Sentences with phrase «people access the treatment»

«Let's Talk» is intended to promote awareness of mental illness and jumpstart action (s) to help people access the treatment they need.
Following sign off from the line manager, the key worker should discuss the Community Detoxification Guidelines with the person accessing treatment.

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Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.
Now, millions of people have access to Planned Parenthood services like birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing and treatment.
There's also significant evidence that this newfound coverage has allowed previously uninsured people to access all sorts of basic medical treatments that they never used before, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
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Today, more than five million Canadians have access to Best Doctors, a global company that brings together the best medical minds to help people get the right diagnosis, treatment and information.
Under current laws, family members — even spouses and parents of adult children — can not gain access to medical information without the written consent of the person under treatment.
In our own country millions of people especially American Negroes are subjected to discrimination and unequal treatment in educational opportunities, in employment, wages and conditions of work, in access to professional and business opportunities, in housing, in transportation, in the administration of justice and even in the right to vote.11
It should also mean ensuring people can access treatment at the earliest possible opportunity, to improve their chances of recovering.
Without specific documentation to prove their settlement rights, people who had been invited to the UK to build our national institutions were declared illegal immigrants, threatened with deportation, denied access to NHS treatment, benefits and pensions, and lost their jobs.
These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.
The # 450 million investment in the IAPT programme means more people than ever are getting access to the right kind of treatment, care and support minister Norman Lamb pointed out.
She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.
«That's why Labour has pledged to rewrite the NHS Constitution to give people the right to talking therapies for mental illness in the same way they already have the right to access drugs and treatments for physical illness.»
«However, it is far from acceptable that in some parts of the country people are still waiting over a year to access treatment,» Farmer said.
I applaud New York State for recognizing the problem and taking steps to not only improve access to treatment, but also to crack down on doctors and pharmacists who illegally sell opioid pills, which could lead to even more people getting addicted to heroin.»
The additional funds — only a fraction of the city's $ 78 billion budget — would be used to support programs to reduce the spread of HIV infection in local communities and provide people living with HIV with access to care, medications that make viral loads undetectable, and other treatment supports.
«We still have a long way to go before the 1 in 4 people who go through mental illness get access to the decent treatment they deserve.
Access to medication and treatments Diabetes UK believes that people with diabetes should have equal access to the best diabetes care and health outcomes available on the basis of clinical need and appropriateness, not on their or the NHS's ability tAccess to medication and treatments Diabetes UK believes that people with diabetes should have equal access to the best diabetes care and health outcomes available on the basis of clinical need and appropriateness, not on their or the NHS's ability taccess to the best diabetes care and health outcomes available on the basis of clinical need and appropriateness, not on their or the NHS's ability to pay.
It is unacceptable for people with diabetes to be deprived of (new) developments because of «postcode prescribing» where access to treatment depends on where the individual lives or from whom they receive their diabetes care..
That package includes bills allowing people needing substance abuse treatment to immediately access inpatient services without waiting for insurance company authorization, and a seven - day supply limit on opioid prescriptions.
«Anytime we discuss anything involving health care, we would be ignoring our responsibilities if we didn't look at costs,» said Flanagan, who said Senate Republicans do want people to access treatment as quickly as possible, without delays or denials from insurance companies.
«Our position has always been to give people access to services and treatment so we can set them on a path to leading productive lives.
«We need to ensure people in their darkest times have access to quality, affordable health care so they can receive the treatment they need,» Miner said.
ERIE COUNTY, NY — World AIDS Day 2014, December 1, 2014, is focused on the opportunity to it can only be achieved by closing the gap between people who have access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services and people who are being left behind.
«This legislation, passed unanimously by both houses of the legislature, would compel the Office of People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) to show a true commitment to the well being of individuals with developmental disabilities by ensuring access to a range of treatment and living options that appropriately consider their needs,» said CSEA President Danny Donohue.
The Liberal Democrat leadership candidate fears plans for new waiting time targets for people with conditions such as anxiety and depression to access treatment will be scrapped unless ministers plough # 3.5 bn into mental health over the next five years.
A key provision of the package allows people needing substance abuse treatment to get immediate access to inpatient services, without waiting for insurance company authorization.
«More people need to be tested at an early stage, without clinical symptoms,» says Papa Salif Sow, who helps oversee Gilead's efforts to improve access to treatments in Africa.
According to the latest statistics from UNAIDS, the UN body that coordinates global action on HIV, 20.9 million people now have access to antiretroviral drug treatments.
Topics include the rights of persons with disabilities; the rights and responsibilities of drug users and ethical considerations for dignified addiction treatment; improving maternal and child health through advancements in women's rights; the effects of violence; access to affordable and appropriate health care and treatment; health disparities between different population groups; health during war and conflict; the health of internally displaced persons and refugees; and recognition of social and structural forces that impact the health of individuals and groups.
«Countries using these measures should instead increase the availability of proven opioid - agonist therapies, such as methadone, and ensure there is adequate access to voluntary treatment programs in community settings and facilitate people with opioid addiction to seek treatment
The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.
More people need access to treatment programs that offer a combination of psychotherapy and anti-addiction medications, the panelists said.
Medical tourism — people traveling abroad with the expressed purpose of accessing medical treatment — is a growing phenomenon associated with globalization.
«Understanding HCV disease progression rates among people who inject drugs (PWID) is important to setting policy to expand access to detection, diagnosis and treatment, and in forecasting the burden of disease,» said Holly Hagan, PhD, the principal investigator for the HCV Synthesis Project, who also is a professor at New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) and co-director at CDUHR.
«Freedom of access to information is... the only means by which research can be properly scrutinised in order to ensure the best possible outcome for people and animals,» said the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in a statement issued people and animals,» said the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in a statement issued People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in a statement issued today.
More than half of this economic cost (56 %, $ 10.8 billion) was on accessing diabetes treatment, including medication and hospital stays — and one half of these costs were out - of - pocket (paid for by the patients), putting a huge financial burden on people with diabetes.
Researchers say the potential cost saving will be tremendous and will improve access to treatment for people with MS.
Ensuring that people living with HIV are accessing and staying in health care is vital to achieving optimal health outcomes, said Dr. Rourke, a scientist with the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital and executive director of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network.
This new understanding would not only protect people from being denied access to treatment for mental illness but would also protect all of us from harmful manipulations of our neural activity through the misuse of technology.
The main types of stigma preventing people from accessing care were «treatment stigma» (the stigma associated with using mental health services or receiving mental health treatment) and «internalized stigma» (shame, embarrassment).
Ideally, we should persuade people to adopt healthier diets and lifestyles, but in the short run we should at least ensure they have access to effective treatment
If confirmed, the findings would mean that current treatment strategies need to be altered as people with a history of asbestos exposure are not currently able to access new treatments for IPF.
The researchers also found that only 50 percent of people were diagnosed and aware of their infection; 43 percent of those with the disease had access to outpatient care; and only 16 percent were prescribed treatment.
«We have evidence - based treatments that are effective for many people with bulimia, but many people don't have access to specialist care,» said Cynthia M. Bulik, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders at UNC, founding director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, and director of the Center for Eating Disorders Innovation at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
«Social circumstances or lifestyles may make it more difficult for some people to recognise the symptoms of TB, access healthcare services, follow a treatment or attend regular healthcare appointments.
According to Professor Chris Beyrer, Director of Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health & Human Rights, USA, who coordinated the Series, «Efforts to improve HIV prevention and treatment by and for people who sell sex can no longer be seen as peripheral to the achievement of universal access to HIV services and to eventual control of the pandemic.
However, although many HIV prevention and treatment strategies — including free or subsidised access to condoms, and access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) after infection — are proven to work in people who sell sex, access is inadequate or entirely absent for many sex workers [Paper 2].
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