Sentences with phrase «health care measures such»

Personal beliefs like fatalism can serve as barrier to preventive health care measures such as HPV vaccination.

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Its Cost of Living Index measures prices in 269 urban areas for housing, groceries, utilities, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous goods and services such as getting your hair done or going to a movie.

He also said small businesses need assistance in affording health care, possibly through such measures as tax credits.

He has mostly calmed relationships with the county legislature, while fighting for cost - saving measures such as closing the John J. Foley nursing home, privatizing health care centers and combining the treasurer's and comptroller's offices.

Norman Lamb calls for interim measure while working on long - term solution such as a dedicated health and social care tax

Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., pushing for affordable health care for all Americans, calls the measure «a step in the right direction,» but notes that ultimately the feds need «to extend public programs or provide subsidies, such as refundable tax credits or some other means» to have truly universal health coverage.

Preventive measures such as increasing health care worker hand washing and isolating infected patients have reduced the spread of many health care — acquired infections.

That's partly because traffic speed and certain environmental effects are easier to measure than social - justice considerations, such as access to job opportunities or health care for low - income groups, or balancing the interests of pedestrians and cyclists with those of motorists.

«Since step counts are such an important part of how these devices and apps measure physical activity, including calculating distance or calories burned, their accuracy is key,» said senior author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at Penn and an attending physician at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.

The study had limitations, including that it did not measure other benefits of preventive dental care such as improved quality of life, or include information on oral health behaviors such as teeth brushing.

Several performance reporting systems now report publicly on aspects of quality such as surgical outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of health care organizations have also assessed the equity of care provided by those organizations.

It measures them according to factors such as climate, cost of living, health care, renting and buying real estate, visa and travel accessibility, infrastructure, and ease of fitting in.

Employers that fail to take precautionary measures to prevent and address sexual harassment can face multiple issues in the workplace, such as decreased productivity, low morale, increased absenteeism, health care costs, as well as prospective legal liability and expenses.

In his introduction, Mr Bowles focussed on the need to eliminate waste and poor quality care, through measures such as implementation of the recommendations of the MBS Review and the Health Care Homes pilot, aiming to reduce growth in the MBS by improving chronic disease managemcare, through measures such as implementation of the recommendations of the MBS Review and the Health Care Homes pilot, aiming to reduce growth in the MBS by improving chronic disease managemCare Homes pilot, aiming to reduce growth in the MBS by improving chronic disease management.

These measures promote the health of women by guaranteeing coverage of preventive care, such as lifesaving breast cancer screenings and immunizations with no co-pays.

Five programs showed favorable effects in some aspect of child maltreatment reduction: (1) Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents» report of severe or very severe physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self - reported serious physical abuse, and aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domain.65

EIP showed favorable impacts on 8 outcomes, including fewer days and episodes of hospitalization, relative to those in the comparison group, covering a range of 6 weeks to 2 years postpartum.13, 23,24 EIP also showed a favorable effect on the percentage of children who were adequately immunized by 1 year, but the difference was no longer statistically significant by 2 years.13, 24 Early Start demonstrated favorable effects on 3 outcomes, including percentage who received well - child visits and dental service.25 — 27 HFA had favorable results for 4 health care outcomes, such as the number of well - child visits and whether the child had health insurance.28 — 31 HFA had an unfavorable effect on the number of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits.32 The research showed that Healthy Steps had a beneficial effect on 2 outcomes: 1 - month well - child visits and diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and pertussis vaccinations.33 Finally, NFP had favorable results on 3 outcomes measuring the number of ED visits at different follow - ups but an unfavorable / ambiguous effect on number of days hospitalized between 25 and 50 months.34, 35 The research on 2 programs (Oklahoma's CBFRS and PAT) showed no effects on measures of health care use or coverage.36 — 40 The research on 5 programs (Child FIRST, EHS, Family Check - Up, HIPPY, and PALS for Infants) did not report health care coverage or usage outcomes.

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.

Health care communication investigators are beginning to emphasize that measuring how the patient perceives and engages in relationships might be as important as focusing primarily on provider communication variables, but that such patient variables are less frequently investigated (15).

It measures inputs and intermediate outcomes of the health system (such as antenatal care, immunisation, screening, management of chronic illness etc where there is clear evidence in the literature of a linkage between health system activity and health outcomes).

In fact, the situation in many respects - such as contact with criminal justice processes, contact with care and protection systems, life expectancy and significant measures of health - has actually declined.

The challenge with such a finding, however, is judging whether this well - being improvement represents value for money, as it uses a clinical outcome measure which can not be compared with other uses of resources within the health - care system.

Though the IRS does have authority to garnish wages and file liens to collect unpaid taxes, the Affordable Care Act explicitly prohibits it from using such measures to collect health - insurance penalties, according to Kaiser Health News, an independent nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering U.S. health phealth - insurance penalties, according to Kaiser Health News, an independent nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering U.S. health pHealth News, an independent nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering U.S. health phealth policy.