Sentences with phrase «health outcome measures»

As this is a key measure, variations in general health were compared across each of the health outcome measures discussed below.

Importantly, family type is not significantly associated with health outcome measures when other key variables are considered.

Of the 8 health outcome measures that were significantly positively associated with family type in Table 1 (in most cases with single - parent family membership), 3 (long - term injury after any previous accident, scarred by any previous accident, antibiotics) were no longer significantly associated with family type membership after accounting for overcrowding, lack of economic resources, educational attainment, and child sex (not tabled).

Although its structure often raises questions in the nurse population, its dimensions (mainly the control one) have been shown to be predictive of some health outcomes measured with «objective» indicators concerning absenteeism, injuries, and musculoskeletal disorders.

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.

Value - based care is an emerging payment model that focuses on measuring a patient's health outcome against the cost of delivering the outcome.

Measuring 29 health outcomes using three - level (good, intermediate, or bad) scoring, the prayer group suffered fewer newly diagnosed ailments on only six of them.

Measuring 29 health outcomes using three - level (good, intermed.iate, or bad) scoring, the prayer group suffered fewer newly diagnosed a.ilments on only six of them.

Moreover, the study only measured dietary behaviors at the very beginning of the study, yet makes conclusions about health outcomes over 12 years.»

In most families, there was no significant impact of the home visits on the children's mental development or school outcomes, but in families where mothers scored especially low on measures of intelligence and mental health, children's academic performance did improve.

Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.

There were no significant differences in outcome of home or hospital births attended by midwives for the other child health measures.

The American Association of Pediatricians statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk (2005) states, «Exclusive breastfeeding is the reference or normative model against which all alternative feeding methods must be measured with regard to growth, health, development and all other short and long - term outcomes.»

Correlational trends show detrimental effects of formula on all sorts of health outcomes that have been measured.

The breastfed infant is the reference or normative model against which all alternative feeding methods must be measured with regard to growth, health, development, and all other short - and long - term outcomes.

Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the two groups.

The literature shows that father absence tends to correlate with poorer children's outcomes, including lower education attainment, poorer health, greater emotional and behavioral problems, with effects lasting well into adulthood (as measured by socioeconomic status and marital patterns).

«While SNE supports breastfeeding and the principles on which this law was drafted, we are concerned that the measures would not have the intended outcome, and could even result in negative health impacts.»

If the aspiration is excellence, how can we measure whether it's being achieved and what happens when the government's well - intended goals of improving health outcomes don't actually occur.

Such investigations are only possible when studies measure risk factors and health outcomes at different time points, and results are analysed with appropriate techniques.

Sorlie, et al. contend that the availability of health insurance plays a critical factor in the outcomes measured in their study, as the Hispanic community is the least insured minority group in the US.

To be included in the review, studies had to measure psychosocial, physical and / or cognitive outcomes associated with formal volunteering — such as happiness, physical health, depression, cognitive functioning, feelings of social support and life satisfaction.

The pharmaceutical measures were not associated with the other health outcomes studied.

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

Efforts are being made to improve health outcomes in deprived areas but more resources need to be provided for preventative measures, training and education.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

«We found a consistent pattern of success across a number of different outcome measures,» says the study's principal investigator John Walkup, MD, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a faculty member within the Center for American Indian Health.

Adults who had been members of gangs in their adolescence had poorer outcomes on a variety of measures, including physical and mental health, than those who'd never been in a gang.

While cautioning that the quantity of evidence was less - than - optimal and that the studies were qualitatively limited by the methods used to measure sodium intake, the small number of patients with health outcomes of interest in some of the studies, and other methodological constraints, the committee concluded that:

Future studies should use outcome measures such as change in quantities of food consumed or energy intake to quantify the impact on dietary intake and the potential impact on nutrition - related health.

Standard definitions are needed for measuring outcomes when evaluating vaccine safety studies in pregnant women, a problem recently highlighted by the World Health Organization.

Primary outcome was assessed by changes to liver fat measured by MRI - PDFF, conducted by the Liver Imaging Group in the Department of Radiology at UC San Diego Health.

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.

Of the factors examined that combine to create the County Health Rankings, the counties ranked lowest for poverty, measured as the number of children below the poverty line, had twice the relative risk of asthma as an outcome from PM2.5 exposure than those counties ranked highest (the largest difference).

Objectives To assess variations among Medicare health plans in overall quality and racial disparity in 4 Health Plan Employer and Data Information Set (HEDIS) outcome measures, to determine whether high - performing plans exhibit smaller racial disparities, and to identify plans with high quality and low disphealth plans in overall quality and racial disparity in 4 Health Plan Employer and Data Information Set (HEDIS) outcome measures, to determine whether high - performing plans exhibit smaller racial disparities, and to identify plans with high quality and low dispHealth Plan Employer and Data Information Set (HEDIS) outcome measures, to determine whether high - performing plans exhibit smaller racial disparities, and to identify plans with high quality and low disparity.

Third, have any specific health plans achieved both high overall quality and low racial disparity on 1 or more HEDIS outcome measures?

Several performance reporting systems now report publicly on aspects of quality such as surgical outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of health care organizations have also assessed the equity of care provided by those organizations.

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The researchers analyzed data from 148 previously published longitudinal studies that measured frequency of human interaction and tracked health outcomes for a period of seven and a half years on average.

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.

In addition to steps, the researchers measured levels of moderate - to - vigorous physical activity and health outcomes, including weight, systolic (top number) blood pressure, aerobic capacity and quality of life.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress should be broadened to gauge how American youths are faring on a range of academic, social, health, and cultural indicators, contends a report that calls for new measures of educational outcomes and equity.

Key Measures Special educational needs key measures include a single assessment process (0 - 25) which is more streamlined, better involves children, young people and families and is completed quickly; An Education Health and Care Plan (replacing the statement) which brings services together and is focused on improving outcomes; An offer of a personal budget for families with an Education, Health and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their Measures Special educational needs key measures include a single assessment process (0 - 25) which is more streamlined, better involves children, young people and families and is completed quickly; An Education Health and Care Plan (replacing the statement) which brings services together and is focused on improving outcomes; An offer of a personal budget for families with an Education, Health and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their measures include a single assessment process (0 - 25) which is more streamlined, better involves children, young people and families and is completed quickly; An Education Health and Care Plan (replacing the statement) which brings services together and is focused on improving outcomes; An offer of a personal budget for families with an Education, Health and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their suHealth and Care Plan (replacing the statement) which brings services together and is focused on improving outcomes; An offer of a personal budget for families with an Education, Health and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their suHealth and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their suhealth services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their support.

' [Skills] such as perseverance, sociability and self - esteem have been shown to influence numerous measures of social outcomes, including better health, improved subjective wellbeing and reduced odds of engaging in conduct problems.

Its strategy draws on advances in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences to: (1) identify causal mechanisms that influence developmental trajectories; (2) formulate theories of change about how to produce better outcomes; and (3) design and test new intervention approaches and measure their effectiveness in reducing barriers to learning and strengthening the foundations of lifelong physical and mental health.

HEALTH & WELL - BEING Babcock Education describes why happy and healthy staff will have a positive impact on the learning outcomes of children, and how measuring health and well - being can be a schools greatestHEALTH & WELL - BEING Babcock Education describes why happy and healthy staff will have a positive impact on the learning outcomes of children, and how measuring health and well - being can be a schools greatesthealth and well - being can be a schools greatest asset

David Armstrong continued: «Identifying two indicators - emotional intelligence and social skills - and mapping these to the Achieving Schools Theory of Change, is an important first step in measuring the longer term outcomes of the programme, such as reduced risk of antisocial behaviour and spending time in prison and reduced risk of mental ill - health and long - term illness.

Social return on investment offers a new way to measure and share the value of outcomes from community schools that provide social, health and education services to children and their families.

And although some of the measured academic differences to peers without preschool do shrink over time, there is strong evidence of meaningful, long - term positive impacts of preschool on important indicators including high school graduation, health, employment, crime, and other outcomes.

Outcome measures covered all four Head Start program goals: cognitive development, social - emotional development, health status and access to health care, and parenting practices.