Sentences with phrase «health measure since»

Folic acid (folate) has been added to wheat flour in Australia as a public health measure since 2009 to help prevent neural tube defects such as spina bifida in babies.

Not exact matches

Since value depends on results, not inputs, value in health care is measured by the outcomes achieved, not the volume of services delivered, and shifting focus from volume to value is a central challenge.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

Since we have health needs that require us to eat a lower sodium and lower carb diet, before the menu plans I would spend hours, (not kidding) looking for meals, and measuring out each ingredient.

Profits from the broker - dealer operations of NYSE member firms (which is what it uses to measure the securities industry's health) rose 42 percent, to $ 24.5 billion, the most since 2010.

The bill's sponsor, Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried, conceded that the measure could have limited practical impact since the state's medical marijuana program is expected to get underway so soon.

The Westchester County Department of Health on Wednesday urged people with private wells that were flooded to either boil their water before consumption or to use bottled water as a precautionary measure since sewage and other harmful contaminants can be washed into private wells by storm waters.

Since LRO's launch in 2009, the CRaTER instrument has been measuring energetic charged particles — particles that can travel at nearly the speed of light and may cause detrimental health effects — from galactic cosmic rays and solar particle events.

Since many human diseases can be explained by perturbations of molecular interactions within cells, interactomes will drastically change how we think about human health, and how we set about designing drugs and preventive measures to counter illness.

Public health measures in Africa such as insecticide - treated bed nets and insecticide - spraying have helped reduce the numbers of malaria cases since 2000, but many mosquitoes have evolved resistance to insecticides.

While still a resident in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a junior faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health, the economist - turned - doctor researched various attempts since the 1960s to create a combined measure of impairment, illness and death.

Tonra said he'd like to return to the Pacific Northwest soon to measure changes in the birds» patterns and health since the dam removal.

«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.

If we have this information before he starts smoking, some preventive measures can be taken, and it is likely to improve his health in general since smoking is a risk factor for many diseases, not just lung cancer.

Today's real cool fact of the day is that holistic medicine is used by about half the world's population and that the WHO, the World Health Organization, which is not a friend of alternative medicine or quite often stuff that works, other then very basic sanitary measures, but they're estimating that between 65 - 80 % of the world's population uses what they call alternative medicine as their primary from of healthcare compared to only 10 - 30 % of people who use conventional medicine, which actually means that since the vast majority of people use alternative medicine that's conventional medicine, and what they call conventional medicine is actually a radical alternative, if only 10 % of the world is using the burn and poison model of medicine, which is the one that's quite often promoted that way.

, both of my parents» health by several measures have significantly improved since they went vegan.

Since 2003, the School Travel Forum (STF) has been helping to ensure that children can experience a wide range of LOtC activities by enforcing stringent health and safety measures that allow them to do this safely.

Unique survey will collect data to help measure the health and chart the future of veterinary practices How long has it been (if ever) since you did a diagnostic of your practice?

Dog safety measures are imperative to a dog's health, especially since dog safety, specifically related to overheating, is quickly gaining traction in mainstream media, with loads of reports of dogs being left in hot cars and left without the necessary components of keeping them cool, comfortable, and protected from the hot sun.

I - 732 is a citizen ballot initiative to fight climate change; to make polluters pay when they damage our air, water and health; and to give that money back to the people in the biggest anti-poverty measure in this state since groceries were made sales tax exempt in 1977.

The people of the Gulf Coast, the oil industry, and the environment dodged a bullet, because the woefully inadequate, even counterproductive cleanup measures that were in place during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster have not been improved since that catastrophe killed eleven rig workers and ravaged human health and the environment throughout the region.

While the measure protects older enrollees, it means that Obamacare premiums increased more for younger enrollees than older enrollees relative to the premium costs in the pre-reform market.5 Since term insurance plans do not have to adhere to the Affordable Care Act's premium restrictions, they can charge premiums that reflect the health pool risks — lower premiums for younger enrollees and higher premiums for older enrollees.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

Experiences of violence were measured by the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child Institutional (ICAST - CI) 17 and some items from the WHO Multi Country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women.3 Reliability and construct validity for the ICAST - CI were initially established in four countries and the instrument has since been translated into 20 languages and used extensively in multicountry research.17 Lifetime exposure to physical, sexual and emotional violence were constructed as binary variables.

Since MAU instruments all purport to measure the same quantity — the utility of health states — there should be a high level of predictive validity.

During the time of conducting our study, the reliability of the HADS as a clinical screening tool was critically questioned noting that although the HADS was used in TIDES, different measures were recommended from that international study.36 These measures were the PHQ - 9 for depression and the GAD - 7 for anxiety.4 36 Both these measures are recommended in the international guidelines for mental health screening of patients with CF, 11 which are since being used in CF clinical settings.15 31 Because of the current shift away from using HADS as a screening tool for depression and anxiety in CF, and because of the small sample sizes in each group (online and paper - based), we did not test measurement invariance to determine if the online version of HADS is equivalent to the paper based version.

Under the Kasich administration, Ohio has passed 18 anti-women's health measures, and nearly half of all health centers that provided safe, legal abortion have shuttered since he took office.

Since our health and well - being is influenced in large measure by the family environment we reside in, family therapy seeks to understand and foster change in the relationship patterns that exist between individuals in the family system rather than focusing directly on issues or factors within a specific individual.

In the health arena, all four health measures improved since 2008 — low - birthweight babies, children without health insurance, child and teen deaths and teens who abuse alcohol or drugs.

Chapter 5 concludes with a review of progress made in addressing Indigenous health inequality since 2005, and identifies future measures required to consolidate and advance the current gains.

Furthermore, since the level of mental health problems was related to normed population measures, stronger conclusions and greater generalizability regarding the effects of peer - victimization are possible.

Since the measure was upheld, the law's popular underwriting and rating reforms already in effect, i.e. the ability of young adults to stay on their parents» policies, reduction in Medicare Part D copays, etc., as well as those going into effect in 2014, such as the ban on denying coverage on the basis of a preexisting condition or setting insurance premiums on the basis of health status or sex, will remain intact.