Sentences with phrase «of the public health system»

«When we focused on the state of our public health system, we reached out to Jenifer,» James said.

They reflect an overall impact of multiple causative factors similar to those of other developing countries where rice is not a major staple.8 Various deficiencies including zinc, vitamin C and D, folate, riboflavin, selenium and calcium occur in the context of poverty, environmental degradation, lack of public health systems and sanitation, lack of proper education and social disparity.

Other uncertainties include how much effort and resources will be put into improving the adaptive capacity of public health systems to prepare in advance for the health effects of climate change, prevent harm to individual and community health, and limit associated health burdens and societal costs.

After synthesis of available information we make several key adaptation recommendations including: improving current surveillance and monitoring systems; concentrating adaptation strategies and policies on vulnerable communities; strengthening adaptive capacity of public health systems; developing multidisciplinary approaches sustained byan new mechanism of inter-sectional coordination; and increasing awareness and mobilization of the general public.

Not exact matches

Unlike Americans, however, residents of New Zealand enjoy the protection of a robust welfare state including a public health system, 18 weeks of subsidized parental leave and benefits for middle - and low - income families with young children.

While declining sales may be bad for soft drink companies, they're good for a public health system straining under an obesity epidemic posing as much or more of a threat than cancer.

«Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System is an important history of how US health care came to be dominated by the private insurance indHealth: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System is an important history of how US health care came to be dominated by the private insurance indHealth Care System is an important history of how US health care came to be dominated by the private insurance indhealth care came to be dominated by the private insurance industry.

But Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of Boston University's school of public health, offers a heretical question: What if we were to design a healthcare system that actually gave us what we want?

In the past, gaps in the public insurance system and lack of access to affordable private coverage left millions without health insurance.

But just as Harper is de-emphasizing some of his past comments, the Liberals are also de-emphasizing their stand on private care within the public system, as we saw recently when Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew did a very public about - face on this very question.

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

In the next breath, however, Harper added: «It should not matter who delivers health care, whether it is private, profit, not - for - profit or public, as long as Canadians have access to those services through the public insurance system regardless of their financial needs.

Although he's been de-emphasizing it recently, Harper is a long - time proponent of allowing more for - profit delivery of health care services - although he stresses that private delivery should occur within the public system.

Villar has been unable to find several of the medications needed to treat his wife's multiple sclerosis in Venezuela for the last two years, a story not uncommon in a country whose public health system has been crippled by shortages.

Health Care (Medrecon, EBI Medical Systems, Johns Hopkins Medicine, VNUS, Healing Prescription, Praxair, Prostate Ad, Basic Massage Public Course, University of California Wellness, Pharmacy One Source, Caspari Orthopedics, MISYS, American Pharmacy Company, Medline Neurology, Pivotal Neuropathy)

This is true for transportation systems, public utility systems, education infrastructure, health care infrastructure, and senior care infrastructure, to mention only some of the areas where more infrastructure investments are needed.

TORONTO, August 16, 2016 — Today, MaRS Discovery District launched Innovation Partnership: Procurement by Co-Design, a program designed to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs by Ontario's health ventures and facilitate their procurement within the Ontario public health system.

Today, MaRS Discovery District launched Innovation Partnership: Procurement by Co-Design, a program designed to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs by Ontario's health ventures and facilitate their procurement within the Ontario public health system.

As each market is vastly different — ranging from a complex mix of public and private health insurance to single - payer systems — entering the health technology space can seem daunting.

«British Columbians deserve to have a government that is an ardent defender of a robust public health care system, but the Liberals utterly failed.»

All of a sudden, the government is being accused of being too ideological for protecting Alberta's public health care system.

As health - care demands change and the system transititions, ongoing reforms of China's health - care service sector are being implemented to help equalize basic public health service, establish a primary health - care service system, and reform public hospitals.

What is required, according to Public health theology, is not the individual cure of conversion, but structural change in the political, economic and social systems that provide breeding grounds for the dehumanizing viruses.

Ultimately, we are promoting a more sustainable fashion system to improve the environment and, crucially — which comes hand - inhand with this — protecting the public health of millions of people.

The programme of dismantling the state, reducing its functions, pilfering its resources and launching sweeping privatizations leads to a demoralized public sector, weakened systems of education and health and the eventual usurping of the state by private economic interests.

For an economic system to be responsible it is also necessary that it include adequate public health and safety regulations to ensure that industrial practices do not endanger employees or the present or future public welfare, and also that it provide adequate protection of the natural environment.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

The effectiveness of the Health Star rating system, which was developed by food and beverage industry bodies, public health and consumer experts, has been the subject of an ongoing dHealth Star rating system, which was developed by food and beverage industry bodies, public health and consumer experts, has been the subject of an ongoing dhealth and consumer experts, has been the subject of an ongoing debate.

The organic sector looks forward to continued collaboration with FDA to help create and support food safety systems, helpful guidance and research that meet the needs of organic farmers, consumers and public health regulators.

The Health Star Rating Advisory Committee, which is responsible for overseeing the HSR system, is currently conducting a five - year review of the HSR system with public submissions open until 30 June 2017.

The system categorises the four key nutrients most associated with public health issues — fat, saturated fat, sugars and salt — as high, medium or low compared to the recommended level of intake of these nutrients.

This rejection came despite the traffic - light system having the strong support of EU public health and consumer agencies.

The first is the Traffic Light (TL) system, developed by the UK Food Standards Agency, where nutrients of greatest public health significance (total fat, saturated fat, sugar and sodium) are ranked and colour - coded as either high (red), medium (amber) or low (green), based on cut - points established by the European Regulation for Nutrition and Health Claims (Official Journal of the European Union, health significance (total fat, saturated fat, sugar and sodium) are ranked and colour - coded as either high (red), medium (amber) or low (green), based on cut - points established by the European Regulation for Nutrition and Health Claims (Official Journal of the European Union, Health Claims (Official Journal of the European Union, 2006).

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

Public health experts developed the traffic light system in the UK in 2006 in an effort to help combat rising levels of obesity and diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

As the Minister responsible for the National Institute for Health Research, as well as the whizzy high science of tomorrow's technologies, I can say that we also have at the heart of the NHS a commitment to ensure, through the institute, that we are constantly using the power of our health system to drive public health and to promote best praHealth Research, as well as the whizzy high science of tomorrow's technologies, I can say that we also have at the heart of the NHS a commitment to ensure, through the institute, that we are constantly using the power of our health system to drive public health and to promote best prahealth system to drive public health and to promote best prahealth and to promote best practice.

The International Code imposes strict guidelines that prohibit the promotion of infant formula to the public, the promotion of infant formula through health care systems, direct contact between formula companies and mothers, and ensure proper labels on all products describing the benefits of breastfeeding and the dangers of bottlefeeding (see the International Code page on this website for more information).

Public health and health care professionals are the face of health care delivery and health systems in Vermont.

Problem - plagued septic systems can cause nasty puddles of raw sewage to surface in homeowners» yards, presenting a public health hazard.

Glen Ellyn — As the Park District prepares for a Jan. 9 hearing on its plans to join Central DuPage Health Systems in building a $ 10 million - to - $ 12 million fitness and wellness center, a small group of residents is questioning whether a public body should be involved in a for - profit venture.

If women know that this isn't in their best interest, hopefully this will stem the tide of NCB washing into our public health systems.

No zoning ordinance or by - law shall prohibit or unreasonably regulate the installation of solar energy systems or the building of structures that facilitate the collection of solar energy, except where necessary to protect the public health, safety or welfare.

Her mother's public health nursing stories of birth, the study of humanities and systems thinking fueled her interest; and the guidance of inspiring mentors and colleagues cemented it for life.

Public Citizen claims that by supplying US healthcare providers with product samples to distribute to parents, the firms have failed to adhere to the principles of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - notably Articles 5.2 («Manufacturers and distributors should not provide, directly or indirectly, to pregnant women, mothers or members of their families, samples of products») and 6.2 («No facility of a health care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula&raHealth Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - notably Articles 5.2 («Manufacturers and distributors should not provide, directly or indirectly, to pregnant women, mothers or members of their families, samples of products») and 6.2 («No facility of a health care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula&rahealth care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula»).

The Shelby County Breastfeeding Coalition is here to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding in Memphis, TN and Shelby County through the assistance of the medical profession, the public health system, and the community.

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

The Association of Wholistic Maternal and Newborn Health focuses on the intersection of public health and midwifery to address healthcare disparities and to engender a more equitable maternity care system for all women and inHealth focuses on the intersection of public health and midwifery to address healthcare disparities and to engender a more equitable maternity care system for all women and inhealth and midwifery to address healthcare disparities and to engender a more equitable maternity care system for all women and infants.

But still, this is a stark example of how our current system directly sets up public health (of children, which I think is even worse) as an obstacle to financial success.

They rely heavily on the manipulation of public opinion, appearing respectable; using front groups, funding science and infiltrating food safety systems — all with the purpose of weakening legislation — legislation that is essential for stopping marketing practices that violate children's rights to health and improves product quality and safety.