Sentences with phrase «into measures of health»

In the study, Olshansky and colleagues use the number of steps taken daily — a measure collected by almost all wearable sensors — and show how, using scientifically verified formulas, the step data can be translated into measures of health risk.

«But nobody has yet figured out a way to translate the information gathered by these devices into measures of health and longevity, let alone monetize this information — until now,» says S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and chief scientist at Lapetus Solutions, who is lead author on the paper.

Not exact matches

The 1830s - era measure does not take into account a number of key health factors, including overall body fat, gender, muscle composition, or the amount of fat you're carrying around your middle, also known as abdominal fat.

The FSI polls Americans on several key measures of their financial health now compared with a year ago, and turns those answers into a score.

It's sort of like saying you can determine how much «dragon energy» this tree is getting by looking at its health on the physical side, yet you can not measure or touch the dragon energy in it, because it has converted into reality already.

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

The measure of relief is that Ratzinger has settled into his new role with apparent ease and seems to be in vibrant health for a man of eighty years.

The Department of Health and Human Services has already gathered a body of «experts,» to devise reliable measures of «subjective well - being,» toward the end of turning these into official statistics.

It wasn't the only message being disseminated, of course: Merely suggesting abstinence as a public health measure was viewed by some as an irresponsible intrusion of religious fundamentalism into politics.

While Hikind and Felder accuse the Board of Health of «thrust [ing] the city deeper into a nanny - ocracy,» one can only wonder whether it is the forces resisting this new measure that seek to impose their own worldview on a less - than informed constituency.

The principle of solidarity, of the health of one working for the health of another, was transformed into an accounting system by which the merit of each member was theoretically measured in heaven, and all of it beyond what that member required put in a bank fur the help of others.

In January 2013 the non-governmental organisation Sustain, supported by 61 health organisations, called for a 20 pence per litre excise duty on sugar sweetened drinks.4 In February, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called for a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks as part of its enquiry into clinical and public health solutions to the obesity epidemic.1 Although the UK government has indicated a preference for voluntary approaches to the control of obesity, it has not ruled out fiscal measures.14 Clearly, the idea of a sugar sweetened drink tax is gaining traction in the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertain.

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(1) in collaboration with FAO, and taking into account the work undertaken by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, to develop guidelines for clinicians and other health - care providers, community health workers and family, parents and other caregivers on the preparation, use, handling and storage of infant formula so as to minimize risk, and to address the particular needs of Member States in establishing effective measures to minimize risk in situations where infants can not be, or are not, fed breast milk;

Rep. Tom Reed came into Chautauqua County on a wave of optimism Saturday for two town hall meetings following the controversial vote on the health care measure.

Among the bills popular with the Democrats» liberal base that won passage this year was a ban on bump stocks, add - on devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to shoot at near full - automatic speed; a bill enshrining the women's health care provisions of the Affordable Care Act into state law; and a measure that prohibits employers from asking job candidates about their salary history.

El - Rufai who spoke at the inauguration of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the December 12 clashes in Zaria, said he also took measures to safeguard public health and safety by removing unsound structures, and clearing debris from the scene of the clashes.

Jeremy Hunt has NHS staff could face a new criminal offence of wilful neglect of patients as one of a series of measures adopted by the Health Secretary from the Francis report into the deaths at Stafford Hospital.

Those measures, said Hey, have already sparked concern that the law constitutes overreach into health records of law - abiding citizens.

Former Gov. George Pataki, who's banking on opposition to the new health care reform law as his ticket into the 2012 presidential election, today issued a debate challenge to former Sen. Tom Daschle, who was just tapped along with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's wife, Victoria, to head up the Obama administration's defense of the measure.

If Cuomo signs the measure into law «it would be a classic case of healthcare politics rushing ahead of medical science,» Bill Hammond, a health policy expert with the Empire Center, an Albany think tank, wrote in a blog post.

The Westchester County Department of Health on Wednesday urged people with private wells that were flooded to either boil their water before consumption or to use bottled water as a precautionary measure since sewage and other harmful contaminants can be washed into private wells by storm waters.

Hospitals in New York also have gone into overdrive against the Republican measure, saying it «would threaten health coverage for millions of New Yorkers, create a fiscal crisis for the state, and burden hospitals and health systems with fewer resources and more uninsured or underinsured patients,» said Bea Grouse, president of the Rensselaer - based Hospital Association of New York State, which represents over 500 not - for - profit and public hospitals in the state.

Cox says the new two - day APD training for officers includes a remedial on implicit bias: how unconscious attitudes and beliefs can affect the everyday judgment and decision - making of police officers, who will now learn how to cast those old measures of character aside and use their discretion to divert low - level offenders from the criminal justice system into coordinated, managed, health - based services.

«In effect, we can take the data collected by your Fitbit and translate that into scientifically verified measures of health risk,» Olshansky said.

This pollution also finds its way into underground aquifers that supply our drinking water, so reducing it is a human health measure and could also save municipalities millions of dollars a year in drinking water treatment facilities and operational expenses.

Those whose parents made it to 85 scored higher on a variety of factors, including a combined measure of heart health called the Framingham risk score, which takes into account age, cholesterol, blood pressure, hypertension and cigarette smoking.

The study — «Mental health nurses» emotions, exposure to patient aggression, attitudes to and use of coercive measures: Cross sectional questionnaire survey» — also revealed that, while individual nurses exposed to this behaviour were more approving of coercive interventions, this did not translate into an increased use of restraint or seclusion.

That funding could be folded into the annual appropriations bill to fund the National Institutes of Health or be part of several measures aimed at speeding medical innovation that Congress may take up after the election.

Using Twitter as a window into a community's collective mental state may provide a useful tool in epidemiology and for measuring the effectiveness of public - health interventions.

MBANs at Home If all goes well, look for MBANs to fall into three categories in the near future — those used to monitor a patient's general health or «wellness,» those measuring the health of the elderly, and those used to monitor patients with long - term medical conditions such as Parkinson's disease or epilepsy, says Paolo Bonato, director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Boston's Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School..

As a research partner of an $ 11.7 million Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) grant from the National Institutes of Health to the George Washington University Autism and Neurodevelopment Disorders Institute, the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National will continue investigations into sex differences, and aims to develop self - reporting measures for adolescents and adults that better capture additional populations — including females and non-cisgender males.

The different results could have come from different starting assumptions — Evans assumes the number of new dementia cases will stay the same in coming decades, while Langa takes into account the possibility that dementia risk could decline because of changes in lifestyle and health prevention measures in the last quarter century.

This summer, LeBourgeois launched a five - year, $ 2.5 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health, in which her research team goes into the homes of volunteer families, exposes children to varying intensities of light and collects saliva samples to measure changes in melatonin levels and the timing of the biological clock.

For example, in the fall of 2017 UC Berkeley set up a satellite counseling service specifically for Ph.D. students, and last month Johns Hopkins University released a 51 - page report looking into measures to better support student mental health and well - being on campus.

The new approach, published today in the International Journal of Stroke, can quantify visible brain injury from cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) and brain atrophy by translating the million plus bits of information stored in brain scans into a single measure, the «brain health index.»

In their own words, the authors of this study are «at the disposal of educational and public health institutions for talking about possible measures and putting them into action.»

For each measure, more than 70 % of this disparity was due to different outcomes for black and white individuals enrolled in the same health plan rather than selection of black enrollees into lower - performing plans.

Two of these NASA missions will use laser instruments that will measure the height of trees, while a third will monitor temperature to provide insights into plant health.

The outbreak began in November 2016, and was immediately recognised and reported to provincial public health authorities in Pakistan, where investigation into possible sources and control measures including use of a vaccine are ongoing.

A number of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid metabolites measured in a 24 - hour urine hormone profile, but not in a serum or saliva assay, provide greater insight into long - term adrenal health, short term stress response, the cortisol / cortisone balance, and other measures of adrenal health and function than assessment of cortisol alone.

In addition, a 24 - Hour Urine test captures metabolites that are not measurable in saliva and can not be reliably measured by a single, or even multiple, blood draws, e.g., 16α - OH estrone, an estrogen metabolite shown to impact bone loss in men, and a number of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid metabolites (discussed in Part II of this review) that provide greater insight into long - term adrenal health, short term stress response, the cortisol / cortisone balance, and other measures of adrenal health and function than assessment of cortisol alone.

The scientists also questioned global health authorities» willful recommendation of large amounts of polyunsaturated fats into the human diet without accompanying measures to ensure the protection of these fatty acids against heat - and oxidative - degradation.

In the past several years, a number of fashion designers have ventured into wearable technology, with everything from clothing that measures various health functions to accessories that charge devices.

to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution measured by the Gini index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website

Through a partnership with Alameda County Health Care Service Agency, Hayward began to analyze chronic absenteeism, a different method of measuring attendance that takes into account both excused and unexcused absences.

Below, we translate the measured impacts of the Chicago CPC program into estimates of how public investment in a universal, high - quality, prekindergarten program would affect future government finances, the economy, earnings, and crime and health, using the attenuations described above for children from middle - and upper - income families, and for children who in its absence would have attended some other preschool.

Some of the objectives of the project are to identify spatial vulnerability of populations during extreme heat events in selected areas; identify the impacts of extreme heat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategies.

I am pleased to have sponsored a measure that will encourage more of our communities across Tennessee to utilize this plentiful and renewable form of energy while taking into account the health, safety, and right of our property owners and their neighbors.»

Part of the measures announced include a review into how best to ensure employees with mental health issues are supported at work in addition to employers and organisations receiving additional training in supporting staff who need to take time off.