Sentences with phrase «more health policy researchers»

Devereaux believes that there is a real need for more health policy researchers in Canada, and that they should «continue to undertake research that will help shift policy decisions away from ideology and theoretical arguments and force them to be based on the best available evidence.»

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In a U.S. survey conducted in 1995 by Eric Campbell, a health policy researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues, more than a quarter of life - science faculty members reported receiving support from industry through grant agreements and research contracts.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

The researchers recommend that those working to address poverty and hunger in children should include emotional health of parents and caregivers in a more comprehensive approach to policy and services.

MIT researchers looked at three policies achieving the same reductions in the U.S., and found that the savings on health care spending and other costs related to illness can be big — in some cases, more than 10 times the cost of policy implementation.

In February, British researchers leaped to the defense of a top UK government health official after The British Medical Journal revealed that she had received more than $ 2 million from companies like Coca - Cola, implying that her credibility on obesity policy had been compromised.

Below are short summaries of recent journal and other articles that may be of interest, investigating: • Trends in Indigenous health research • What policy makers really want from researcher... Read more

Advocacy groups, researchers, and public policy experts believe that the juvenile justice system has become the only alternative for many poor and minority youth with psychiatric disorders.88 - 92 Many states have imposed more severe sanctions for delinquent youth and transfer increasing numbers of juveniles to adult court,93 - 95 policies that disproportionately affect minority youth.94, 96 In addition, 2 recent changes in public health policy may have inadvertently contributed to the criminalization of youth with mental disorders.

Health professionals, managers, policy makers, researchers and others interested in obtaining more information about the National Rural Health Conference can find a detailed program and registration facilities on the conference website www.ruralhealth.org.au/13nrhc / homepage

As public health policy researcher and writer Margo Saunders writes in the post below, the poorer health and mort... Read more