Sentences with phrase «improving health outcomes do»

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.

Not exact matches

Insurers have been striking deals with pharma companies that will land them discounts on pricey drugs if those treatments don't demonstrably improve patients» health outcomes; hospitals are penalized if they have high rates of patient readmissions.

«Cash is the best thing you can do to improve health outcomes, education outcomes and lift people out of poverty,» Hughes said on the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher.

There is no statistically significant evidence that Medicaid improved the health outcomes for those enrolled, but it did increase their financial security and it does seem to have decreased incidence of depression.

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.

Patients who didn't seek follow - up care within a month received the lowest rate of care and had the worst health outcomes — demonstrating the need to improve follow - up with high risk chest pain patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, Ko said.

Giving patients steroids at the time of heart surgery does not improve health outcomes and appears to put them at greater risk of having a heart attack in the days following surgery, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 63rd Annual Scientific Session.

«We hope that the findings of the present study will lead to a focus on how to help obese women lose weight in order to improve their fertility in a manner which does not impact negatively on the health outcomes of their offspring.»

If there existed one, simple thing you could do to improve your child's performance every day at school, in addition to their long - term educational and health outcomes, earnings, and family stability, you'd want to do it, right?

«More work needs to be done to better understand the causes of these differences, so that steps can be taken to improve outcomes for mothers and babies,» study lead author Dr. Paul Aylin, of Imperial College London's School of Public Health, said in a college news release.

I see the outcomes and know what should have taken place, but, I am unable or it is unclear as to what I can do now to improve me or my childrens health issues now.

In this light, the IOM was asked to examine the status of physical activity and physical education efforts in schools, how physical activity and fitness affect health outcomes, and what can be done to help schools get kids to become more active — ultimately improving kids» health.

If we won't spend money to improve their health outcomes and living standards, does anyone honestly believe we'll do it for non-human species?

(1) Conducting quality assessment and improvement activities, including outcomes evaluation and development of clinical guidelines, provided that the obtaining of generalizable knowledge is not the primary purpose of any studies resulting from such activities; population - based activities relating to improving health or reducing health care costs, protocol development, case management and care coordination, contacting of health care providers and patients with information about treatment alternatives; and related functions that do not include treatment;

Australian examples include Aboriginal controlled health services (we do need better data on these) and other community based, data driven activities in Bourke (Maranguka Community Hub — also improved justice outcomes), Shepparton, Yorta Yorta Data Unit, Fitzroy Valley (June Oscar, Marilyn Carter, Maureen Carter, Olive Knight), and of course the Tiwi Islands chronic disease project.

Parker said the Government would do well to look to the health sector as a blueprint to improve poor employment outcomes, one of the main priorities it has identified for its Indigenous agenda.

When a strategic opportunity did arise to fund the NATSINSAP, it was not even considered in budget allocations as «Upon the release of the National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes (NPA) committed to close the gap on health outcomes in five priority initiatives (tackling smoking, healthy transition to adulthood, making Indigenous health everyone's business, delivering effective primary health care services; and improving coordination of the patient jouHealth Outcomes (NPA) committed to close the gap on health outcomes in five priority initiatives (tackling smoking, healthy transition to adulthood, making Indigenous health everyone's business, delivering effective primary health care services; and improving coordination of the patient jOutcomes (NPA) committed to close the gap on health outcomes in five priority initiatives (tackling smoking, healthy transition to adulthood, making Indigenous health everyone's business, delivering effective primary health care services; and improving coordination of the patient jouhealth outcomes in five priority initiatives (tackling smoking, healthy transition to adulthood, making Indigenous health everyone's business, delivering effective primary health care services; and improving coordination of the patient joutcomes in five priority initiatives (tackling smoking, healthy transition to adulthood, making Indigenous health everyone's business, delivering effective primary health care services; and improving coordination of the patient jouhealth everyone's business, delivering effective primary health care services; and improving coordination of the patient jouhealth care services; and improving coordination of the patient journey).

These women know that Missouri TRAP laws are unnecessary, burdensome and do absolutely nothing to improve health outcomes for people who need abortion care.

Do Community - Based Programs Help to Improve HIV Treatment and Health Outcomes?

Especially in difficult economic times, Illinois must invest in early childhood programs that are proven to improve outcomes for children and reduce long - term spending on the education and health issues that result when children do not have quality early experiences.

«If we are serious about improving health outcomes for Indigenous people, governments at all levels must do more to improve education, housing and employment outcomes.»

Collaborative care is an empirically supported method of extending the reach, quality, and outcomes of care for common mental disorders in medical settings.6, 7 Randomized trials of collaborative care have demonstrated improved outcomes among patients with depression and anxiety,7 - 9 depression - related suicidal ideation, 10 depression and chronic health conditions (eg, diabetes, asthma), 11 and chronic pain.12, 13 For PTSD, however, we are aware of only 3 published randomized trials, 1 demonstrating improvements in PTSD14 and 2 that do not15, 16 — hence the need for additional study of collaborative care for PTSD.