Sentences with phrase «other health initiatives»

These types of changes may potentially also help improve outcomes for other health initiatives, including preventive care, disease screening, and chronic disease management.»

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Others, such as consumer watchdog Public Citizen and the preventive medicine advocacy group Trust for America's Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initiaHealth (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initiahealth initiatives.

But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

While many companies have adopted health and wellness programs to combat employee obesity and other harmful behaviors, those initiatives are often a reaction to a pre-existing problem.

By using the WorkJam Digital Workplace platform, corporate can update healthcare professionals on upcoming facility changes, new processes, services, corporate responsibility initiatives, health and safety processes, and deliver other special timely messages from leadership.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

In addition, the party has pledged other key health - related initiatives, such as limiting the commercialization of genetically modified crops; developing national goals for pre-natal care; reducing cigarette smoking through education and taxes; and promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

Others have taken the initiative in arousing their clergymen and congregations to involvement in the mental health movement.

Some come from «NYC Condom,» a service of the New York City Health Department, some from other groups (like the BACCHUS Initiatives of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators).

[I think you wrote somewhere that you might create a closed Facebook group where people could write more openly about their health issues, which naturally would take a lot of time to set up if you were to try to create a private forum on your own site, so I do realize that some platforms are better for some initiatives / conversations than others are.]

Other CIA initiatives have further enhanced the college's position of leadership on these vital issues, including Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives ®, a continuing medical education (CME) conference co-presented by the CIA and the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bHealth; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bhealth, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and beyond.

As we expose in our Update 46 newsletter, Nestlé's «First 1000 Days» health education initiative has an underlying intention of boosting sales of infant formula and other products.

Its leading competitor, Danone, is also targeting health workers through sponsorship, study days, professional services and other initiatives.

Additionally, they are working to ensure that the Wisconsin endorsement process complements other professional development initiatives in the state, such as the post-graduate University of Wisconsin Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Certificate Program that launched in June 2010.

I had been working on equity initiatives locally through the LLL Groups, other organizations, and in my own job in the public health department, but I had been mostly working as an individual.

This year's #NBM17 theme — Charting the Course Together — will focus on how to use data and measurement to build and reinforce the connections between breastfeeding and a broad spectrum of other health topics and initiatives.

The initiative was introduced to the United Kingdom in 1993, but, although improvements have been reported, 3 rates of breast feeding in the UK are still among the lowest in the world.4 5 Recent reports from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) urge NHS units to become baby friendly to improve rates of breast feeding and save money.4 6 Data from the millennium cohort study, however, show that though participating maternity units in the UK increased rates of initiation of breastfeeding, duration did not increase.5 Other strategies are therefore required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended time.

Mrs. Matilda Amissah - Arthur commended Tullow Ghana for such initiative and urged other organisations to emulate their example, especially putting up such an edifice to support maternal health care in the country.

The SFY 2009 - 10 enacted budget, including the SFY 2008 - 09 Deficit Reduction Plan, will include $ 2.3 billion in Medicaid and other health - care «savings» and reimbursement and other reform initiatives.

Mr. Thompson said the City should focus on fighting obesity through other initiatives including improved health education, increasing access to healthy foods and improving recreation opportunities rather than by banning unhealthy options.

According to the President of the Association, Richard Osei Yeboah, the Nation Builders Corps initiative is good but it is not good for nurses and other professionals in the health sector.

Other Potential Impacts: In addition to the direct impact on the above described DEP initiatives, the proposed EPA cuts will obviously have a devastating impact on toxic cleanups, and near shore health which includes runoff control to limit algae blooms throughout the Great Lakes.

De Blasio talked about his safety initiatives, affordable housing plan and efforts to address mental health and opioid abuse, among other plans

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De Blasio's budget increases spending on the troubled public - health system and other initiatives while adding to reserves in what he said was an increasingly uncertain economy.

De Blasio has championed other types of public health initiatives — most notably to promote mental health — but for the most part, he has not advanced the anti-tobacco legacy of his predecessor, former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

«To further our unity solution for the New York State Senate and define each other's position, there is no doubt all Democrats agree that a united Democratic delegation will take up a progressive agenda including such items as the Dream Act, GENDA, single payer healthcare, the Reproductive Health Act, campaign finance reform, the Contraceptive Care Act among other progressive initiatives that have been, or may be advanced.

Dozens of other health - related initiatives Cuomo proposed in his briefing book, but did not include in his speech, would require new legislation.

«It is government's role to provide the services that the private sector either can't or won't do, and I am proud to say that my administration has worked to strengthen public health though the Health Mall and other related initiatives and has also been instrumental in keeping residents connected to needed services through programs such as the Rural Transit Sehealth though the Health Mall and other related initiatives and has also been instrumental in keeping residents connected to needed services through programs such as the Rural Transit SeHealth Mall and other related initiatives and has also been instrumental in keeping residents connected to needed services through programs such as the Rural Transit Service.

Mental health experts will fan out to New York City's homeless shelters, into the streets and to other places to treat mentally ill people who exhibit violent behavior, as part of a $ 22 million initiative called NYC Safe that was unveiled by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

On Wednesday, First Lady Chirlane McCray — who spearheads the ThriveNYC mental health initiative — said the facilities are a «great concept» but said other issues are at play, arguing that it is «more important to be right than to be fast.»

The budget also includes money for several education innovations championed by the governor, among them $ 15 million for Community Learning Schools, an initiative led by the UFT that transforms schools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other services.

Further work is also being accomplished in assembling the Initiatives for a Stronger Community, the administration's Health & Human Services Plan that works with community partners in addressing poverty and other societal problems.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's initiative announced Tuesday allows the state to take quick action against day care centers for inadequate staffing and other safety and health violations.

Her other initiatives are a $ 6 million plan to rehabilitate female inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex; Sisters Thrive, which encourages mental health literacy in the black community; and NYCHOPE, a web - pased portal for domestic violence survivors.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a $ 82.22 billion budget Tuesday for the new fiscal year, increasing spending on the troubled public - health system and other initiatives while adding to reserves in what he said was an increasingly uncertain economy.

He said the state could finance a takeover through savings created from Cuomo's redesign of the Medicaid program and through other health care initiatives.

She oversees a portfolio of municipal programs, including her signature $ 850 million mental health initiative, in which other city officials report to her.

The researchers hope their findings could help other large health systems use their own electronic medical systems as part of a larger initiative to address a key aspect of the nation's epidemic of painkiller overdoses and opioid addiction.

Efforts to undermine the Clean Water Act and other federal initiatives must be strongly opposed, and I have led the charge against legislative proposals to roll back important clean water protections that may benefit some special interests, but risk public health and will damage the broader U.S. economy.

Those strategies might help to make similar public health initiatives work in other cities, suggests the report by Kimberley Roussin Isett, PhD, MPA, of Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and colleagues.

The Rockefeller Foundation yesterday also pledged $ 15 million for planetary health, adding to the $ 200 million spent over the past five years on other public health and environment initiatives.

Holdren walked through the policies and initiatives former President Barack Obama set into motion with his 2009 inaugural pledge to «restore science to its rightful place,» and laid out what is needed to preserve the capacity of science to advance «economic prosperity, public health, environmental sustainability and national security, among other laudable aims.»

«Given the continued high prevalence of multivitamin use in the US, it remains critical for us to understand its role on nutritional status and other long - term health outcomes through clinical trials such as PHS II and other new research initiatives.»

The authors note that public health initiatives that could help make the overall environment healthier include restricting the sale of non-nutritious foods in and around schools; menu labeling and providing incentives for food stores to build outlets in local food deserts; creating safe spaces for physical activity that are monitored to reduce the likelihood of crime; and maintaining smoke - free restaurants and public spaces, among others.

Other ACO initiatives include the Emergency Department navigator program, recovery coaches for substance abuse, home - based outpatient care, and the Community Health Worker Collaborative.

A third research initiative seeks to address a wide variety of other genetic questions of health and disease that are inherently answerable in large cohorts of blood donors and recipients.

Managing and developing NanoMalaysia Centre and other approved Strategic Infrastructure and Facilities for the NND [National Nanotechnology Directorate Division] Pre-commercialisation and commercialisation of nanotechnology products Education and public awareness programmes Bringing in venture funds and international investments in nanotechnology Building capacity and R&D facilities Health, safety and environmental initiatives International linkages and networking

Many other health issues were addressed at the health fair, and community leaders and elected officials were also on hand to support the initiative.

«IHPC notes reservations about this name change's implications for research funding initiatives, infrastructure, training and agendas for complementary and alternative health disciplines, organizations, and accredited academic institutions (chiropractic, naturopathic medicine, homeopathy, massage therapy, direct entry midwifery, holistic nursing, acupuncture and Oriental medicine, and others).