Sentences with phrase «health system factors»

of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to understand how personal factors including women's social norms, perceived beliefs, social support and personal barriers such as untreated mental health, substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and health system factors, including whether women receive HIV and obstetric care together or separately, contribute to HIV outcomes.

«Researchers examine the influence of country - level and health system factors on nursing and physician personnel production.»

Not exact matches

Farrington points to Canada's health care system and «impressively low level» of income inequality as factors that placed it in the top 10.

The damage includes factors like a rise in mortality rates as health and safety systems fail, a decline in trade as ports shut down and transportation chaos as infrastructure collapses.

There are other factors at play though, and many recent studies have shown that the micro biome in our guts that is the foundation of our immune system and a major factor in hormone production is key to overall health.

Factors in both the health care and education system, as well as a lack of a culture of postpartum care all contribute to a failure to focus our efforts on prevention.

These findings suggest that other potentially modifiable factors, such as patient preferences and practice variation among hospitals, systems, and health care providers, likely contribute to the escalating cesarean delivery rates.

Since then, research, professional guidelines, state — wide health care directives, hospital systems, health care quality improvement initiatives, and federal and state - level maternity care legislation have identified many aspects of the MFCI and the Ten Steps of the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative as key factors to improving maternal - infant health outcomes.

The study's author noted (and anti-home-birth advocates are quick to point out) that the outcomes were a result of «a good risk - selection system, good transport in place, and well - trained midwives,» factors that are no doubt influenced by the collaboration of Dutch doctors and midwives and a national health system that support home births as a viable choice for women.

Asked about the way Trump might factor into this year's race, Latimer detailed actions such as the proposed changes to the nation's health care system.

The primary goal was that projects enhance the state's health care system, and «demonstration of financial need» was just one of many factors, according to the Department of Hhealth care system, and «demonstration of financial need» was just one of many factors, according to the Department of HealthHealth.

«Of course when you are looking at the education system in the round there are a number of factors that you'll look at when you assess the health of the whole system.»

The researchers used data collected between 2008 and 2010 from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the world's largest ongoing health survey, from 12 states representing four distinct regions: the Northeast (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island); the Midwest (Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska); the West (Wyoming); and the South (Delaware, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia).

Bisakha Sen, Ph.D., associate professor of health care policy at UAB, used health behavior data for whites and blacks from Alabama and Mississippi taken from the national Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and took a method used in economics to analyze gender wage disparities.

Significant child - level factors associated with greater odds of justice - system contact included being male, having a mental - health diagnosis or child - protection contact, and academic failure.

Key factors contributing to this issue include the tenuous state of the Social Security system, greater use of defined - contribution pension plans by employers, longer lifespans, and the rise of depression and other mental health issues in older Americans.

In an accompanying editorial, Michael Davis, CRNP and Jeffrey Kopp, MD (National Institutes of Health) noted that the study also pointed to various factors — such as having access to alternate dialysis in an integrated system, getting access to transportation, and having a stable social situation — that could be important for avoiding missed dialysis treatments.

Research suggests that there may be a combination of biologic, cultural, health systems - based and other factors that may be contributing to the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in African Americans when compared to non-Hispanic whites.

«Our findings are particularly interesting because testosterone was previously unrecognized as a factor in the development of uterine fibroids,» said another study author, Jennifer S. Lee, MD, PhD, of Stanford University School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System in Palo Alto, CA.

«I have already ensured that the issues surrounding CIHR and its reforms will be considered by the panel, and I look forward to their advice,» wrote Philpott, who also noted that «I expect CIHR to ensure that the very best health research across all pillars [biomedical; clinical; health systems and services; and social cultural, environmental factors that affect the health of populations] is funded according to the highest international standards of research excellence.»

In a May 6 paper published in Health Affairs, David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, and co-author Nikhil Sahni, a senior researcher in Harvard's Economics Department, point to several factors, including a decline in the development of new drugs and technologies and increased efficiency in the health care system, to explain the recent sloHealth Affairs, David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, and co-author Nikhil Sahni, a senior researcher in Harvard's Economics Department, point to several factors, including a decline in the development of new drugs and technologies and increased efficiency in the health care system, to explain the recent slohealth care system, to explain the recent slowdown.

In addition, we need to consider sex presentation, age, ethnic background, and socioeconomic status because these factors also can determine results,» write Julie A. Freischlag, M.D., and Michelle M. Silva, B.A., of the UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, in an accompanying commentary.

Therefore, starting an exercise program, regardless of one's age, can not only contribute to the more obvious physical health factors, but may also contribute to memory performance and brain function,» explained corresponding author Scott Hayes, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

The Veterans Affairs (VA) health system presents an ideal model to test whether patient and provider factors affect CRC screening after controlling for system - level factors.

«I'd like to see NIH go to a three - pronged standard [that includes socioeconomic factors],» she says, «so long as MARC students still demonstrate a desire to look at the racial disparities in our health care system.»

To use hd - PS, a researcher downloads the program from the Harvard site, connects it to one of the data software packages widely used in epidemiology, and imports to the system a wide range of health information on each study subject, ranging from basics like blood pressure and age to smaller, more esoteric factors like whether the individual saw a doctor in the past six months.

To better understand why women who initiate HPV vaccination do not complete the series, a team of researchers led by Dr. Abbey Berenson from the University of Texas Medical Branch examined the correlates of vaccine series completion among young women using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a cross-sectional telephone health survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Key to the success is a programme of work led by Dr Sebastian Fuller, ADREU Social Science Lead researcher, also based at St George's, which is designed to identify the main factors that might facilitate or obstruct adoption of new technologies in the health system.

«With an underfunded health care system and a population that would benefit more from a focus on lifestyle factors, such as smoking and abuse of alcohol and drugs, we should not enter into expensive high - tech endeavors,» says Tiina Tasmuth, a professor of medical education at the University of Tallinn.

«We increasingly recognize that many — and perhaps most — factors influencing health outcomes are found outside of the health system and relate to such universal themes as food availability, adequate housing and reliable transportation,» said Dr. Shaun Grannis, director of the Regenstrief Institute's Center for Biomedical Informatics and a co-author of the study.

Kraig and his team, which includes Aya Pusic and Kae Pusic, PhD, discovered that dendritic cells, professional antigen presenting cells of the immune system, can be stimulated by factors released during environmental enrichment to produce exosomes containing microRNAs that improve brain health.

Genetic dissection of the corticotropin - releasing factor (CRF) system reveals a role for the CRF type - 2 receptor in locomotor sensitivity to methamphetamine William Giardino, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA

They reflect an overall impact of multiple causative factors similar to those of other developing countries where rice is not a major staple.8 Various deficiencies including zinc, vitamin C and D, folate, riboflavin, selenium and calcium occur in the context of poverty, environmental degradation, lack of public health systems and sanitation, lack of proper education and social disparity.

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One crucial factor when addressing products for oral health is to be sure not to put any additional toxins into the system in the process.

By addressing important lifestyle factors and changing your focus to eating nutrient - dense foods that support optimal gut health (and optimal health of your gut microorganisms), that restore levels of important nutrients and provide all of the building blocks that your body needs to heal and properly regulate the immune system, that help resolve inflammation and support organ function, you create an environment in your body conducive to healing.

The findings suggest also that men may be more vulnerable than women to certain risk factors for MCI, says Rhonna Shatz, D.O., director of behavioral neurology at the Henry Ford Health System, in Detroit.

With it now becoming increasingly clear that your microflora influence the expression of your genes, your immune system, weight, mental health, memory, and your risk of numerous chronic and acute diseases, from diabetes to cancer, destroying your gut flora with antibiotics and poor diet is a primary factor in rising disease rates.

As with nearly every other health challenge, your diet is a critical factor in supporting your body's detoxification system.

Looking at the vast number of possible factors impacting a person's health, including their genetics, environment, nutritional status, stress, toxins, and their personal belief systems, a functional medicine physician assesses the core imbalances that need to be rebalanced to help that patient reclaim optimal health.

Several factors, and many start with the health of your microbiome, which is the ecosystem of bacteria that benefits our gut health and immune system.

One very important factor in health, and even survival, is the ability of the body to maintain homeostasis — the equilibrium between different organs and systems.

People who use natural or complementary approaches to health often do it because they feel conventional medicine focuses too narrowly on one symptom or body system, with little integration of the body with other aspects of life, such as lifestyle, diet, and social factors.

You can think of propolis as the immune system of the hive and a key factor in overall hive health.

A company called Zenith Advanced Health Systems once sold a formula that combined cod liver oil and flaxseed oil, claiming that the X Factor was an unsaturated fatty acid (sometimes called vitamin F) found in flaxseed oil.

As you've probably noticed in the last couple of years, probiotics are all the rage as one of THE most important factors that helps control your immune system (an estimated 70 % of your immune system resides in your gut), as well as your digestive system health.

In my practice, I have found that a person's SIgA levels is one of the first factors I look at when it comes to the stool test, it allows me to see how strong that person's gut immune health connection is, and in particular, how capable their immune system is in fighting any intestinal infection.

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Studies have shown that the regular intake of whole grain wheat and wheat germ can reduce risk factors associated with coronary heart disease and can increase the health of the entire cardiovascular system.

Maintaining a healthy immune system is a key factor to overall health and longevity.