Sentences with phrase «health on a population level»

«If true, then this illustrates how medical interventions have resulted in significant improvements in health on a population level.»

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Even with small reformulations — to decrease levels of salt in certain products, for instance — the impact on population health can be substantial.

Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child, including higher maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks of infectious disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).

Interventions to improve the feeding of LBW infants are likely to improve the immediate and longer - term health and well - being of the individual infant and have a significant impact on neonatal and infant mortality levels in the population.

If causal, the small reduction in blood pressure associated with breastfeeding could confer important benefits on cardiovascular health at a population level.

On the most basic level, our jail must provide its inmate population a full array of services, including meals, medical and mental health care, clothing and linens, laundry, visitation, mail and telephone, recreation, religious programs, and access to courts and attorneys.

However, increased social spending per dollar spent on health care was associated with improved health outcomes at the population level by province.

Recent work by Paul Farmer and others challenges bioethics to address urgent questions of global health equity not only on the level of method but in the form of strategic partnerships with the most vulnerable populations.

«Enacting well - crafted age restriction laws to maximize compliance through enforcement of penalties on the state level and moving towards a national ban with similar accompanying strong enforcement as proposed by many national and international health organizations are essential to reduce skin cancer risk in the vulnerable youth population,» she adds.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

A number of interventions at the individual, family, health care provider and community levels that could be useful in helping to ameliorate the negative effects of stress on low - income and minority populations and potentially address some of the health disparities are identified in the report.

The landmark 1972 legislation recognized marine mammals as a central element of their ocean ecosystems, setting population goals based on levels that would contribute to the health and stability of those ecosystems.

The findings, published in the American Journal of Public Health, suggest that current weight management programmes focused on dieting and exercise are not effective in tackling obesity at population level.

«Public health benefits from vaccines hinge on very high levels of immunization in the population, so it's important to understand which groups hold reservations about the MMR vaccine,» Funk said.

«On a broader systems level, tracking health care utilization and health outcomes will help organizations monitor health at the population level and provide hard data to policymakers seeking to implement other supportive remedies,» they note.

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

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

· further research is needed to shed more light on associations between lower levels of sodium (in the 1,500 to 2,300 mg / day range) and health outcomes, both in the general population and the subgroups.

«At present, there is little direct evidence demonstrating that electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling intervention has a meaningful population - level effect on excessive alcohol consumption or related harms in any group, and therefore its utility as a stand - alone public health approach is in doubt.

This research could have important implications for developing countries whose populations rely on rice as a staple of their diets and are in need of cheap, readily available material to improve soil quality and decrease arsenic levels that threaten human health.

Based on available evidence, Dartmouth researchers quantified the balance of health benefits and harms associated with e-cigarette use at the population level and found that e-cigarettes could substantially increase the number of adolescents and young adults who eventually become cigarette smokers.

Quantifying the total cost of a health problem helps to show the public, payers, and health care administrators the magnitude of the problem on a population level.

«It is clear that increases in the incidence of the Guillain — Barré syndrome to a level that is 2.0 and 9.8 times as high as baseline, as we have reported here, impose a substantial burden on populations and health services in this region,» wrote the team, made up of researchers from the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and individual countries» health minishealth services in this region,» wrote the team, made up of researchers from the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and individual countries» health minisHealth Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and individual countries» health minisHealth Organization, and individual countries» health minishealth ministries.

The current recommendation is based on unique conditions associated with the current pandemic, including low levels of population immunity to 2009 H1N1, the potential for health - care personnel to be exposed to H1N1 patients, and other factors, Dimond says.

According to World Health Organization, Salt Fact Sheet, most of the world's populations consume on average 9 — 12 grams per day, or around twice the recommended maximum level of intake which WHO places at 5 grams per day.

Doses of 600 mg per day of D - chiro - inositol have been shown to improve insulin and androgen levels in lean women with PCOS (Luorno et al. 200231), while doses of 1000 mg per day have been effective at improving a range of metabolic and cardiovascular health indicators on a more representative PCOS population (Lagana et al. 201522).

Our state - by - state estimates capture variation in costs and benefits due to factors such as population, income distribution, teacher salaries, crime rates, health care costs, tax burdens, and current expenditures on all levels of education, child welfare, criminal justice, and health care.

It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...

I rarely post on this site but feel compelled to based on comment # 13 above, specifically the following paragraph: «Restoring open ocean plankton populations to known 1980 levels of health would not only annually sequester at minimum 3 ~ 4 billion tons of atmospheric CO2 (or half our global warming surplus today), it would regenerate tens of billions of tons of missing nourishment for fisheries, seabirds and marine mammals.»

Providing data on levels of environmental chemicals found in the U.S. population so appropriate studies can be conducted to determine whether these levels pose a health risk

According to the company (based on information from the World Health Organization and the EPA), it might be better for people to track the air quality around them instead of focusing on their fitness trackers, as some 92 % of the world's population lives in places where the air pollution exceeds the levels considered to be «healthy», and even indoor air quality can be worse than outside air quality.

While it's important not to overstate the case — again, improved health care can be a double - edged sword, if people are able to live longer because of it but at greater financial cost — one way to interpret this study is that if more people are not economically old, that is they are still contributing to society on their own and not collecting pension or requiring increased health care, there is less burden on falling population levels from an otherwise aging population.

It supports EPA efforts and activities to monitor air quality levels, estimate population exposure to air pollutants, examine the effects of air pollution on public health, track progress in improving air quality and reducing associated risks, and provide models, tools, and technical guidance to states.

Even with the single payer system, our health care costs are a substantial component of governmental budgets and are likely to rise to unsustainable levels with our aging population without further changes to the system (some of which are likely to reduce the «competency» of those providing health services — i.e. less reliance on doctors).

The impact of risks associated with life and health are far more severe on this population as compared to the urban population with higher levels of income.

The Australian Early Development Census is a population - level measure of early childhood development collected on every student by teachers at school entry (N > 260 000) every 3 years.12 It measures five domains of early childhood development (physical health and well - being; social competence; emotional maturity; language and cognitive skills; and communication skills and general knowledge).

In this article on The Conversation, Professor Emily Banks, Scientific Director of the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study, outlined why one of the most powerful weapons that doctors, public health departments and governments could use in their battle to decide which disease to help prevent next was the long - term population study or «longitudinal cohort study», because it can build up a comprehensive picture of health at a population level over time.

On a population health level, integration promotes primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention within a single integrated system and can improve identification of community needs.49

For example, there is evidence of local systemic stigma based on population data analysis, in that children registered in tertiary mental health services receive less emergency and inpatient treatment for their physical disorders after psychiatric diagnosis than do children with no mental disorder, even though they have more physical and biomedical diagnoses at the levels of ambulatory and provincial physician billing.28

The MDI is designed to be administered as a large - scale, population - level measure so that stakeholders in communities and schools can obtain representative data on children during middle childhood on five dimensions: (1) Social and emotional development, (2) Connectedness to peers and adults at school, at home, and in the neighborhood, (3) School Experiences, (4) Physical health and well - being, and, (5) Constructive use of time after - school.

Research on meditation in diverse populations of adults has accumulated sufficiently to provide convincing high - level evidence for reproducible benefits of meditation in mental health and pain management.69 — 71 In addition, data suggest that greater levels of mindfulness in adulthood may mitigate some of the negative health effects of adverse childhood experiences.72 The literature in children and youth, however, is less developed and, although suggestive of benefit, is just beginning to emerge.73 — 76 To provide the highest level of available evidence regarding the specific effect (s) attributable to meditation instruction for children and youth, conclusions in this report are based on findings from RCTs with active control conditions.

However, the question remains: would these levels of participation be sufficient to make a real impact on child mental health across the whole population?

Kids Count continues to be the most comprehensive source of data on the well - being of children in Nebraska and covers data in population, health, education, economic stability, child welfare, and juvenile justice and contains Voices for Children's Index of Race and Opportunity for Nebraska Children, 32 county - level indicators, and our commentary on Emerging Adults.

Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each ahealth workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each ahealth workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each aHealth Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57

Crittenton Youth Services (CYS): Custodial Residential Level II Special Populations This program serves adolescent females who: have moderate to severe emotional and / or behavioral problems; need on - campus education; display impulsive behaviors, alcohol and / or drug abuse, aggression, moderate mental health needs and diagnosis; are chronic runaways; have difficulty maintaining self - control; display poor social skills; and have difficulty accepting adult authority.