Sentences with phrase «health needs of this population»

«The fact that 25.4 percent of New Yorkers are obese is a reminder that we need to do more to address the health needs of populations that face the most significant social, economic, and health challenges.

The focus of policy needs to reflect the very different health needs of this population.

The empirical studies on homelessness, which have been conducted to date, focus on the physical and mental health needs of this population and vary in the extent to which questions on drug misuse are included.

Not exact matches

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

«For anyone receiving the diagnosis, or supporting a loved one through it, cancer can be overwhelming,» Kyu Rhee, MD, chief health officer, IBM Watson Health, said in the release, adding, «With this first - ever U.S. rollout of the technology, the full breadth and depth of Watson's services can benefit an entire population of individuals who need them.&health officer, IBM Watson Health, said in the release, adding, «With this first - ever U.S. rollout of the technology, the full breadth and depth of Watson's services can benefit an entire population of individuals who need them.&Health, said in the release, adding, «With this first - ever U.S. rollout of the technology, the full breadth and depth of Watson's services can benefit an entire population of individuals who need them.»

Several of the services will focus on population health management, including a predictive system that analyzes patient health records and insurance claims to anticipate patients» future needs (and health care providers» costs).

21ST - CENTURY DETECTION AND PREVENTION Value Chain Track As the burden of chronic ailments increases along with our aging populations, public health experts are in near - universal agreement that we need to a far better job of preventing disease.

In the areas of families and health, the Party notes that it has increased childcare subsidies; funded the creation of additional childcare spaces; approved funding for new hospitals in Sherwood Park and Grande Prairie, the Edmonton clinic, and the South Calgary Health Campus; and approved $ 280 million for 832 continuing care beds to meet the needs of an aging populhealth, the Party notes that it has increased childcare subsidies; funded the creation of additional childcare spaces; approved funding for new hospitals in Sherwood Park and Grande Prairie, the Edmonton clinic, and the South Calgary Health Campus; and approved $ 280 million for 832 continuing care beds to meet the needs of an aging populHealth Campus; and approved $ 280 million for 832 continuing care beds to meet the needs of an aging population.

As the U.S. nears the point where minorities comprise greater than 50 percent of the population, the need for strong minority - owned businesses in national and global supply chains will be vital to the health of our growing economy.»

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

«This study represents a major milestone for the UC - II ® brand, and it validates our efforts to develop new paradigms for joint health products for the aging population, while also addressing the needs of an expanding group of younger, active, health - conscious consumers,» said Dr. James Lugo, Chief Scientific Officer of the Consumer Health & Nutrition Business Unit of health products for the aging population, while also addressing the needs of an expanding group of younger, active, health - conscious consumers,» said Dr. James Lugo, Chief Scientific Officer of the Consumer Health & Nutrition Business Unit of health - conscious consumers,» said Dr. James Lugo, Chief Scientific Officer of the Consumer Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Lonza.

Once children are welcome in society, maybe people in countries like Germany that need young people badly to pay for the retirement and health care costs of the older segments of the population, will consider having more children.

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease preveHealth Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevehealth care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevehealth and disease prevention.

There are certain segments of the population who need to consider all the possible health effects that using electric blankets can have.

The health risks associated with formula feeding for premature infants include increased incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis, 5 delayed brainstem maturation, 6 decreased scoring on cognitive and developmental tests,7 - 10 and decreased visual development.11, 12 Thus, human - milk feeding of premature infants is desirable, and effective strategies to increase breastfeeding rates in this population are needed.

With a large percentage of the US population feeling unrecognized and unheard, maternal and mental health care is exactly what we need most.

Although breastfeeding is one of the most effective preventive health measures for children and mothers regardless of where they live, it has been overlooked as a critical need for the health of the population, say the authors.

«Health and care services need to rise to the challenge of responding to the increasingly complex conditions suffered by our ageing population,» said Dave Behan, CQC chief executive.

This is why CIHT believes more needs to be done to recognise the wider benefits transport plays in people's health and wellbeing, and the role it has to play in tackling some of our big societal challenges such as obesity, the ageing population and social exclusion.

Surveys of public opinion indicate that Germans by and large are satisfied with their health care system (as opposed to the U.S. where a large portion of the population thinks that system needs substantial changes).

It helps to open up not only a much - needed discussion about mental health among the general population, but also the issue of mental health within politics.

«Sampson's representatives made similar calls to other groups that depend on the state for funding.Sampson's sister, Yvette Henriquez, has a 20 % stake in the proposed home care agency, Shining Star Home Care, a for - profit company that is applying to the state Department of Health to operate a «special - needs population» certified home health agency, or CHHA.&Health to operate a «special - needs population» certified home health agency, or CHHA.&health agency, or CHHA.»

Ulrich said he proposed the legislation out of the need for increased funding for the Mayor's Office of Veterans» Affairs (MOVA), which relied heavily on coordinating with other city agencies to address issues of homelessness, mental health and unemployment in the city's veteran population.

A Department of Health spokesperson commented: «It is for local NHS organisations to determine the number of nurses and midwives that they need to employ to meet the needs of their local populations.

Mrs Bawumia bemoaned what she termed the high rate of teenage pregnancy and emphasized the need to prioritize the health of adolescents, who constitute 29.3 per cent of the country's population.

WHEREAS, the State of New York is best positioned to: (1) understand the ramifications of operating an Exchange within New York's commercial insurance market; (2) consider the unique regional and economic needs of the State's individual and small business health insurance markets; (3) account for the diversity of its population, with its ethnic, cultural and language differences; and (4) decide what benefits will be provided to enrollees in the Exchange, which health plans can participate in the Exchange, what rules should apply to the marketing of products by health plans, and how to operate the Small Business Health Option Program («SHOP») for small businhealth insurance markets; (3) account for the diversity of its population, with its ethnic, cultural and language differences; and (4) decide what benefits will be provided to enrollees in the Exchange, which health plans can participate in the Exchange, what rules should apply to the marketing of products by health plans, and how to operate the Small Business Health Option Program («SHOP») for small businhealth plans can participate in the Exchange, what rules should apply to the marketing of products by health plans, and how to operate the Small Business Health Option Program («SHOP») for small businhealth plans, and how to operate the Small Business Health Option Program («SHOP») for small businHealth Option Program («SHOP») for small businesses;

Public health addresses the needs of populations and seeks, through intervention and education, to prevent the spread of disease.

Emergency patients over the age of 74 have significantly different and more complex health and social needs than their younger counterparts, even after controlling for illness severity, which has important implications about aging populations and emergency departments of the future.

Perhaps not enough mileage is made of biotech's low - tech origins — people have been brewing and baking for thousands of years, after all — or that a major driving force for the industry is a growing and ageing world population and its burgeoning need for food, health care, and energy supplies.

«Public health efforts are needed to raise university administration and student population awareness of the harms that indoor tanning poses to young adults in order to increase demand for policy - related action.

«Despite increased discussion of the topic, there remains a dire need to resolve our understanding of the mental health issues in the trainee population.»

«For women to have timely access to services that can help to save her life she still needs the community, husband and family to be able to provide access and transportation,» explains Grace Kodindo, an assistant clinical professor of population and family health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Hhealth at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public HealthHealth.

As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.

With the number of prisoners with severe mental illness in prison increasing, efforts need to be made by all prison staff to ensure that this segment of the prison population has appropriate mental health care and safety.»

A detailed analysis of the lives of nearly a thousand people from birth to age 38 shows that a small portion of the population accounts for the lion's share of social costs such as crime, welfare dependence and health - care needs as adults.

Each new report of their symptoms provides a clearer window into the health care needs of this population.

Dr. Iwona Rudkowska, a research scientist at the Endocrinology and Nephrology Department, at the CHU de Québec Research Center and assistant professor at Laval University, says «additional well - designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populations.»

«We need to increase awareness of rabies in the local population, so that they can take appropriate health precautions such as seeking medical attention if they get bitten.

There are great opportunities in Finland to systematically utilise this kind of intervention, as the needed expertise and infrastructure exist already and the entire population is covered by the national health care system.

Their traditionally low - budget science, which needs only pencil and paper to tally shared traits in the classical twin studies, has entered the high - tech world of genetic epidemiology, which traces the power of genes to influence the health of populations.

According to Dr Chatterji, also from the Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems at WHO, «Collectively, we need to look beyond the costs commonly associated with aging to think about the benefits that an older, healthier, happier, and more productive older population can bring to society as a whole.»

aegypti (dengue and chikungunya), can not be won if the only fighter is the health sector, if the weapons are limited and / or inappropriate, and if the battle plan does not address the basic needs and rights of the population.

4) Create networks that share health data — Foster sharing of health data among experts within and across wild carnivore range countries, to vastly increase our understanding of disease impacts on endangered populations, and enable proactive and reactive responses when and where they are needed most.

«With one - quarter of older Mexican - American immigrants and 30 percent of Mexican - Americans born in the United States reporting substantial physical limitations, there is a clear need for providing all Mexican - American older adults with appropriate health care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berhealth care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, BerHealth at the University of California, Berkeley.

«There is a critical public health need to translate these findings to humans and understand vaccine response in this growing segment of the population,» Schultz - Cherry said.

But implementation of policies is not enough; countries, and the global health community, need to collect timely, reliable, and detailed information on the effect of those policies, particularly among vulnerable populations and those being directly targeted by the tobacco industry.

Stenchikov and Lioy say that future research is needed to determine the health effects on populations at these different levels of exposure.

A research team investigating the mental health burden and treatment - seeking behaviors of student veterans attending rural community colleges in the southern United States has found that this population has difficulty integrating into the campus community and needs support to help it succeed.

«We need to understand why these differences exist... and figure out how to translate it to the broader population of physicians,» said Dr. Ashish Jha, a professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and senior author of the health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and senior author of the Health and senior author of the paper.

Doctors also need to be careful, however, not to wreck native populations of bacteria vital to human health.