Sentences with phrase «health care crisis in»

There is a health care crisis in this country: A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study reports at least one in four teenage girls — ages 14 to 19 — has a sexually transmitted infection; The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy reports the U.S. has the highest rates of teen pregnancy among comparable countries, and an estimated 750,000 teenagers will become pregnant this year.

«There is a public health care crisis in this country — approximately 750,000 U.S. teens will become pregnant this year, and nearly four million of them will contract a sexually transmitted infection in part because they don't have access to the information they need to make responsible decisions about their health,» added Richards.

A national health care crisis in the United States yields this tense drama from screenwriter James Kearns and director Nick Cassavetes, who experienced a real - life dilemma with his daughter's congenital heart disease that mirrors the one in this film.

Calling Cuomo «cold and silent» on the health care crisis in Brooklyn and on issues such as underfunded schools, she said, «I have a vision for this state where everyone has meaningful access to health care and health facilities.

The statistic is a shocking one, and one which proves that the maternal health care crisis in our country can no longer be ignored.

The maternal health care crisis in the United States by the Amnesty International.

We currently have a health care crisis in America as does the rest of the world.

Here is some of what we know, and don't know, about the plan and about the health care crisis in the United States.

Not exact matches

A second challenging (and nonsensical) barrier to stemming this firearm - health crisis, he says, is the widely propagated myth that physicians can't, or shouldn't, talk to their patients about the safety risks of guns — a belief reinforced by a misunderstanding of a provision in the Affordable Care Act.

And while various troubling social factors, including unequal access to health care and the impact of the opioid crisis, have stalled the growth of the average U.S. life expectancy in recent years, odds are that America's higher earners will live longer — maybe much longer — than they expect.

In a freewheeling 1 - on - 1 interview with Time Inc.'s Chief Content Officer, Alan Murray, Bertolini relates how two very personal health care crises dramatically transformed his management philosophy — and why other corporate leaders should take heed.

Budget 2018 continues this Ottawa - knows - best trend for issues that are wholly constitutionally provincial: the opioid crisis (health care), early learning and child care (education), more cash for «seasonal industries» via the provinces, a learning bond experiment in Ontario, apprenticeship programs, funding for harnessing «big data» at universities (again, education and health care in that list).

More local staff members have been added as Americares expands its working network, developing and implementing plans with local organizations and free clinics to provide access to medicine, relief supplies and basic health care for people in crisis.

You'll not be surprised to know that I finished my big talk by explaining that there's no solution to our so - called crisis in health care (with its deeply demographic dimension) that....

The several aspects of pastoral care for the emotionally disturbed described above set forth some principles and structure for the functioning of community clergy as they become involved with crises in the parish and in the community mental health setting.

The picture of that disgusting, pathetic, utterly gross fat woman (see the picture on the headline) reminded me of two things: one, she (and those like her) are the reason health care is in crisis, and two, why should I, or my tax dollars, pay for her utterly bad judgement and complete lack of self respect?

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

Christians have been asked to pray for people in Gaza as the Palestinian territory faces a major health care crisis.

Care professionals such as doctors, health visitors and social workers identify people in crisis and issue them with a food bank voucher.

(Meanwhile, our own system of health care delivery is in crisis.)

I will cover this crisis in more detail in a future article, «Our Health Care Crisis».

She has experience working in infant mental health practicing bonding and attachment therapy, therapeutic foster care, school based therapy, mental health triage administering psychological assessments and determining crisis stabilization needs, and private practice.

With Suffolk facing «the greatest fiscal crisis in its history,» County Executive Steve Bellone and his top aides will freeze their salaries and start paying a portion of their health care.

The current crisis is worsening the economic situation and seriously endangers the ambitious — and often popular - social programmes launched by the president in the past ten years such as the exemption of health - care user fees from pregnant mothers and children below five, free schools, a reform of primary school, and a new health insurance scheme.

Republicans were certainly in retreat in 2008; but in watching the fights over health care reform and public spending it would seem that conservatism is alive and well and it is liberalism that is in crisis.

Cuomo did not mention President Trump by name, but he said the nation's health care is in «crisis» and the struggle is really about those with lots of money and those with lesser means.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio are scheduled to appear at a rally in San Juan, Puerto Rico, later this week to discuss the island's health care crisis, according to people familiar with the event.

In his most recent State of the State address, he listed several priorities, including reforming the criminal justice system, holding pharmaceutical distributors responsible for their role in the opioid crisis and fighting the federal government on its tax plan and policies on immigration, abortion, the environment and health carIn his most recent State of the State address, he listed several priorities, including reforming the criminal justice system, holding pharmaceutical distributors responsible for their role in the opioid crisis and fighting the federal government on its tax plan and policies on immigration, abortion, the environment and health carin the opioid crisis and fighting the federal government on its tax plan and policies on immigration, abortion, the environment and health care.

None of the details are yet clear, but one thing is certain: in envisaging an integration of health and care budgets, decision - makers at the metropolitan centre are devolving desperately hard choices away from Whitehall at a moment when social care funding has been cut to crisis level and more cuts are required.

In the meantime, HANYS President Dan Sisto is making his displeasure crystal clear, accusing the governor of continuing his «BP approach» to addressing the state's fiscal crisis, and insisting the cuts will result in lost health care jobs and some $ 1 billion worth of economic activitIn the meantime, HANYS President Dan Sisto is making his displeasure crystal clear, accusing the governor of continuing his «BP approach» to addressing the state's fiscal crisis, and insisting the cuts will result in lost health care jobs and some $ 1 billion worth of economic activitin lost health care jobs and some $ 1 billion worth of economic activity.

Saying New York is «ground zero» in the financial crisis that has emptied states» pockets across the country, Paterson outlined a plan that carves $ 686 million from education spending and $ 500 million from health care services to close the state's $ 3 billion budget gap.

This is the largest cut to health care services in New York history, and, in Sisto's eyes, the magnitude of the reduction is «extreme» — even within the context of the state's fiscal crisis.

He had been getting ill for a while and we knew there was only decline and he would be leaving us soon and that time is so precious for both the family care giver and for the individual in the family who has the health crisis,» Cuomo said.

Cuomo did not mention President Donald Trump by name, but he said the nation's health care is in crisis and the struggle is really about those with lots of money, and those with lesser means.

If he is saying that he was unable to consistently influence his own customers enough to respond with generous gratuities at his luxury establishments, how then can he advise us in health care, with our much more diverse clientele, who come to us in crisis?

Cuomo noted he has invited a host of interested parties in the state to «come to the table» to address the state's budget crisis, specifically speaking of «our brothers and sisters in labor,» 1199 SEIU (the health care workers), the Senate and the Assembly.

A new report by HMIC has warned that many people — including children and young people — experiencing mental health problems are being held in police cells, because of the shortage of appropriate crisis care services available across the country.

NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray writes of the struggle to find treatment for anxiety, addiction and depression for her daughter, Chiara, and her conclusion that the mental health system in this country is «broken,» causing the country to face a crisis of care.

She served as minister for health and community care from 1999 to 2001, when she was just 35, and survived opposition criticism for her handling of the flu crisis in 2000.

«Independent - minded people — bringing them together in such a way that we're talking about relevant things, and I believe that should be good union jobs and public schools and health care and [the] prescription crisis,» Vaid said.

Andrew Gwynne, Labour's shadow health minister has said that the government is out of touch with the «immediate care crisis», hoping that the coalition will engage in cross party talks such that a proper agreement is made.

The health care cost crisis in New York will just get worse if our answer is to wait for action from our do - nothing Congress.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said Wednesday night that with Suffolk facing «the greatest fiscal crisis in its history,» he and his top aides will freeze their salaries and start paying a portion of their health care.

«The governor said one of his goals is to provide more and better health care to New Yorkers, and addressed the healthcare crisis in Brooklyn, calling it a «serious situation.»

«I will be on Fifth Ave. not as your honoree but as a humble Puerto Rican and grandfather who at 74 continues to be committed to helping raise awareness about the fiscal, health - care and human - rights crisis Puerto Rico is facing at this historic juncture,» López Rivera wrote in the piece.

«Provisions governing animal slaughter and routine veterinary care are rare, presenting a concern for monitoring and intervening in public health crises,» the study says.

As evidence for that sweeping generalization, I cite a recent paper by Trisha Greenhalgh (a physician and health care professor) and collaborators, titled «Evidence - based medicine: a movement in crisis?»

And because of its brevity and simplicity, the crisis response plan strategy could feasibly be implemented in a wide range of medical settings by diverse health care professionals.

While community - based, these programs are different from usual mental health services programs in most states because they provides a more intensive level of care and a broader range of mental health services and supports, such as medication management, crisis intervention, case management and peer support.

Suicide is now a leading cause of death of young Indians, and an Indian is likely to suffer from a heart attack at least ten years earlier than in developed countries and yet the health care system has barely responded to these urgent health crises.»