Sentences with phrase «on national health policy»

The National Business Group on Health is the nation's only non-profit organization devoted exclusively to representing large employers» perspective on national health policy issues and helping companies optimize business performance through health improvement, innovation and health care management.

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On top of their collective list is: fiscal policy, tax policy, health care, the national debt, and national security.

Large companies «need to attract and retain employees and they'd be at a competitive disadvantage if they stopped offering health benefits,» said William Kramer, executive director for national health policy for the Pacific Business Group on Hhealth benefits,» said William Kramer, executive director for national health policy for the Pacific Business Group on Hhealth policy for the Pacific Business Group on HealthHealth.

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In a 2016 national survey of registered voters, health care ranked number four on the list of importance behind the economy, terrorism, and foreign policy.

Examples found in its policies on civil and human rights, national health care, church - state issues and judicial appointments lead me to conclude that the administration uses any means necessary to gain the desired ends.

We call on governments at all levels to come together as a matter of urgency to develop in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, health and community sector peak bodies and other key stakeholders, a policy framework, funding commitments and national action plan for food sovereignty and food security.

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This The National Interest on ABC Radio National and indeed listening in to that conversation is Jane Martin, the senior policy adviser with the Obesity Policy Coalition; it's a group of Victorian health organisapolicy adviser with the Obesity Policy Coalition; it's a group of Victorian health organisaPolicy Coalition; it's a group of Victorian health organisations.

July 11, 2013 — In light of the recent attention on safe birthing practices and the newly released AAP policy statement on Planned Home Births, the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) hosted a national webinar,» A Home Birth Primer for MCH Programs,» on Thursday, July 11, 2013.

BPNI seeks to work towards optimal nutrition of women and children, especially on enhancing breastfeeding rates in the country through countering commercial influence, capacity building of health and nutrition care providers, advocacy for maternity entitlements and other national policies.

Coursework focuses on the development of strong infant and early childhood mental health leaders who envision how they might change practice and policy in the larger national and international arena.

The other thing I would love to add here is: I have a good (american) friend who said: «when you see anything going on in policies (national / international / health / security / etc e tal) you should always ask: who is making money with it?

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, National Forum on Early Childhood Program Evaluation, and National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, A Science - Based Framework for Early Childhood Policy: Using Evidence to Improve Outcomes in Learning, Behavior, and Health for Vulnerable Children, Cambridge, Mass.: Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, 2007.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

All sectors involved in developing and policies and programmes to deliver on fuel poverty targets should attend including representatives from local government and RSLs; central government; the energy industry; Green Deal installer organisations; health agencies; voluntary and not for profit agencies at a national and local level.

At 9 a.m., City & State hosts its Healthy New York Summit on how affordable care, disease, addiction and mental health impact New York's health care policies, National Geographic Encounter, 226 W. 44th St., Manhattan.

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objectives.

He gestured at the «fights ahead» on the national scene, on tax policy and health care and immigration.

He has produced studies on the National Health Service, crime, big government projects, the dynamic effects of tax cuts, Gordon Brown's economic record, hate education in Palestine and environmental policy.

According to him, the policy also lays emphasis on primary health care as the bedrock of national health system in addition to the provision of financial risk protection to all Nigerians particularly the poor and vulnerable population.

4.10 pm Transport Subject: Disabled Access to Transport Witness (es): Sophie Christiansen OBE, Paralympian, British Equestrian Federation, Marije Davidson, Policy and Research Manager, Disability Rights UK and George Fielding, Panel Chair, Whizz Kidz; Niki Glazier, Co-ordinator, Mental Health Action Group, Lucy Hurst - Brown, Chief Executive, Brandon Trust, George McNamara, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Alzheimers Society and Srabani Sen, Chief Executive, Contact - a-Family; Paul Breckell, Chief Executive, Action on Hearing Loss, Peter Rayner, Vice-President, National Pensioners Convention, Tanvi Vyas, Campaigns Officer, Trailblazers and Richard Leaman, Chief Executive, Guide Dogs Location: The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

, «Infrastructure, National Asset Management and National Productivity, Education, Health, Human Capital and Social Policy», «Taxation, Governance, Democracy and Development», «Intergenerational Discourse on Getting Government to Work for Development and Democracy in Nigeria.»

The former governor, the last Republican to win a statewide election in New York, also says «our family's security» is being threatened by Obama's policies on health care and national security.

«He has written numerous books on economic theory and practice and he remains a prolific writer in national magazines and newspapers on a broad range of subjects including health policy, economic management, taxation and public spending, transport, pensions, and e-government.

[6] He was particularly critical of the high unemployment that the government's economic policies had resulted in, as well as condemning the wait for treatment that many patients had endured on the National Health Service.

On January 18, AAAS reaffirmed its support for the current public access policy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), stating that it does not endorse the Research Works Act, which would prevent NIH from requiring its grantees to make biomedical research findings freely available via the National Library of Medicine's Web site.

Hyman is the editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience, President of the International Neuroethics Society, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies where he serves on the governing Council, the Board of Health Science Policy, and chairs the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders which brings together industry, government, and academia.

On the other hand, you still have to say something to your inquisitive relatives and friends, so I did come up with a few choice things in answer to the «What are you going to do when you're done» question: science policy; educational policy; working for funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, or the Packard Foundation; teaching at a minority - serving institution; university administration.

As Congress develops public policy, I will continue to engage and seek counsel from our world class scientists and technicians working at the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute on Standards and Technology, and other federal agencies.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

While I was at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), I took evening courses at Johns Hopkins University on health policy and the cost - effectiveness of the health care sHealth (NIH), I took evening courses at Johns Hopkins University on health policy and the cost - effectiveness of the health care shealth policy and the cost - effectiveness of the health care shealth care system.

Research at Oregon State University suggests that photographs of your food are good for a lot more than just entertaining your friends on social media — those pictures might help improve your health and also national nutrition policy.

Spokespersons for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, declined to comment on the report.

► Scientists using nonhuman primates in your research, take note: «[I] n response to a congressional mandate, [the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-RSB- will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals,» David Grimm reported on Monday.

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In the meantime, a spokesman for the National Institutes of Health says that no study has yet been funded and the institute's policy is «not to comment on whether such a grant was submitted or is under review.»

► On Thursday, ScienceInsider reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has abandoned its long - time policy of limiting the number of resubmissions of the same grant proposal.

While he has offered few details on policies for biomedical research, Trump said last year that he has heard «terrible» things about the US National Institutes of Health; he has also derided NASA as a «logistics agency for low - Earth orbit activity ``, and said he would expand the role of the commercial space industry in the US space programme.

«These data show that if there is a national policy to transfer only one embryo per cycle during assisted reproduction, this not only lowers the rates of multiple pregnancies, but also has an important effect on the health of the single baby,» she said.

The fight over mandating free access to papers based on research funded by taxpayer dollars is again heating up in Washington, D.C. Yesterday, lawmakers discussed expanding the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) «public access» policy to other science - funding agencies.

Scientists James Sherley and Theresa Deisher filed their suit 2 years ago, arguing that the National Institutes of Health (NIH's) policy easing Bush - era restrictions on research using hESCs violated a law banning federally funded research that destroys embryos.

Ginger Pinholster, a spokesperson for Science, says that Alberts has discussed the proposed system with officials at NSABB, the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and others for several weeks, and that he is «very optimistic» that a plan can be agreed on «in a couple of weeks.»

The ban doesn't change existing policy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is already barred from funding research on human embryos.

But Fowler doubts that Projekt DEAL's approach will catch on: He notes that major U.S. research funders, such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, have official policies that allow work to remain behind a paywall for a year after publication.

Committee member Robert Kerns, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University and director of pain management with the Veterans Health Administration, is encouraged by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy's recent acknowledgement of those concerns and the importance of striking a balance between legitimate medical needs and law enforcement, he noted at a press briefing on the report.

More recently, she took on biomedical research policy and the National Institutes of Health.

The National Institutes of Health is dropping a policy that gave researchers only one chance to revise a rejected grant application before having to start over with a new idea — a rule that was especially hard on young investigators.

But the technique also creates a privacy concern about health data; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is now backpedaling on a policy mandating genetic sharing developed just 8 months ago for fear that the health information of people who participated in the studies could be identhealth data; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is now backpedaling on a policy mandating genetic sharing developed just 8 months ago for fear that the health information of people who participated in the studies could be identHealth (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is now backpedaling on a policy mandating genetic sharing developed just 8 months ago for fear that the health information of people who participated in the studies could be identhealth information of people who participated in the studies could be identified.

America COMPETES Act or America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act - Division A: Commerce and Science - American Innovation and Competitiveness Act - Title I: Office of Science and Technology Policy; Government - Wide Science -(Sec. 1101) Directs the President to: (1) convene a National Science and Technology Summit to examine the health and direction of the United States» science, technology, engineering, and mathematics enterprises; and (2) issue a report on Summit results.