Sentences with phrase «health measures rather»

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«Rather than implement harsh austerity measures, the provincial government chose to continue to invest in New Brunswickers, focussing on health and senior care and retaining...

Portugal now treats drug users as individuals who need care, rather than as criminals, Costa said — a measure that involved bolstering the country's health care system to offer treatment alternatives, rather than jail time, and which has earned plaudits from the United Nations.

The «first phase» of progress in health measures, from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, focused on groups rather than individuals.

No matter what sort of morality you are measuring, religiosity, doesn't seem to provide any benefits at all and, in fact, is correlated more closely with societal dysfunction rather than societal health.

One of the health care workers, probably an assistant or nurse rather than the doctor, will measure your daughter's vital signs, including weight and blood pressure.

Rather than viewing the measures from a compliance mind - set, which can supress effective implementation, the rules encourage businesses to be more ethical, responsible, and accountable by internalising the real costs of their activities upon the health of the wider population.

The Obama administration released a lengthy report this morning on the progress individual states have made on the implementation of the health care law approved in 2009 and, rather impishly, quotes Republican Sen. James Seward saying the measure has the backing of business.

Earlier methods measured foods independently along different criteria rather than funneling all the data together in one master health rating.

«If quality measures focused on age and health status, rather than age alone, we'd have better outcomes,» he adds.

For each measure, more than 70 % of this disparity was due to different outcomes for black and white individuals enrolled in the same health plan rather than selection of black enrollees into lower - performing plans.

Health is measured in terms of quality of life and positive vitality rather than the absence of disease.

The study is among the first of its kind to examine the outcomes associated with combinations of behaviors in midlife, rather than specific health measures (such as body mass index) that reflect those behaviors, says S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D., a professor of public health at the Center on Aging at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Much in the same way that sick banks are established in large group health insurance plans, teachers might find a way to establish group plans that seek to redistribute merit - based pay that recognizes the entirety of the profession rather than the narrow measures of the few.

Older women score more favorably on measures of mental health, and college - aged women report less loneliness if living with a companion animal rather than alone.

Rather than restricting urban agriculture out of fear - often unspecified — of health and environmental risks associated with urban agriculture, cities — instead - better design a series of accompanying measures to reduce these risks.

Often there is no single best option; rather, there are multiple measures available to decision - makers at the municipal level where several technologies may be collectively implemented to reduce GHG emissions and achieve public health, environmental protection and sustainable development objectives.

Obesity researchers who included measures of binge eating in studies on obesity treatment concluded that BWL was effective and that there was no need for specialty therapies.12, 13 Limitations of these studies included small sample sizes, lack of longer - term follow - up, and self - report measures of binge eating rather than the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) semi-structured interview.14 Potential advantages of BWL are that it results in clinically significant short - term weight loss and can be implemented by a wider range of health professionals than a specialty psychological therapy.

It is unclear if the association is causal or rather if substance abuse is secondary to another factor, such as depression or hopelessness.9 In the present study, alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use remained significant even when the effects of other factors, including a measure of emotional health, were taken into account.

She argues that it will probably take several generations for Indigenous people's health to approximate that of non-Indigenous Australians: «Rather than specify an unrealistic time line for aspirational goals, it would be better to focus on shorter - term process measures.»

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

This brought cuts to public hospital funding and a proposal for a GP co-payment: hallmarks of policy measures geared around reducing health expenditure rather than impacts on people and what was best for the sustainability and effectiveness of the health system overall.

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 addition, measuring childhood adversities during childhood, rather than later, may offer other improvements to the ACE Study's early life predictors of health outcomes.21 It allows the possibility of obtaining a more accurate and comprehensive assessment of childhood events than one would be able to obtain after many years.

Measures with a negative focus can suggest to participants that such programmes are for people with mental health problems and in this way detract from, rather than support, these initiatives.