Sentences with phrase «important health intervention»

Sandiford says that there is increasing evidence that female education, at any age, is «an important health intervention in its own right».

The health advocates acknowledged that the fortification of basic foods can be an important health intervention if properly managed, but had serious concerns about this untested market - led approach in relation to infant and young child feeding.

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Innovative Treatments for the Post-Institutionalized Child: A Guide for Families and Mental Health Professionals The most important intervention which families and professionals can provide to the older post-institutionalized child is an immediate and comprehensive medical and neurodevelopmental assessment.

Schools play an important role in children's health and are often prime settings for public health interventions.

Our findings should therefore lead to more widespread adoption of this important public health intervention.

Another strength is that our results provide a more complete assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27

Reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health is an important public health goal.1 A key first step toward achieving that goal is to evaluate and compare the impact of various interventions across socioeconomic strata.

Although children with DS often need extensive health evaluations and other professional interventions from an early age, it's important to keep in mind that every child deserves to be surrounded by people who love, respect, and admire him.

Dr Roderico Ofrin: In any affected population in emergencies, breastfeeding is an important public health intervention.

About 25 years ago, the «breastfeeding promotion community» decided that health worker training was the most important intervention.

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

As it is likely that some types of social support are more important for postpartum depression compared to others, and that this may vary according to circumstance and culture, knowing more about these finer details can help to better inform health policy and guide interventions from health professionals.

Insurance policies that cover the child but not the parent, must provide coverage for maternal depression screening, as a critically important preventative care intervention for the health of the child.

The Commons» health committee said «important concerns» needed to be addressed as two inquiries into cosmetic interventions and the government's reaction continued their work.

Interactions between these two genomes, which affect everything from health and physiology to fitness, have important consequences for human health and medical interventions such as mitochondrial replacement therapy in embryos.

They also illustrate important lessons for those developing and testing health interventions that are patient and / or consumer focused in terms of the pitfalls reported by the authors.»

«This study has important ramifications for health care reform and how practitioners approach adherence assessment and intervention in routine care,» says Kevin Hommel, PhD, director of the Center for Health Technology Research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the study's lead ahealth care reform and how practitioners approach adherence assessment and intervention in routine care,» says Kevin Hommel, PhD, director of the Center for Health Technology Research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the study's lead aHealth Technology Research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the study's lead author.

«Our findings are important for health professionals and might be used as a simple message for lifestyle - based interventions and public health strategies, as well as informing dietary recommendations and guidelines.»

The research suggests that minority - serving hospitals remain an important and vital component of the health care system and may benefit greatly from interventions such as raising Medicaid reimbursement rates.

«This has important public health implications, given that standing is a common behaviour that usually replaces sitting, and that can be encouraged in the workplace with interventions such as sit - stand desks.

Possible long - term interventions to reduce mortality and morbidity after high exposures end include disease screening, reducing important co-exposures, treatment and health services resource planning, and increasing public awareness of arsenic health effects.

Not all doctors — and certainly not all patients — currently focus on sleep as a potentially important intervention for weight loss and metabolic health.

The findings indicate that physicians and health agencies play an important role in identifying children who could benefit from early intervention services and referring them to the appropriate programs, but the finding is only one piece of a larger puzzle about low enrollment, MacDonald said.

This comprehensive review makes a very valuable contribution to the evidence base around interventions may make an important contribution to improving Global Health.»

Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «This review's primary message is that non-specialist health workers have an important role to play in delivering interventions for a range of mental disorders and can thereby play a key role in addressing the human resource shortages in mental health care in low - and middle - income countries.&Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «This review's primary message is that non-specialist health workers have an important role to play in delivering interventions for a range of mental disorders and can thereby play a key role in addressing the human resource shortages in mental health care in low - and middle - income countries.&health workers have an important role to play in delivering interventions for a range of mental disorders and can thereby play a key role in addressing the human resource shortages in mental health care in low - and middle - income countries.&health care in low - and middle - income countries.»

A study conducted by researchers at LSU Health New Orleans suggests that age is an important factor in the association between cancer and sugar - sweetened beverages and recommends that intervention programs to reduce consumption of added sugar be focused on lower socio - economic status, young males, as well as cervical cancer survivors.

This means we may have early and important opportunities to provide sleep interventions that may have a real impact on these children's general health and their development.»

However, they continued: «understanding the mechanisms linking disrupted sleep patterns to increased food intake is important for informing both prevention and treatment interventions for chronic health conditions.»

Establishing the long - term effect of additional outdoor activities on the development and progression of myopia is particularly important because the intervention is essentially free and may have other health benefits.»

Dr David Marks, editor of JHP, stated: «The research stimulated by Lundahl and Nelson has important treatment implications for health conditions often treated with dietary interventions and illustrates the need for research to empirically examine the underlying mechanisms of food intake.

The study, titled «Epidemiology of Hospital Based Emergency Department Visits Attributed to Injuries Due to Legal Interventions in Children in the United States: An Important Public Health Issue!»

Vinetz said the next step will be to begin exploiting the genomic information «for vaccine and diagnostics development, experimental approaches to understanding mechanisms of disease pathogenesis and how Leptospira persist in the environment, all critical for developing new public health interventions aimed at reducing the global impact of this important but neglected zoonotic disease.»

«The current findings are important because they may open up new potential interventions for helping people to promote their health and sense of well - being.»

While several of these have found modest benefits by providing protein - deficient elderly patients with small protein supplements, by far the most important intervention trial is that published by a group led by Bess Dawson - Hughes of Tufts University showing that protein intakes far beyond the minimal requirement actually improve bone health.

The Council will also continue its investigations into the early childhood roots of lifelong health disparities — with profound implications for public health policy in states — and critical periods of development and brain plasticity across the lifespan — with important implications for the timing of interventions.

From this research, we can suggest that targeting young people is extremely important, as interventions and wellbeing management programmes have the capability to prevent this early onset of mental health disorders.

It is important that they apply this knowledge to a very practical concern: assessing the impact of climate change in their cities, and planning public health interventions to address this threat in support to their communities.

The logical next step is to identify efficacious and cost - effective health services interventions that can tackle the all - important «so - what» question that is posed by doctors and policy makers in developing countries when confronted with startling prevalence statistics.

With three quarters of all mental health disorders emerging by the time a young person reaches 24 it's clear that prevention and early intervention is important.

Bubup Wilam also provides important opportunities for early intervention through onsite engagement with maternal and child health services, speech therapy and parenting support programs.

Alongside this research, there is intervention, epidemiological, sociological and qualitative evidence all suggesting that local environments are important in supporting the family capacity necessary to raise children in ways that promote good developmental outcomes.6, 7 The neighbourhoods or communities in which people live appears to impact health and well - being.8 While «neighbourhood» is often used in other studies, in the Australian context «neighbourhood» and «community» are often used interchangeably (these terms are further defined on page 9).7 The research into neighbourhood effects on children was originally motivated by the observation that disadvantage seemed geographically concentrated and intergenerational.

If verified, the influence of protective parenting in later childhood and early adolescence on young adult health may be particularly important because parenting practices are a potentially modifiable point of intervention that could be used to ameliorate health disparities (Brody et al., 2012).

Adolescence is a critical period for the development of depression with prevalence rates rising sharply from childhood to early adulthood.1 Many adult depressive disorders have their first onset in adolescence2 with longer episode duration being the strongest predictor of future problems.3 In addition to increasing the risk of later mental health problems, adolescent depression is associated with significant educational and social impairment and is a major risk factor for suicide.1 Providing effective early interventions to shorten the duration of episodes and potentially reduce the impact on later life is therefore important.3 This study explores this question and compares the effects of...

The most important challenges were well - recognised threats to health promotion and disease - prevention trials; those of poor exposure among the intervention group, contamination of the control group and varying programme fidelity.

«Research plays an important role in advancing Aboriginal health through investigation of emerging areas of concern, identifying protective and risk factors, developing and trialling interventions, and evaluating the implementation of programs and policy.»

Given the high prevalence of child maltreatment and the serious consequences in terms of its impact on the lives of the individuals concerned, their families, and society more generally, it is important that we identify effective methods of prevention and intervention, and there are some suggestions that a public health approach is now needed.27 Although there is limited research available in terms of what works to prevent child maltreatment, there have been significant gains over the past 20 years in terms of the development of new approaches.

It is particularly important to take parents» preferences into account in the implementation of health promotion interventions, and this method of randomisation allowed us to allocate parents according to the time of day and day of the week they were available to attend, as well as their need for a créche, at the same time as producing six viable groups of 10 parents for delivery of the programme.

Discussing with families that these behaviours can be typical for children, but if they persist or are interfering with the child's daily life it may indicate mental health difficulties, it is important for accurate early intervention.

Objective: To investigate whether a support intervention (warm touch enhancement) influences physiological stress systems that are linked to important health outcomes.

Parenting has an impact on emotional, social, and cognitive development, playing an important role in the aetiology of mental illness, educational failure, delinquency, and criminality.1 Parenting is to some extent socially patterned, 2,3 and interventions to support the development of «helpful» parenting therefore have a role to play in combating social inequalities in health.4 The best mental health and social outcomes are achieved by parents who supervise and control their children in an age appropriate way, use consistent positive discipline, communicate clearly and supportively, and show warmth, affection, encouragement, and approval.5 — 8