Sentences with phrase «health numbers on»

«If you look at the health numbers on Staten Island, sadly we lead the league in all the wrong categories,» Oddo said.

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And the National Alliance on Mental Health provides a number of ways to seek support, including helplines, programs, and fact sheets.

They go on to cite a number of findings including one that found a direct relationship between clicking «likes» and links and a reduced sense of mental health.

But, when you're running a business without a set number of hours and schedule, it's easy to lose focus on your emotional health.

«The number of new patients is moving far faster than the capacity to manage them,» the World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan announced on Friday.

(The health system uses a number of surrogate measures along the way to make sure that their members are on the right track — for example, lowering their blood sugar if they are at risk of diabetes.)

Today, we are seeing high - growth numbers and more rapid returns on investment with the evolving and in - demand digital health industry that is driving exits such as FitBit, Evolent Health and Tehealth industry that is driving exits such as FitBit, Evolent Health and TeHealth and Teledoc.

Often, that translates to employees on the front lines stealing patient medical data or client social security numbers, which can then be sold on the black market or used to commit fraud like collecting someone else's social security benefits, opening new credit card accounts in another's name, or applying for health insurance by assuming the identity of someone else.

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

Beyond Meat is part of a growing number of startups looking to make meat (or something very close to it) without animals in order capitalize on consumers who are attempting to cut back on the amount of meat they eat for environmental, animal welfare, and health reasons.

At last year's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bergh found himself sitting at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test).

A growing number of businesses are opting out of providing traditional insurance for workers in favor of private exchanges, which allow consumers to search for health insurance in much the same way they'd search for a vacation package on Travelocity.com.

But that may prove to be a mere trickle compared with the number of health apps that end up on consumers» phones in the coming years, as Obamacare continues to drive the health care industry to reach new levels of efficiency.

I won't even touch on McPoutine's nutritional numbers, mainly because I don't want to know and because this is poutine; it's pretty clearly not health food.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma took to Twitter on Tuesday to tout the signup numbers (while continuing to slam the very health law she's tasked with administering).

It gave workers better health care and car maintenance services depending on the number of rides they completed.

That number doesn't even factor in the impact better health has on absentee rates, not to mention on our health insurance premiums.

And such numbers, it was lost on nobody, also made diabetes a bright red target for drugmakers — one that, according to information services firm IMS Health, was worth some $ 54 billion in 2013, and expected to grow by double digits through 2020.

Research has shown that sitting at a desk for long periods of time can lead to health problems, yet a surprising number of commercial workplaces still reserve their sit to stand desks for executives only, or offer them on a case basis to employees who request them.

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But will this new trend of self - policing on prices actually make a dent in health care spending, or reflect the «pay - for - performance» ethos that an increasing number of biopharma chiefs are ostensibly adopting?

Analysts rightly predicted that 2016 would be a big year for healthcare industry mergers, but 2017 is on pace to top it, with a number of blockbuster mergers between big - name health systems headlining the year in M&A.

The Trump administration on Wednesday issued a number of rules tweaking the health law as a potential replacement strategy takes hold, including loosening the penalties imposed on Americans who can't prove they've purchased health insurance.

He's made a number of comments on health care that the Liberals will use to attack him during the coming election campaign.

«Your letter states that the Public Service Agency's review is directed solely at «the human resources and investigation processes and procedures» that led to the termination of the employment of a number of Ministry of Health employees in 2012, rather than being a review of the decisions themselves,» Adams wrote on Whitmarsh's behalf.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- The number of consumers who signed up for 2018 Obamacare health insurance surpassed the 1 million mark in the second - to - last week of enrollment, the government said on Wednesday, but it did not appear to be enough to grow the program.

Instead, on Dec. 1, Mettrum issued a vague press release saying that «as a result of further testing and working with the full co-operation of Health Canada,» the company was adding «a small number of additional product lots» to its previous voluntary recall.

As a percentage of total spending, Boomers are expected to spend 3.4 % more on health care than their parents did, and through 2060 will contribute to a 1.04 % annual growth rate in this sector by sheer number of new customers alone.

2017 has already surpassed previous years in overall funding and the number of new and unique investors focused on digital health.

Additionally, different personnel may need to be on a team depending on the significance of the breach (whether it is at a mid-size or company - threatening level), type of breach (whether computer incursion or insider employee theft) or type of the information at issue in the breach (whether the breach involves social security numbers, credit or debit card numbers, personal health information or trade secrets).

Boston Boston, home to a wealth of bleeding - edge health — and education - tech startups (and the world - class universities and hospitals that often feed into them in one way or another), has laid claim to the Number One spot on the ITM report for two consecutive years.

Rates range widely from 20 % - 90 % APR depending on the health of your business, so watch out of that number and make sure you understand what it means before you take on a Kabbage line of credit.

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

I'm confident 2016 will be full of startups trying to help people find affordable health care and crunch the numbers on how to cure cancer, using the strengths of software and big data inside the life science industry.

Their current fund focuses mainly on Series A rounds, but also seed investments, in a number of fields, chief among them cybersecurity, digital health, and the future of work.

In addition, he has sat on the boards of a number of public and private companies, including Patient Home Monitoring Corp., Convalo Health International, Delivra Inc., Global Gardens Group Inc., and Shelby Ventures.

The drive contained personal information collected from 1986 - 2009 and includes names, addresses, personal education numbers, school locations, as well as more sensitive personal information like information on special needs designations, health records, and behavioral histories.

In a 2016 national survey of registered voters, health care ranked number four on the list of importance behind the economy, terrorism, and foreign policy.

You often hear doctors tell you to «know your numbers» when it comes to your health; your cholesterol, your blood pressure, and so on.

Both of these prices continue to rise as the number of insured Americans rises and the health of the insured population decreases on average.

Our proposals also include a number of other measures to improve workplace conditions: enhancing members» right to refuse dangerous work; specific measures to reduce stress for front - line workers and shift workers; improved collective agreement language on workplace harassment and discrimination; strong maternal health provisions; and fairness for injured workers.

In addition, a growing number of commentators, including senior representatives of some institutional investors, have expressed concern about the impact of hedge fund activism, and associated increased debt and cuts in capital spending, on long - term corporate health, innovation, job creation and GDP growth.»

GDPR is relevant to all organizations that collect and store personal data on EU individuals such as health data, email addresses, photographs, biometrics, national identity numbers; essentially any information about an individual that is collected and / or stored in such a way that it can be tied back to that...

Thomas Laqueur of the University of California at Berkeley reviews a number of books on smoking (meaning, mainly, cigarette smoking) and concludes with this: «They are the result of a new vision of what health means, or more precisely, of what death does not mean.

Look it up for yourself: the GOP has cut school lunch programs, Aid to dependent children, Planned Parenthood health care which provides medical care for expectant mothers (under the guise that they perform a limited number of abortions annually), Medicare programs which provides health care to the children who were born in the past because they weren't aborted, WIC which provides food to Women, Infants and Children... one could go on.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

These figures compare with World Bank numbers suggesting that the total governmental expenditure on all health programs worked out to be about $ 20

Although mainstream psychiatry is fairly sceptical, an increasing number within the profession acknowledge the damaging effect of abortion on mental health and maintain that the symptoms relating to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are commonly identified in the assessment of post-abortive women.

She serves the Jewish and broader religious communities in a number of capacities including as a member of the Global Initiative for Faith, Health and Development of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, as a member of the Summit on Religious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

The following timeline shows a number of actions the government took in the past year, setting precedents and priorities on various issues, including sexual orientation, health care, and hiring decisions.