Sentences with phrase «of population health»

All three types of medical expansion were associated with two or more indicators of population health, results showed.

The best predictor of population health, according to several statistical analyses, was the exploitation of nuts.

The curriculum is designed to establish an understanding of workplace wellness, the principles and practices of health behavior and self - care, and the principles of population health and health education.

Global patterns of mortality in young people: a systematic analysis of population health data.

Specifically, our study examines whether certain combinations of population health activities lead to improved health outcomes when implemented over time by community organizations.

Researchers consider infant mortality to be a key indicator of population health.

«Across neighborhoods of Wisconsin, from the North Woods to the cities, the results are striking,» says Dr. Kristen Malecki, assistant professor of population health sciences at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

«About four years ago, there was evidence of a decline in obesity in preschoolers,» said Asheley Cockrell Skinner, Ph.D., lead author and associate professor of population health sciences, who is also a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).

• VirtualHealth, New York City - based provider of population health and care management technologies, raised $ 7 million from investors led by Edison Partners.

The pilot examined the impact of population health and behavioral health interventions on Medicaid beneficiaries at Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General), Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), North Shore Medical Center (NSMC), and Newton - Wellesley Hospital (NWH).

«We've always known that electronic dance music party attendees are at high risk for use of club drugs such as ecstasy or Molly, but we wanted to know the extent of opioid use in this population,» said CDUHR researcher Joseph Palamar, PhD, MPH, the study's lead author and an associate professor of population health at NYU School of Medicine.

Establishing a unique long term picture of population health in Kilifi County through a platform that links clinical events with high quality laboratory data and demographic surveillance of a population of nearly 300,000.

In my book, Systems Science and Population Health, my co-authors and I discuss how to apply a systems science approach to the work of population health — the study of the conditions that shape health within and across groups of people, and of the mechanisms through which these conditions determine the health of individuals.

His book, Healthier: Fifty thoughts on the foundations of population health, was published in June.

The trust, a pioneer in the implementation of population health management and other techniques to improve the health of its current beneficiaries, is the largest private sector purchaser of retiree medical benefits in the United States, with annual healthcare expenditures of nearly $ 4 billion.

It is coming about because of improved socioeconomic conditions, the main determinant of population health; because of higher general standards of living that reduce the mortality rate of every age group; and because of technologies that improve the quality of life of the elderly, an indirect effect of which is to increase average life expectancy.

For more than a year, the Cuomo administration has searched for a partner, a large institution capable of population health management, that could lead these struggling hospitals to the promised land.

Each year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin release the County Health Ranking & Roadmaps Report which measures important aspects of population health and the critical role that non-health related factors like education, employment, income and the environment play in how healthy we are and how long we will live.

The findings appear in the December issue of The Milbank Quarterly, a multidisciplinary journal of population health and health policy.

The course's shelter medicine, veterinary forensics, and public health courses have «significantly augmented my day - to - day practice of population health and well being, disease outbreak management, animal behavioral health, and animal cruelty investigations,» he said.

• Preliminary examination of the population health impacts of SASP targets including labour participation 2007

Gordon Gregory: The conference will deal with a range of population health issues, none of which is more pressing than the health of Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders.

Professor Rosemary Calder, Director of the Australian Health Policy Collaboration, talks about the four elements she sees as key to any health policy framework: focus on risk factors, Amartya Sen's capability framework, regular measurement of population health and the transformational urban planning of Gil Penalosa that looks to make cities great for 8 and 80 year olds.

«The public health impact of adopting intensive treatment in the right patients is enormous,» says Adam Bress, University of Utah assistant professor of population health sciences.

But the same method also showed a plateau between 2000 and 2002, after which rates climbed again, says Maureen Durkin, professor of population health sciences and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

A new research letter published by JAMA Pediatrics examined trends in overall and cause - specific infant mortality rates between non-Hispanic black and white infants because infant mortality is an important indicator of population health.

Joshua Lee, associate professor of population health and medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center, also participated in the briefing.

«These findings represent a potentially major shift in how we think about policies to reduce child undernutrition,» said S.V. Subramanian, senior author and professor of population health and geography at HSPH.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

«Over a quarter of teens who reported using Adderall without a doctor telling them to take it contradicted themselves by saying they do not use amphetamine,» senior author Joseph Palamar, an associate professor of population health, said in a university news release.

«Past studies of this kind have essentially assumed that all PM 2.5 particles have the same toxicity, irrespective of their source,» lead investigator George Thurston, a professor of population health and environmental medicine, said in a Langone news release.