderly benefit system, the federal government will have a long - term sustainable fiscal structure characterized by a declining debt to GDP ratio.

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Should the federal government continue to abdicate leadership in key policy issues of health care, pension reform, Aboriginal issues, education and research, and modernizing Canada's infrastructure?

Returning to Shell Jackpine, while Canadians might be able to guess which policy factors were considered, they have no way of knowing how they were considered in light of the government's obligations pursuant to section 4 to ensure that projects «are considered in a careful and precautionary manner» and that the government exercises its powers «in a manner that protects the environment and human health and applies the precautionary principles.»

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In any event, health - care affordability is an issue for social policy; the notion that governments should use IP as a tool for containing drug costs is both shortsighted and counterproductive.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

«As well, ISDS puts a serious chill on the ability of governments at all levels to enact legislation and public policies that protect the health and well - being of citizens or promote sustainable development.

He has provided policy advice and expert testimony to governments in Canada and abroad, and has twice represented Canada on pharmaceutical policy committees of the World Health Organization.

If Romney wants a running mate who can explain how Republican policies can lower health care premiums, increase jobs, lower energy prices, get government to work better for less money, and maintain the safety net for our elderly while avoiding huge tax increases, then Jindal is the guy.

The rich and powerful have a tighter control over our society, government and its foreign policy, both political parties, business and finance, the health industry, the educational system, the media, and the courts than ever before.

Lat Hazard, the government set a minimum policy (consider minimum wage for example), BTW we have had a minimum health care policy for decades now.

Actually since so much government spending is on Medicare and Medicaid, cutting spending and reforming health care policy are closely linked.

The government mandate covers all forms of FDA approved contraceptives and the administration has said time and again they felt the policy and its exceptions «struck the right balance» on religious freedoms and providing health care for people who need it.

Every time they put prayer in schools, presenting it to people's kids as the norm, every time they manipulate health policies, every time «payer breakfast» is held which is really a government meeting... time after time people still try to shove their religion down others throats.

Children like Pineapple depend on educational, public health and environmental policies developed by metropolitan and state governments.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

encourages physicians, other health professionals, medical and other health related organizations, and government and other policymakers to become more well informed about drug dependencies, and to base their policies and activities on the recognition that drug dependencies are, in fact, diseases.

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.

Launching the 2015 edition of the ACCC Compliance and Enforcement Policy at CEDA today, Sims announced «cartel conduct in government procurement, truth in advertising, competition and consumer issues in the health sector and industry codes as new priorities».

The Australian Beverages Council also recognises its responsibility to provide extensive communication to Governments, community groups, the media, and consumers with respect to the industry's views on regulatory matters, legislation, and public policy, dietary guidelines, health claims, and front - of - pack labelling are just a few examples of specifics that are proactively addressed to these audiences within these fields.

So, when the Australia - India Institute tobacco control task force held a high - level launch of its policy document on plain packaging at the Press Club in New Delhi, we all waited intently for a response from the government and department of health and family welfare.

A series of short reports on over a dozen different products, shows how people's shopping choices - as well as government policy - can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health.

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».

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However, the European Commission regulations, like current regulations, fall far short of the minimum requirements the UK Government (like other EU Member States) has backed at the World Health Assembly, the world's highest health policy settingHealth Assembly, the world's highest health policy settinghealth policy setting body.

Campaigners gathered to call on assembled international government representatives to counter  «the toxic combination of poor social policies, unfair economic arrangements and bad politics that results in the unequal distribution of health - damaging experiences.»

Dr. Daniel Taber, the new study's lead author from the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said students who receive free or reduced - price lunches from the government tend to be more obese, but that may be due to their families» low - income status.

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Block grants are a favorite tool of conservatives to shrink the role of the federal government and reduce the size of social programs, but as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities well articulated in a statement hastily released yesterday, block grants in the particular context of school food are very likely to put children's health and wellbeing at risk:

Instead of subsidising formula companies to boost exports or attract investment, allowing them to influence health and nutrition policies or involving them as partners in education initiatives, governments should ensure all inappropriate marketing is ended, and invest in policies to ensure mothers get the support they need to breastfeed and care for their babies.

Many of the headline health claims being made can't be substantiated, the sources they cite are not in line with health policy, graphs set out to mislead, and these adverts may also fail to meet the Government's own requirement for claims to be supported by peer — reviewed work.

The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the US government.

Modelling a new way of talking about breastfeeding that clarifies the evidence and acknowledges the fact that improving breastfeeding rates is not the responsibility of individual mothers; rather, this is a public health imperative for which government, policy makers, communities and families all share responsibility

Survive & T hrive Global Development Alliance Survive & Thrive is an allian ce of government, professional health association, private sector and non-profit partners working with country g overnments and health professionals to improve health outcomes for mothers, newborns and children through clinical training, systems strengthening and policy advocacy.

Both policies call for comprehensive intervention approaches, which include the government, health systems, workplaces, and communities in protecting, promoting, and supporting women to choose and succeed in optimal breastfeeding.