In 2015, the insurer contributes nearly $ 40 million to programs in Maryland and the National Capital Area with a focus on
increasing health care access, affordability, safety and quality.
WASHINGTON, DC — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the nation's leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider, today praised the U.S. Congress for passing legislation that would provide health insurance for more uninsured children and
increase health care access for low - income children and families.
Not exact matches
This unique integrated model
increases access to quality
care, delivers better
health outcomes and lowers overall
health care costs.
To support the new law
increasing access to mental
health care, Barden said he met with several lawmakers and served as a «broker between different stakeholders».
Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and
increase funding for school safety measures and
access to mental
health care.
Michael Geist, writing in the Toronto Star, declared that «a TPP based on the US proposals would signal a near - complete surrender of a made - in - Canada approach to intellectual property, leading to risks of lost Internet
access, expansive border seizures,
increased health care costs, and criminal liability for non-commercial infringement.»
Specific policies include a Doctors and Nurses Fund to
increase training capacity for new
health care professionals; working with Aboriginal communities to close the gap in the
health status of Aboriginal peoples; and the introduction of a drug plan to ensure Canadians have
access to catastrophic drug coverage.
The teams focused on meeting survivors»
health needs,
increasing access to
care and preparing safety net
health facilities to better prepare for future storms.
Encouraging insurance approaches that
increase worker take home pay while maintaining
access to high quality
health care.
We take a holistic approach that goes beyond Fair Trade to include improved educational opportunities and
increased access to basic
health care.
«The pending 55 % cut will limit
access,
increase long - term costs for medical
care, and almost certainly cement Alabama at the very bottom of many vital national
health statistics.
CFAM is working to improve the
health of mothers and babies by
increasing access to midwifery
care.
This strongly suggests that the previous
increase in maternal mortality was not driven by lack of
access to
health care, since
access has not
increased.
This evidence supports the American Public
Health Association's recommendation8 to
increase access to out of hospital maternity
care services with direct entry midwives in the United States.
The Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), established in 1982, is a professional membership organization that promotes excellence in midwifery practice, endorses diversity in educational backgrounds and practice styles, and is dedicated to unifying and strengthening the profession, thereby
increasing access to quality
health care and improving outcomes for women, babies, families, and communities.
In previous studies of full - term infants, ascertainment of morbidity status occurred after discharge from the hospital,
increasing the potential for confounding related to the home environment, parental socioeconomic status, parental smoking, and differential
access to
health care.
For example, Early Head Start, which provides comprehensive services focusing on early learning experiences,
health and nutritional status, social - emotional behavior, early intervention, and parent support, offers
increased access to
health care, well - child exams, immunizations, and screening tests for children enrolled in the program.
These included distribution of
health workers, specialist outreach clinics, lay
health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to reduce inequalities; lay
health workers and training of traditional birth attendants to
increase participation in
health by consumers; contracting out of
health services, integrating primary healthcare services, reminders and recall for immunisation; working with for - profit providers to
increase the effectiveness of
care; subcontracting the delivery of
health services, integrating primary healthcare services, addressing the distribution of
health workers, specialist outreach clinics, substitution of doctors by nurses, lay
health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to
increase coverage or
access; and outpatient referrals to improve the coordination of
care.
Concurrently, persons with disabilities face relevant barriers to
access social protection and
health care services, quality education and livelihood opportunities,
increasing their chances of remaining in poverty.
Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county
health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose
access to
increased school funding.
This directive will build upon additional measures to expedite referrals and treatment, including expansion of Project TEACH to connect primary
care providers with mental
health specialists, enhanced screening and referrals at WIC clinics and
increased access to telepsychiatry for those in rural communities.
The new programs are expected to
increase college
access and support degree completion by providing wraparound services for students such as child and elder
care, transportation,
health care services, family and / or employment counseling, legal aid, and more.
«One of the largest industries in Westchester County remains
health services and continues to grow with
increases in
access to
care.
«In the Senate, I want to fight for public safety and criminal justice reform, education programs, affordable housing,
increased access to mental
health care, economic development and opportunities, and social service reforms, especially as they affect middle class families and the working poor,» he said in a statement.
The way to reduce
health inequality isn't only
increasing access to
care or providing
health insurance, they say.
Positives both candidates agree come from the Affordable
Care Act include increased access to health care and rules that don't let individuals with pre-existing conditions be denied cover
Care Act include
increased access to
health care and rules that don't let individuals with pre-existing conditions be denied cover
care and rules that don't let individuals with pre-existing conditions be denied coverage.
The hospital is one of the nine, being built by Euroget De-Invest S.A, a member of the Euroget Group of Egypt, under the Turn - Key project, to
increase access to specialised
health care services.
Mokdad said
increasing access to primary
care, such as general practitioners and physician assistants, would help identify patients» early warning signs of poor
health.
Government and other
health policy - makers should acknowledge the importance of providing postnatal
care check - ups for mothers and babies, invest more and seek to
increase access to postnatal
care services, for example, by reducing user fees at point of
care, Langlois said.
Public reporting of
health care quality and patient safety information has reached unprecedented levels, allowing patients to play an
increasing role in their own
health care decisions; however, as
access to information becomes easier, it is important for patients to know where to look for the most accurate and reliable data.
In the last decade of his life, Lange became interested in
increasing access to
health care in general — by setting up
health insurance plans in Africa, for instance — and driving down poverty.
A new study led by researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) found that the proportion of discharges among minority patients receiving inpatient
care at minority - serving hospitals in Massachusetts
increased after the implementation of
health insurance reform measures which expanded
access to
care in non-safety net hospitals.
Thanks to medical advances and improved
access to
care, overall
health and well - being has improved for these patients; for example, life expectancy has
increased from 35 years in 1985 to 53 years in 2007.
The ACA
increases the number of people who will have
access to basic
health care.
Because of work - related and other discrimination, transgender people are statistically more likely to find themselves without coverage and thus stand to benefit from the general
increase in
access to
health care that the ACA provides.
It also indicates the importance of assisting smokers with mental illness in overcoming barriers to
accessing mental
health care (e.g., insuring the uninsured,
increasing the supply of mental
health care professionals, improving linkages between primary
care and mental
health care) as a means to address smoking - related harm,» the authors write.
«With the
increased stability that comes from having a home and reduced financial burdens, and being introduced into the social service system and the
access to other support services it provides, people receiving housing assistance are getting improved
access to primary
care health services.
While the research didn't show huge jumps in any particular area of
health,
care, or
access, the overall pattern is consistent with a positive impact from
increased health insurance and other reforms, compared with states that didn't embark on major reform efforts.
• Improve
access by
increasing the number of trained
health care professionals, including psychologists and other mental
health professionals;
The top five things (from a list of 16) that the public believes would improve people's
health a great deal are: improving
access to affordable healthy food (57 %), reducing illegal drug use (54 %), reducing air, water, or chemical pollution (52 %),
increasing access to high - quality
health care (52 %), and improving the economy and the availability of jobs (49 %).
Reanalysis of the World
Health Organization's Antenatal
Care Trial (WHOACT) shows that there is an increased risk of fetal death at between 32 and 36 weeks for women who have a reduced antenatal care package, finds research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Reproductive Hea
Care Trial (WHOACT) shows that there is an
increased risk of fetal death at between 32 and 36 weeks for women who have a reduced antenatal
care package, finds research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Reproductive Hea
care package, finds research published in BioMed Central's open
access journal Reproductive
Health.
The American Public
Health Association, in contrast, issued a statement praising the administration's support for violence research and increased mental health care, noting that» [t] here is an irrefutable link between access to guns and increased homicides.&
Health Association, in contrast, issued a statement praising the administration's support for violence research and
increased mental
health care, noting that» [t] here is an irrefutable link between access to guns and increased homicides.&
health care, noting that» [t] here is an irrefutable link between
access to guns and
increased homicides.»
This
increase was linked to a rising inability to afford
care and the costs of travel to
access health services, according to the authors.
Its mission is to
increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other
health care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the
care of patients with addictive disorders, and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of
health care services and the general public.
Rural, older Floridians encounter a multitude of factors that put them at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) such as limited education, decreased
health literacy, low income,
increased heart disease, lack of insurance, and limited
access to
health care.
That's why I started Parsley
Health — a new hybrid model of health care that combines the functional medicine approach that makes more sense for patients of all walks of life, with new care delivery models that both increase access to better medicine for more people, and that let doctors practice the kind of medicine that makes them feel goo
Health — a new hybrid model of
health care that combines the functional medicine approach that makes more sense for patients of all walks of life, with new care delivery models that both increase access to better medicine for more people, and that let doctors practice the kind of medicine that makes them feel goo
health care that combines the functional medicine approach that makes more sense for patients of all walks of life, with new
care delivery models that both
increase access to better medicine for more people, and that let doctors practice the kind of medicine that makes them feel good too.
Having
access to quality affordable
health care will only
increase the...
The Gates Foundation makes monetary pledges «driven by the interests and passions of the Gates Family,» namely global
access to
health care, international poverty reduction and in the United States,
increased access to quality education and information technology.
If immigrants are targeted, children whose parents are immigrants or who are immigrants themselves will live in fear of deportation.36 If Medicaid is cut, not only will it
increase the number of uninsured children without
access to needed medical
care, but it will also put the jobs of thousands of school nurses, psychologists, and physical therapists at risk.37 This would hurt
health outcomes for many children, especially those with disabilities.
Families also benefit from
increased knowledge about evidence - based parenting skills and gaining
access to activities and supports that build family resiliency and well - being, such as
health and mental
health care, social services, and educational and workforce opportunities.