Sentences with phrase «new social interventions»

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In 2017, the top 10 regulatory interventions included ensuring alcohol ads are targeted responsibly online — especially on social media platforms where many users are under 18, which landed Diageo in trouble in 2016; acting against irresponsible gambling advertising; new food advertising restrictions for products which are high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS); and addressing harmful gender stereotypes, for which a detailed report is due in the coming weeks.

Thus, a new and healthy inequality will reappear and will give a new dynamism to the economies of developed countries sick of the slumpflation, sickness coming from the combined inheritance of policies inspired by Keynes and Beveridge, i.e. of the anti-cycle intervention of the State (aiming at cushioning) and of the social redistribution.

The Jewish writers of the New Testament introduced the «ecclesiastical attitude» and other distortions that led to what Rauschenbusch calls «ascetic Christianity,» a religious attitude that thinks in terms of heaven, divine intervention, and personal salvation rather than social justice.

One leading member of that revisionist school, the American historian Harry Elmer Barnes (of Smith, Columbia, and the New School for Social Research), went on to oppose American intervention in the thirties and to justify German policies even after the war.

Working with fathers to improve children's well - being: a new website Working with fathers to improve children's well - being is Professor Jonathan Scourfield's website, set up as part of his research on fathers, social interventions and children's well - being (funded by the Economic and Social Research Cousocial interventions and children's well - being (funded by the Economic and Social Research CouSocial Research Council).

The Health Belief Model guided the formative research and supported information delivery, while Social Cognitive Theory was predominately used in shaping the intervention and in facilitating understanding of the potential interaction between overestimation of new parents capacity to cope and underestimation of potential problems.

A randomised controlled single - blind parallel - arm clinical trial to investigate whether a complex intervention targeting new mothers» breastfeeding knowledge, skills and social support within a Social Network and Social Support theory framework will increase exclusive breastfeeding duration among women in Lesocial support within a Social Network and Social Support theory framework will increase exclusive breastfeeding duration among women in LeSocial Network and Social Support theory framework will increase exclusive breastfeeding duration among women in LeSocial Support theory framework will increase exclusive breastfeeding duration among women in Lebanon.

Matthew Pike is chair of the Views social impact partnership and adviser to the new Early Intervention Foundation

1.2 billion owed the National Health Insurance Providers to this major social intervention on a new course.

The problem, however, arises when this social sphere, which traditionally transcended the boundaries of the public / personal distinction, and which preserved, until the dawn of the modern age social integrity and conventional values, becomes encroached by the intervention of the new social — in the sense in which Arendt used the term.

May be the former president has coined a new definition for social intervention otherwise, what is the meaning of a government providing

This intervention and its aftermath could establish a new precedent for international actors supporting genuine social forces within the Arab World.

New labour can not create social justice through equal oppurtunity alone, they need to have policies that directly end poverty such as getting down the price of gas through state intervention, building council houses through state intervention.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has launched its 2016 Manifesto focused on reviving Ghana's economy through the implementation of several social and economic interventions.

The 2017 Budget estimates retains the allocation of N500 billion to the Special Intervention programme consisting of the Home - grown School Feeding Programme, Government Economic Empowerment programme, N - Power Job Creation Programme to provide loans for traders and artisans, Conditional Cash Transfers to the poorest families and the new Family Homes Fund (social housing scheme).

As new data is added to the algorithm, the researchers hope it will adapt to changing conditions, revealing how social networks evolve during the course of the intervention program.

The HOPE intervention, she says, has «potential for informing how social media and new technologies can be leveraged to deliver low - cost, novel interventions to prevent prescription opioid abuse and overdose.»

Social media messaging, screening and interventions offer new tools to help colleges prevent and reduce excessive drinking, according to a report authored by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher, working with a group of experts.

The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health's Project Accept — a trial conducted by the HIV Prevention Trials Network to test a combination of social, behavioral and structural HIV - prevention interventions — demonstrated that a series of community efforts boosted the number of people tested for HIV and resulted in a 14 percent reduction in new HIV infections, compared with control communities.

And even if a new law were a pretty good one, as laws establishing massive new federal entitlements go, it would run up against the inconvenient truth that social - service interventions, whatever their other benefits, have limited academic payoffs.

What are the new skills required for designing informal and social learning interventions for today's workplaces?

A new social - emotional learning (SEL) intervention from the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Stephanie Jones and her research team offers a promising source of support for low - income families.

Nalani's vision for AYLE continues to evolve, even as he prepares to return to the United States to begin doctoral studies in psychology and social intervention at New York University.

Its strategy draws on advances in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences to: (1) identify causal mechanisms that influence developmental trajectories; (2) formulate theories of change about how to produce better outcomes; and (3) design and test new intervention approaches and measure their effectiveness in reducing barriers to learning and strengthening the foundations of lifelong physical and mental health.

Our signature approach draws on advances in neuroscience, molecular biology, and the behavioral and social sciences to inform both the design of testable, new interventions and the measurement of their effectiveness over time.

New metrics, like school climate or social and emotional progress, are likely to generate demand for interventions that attend to nonacademic factors of students» experiences.

There is a new push for social - emotional learning interventions at the elementary level.

She has been a visiting scholar at the National Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (New Zealand), the Kurt Lewin Institute (Netherlands), the Marburg Center for Conflict Studies (Germany), the Center for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion (Chile), and the International Graduate College on Conflict and Cooperation (Germany, UK, Belgium), where she has delivered lectures and taught workshops on prejudice reduction and intervention.

In addition, in October 2016, the Department of Education issued new guidance on the Every Student Succeeds Act describing how funds from Title IV, Part A's Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants can help state and local educational agencies provide all students with access to a well - rounded education.42 According to this guidance, local educational agencies «may use funds for activities in social emotional learning, including interventions that build resilience, self - control, empathy, persistence, and other social and behavioral skills.»

«[Beginning teachers should] promote students» social - emotional growth, development and individual responsibility using positive interventions and supports, restorative justice and conflict resolution practices to foster a caring community where each student is treated fairly and respectfully by adults and peers,» according to the new expectations.

Guidelines for educators and administrators interested in incorporating lessons from Walton & Cohen's (2011) social belonging intervention into programming for students, such as new college students.

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The reauthorization of the U.S. Elementary and Secondary Education Act, referred to as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), emphasizes evidence - based interventions while giving states and districts new flexibility on the use of federal funds, including funds that could be used to support social and emotional learning (SEL).

Dr. Klein Friedman has served New York City students since the mid 1970s as a teacher of special education and reading in elementary, middle and high schools; staff development trainer; principal; director of literacy and social studies; regional director of academic intervention services and local instructional superintendent; director of secondary school reform, director of academic intervention services, director of a Supplemental Educational Services program internal to the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE); interim superintendent; and currently as executive director of literacy and academic intervention services at NYCDOE.

The dissertation investigates how low - income youth in Rio de Janeiro have come to participate in such interventions — largely couched in neoliberal ideas of individual responsibility and carried out by public - private partnerships — and the ways in which youth subvert and redirect these interventions and middle - class social identities into new forms of personhood and political agency.

She was also a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) lead for the school, which involved analyzing school climate data and supporting teachers in the implementation of new social - emotional curriculum.

Many pets with behavior problems develop them at or around social maturity and then without intervention the problems will worsen gradually over the ensuing years so it can require some practice to learn to recognize the difference between new behaviors and behaviors that are a result of existing but escalating problem behaviors.

And while the idea that art is a matter of social intervention is not new, Cuboids dramatizes this notion in ways that are both deadly serious and seriously funny.»

LoVid creates large - scale interdisciplinary projects that combine new technology with social interventions and public spaces.

This intervention creates an opportunity to engage with the architecture in a new way — prompting questions about how we experience color, light, and space and how those elements alter the social and physical environment.

In addition, LoVid creates large scale interdisciplinary projects that combine new technology with social interventions and public spaces.

Alfredo Jaar is a multimedia artist, filmmaker and artist from Chile, currently living and working in New York City, best known for his installation and intervention works which very often incorporate photographs and neon lights and usually cover strong and troubling social and political issues.

I'm interested in social and spatial practices, phenomena and perception, and exploring new sites for both critical and creative interventions.

She creates sculptural works, public interventions and social interactions that generate and propose new landscapes.

The economic and social benefits of mangroves — which are estimated to run into the hundreds of billions worldwide — remain largely untapped due to a lack of carbon finance mechanisms, appropriate policy interventions, and rapid mangrove deforestation, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report launched today at the 20th Conference of [continue reading...]

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Several interventions have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing the prevalence of behaviors that place adolescents at risk for acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).1 — 6 These programs have in common a small - group and face - to - face method of delivery, an emphasis on skills development referent to decision making, communication, negotiation and condom use, use of a wide variety of instructional formats and approaches to intervention delivery, and grounding in social learning theory.2 — 6 Despite the encouraging results that accompany these studies with reference to adolescent risk reduction, new challenges have emerged.

An evaluation just released by the Social Policy Research Centre looked at collaboration and networking among early childhood intervention (ECI) providers at the Hunter - New England trial site.

Microcosting analysis will be performed to assess the resources required to set up and deliver the new programme.38 Using information gathered by the CSRI cost - consequence analysis will be conducted to assess whether there have been any changes in participant health and social care service use in intervention or control families between baseline and first follow - up (from before to after programme participation), including service shifts.