Sentences with phrase «lower quality of health»

Our daily hindrances, which can be caused or worsened by clinical hypogonadism (low testosterone), may contribute to a lower quality of health and possibly to obesity.

Not exact matches

Yes, Danes have a stable government, low levels of public corruption, and access to high - quality education and health care.

According to the Health Care Cost Institute, about 43 % of all spending by individuals with employer - sponsored insurance in 2011 was shoppable, meaning that it was spent on medical services whose prices could be significantly lowered without compromising quality.

What kind of health insurance makes sense (and the best locales with low - cost but top - quality public health systems)...

Thousands of retirees (and younger folks, too) are benefiting from a higher quality of life and a lower cost of living in places overseas where even a little goes a long, long way — whether it be filling a tank of gas, getting the week's groceries, paying for health insurance, or making all the other ends of a monthly budget meet.

EXCITE will lower health care costs and increase patient benefits by improving the quality and relevance of these technologies, streamlining their health system adoption and expediting their market penetration.

«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses of advanced technologies, data analytics, and modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.

For each age demographic, YouGov BrandIndex measured several of the biggest health insurers with its Quality score, which asks respondents «Is it high quality or low quality?Quality score, which asks respondents «Is it high quality or low quality?quality or low quality?quality?»

And just so you know I 100 % believe adoption is a phenomenal choice, but we aren't just talking about abortions performed as a terrible form of after the fact birth control... We are talking about the abortions performed due to health risks that could cause a severely low quality of life as well.

Orwell thinks that from Shakespeare's writings it would be difficult to know that he had any religion» whereas in fact the placing of truth in the mouths of babes is one aspect of the Christian respect for all human life; that same profound feeling is what inspires us to protest loudly when health authorities take a mental defective off dialysis machine because they consider his «quality of life» too low, in defiance of Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount.

That's what's going to lower our quality of life and harm our health in the long run.

Two new pieces of research from NHS Health Scotland recommend working together to ensure that low income communities can still access affordable, quality food.

Unfortunately, living on junk food creates health problems that shorten a lifespan and lower the quality of life.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Additional reasons for deciding not to breastfeed can include concern about the quality and quantity of breast milk, and partner and family support, which are common across developed and developing countries.10, 11 Women who decide not to breastfeed are also more likely to have smoked during their pregnancy, be primiparous mothers (i.e., having their first child), and to have a child born low birth weight or with complex health issues such as cystic fibrosis.9, 12 Prenatal and post-natal stressful experiences may also reduce the duration of breastfeeding.13 Finally, several studies suggest that mother's who return to work within the first 6 months postpartum or anticipate an early return to full - time employment, are less likely to breastfeed.

Universal Health Care isn't happening because it lowers quality of care and costs a fortune.

ELIZABETHTOWN A coalition of local mental health providers is coming together in an attempt to lower the price of health insurance while improving the quality of service.

Established pursuant to Executive Order No. 5, the Medicaid Redesign Team's 27 members will bring vast experience as health care providers, consumers and industry experts to address the challenge of refocusing our health care system to provide quality health care at lower costs.

That remorseless attempt to keep prices low means quality quickly gets sacrificed when it comes to health and safety, wages, and even the standard of the ingredients.

«The federal government is still trying to decimate our health care system by targeting the quality of care low income Americans are able to receive,» Governor Cuomo said.

Critically, this budget provides funding support for affordable housing, preserves access to quality health services for millions of low - income New Yorkers, and makes important investments in anti-poverty initiatives throughout the state.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens and State Department of Health (DOH) Commissioner Howard Zucker, M.D., J.D. today issued an Air Quality Health Advisory for the Long Island, New York City Metro, and Lower Hudson Valley regions of New York State for Sunday, July 19, 2015.

Below is a list of Medicare - and Medicaid - certified nursing homes in Erie County, along with their overall federal rating determined by Medicare, based on health inspections, staffing, and quality measure ratings (1 star being the lowest, 5 being the highest / best).

«Most Americans wanted to hear the president tell Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid and the rest of Congress that it's time to start over on a common - sense, bipartisan plan focused on lowering the cost of health care while improving quality,» he said.

Speaking at an advocacy dialogue with traditional leaders in the region for the elimination of harmful social and cultural practices, Ms Amidu said research showed that quality education, improved sanitation, nutrition, maternal and child health, and access to water supply also recorded low rates.

Many of us here tonight also see it as the head of a deadly snake, the Millennium Pipeline, that winds its way through the countryside threatening to destroy our health, safety and quality of life and which, can only lower property values as industrialization encroaches on our agricultural community.

If we do not reverse this, millions of adults and children will inevitably face deteriorating health and a lower quality of life;

«A public option is the best option to lower costs, improve the quality of health care, ensure choice and expand coverage.

The data used in the project covered the period 2000 - 2008 and considered such factors as premature death, low birth weights, and self - reported information regarding health - related quality of life and poor physical and mental health days.

The low emission zone was thus a meaningful and successful measure of the city administration of Leipzig to protection of the health of their citizens,» summarized the air quality expert Gunter Löschau from the LfULG.

Although house cats have only a limited ability to metabolize carbohydrates, including starch, they possess a longer intestine than their wild counterparts, presumably to help digest the lower - quality sustenance they get from trash heaps compared with the all - meat diet they would be living on in the wild, according to geneticist Carlos Driscoll of the National Institutes of Health.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical Shealth effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical SHealth and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

Examples include: tighter supervision and international regulation of the food supply; an international code of food marketing to protect children's health; regulating food nutritional quality in schools along with programmes to encourage healthy food preferences; taxes on unhealthy products such as sweetened drinks and subsidies on healthier foods for low - income families such as vouchers for fruit and vegetable boxes; and mandatory food labelling as an incentive for industry to produce more nutritional products.

The findings are especially relevant to families with children living in low - income households; these kids are at greater risk of health problems resulting from poor air quality.

This so - called urban health advantage is usually attributed to better access to health care and improved overall infrastructure, such as clean water, safety and education.But many of the globe's cities are already bursting and actually offer a far worse quality of life to those on the lower end of the income spectrum, whose plights can get overshadowed in large - scale statistics.

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

These findings call into question the safety of the recent substitution of DiNP for DEHP in soft PVC, particularly since a shorter male AGD has been shown to be related to male genital birth defects in children (such as hypospadias and undescended testis) and impaired reproductive function in adult males (such as decreased fertility, impaired semen quality and lower serum testosterone levels) and the fact that human levels of DiNP are rapidly increasing globally, says Carl - Gustaf Bornehag, professor in Public Health Sciences at Karlstad University and responsible for the current study.

Chronic caregiving stress has also been associated with poorer physical health — more pain, more disruptions from physical - health problems and lower overall health - related quality of life.

«There is mounting scientific evidence that diets including less low - quality carbohydrates, such as white breads, potatoes, and sweets, and higher in protein - rich foods may be more efficient for weight loss,» said first and corresponding author Jessica Smith, Ph.D., a visiting scholar at the Friedman School and a research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

A third of long term survivors, those > 5 years from diagnosis, experience reduced quality of life and report lower physical and health scores compared to healthy patients.

Patients who had major surgery at high - quality hospitals in the U.S. cost Medicare less than those who had surgery at low - quality hospitals according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Across 10 different areas of life, adolescents with cerebral palsy only ranked their quality of friend and peer relationships as on average lower than adolescents in the general population, challenging the widespread perception that adolescents with disabilities have unhappy, unfulfilled lives», says lead author Allan Colver, Professor of Community Child Health at Newcastle University in the UK.

The clinical significance of this study is that high repetitions of low - impact aquatic resistance exercises can improve cartilage health and quality while increasing cardiovascular fitness.

«Medicaid expansion significantly boosts insurance coverage among low - income adults: Health care utilization, diagnoses of chronic health conditions and quality of coverage also improved.&Health care utilization, diagnoses of chronic health conditions and quality of coverage also improved.&health conditions and quality of coverage also improved.»

«If they do not, our analysis suggests that millions of low - income Americans could lose the high - quality primary care that can prevent many expensive health conditions from getting worse or developing in the first place.»

While the research showed promise in using non-specialist health workers to improve mental health outcomes in developing countries, the authors note that more evidence is needed in this area as many studies were of low quality.

Patients with severe spinal cord injury (SCI) often experience chronically low blood pressure that negatively affects their health, their quality of life and their ability to engage in rehabilitative therapy.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards, according to the article published online in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspechealth risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards, according to the article published online in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspechealth standards, according to the article published online in the scientific journal Environmental Health PerspecHealth Perspectives.