Sentences with phrase «policy interventions aiming»

This evidence can inform general debates about family structure and child health as well as policy interventions aiming to reduce child health disparities.

He said the government can not claim to have improved the economy of the country within its 6 months in office because most of its policy interventions aimed at addressing the economic challenges are yet to be implemented.

A growing body of rigorous evidence suggests that policy interventions aimed at early childhood bear fruit for decades.

Not exact matches

There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

Thus, a new and healthy inequality will reappear and will give a new dynamism to the economies of developed countries sick of the slumpflation, sickness coming from the combined inheritance of policies inspired by Keynes and Beveridge, i.e. of the anti-cycle intervention of the State (aiming at cushioning) and of the social redistribution.

And so, a few years ago, Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center was condemned for suggesting that public policy should set a point, say age eighty - five, above which no more medical interventions aimed at curing should be attempted.

To address this care gap, a team of researchers lead by Alison Buttenheim PhD, MBA, an Assistant Professor of Nursing and an Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, evaluated the feasibility and impact of different interventions aimed at increasing the number of vaccinated caregivers.

The project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

Of the program - and policy - based alternatives to exclusionary discipline, Steinberg and Lacoe report the most evidence for, and positive effects from, the Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavior.

We aim to increase productive instructional time and school engagement by collaborating with SFUSD to provide prevention and intervention at many levels of the school community: student, caregiver, school staff, school district, and policy.

The first days of the charter movement might serve as the starting point of confrontation but the issues today include a variety of policies aimed at shaking up the status quo such as teacher evaluations, school choice, parent rights and interventions of struggling schools.

The eighth annual event, hosted by the Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research and supported by the National Center for Education Statistics, aims to «increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions.

The education secretary told the Conservative Party Conference that the policy would aim to give children «the best start in life, no matter what their background», and would focus initially on intervention in Blackpool, Derby, Norwich, Oldham, Scarborough, and West Somerset, before expanding to four more areas in the «coming months».

The project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

However, in the wake of federal policies aimed to halt the climate progress, such as increased support for baseload coal - fired plants and tariffs on solar panels, non-federal climate leadership will need to increase policy interventions to maintain the momentum.

The report aims to increase policymakers» understanding of private finance and to introduce an approach that climate policy makers can follow, especially when designing public interventions for unlocking private climate finance.

Such systems will be invaluable tools for assessing the efficacy and effectiveness of policies and interventions that aim to reduce inequalities in health and development across populations.3

Recently a number of Australian Government policy initiatives have been directed at addressing access and improving care for Indigenous Australians, including the unprecedented funding of $ A805.5 million for the multifaceted Indigenous Chronic Disease Package (ICDP) from 2009 to 2013.8 — 10 However, there is a general lack of research into, and evaluations of, interventions that aim to improve access to healthcare on which such interventions can be based.4, 7, 11

A meta - analysis published in the journal Paediatrics has identified the critical role that parents play in interventions aimed at helping children with disruptive behaviour problems and suggests policy makers should take note.

Source: National Center for Children in Poverty The aim of the study reported in this brief was to determine how states leveraged different policy choices to support integration of social - emotional developmental strategies into early intervention services.

This topic aims to provide a better understanding of aggressive behaviour in young children, its normal course of development, when parents or caregivers should be concerned, and what policies, programs and interventions can be implemented to reduce its long - term incidence.

To close the well - being gap, we think that sociopolitical action and policy reform aimed at changing the odds, that is by equalising opportunities for families of children with ID to sustain a meaningful daily routine, are as vital, if not more so, than interventions designed to help these families beat the odds.

Given the importance of support in parenting, and the importance of parenting to children's development, a range of policy initiatives have been introduced in Scotland with the aim of supporting families, increasing parenting capacity, and facilitating early intervention.

This factor is often overlooked by current policies and other intervention strategies aimed at addressing violence against women which are primarily guided and directed by a liberal feminist framework.