Sentences with phrase «health investment which»

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The slice of patients above the age of 60 consumes about 85 % of the drugs and devices and diagnostics out there,» says Justin Stephenson, senior life sciences analyst at Vancouver - based independent investment dealer Haywood Securities Inc. «That is only going to get significantly bigger in the western world, which is the main market for Canadian health - care products in the next five to 10 years.

Perth technology entrepreneur Nathan Buzza has added to his investment in health informatics company Alcidion Corporation, which has raised $ 1.5 million to fund the expansion of its Miya platform.

Among the fund's first investments are Apervita, a cloud - based analytics platform; SHYFT Analytics, a cloud - based pharmaceutical research platform, and Mindstrong Health, which uses machine learning to help patients assess their mental health disorders through their smartpHealth, which uses machine learning to help patients assess their mental health disorders through their smartphealth disorders through their smartphones.

No one expects this from their health insurance company — or from their investment manager, or local bakery, or any other business — but when it happens it makes the world feel like a warmer place, which is good not only for the soul but also for the bottom line.

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.

-- > The value of investing in relationships for the long - haul — > Investing in your health and longevity as a way to increase your lifetime earnings — > Why longer life expectancies should change the way you think about investing — > The shockingly low rate of personal savings and investment in the US — > My favorite part of the interview: whether we can reasonably expect the US markets to keep going up at their long - term average 7 % per year after inflation, or whether that was a unique period of US expansion which won't be repeated again.

The firm, which is currently raising a second fund with a $ 175 million target, is focused on early - stage investments in several industries, including security, digital health, AI and autonomous vehicle software.

She'll seek out new investment opportunities for Aspect, some of which will likely be in the health and wellness sector.

Health Care Strategic Growth investments are opportunities in which KKR believes that we can help commercialize or further scale the underlying product (s) or service (s).

In just over three years, OurCrowd has established itself as a major international force in the equity crowdfunding industry, investing over US$ 320 million from its «crowd» of 16,000 accredited investors in its portfolio of 100 companies and five funds, which span major investment sectors including Mobility and Transportation, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Digital Health, Agtech, Big Data, and Robotics.

The Austin - based investment firm raised $ 19.1 million, which it will use to back women - led health tech ventures and sustainable consumer brands.

- Which parts of the health value chain are attracting the greatest investment interest?

Investments in fast - growing industries like the technology and health care sectors (which have historically been volatile) could result in increased price fluctuation, especially over the short term, due to the rapid pace of product change and development and changes in government regulation of companies emphasizing scientific or technological advancement or regulatory approval for new drugs and medical instruments.

The fact that these hours are frequently spent with persons whose mental health is in jeopardy gives counseling a qualitative significance for mental health which far outweighs the quantitative investment of pastoral time.

Slave owners have a financial investment in their workers which leads to concern for their health.

Social development has already made a contribution to the economic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources».

They're ridiculously tasty and the health benefits are definitely worth the initial investment in a bag of acai powder (which can run between $ 17 - 40 per pouch).

Those technologies that manipulate DNA artificially increase corporate control over seeds, diminish rich, diverse diets of local communities, promote monoculture, increase biosafety risks to health and environment, and need high investment and complicated regulatory frameworks which many countries lack.

Clock, the alternative to Corbyn's investment in our health service etc is the Tories» perpetual austerity, supposedly designed to eliminate out debt, which has however risen every year.

This step backwards came about as Nestlé was applying for inclusion in the FTSE4Good ethical investment index, which assesses companies against their own policies, rather than World Health Assembly marketing requirements.

The expose obviously has dealt a heavy blow on NPP's campaign strategy for the health sector which has witnessed massive investment in infrastructure over the last four years.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

By showing that we are alive to people's concerns, this allows Labour to start having those crucial conversations with the public about what they are really upset about which are things that Labour cares about — pressures on local health and social care services; a lack of local investment and housing; not sharing the wealth and opportunity that London has; systemic inequality; culture; integration.

In the longer term well targeted spending on health, education and infrastructure will have long terms economic benefits in terms of productivity which will make existing businesses more effective and attract new investment.

Unegbu, also, the Managing Director, Maxifund Investments and Securities Plc., kicked against the small allocation to the health and education sectors, which were critical to economic development.

He said he opposed recreational marijuana, and spoke at length about his approach to curbing urban gun violence, which would include investments in mental health treatment and «deterrence» of rational criminals who would realize their marks could be armed.

«Local commissioners also need to put much more investment into preventative mental health care like early intervention services, which help recover from a first episode of mental illness.

«The Cuomo administration has told us they're interested in exploring the issue as part of the Medicaid reform process, which has been their main vehicle for making new investments in housing for people with chronic health issues,» Barry said.

That report, which is entitled Taking New York Backwards: Pataki Commission's Tax Cuts Exacerbate Inequality and Favor the Wealthy, details the flawed budgeting and severe inequity of the recommendations, which fail to adequately address urgent needs in education funding, health care, infrastructure investments, and progressive tax relief for lower and middle - income families.

And it is a testimony to the extraordinary work done by nurses, doctors and all NHS staff - backed up by the extra investment which has seen the health budget treble to almost # 100 billion pounds a year - that ten years on the NHS is now more firmly than ever part of the fabric of British national life ----- an achievement that in itself should give us the confidence to look forward with ambition to an even greater future for the NHS.

«Despite these substantial, tangible benefits, the Legislature advanced this bill, which effectively restricts access to mental health care in Western New York, reduces investments in community based services and is inconsistent with recent agreements negotiated with the Legislature during the annual budget discussions,» Cuomo wrote in the veto message.

The executive budget also added a $ 160 million investment in Fiscal 2016 for the ailing municipal health system, New York City Health + Hospitals (H+H), which will increase to $ 180 million for fiscalhealth system, New York City Health + Hospitals (H+H), which will increase to $ 180 million for fiscalHealth + Hospitals (H+H), which will increase to $ 180 million for fiscal 2017.

In the preliminary budget, the mayor made a one - time investment of $ 337 million to keep the system afloat and the new funding stems from a comprehensive report, One New York: Health Care for Our Neighborhoods, which lays out a plan for overhauling the system.

ALBANY, N.Y. >> New York revised its request for a $ 10 billion Medicaid adjustment, which would allow using that money in related health care programs, after federal officials concluded capital investment and some other programs are ineligible.

To help improve those benchmarks, Cuomo hopes to pour $ 1.4 billion into the community, the largest chunk of which — a $ 700 million capital investment — will be used for «community - based health care,» including a 36 - site ambulatory care network.

But the widely touted «health» budget, which was released on 18 February, contained several pleasant surprises for postgraduate students and the academic community in the form of new investments in science, technology, and postsecondary education.

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.

Three years ago, a U.S. National Academies committee recommended (in the report The Gathering Storm) doubling federal investment in basic research in math, the physical sciences, and engineering while, at a minimum, protecting the health sciences against inflation (the cost of which, in math, the physical sciences, and engineering, equals the amount by which the nation's expenditure on health care increases every 7 weeks).

Investment in road building far exceeds that for active travel - public transport, footpaths and bike lanes - which Read more about Stop prioritising cars over kids» health, experts plead - Scimex

In the spring of 2016, the company opened new clinical health care facilities, a $ 1,000,000 investment that features improved housing, diagnostic, and treatment equipment which provide for superior care and immediate access to important measures of animal health and well - being.

«My involvement in Gladstone is an investment in scientific discovery, which is essential to developing new therapies and finding cures to improve the health of people everywhere.»

You can try gardening, walking your dog, or cleaning house (with non-toxic products) which can all be rewarding investments of your time in an effort to improve your health.

An investment that has an endless list of payouts, such as higher self - confidence, improved physical health, stronger muscles and bones, more contentment with life, and the ability to not only feel but to exude gratitude which leads others to be subconsciously drawn to your energy.

James started his career as an investment banker, but he had studied health economics, which is a really interesting field because we're looking at not just economics but we're looking at how do people spend their money to live longer, and feel better, and to stay well, and decided after a year in banking that he wanted to work with integrative medicine or functional medicine, and he founded something called Evolution of Medicine, which is an eCommerce platform that lets doctors manage their practices better with customized tools and things like that so they can become more functional doctors, just to make it easier for the transition to come from basically a trained representative of Big Pharma.

I believe that investing time and money into your health and sustainability are two of the best investments that you can make for your happiness, health and wellbeing, which is what living Healthy, Wild And Free is all about!

I consider this an important investment in your nutrition and health of your gut (which tremendously influences your wellbeing overall).

Fostering health & safety Many of the UK's leading school furniture suppliers are members of BESA, which is committed to improving the quality and safety of these investments.

The move comes as a part of wider push to improve children and young people's mental health, which will see investment of # 1.25 billion over the next five years.

For instance, a 2008 report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA) summarized the economic benefits of effective programs targeting substance use and misuse (which teach numerous SEL skills), noting that a large - scale, cross-program investment in school - based prevention would produce an $ 18 return per dollar invested and save state and local governments an estimated $ 1.3 billion (Miller & Hendrie, 2009).

to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution measured by the Gini index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website