Sentences with phrase «health initiatives which»

Not exact matches

The iPhone maker already has a number of health - related initiatives underway, which are overseen by Apple's chief operating officer Jeff Williams.

He is also chairman of The Dangote Foundation, which focuses on education and health initiatives, including a $ 12,000 - per - day feeding program.

Product sales generate income for the agents, which help overcome the high turnover that has plagued volunteer community health - worker initiatives and the fickle funding that has undermined government efforts.

To determine which communities are a good fit for the initiative, Starbucks looks at all the available data on the socio - economic health of America's cities to understand which communities have the biggest opportunity gaps, which have the biggest need for business investment and leadership, and where there is local movement underway to build a better future for its residents.

World Health Day is an initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO), which takes place on Saturday 7th April 2018...

The province is also committing $ 11.4 million in new money for mental health initiatives, which the province said will cover the cost of hiring 40 new full - time positions.

They will also seek a ban on «bump stocks,» which are used to make semiautomatic weapons mimic automatic weapons in rate of fire; more money to harden school campuses; and funding for mental - health initiatives and to provide trained school security officers.

Adam Dumond is organizing the second Sarnia Sings event, which includes a live karaoke band to raise funds for local mental health initiatives.

[I think you wrote somewhere that you might create a closed Facebook group where people could write more openly about their health issues, which naturally would take a lot of time to set up if you were to try to create a private forum on your own site, so I do realize that some platforms are better for some initiatives / conversations than others are.]

Mars» new health initiatives have been published as «The Mars Health and Wellbeing Ambition» which covers the five key ashealth initiatives have been published as «The Mars Health and Wellbeing Ambition» which covers the five key asHealth and Wellbeing Ambition» which covers the five key aspects:

Mars says these new health - orientated decisions follow on from previous initiatives which included displaying health star ratings and reducing trans fats.

Initiatives such as this will grow in importance for packaged food brands, many of which are increasingly threatened by concerns over health and perceptions of high fat and sugar content their products may contain.

Barry Callebaut has its Cocoa Horizons Foundation which «funds farmer training, farmer support, innovative finance, initiatives to protect children, access to education, woman's empowerment and basic health services.»

Dole's involvement in Tour de Fresh is part of the company's year - long Get Up and Grow!TM Together healthy - living initiative, which seeks to increase America's health through greater consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.

«Drink OR Drive» is just one of many U.S. activations, which includes the Health Alliance on Alcohol, a national public initiative to prevent underage drinking.

All of the proceeds from the sales of Color Rush jerseys will go to the NFL Foundation, which supports health, safety and wellness initiatives for children.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

Antenatal tutor Noreen Hart from the National Childbirth Trust (which organised a family fun day in June 2010 to support the initiative) said: «During the last 12 months campaigners have been working closely with Wiltshire Community Health Services» midwifery team and the suggestion of partners having the opportunity of staying the first night after birth was welcomed by all involved in maternity services.

To promote and support breastfeeding for all mothers in Ottawa, I also urge you to consider having the City of Ottawa follow the initiative of the City of Toronto's Public Health Department, which is working towards the internationally recognized Baby - Friendly Initiative (BFI) designation.

I am a proud founding member of The Health and Wellness Business Association, which was created to promote initiatives that support better collaboration, interaction and ethical business practices within the health and wellness business commHealth and Wellness Business Association, which was created to promote initiatives that support better collaboration, interaction and ethical business practices within the health and wellness business commhealth and wellness business community.

It is for these reasons, and in accordance with our Core Values in which we pledge to «support and encourage collaboration with professionals in related fields within medicine, health and education to promote sleep health and sleep safety from birth to adulthood among families and the general public», that we endorse the initiative and efforts of Start School Later.

First Lady Michelle Obama received a lot of positive press when she unveiled her child health initiative, which included her «Let's Move!»

USDA spokeswoman Cortney Rowe says the department does not endorse the «Meatless Monday» initiative, which is part of a global public health campaign.

The evidence - based report looks at the health - led approach adopted in Portugal, which decriminalised drugs alongside public health initiatives.

«Despite the mayor and first lady touting their mental health initiative, they continue to be silent about the repeated killings of people in emotional distress by police, which now totals at least 11 in the past four years,» Pierre said in a statement.

Concerns over the proliferation of illegal tattoo shops and the spread of communicable diseases have increased due to the current opioid epidemic which has contributed to the spread of Hepatitis C. Legislator Burke's initiative is a common sense reform to ensure the health and safety of the residents of Erie County.

Other Potential Impacts: In addition to the direct impact on the above described DEP initiatives, the proposed EPA cuts will obviously have a devastating impact on toxic cleanups, and near shore health which includes runoff control to limit algae blooms throughout the Great Lakes.

But both houses of the Legislature have signaled unwillingness to consider initiatives inside Cuomo's budget which would have given the state health department broad authority to negotiate how a «value - based payment» methodology would work here in New York.

First Lady Chirlane McCray — who spearheads the ThriveNYC mental health initiative and the nationwide Cities Thrive Coalition that has 200 cities as members — said the initiative is «working hard» to change the manner in which individuals think about addiction and mental illness and establish prevention protocols.

Funded by Big Lottery and Comic Relief it is part of the national Moving People initiative, which aims to stamp out discrimination towards people with mental health problems (see notes to editors).

The decline was highlighted by Cuomo last year when he announced plans for his End the Epidemic initiative, which included assisting undiagnosed HIV patients find health care, getting patients on anti-HIV therapy and providing high - risk people with HIV prevention drugs.

To that end, Ms. Mark - Viverito kept the goals of the initiative — which will eventually make both policy and budgetary recommendations to help women in areas ranging from health to self - sufficiency — relatively open - ended, saying she wanted to hear more from women and girls on the ground.

The budget, which includes the elimination of 70 positions and cuts to public health programs such as mosquito control and the county's breastfeeding initiative for new mothers, was presented in late October and has been going through detailed review in the legislature.

We are thrilled with the outcome and reception by the legal and local community, and look forward to more collaboration with the Borough President, his Office, and his #Not62 health initiatives,» said Yosara Trujillo of Sweet Water Dance & Yoga, which is located in The Bronx on Gerard Avenue at East 161st Street.

The initiative, which has so far cost $ 386 million, centers on equipping schools with resources to better deal with students» needs outside of the classroom, such as medical and mental health services.

That removed Syracuse from all but one city - county initiative, a joint request for proposals for retiree health insurance, which was already under way before the shared services panel was formed.

If you want to know what happened to it, take a look at the Department of Health's first annual report on the «End of life care strategy» (62 full colour pages) which asserts that the initiative is off to a great start: it is establishing a National Implementation Advisory Board and a National Coalition to raise public awareness, has published a set of Quality Markers and core competencies, built monitoring into Operation Finance Guidance, tendered for a pilot of a national survey and begun the process to set up an Intelligence Network.

The preliminary budget, which would take effect July 1 and must first be approved by the City Council, also includes more than $ 740 million worth of new city agency spending, mostly on programs de Blasio has already announced in recent months, like new initiatives to help the homeless and an overhaul of the city's mental health system.

That's why, I fought for significant funding for mental health — $ 5 million of which went directly to Dutchess County — and increased funding for public protection initiatives in and around the City of Poughkeepsie.

Her other initiatives are a $ 6 million plan to rehabilitate female inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex; Sisters Thrive, which encourages mental health literacy in the black community; and NYCHOPE, a web - pased portal for domestic violence survivors.

She oversees a portfolio of municipal programs, including her signature $ 850 million mental health initiative, in which other city officials report to her.

Beaty, the deputy commissioner, spoke about the police's initiative with Crisis Services of Erie County, which provided de-escalation training focused on handling encounters with people suffering from mental health issues.

WSU also had a variety of minority science undergraduate initiatives — such as the MARC (Minority Access to Careers) fellowship, which is administered by the National Institutes of Health.

And the All of Us research initiative — a 10 - year effort to track the health of 1 million Americans, which was formerly known as the Precision Medicine Initiative — would receive $ 290 million.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has created a policy package called MPOWER, noted Guydish, which is designed to assist countries in implementing anti-smoking initiatives.

Obama, he said, elevated the role of science and technology advisers throughout the executive branch, put in place plans to mitigate and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, set up health research initiatives to tackle such priorities as cancer and brain research, worked with international partners on scientific issues and used the White House as a platform from which to herald science and education, particularly for children.

They examined prescribing trends in the plan's group practice, which implemented an initiative to change physician expectations regarding clinically appropriate and safe opioid dose levels, and compared them with trends among the health plan's contracted physicians who followed only the state guidelines.

Dr. Gil Pogozelich, chairman of Goldman Hirsh Partners Ltd., which holds the controlling interest in TyrNovo, says that he sees great importance in the cooperation on this project with the Hebrew University, and that TyrNovo represents a good example of how scientific and research initiatives can further health care together with economic benefits.

Launched with a $ 215 million investment in the President's 2016 budget, the initiative aims to «give clinicians tools to better understand the complex mechanisms underlying a patient's health, disease, or condition, and to better predict which treatments will be most effective,» according to a statement issued by the White House.

He went on to describe the $ 215 million initiative, which includes new support for cancer genomics and molecularly targeted drug trials at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and a plan to study links among genes, health, and environment in 1 million Americans by pooling participants in existing cohort studies.