Sentences with phrase «including healthy environment»

In November 2005, the Federal Court of Nigeria determined that the actions of the oil companies a gross violation of community members» fundamental human right to life (including healthy environment) and was a violation of human rights protected by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

To that end, school nurses facilitate normal development and positive student response to interventions; promote health and safety, including a healthy environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self - management, self - advocacy, and learning (National Association of School Nurses [NASN], 2010).

To that end, school nurses facilitate normal development and positive response to interventions; promote health and safety including a healthy environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self - management, self - advocacy, and learning.»

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If being able to more easily purchase meat and poultry raised without antibiotics is important to you, Halloran has this advice: «Wherever you eat, ask restaurant managers about their meat sourcing policies and practices and make sure they know that you're looking for options that are healthier not only for you but for the animals and the environment, too — including meat produced without the routine use of antibiotics.»

UBC's David Boyd takes on dinosaur - in - chief Terence Corcoran on the nexus between environment and economy, and Canada's lagging rankings: Old ideas produce heat, not light... The myth that nations must choose between economic prosperity and a healthy environment has been conclusively debunked.Countries including Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands are similar to Canada with -LSB-...]

But pastoral leadership, including preaching, can do a lot to cultivate an environment for serious and healthy moral deliberation.

There is another objective with a wider horizon: healthy (whole) people in a healthy (whole) environment with healthy relations to that environment, an environment that necessarily includes other living creatures.

The family which provides an environment of healthy intimacy, an intimacy that includes respect for autonomy and distance, provides the child with a climate in which he can develop the strong sense of identity so basic to his own capacity for intimacy.

This isn't to say I'd be thrilled to join other pumping moms in a communal Mothers» Room, but if work culture continues to skimp on providing supportive environments for raising a healthy family, including flex time, paid leave, subsidized quality care and just the basic humanity that allows us to see each other as more than just workers boosting a bottom line, I'd take the company of other moms like me so I wouldn't feel so alone as a working parent.

Take care to provide a sleeping environment that is conducive to healthy sleep - this includes a room that is dark, cool, quiet and free from distractions.

All of this will help your child understand that a normal environment includes people of different races, says Marguerite Wright, author of I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children.

A better environment would include better access to healthy food, restrictions on advertising to children and plain old health education to help parents weed through conflicting messages in order to make the best choices.

I was thrilled that years of hard work by food advocates around the country, maybe even including my own small efforts here on The Lunch Tray, had finally yielded strong federal competitive food rules to create a healthier school environment for my child and his fellow students.

Healthy Food Environments Programs and policies that make healthier foods more accessible, including promoting nutrition standards in different settings.

The amount of district and community stakeholders shaping and defining standards in food procurement is growing as school districts recognize the value in creating a healthy school environment on all levels, including the dining room.

These charts describe the growth of healthy children living in well - supported environments in six countries throughout the world including the United States.

Other suggestions include altering the physical environment, creating economic incentives to select healthier items or even adding express lines for more nutritious food.

Examples of actions which have had these effects include school nutrition standards in Queensland, Australia; a vending machine ban in France; a front - of - package symbol that led to product reformulation in the Netherlands; soda taxes in France and Mexico; a programme targeting retail environments in New York City, USA; a programme promoting increased water consumption in schools in Hungary; school fruit and vegetable programmes in Netherlands and Norway; a healthy marketing campaign in Los Angeles County, USA and a comprehensive nutrition and health programme in France.

Such factors include the availability of food and beverages that compete with school meals, the frequency of offering fruit and vegetables at lunch, and the amount of time students have to eat lunch.6 - 8 The more an environment consistently promotes healthy behavior, the greater the likelihood that such behavior will occur.9 The goal of the 2010 HHFKA is to foster a healthy school food environment and promote lifelong healthy eating behaviors among children.4 Keys to its success include assurance of the provision of healthy food in schools and an environment where healthy food preferences can be learned, expressed, and reassessed.1

Resources in this initiative include ideas to develop a school environment that encourages healthy lifestyles for students.

This includes giving birth to a healthy baby in a clinically and psychologically safe environment with continuity of practical and emotional support from birth companion (s) and kind, technically competent clinical staff.

We will introduce sleep education & healthy sleep habits including environment, nutrition, family dynamics and techniques teaching baby to self - soothe.

A right unto itself, this right is also a key prerequisite for the realization of other human rights, including the rights to health, food, water, and to a healthy environment.

Jackson was studying microbial communities around the world, including in the Amazon, when he realized that the ecological balance in those environments was not so different from the balance present in a healthy human gut.

The authors note that public health initiatives that could help make the overall environment healthier include restricting the sale of non-nutritious foods in and around schools; menu labeling and providing incentives for food stores to build outlets in local food deserts; creating safe spaces for physical activity that are monitored to reduce the likelihood of crime; and maintaining smoke - free restaurants and public spaces, among others.

Another deserving effort in promoting scientific integrity in China is to foster a healthy research environment, which includes making explicit research ethics policies, issuing a practical code of conduct, establishing a credible and authoritative national organization to supervise local units, protecting whistle - blowers, building a rigorous and fair peer review system, revising the criteria for promotion and reward to emphasize research quality rather than quantity by a researcher, and achieving zero tolerance for unethical research behaviors.

As we know, diet plays a crucial role in maintaining a healthy gut environment and dysbiosis, or a gut - flora imbalance, ramps up inflammation, and triggers many illnesses including inflammatory bowel disease.

A healthy lifestyle should include balanced physical and mental environments, balanced physical activities and a balanced nutrition.

Natural pregnancy includes creating an internal and external environment of healthy, positive elements: healthy eating, appropriate exercise, listening to positive birth stories, gathering knowledge, planning the ideal care, and partnering with a caregiver who can lead you through each step safely and confidently.

Benefits of MagO7 include full digestive cleanse, body detoxification, relief of occasional constipation, oxygen support, and creating a healthy probiotic environment; easy to use in capsule form with 90 capsules total

Such lifestyle should include an alkaline diet, regular fitness exercise and healthy physical and psychological environments.

Lifestyle Counseling & Mind - Body Medicine — This includes everything from keeping your environment healthy for you and your children, to stress management, breathing techniques, working with thoughts and emotions with exercises and mediations, and lifestyle choices that support a healthier balance in your life.

Some of her specific areas of interest include genetic diet & lifestyle consultations, which allow to determine genetic weaknesses and how to bypass and strengthen these with «epigenetic» factors (diet, lifestyle and environment), female hormone balancing such as in cases of PMS, infertility, endometriosis, anxiety, «burnout» and preparing mothers for a healthy and optimal conception and pregnancy.

Benefits Examples of work that is being undertaken across London schools includes: welcoming dining room environment; increased uptake in healthy school meals; improved cooking skills; road safety and bike sheds; increased walking and cycling to school; more school sport clubs and physical activities; and increased participation in physical activity.

Broadening our ideas about where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to create richer learning pathways that have the potential to include more nonacademic opportunities to help youth gain the skills necessary for a healthy adulthood, offer a seamless learning environment that can help stem summer learning loss, and tap resources outside of schools for additional opportunities to help close the achievement gap.

You begin by coming from those rights and discussing within those rights what a safe environment looks, sounds and feels like; what a respectful environment looks, sounds and feels like; and what it feels and sounds like to have a learning environment where we support one another — and that includes everything from noise level to reasonable sharing during class discussion and even allowing healthy disagreement.

The school also has an RHS garden that the children can get involved with, this includes planting and growing flowers and vegetables and building wildlife and bug habitats, all of which help to contribute and promote pupils to live a healthier, more active lifestyle, all the time promoting and learning about the local environment.

«It is imperative that schools provide healthier options alongside a more desirable social environment and that they include young people in these decisions.

Awarded bronze, silver and gold for escalating wellness initiatives, schools focus on five key areas which include: personal social health & economic education, healthy eating, physical activity, emotional health & well - being, and the environment.

Creating Healthier Environments: Strategies and Examples for Afterschool and Summer Programs, Including 21st Century Community Learning Centers

This curriculum has an emphasis on basic skills and core subject matter in English language arts, mathematics, social studies and science, the arts, and a comprehensive support program that promotes healthy youth development, including preparing the students to apply their knowledge and skills for the benefit of the community and environment.

The Safe Schools Task Force supports a nondiscrimination policy to ensure a healthier learning environment for all students, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning students.

Chapters in this volume focus on: the ethics of neuroscience, brain development, best practices including effective curricula, healthy environments, reliable information, and appropriate assessment strategies to use to ensure young minds are educated appropriately.

Mountainville Academy believes a dress standard is a necessary element in promoting a healthy learning environment, including equality, citizenship and school pride.

Still, though, while we have seen that schools can excel in many different ways, we have also found that no school can create a truly welcoming and engaging learning environment for all students without having at least two core practices in place: broadening and enriching learning opportunities (in particular, enrolling all students in challenging courses) and creating and maintaining a healthy school culture (including the use of discipline approaches that resist the trend of pushing students out of school).

Do school superintendents follow orders from above and turn their backs on the parents whose fundamental rights can not be abridged or do they stand up and fulfill their moral, ethical, and I would argue legal, responsibility to create healthy, safe and productive learning environments for all of their students, including those whose parents have opted them out of the Common Core testing.

Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole - school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning, bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar initiatives.»

Executive Order 12898 and the accompanying Presidential Memorandum underscore the importance of using existing laws — including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 — to ensure that all persons live in a safe and healthy environment.

If officers were able to get a visual on pets and determine that animals looked injury - free and were provided with the basics as dictated by current law — food, water, shelter and a clean, healthy environment that includes a certain amount of space — that complaint could be closed.

At the Westchester facility, major renovations are in progress, including a new roof and new dog kennels to provide a safer, healthier, happier environment for the animals.