Sentences with phrase «population health focus»

Working in the area of translational research with a population health focus, in which it is a world leader, the HealthInfoNet makes research and other information available in a form that has immediate, practical utility for practitioners and policy - makers in the area of Indigenous health, enabling them to make decisions based on the best available evidence.

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But what about a digital health firm specifically focusing on one of the most neglected populations in the U.S. — the poor?

Several of the services will focus on population health management, including a predictive system that analyzes patient health records and insurance claims to anticipate patients» future needs (and health care providers» costs).

I think it will be a problem eventually,» said Brian Carter, a director focused on personal and population health at Cerner, an electronic medical record vendor that is integrated with HealthKit.

After Abbott, he co-founded DCVC company BlueTalon, which was initially focused on enterprise data security for data - driven clinical trial design and population health management.

One of the perks of working in the biotechnology industry is that one's colleagues occasionally send along gems like the following: «Health Disparity focuses on understanding and / or addressing factors that contribute to differences in the disease experience across populations....

Some of us have to consider health as well as taste (I use a low carb diet to maintain normal blood glucose instead of taking diabetes drugs, while at the same time I focus on foods that have a long tradition of supporting healthy populations, as well as limit processed «fake food» ingredients which are novel to the human diet).

The first phase (launched in September 2004) focused on educating the population on why too much salt is a health concern.

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease preveHealth Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevehealth care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevehealth and disease prevention.

Population Health Improvement Partners (formerly known as the Center for Public Health Quality) helps health - focused organizations and coalitions build organizational and community capacity to improve and sustain population hHealth Improvement Partners (formerly known as the Center for Public Health Quality) helps health - focused organizations and coalitions build organizational and community capacity to improve and sustain population hHealth Quality) helps health - focused organizations and coalitions build organizational and community capacity to improve and sustain population hhealth - focused organizations and coalitions build organizational and community capacity to improve and sustain population healthhealth.

Rather, it must be the center of a health network that provides for emergency and acute care while also embracing an ambulatory care model that focuses on managing population health and keeping people from having to use the acute care portion of the building.

The report focused on emergency response team operations, mental health care, the handling of inmates under the age of 18, disciplinary measures involving removing inmates from the general population and suggested improvements.

Focus areas range from the molecular (genomics, proteomics) to individual (clinical research, health systems management) to populations (public health) and health care delivery.

His research focuses on the upper limits to human longevity, the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, as well as the pursuit of the scientific means to slow aging in people.

The findings, published in the American Journal of Public Health, suggest that current weight management programmes focused on dieting and exercise are not effective in tackling obesity at population level.

However, to meet these targets, the traditional approach of broad, population - based treatments, prevention messages, and technologies must give way to more specific and focused approaches, according to a new commentary from Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and colleague Hilary D. Marston, M.D., M.P.H.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

The South Asian population in the UK has a higher incidence of diabetes and poorer health outcomes from treatment than the general population, but studies in the past have not focused on the role of social networks or assessed beliefs about diabetes to explore self - management behaviours in this population.

Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in the past.

«Overall, our results suggest a connection between opioid and heroin use and heroin - related adverse outcomes at the population level, implying that frequent nonmedical users of prescription opioids, regardless of race or ethnicity, should be the focus of public health efforts to prevent and mitigate the harms of heroin use.»

While the specific cause of the Yosemite toad's decline is unknown, meadow restoration across the high Sierras is of importance to land managers focusing on watershed health to maintain clean and sustainable water supplies for the populations at lower elevations.

But, come this summer, Gates will step down from his post as Microsoft chairman to work at his and his wife's philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on improving the health and education of the world's very poorest populations.

We are testing new payment and service delivery models focused on prevention and population health, such as our Million Hearts initiative, through the CMS Innovation Center,» says Dr Patrick Conway, another study author and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, in Baltimore, USA.

The report shows that the ACA's provision to increase the health - care system's focus on population health can change financial, organizational, and clinical linkages between public health and health care.

«We were looking at the optimum way to evaluate people with chest pain and focusing on those patients who are generally older, have many risk factors for coronary disease or may have had prior health problems, basically the intermediate to higher risk population,» Miller said.

«Managing the demand better, for example by focusing on health education, would bring double benefits — maintaining healthy populations, and greatly reducing critical pressures on the environment.»

«With an underfunded health care system and a population that would benefit more from a focus on lifestyle factors, such as smoking and abuse of alcohol and drugs, we should not enter into expensive high - tech endeavors,» says Tiina Tasmuth, a professor of medical education at the University of Tallinn.

Observations focussed on the eggs as indicators of the health of the population and inbreeding depression, but included data on the juveniles where possible.

But others point out that the code focuses on past transgressions, and doesn't refer to recent efforts to respect and involve communities, such as guidelines for genomics work on vulnerable populations prepared in 2014 by the Human Heredity and Health in Africa program.

«The CCRC is an interdisciplinary model of care focusing on the unique needs of ICU survivors, a growing population that does not receive specialized care it deserves,» said study senior author Babar A. Khan, MD, of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Regenstrief Institute, Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science and IU School of Medicine.

Promoting wider access to genomic medicine in Mexico and Latin America by supporting discovery programs that focus on health problems with particular relevance to the region, and leverage its unique population genetics.

She has over 25 years of experience in global health across research, public health, and philanthropic sectors, with focus on strategy, global health product development, and the introduction and scale - up of tools and strategies resulting in impact on endemic populations.

But his latest focus — fighting to improve health care for marginalized populations — hits closer to home.

She has developed a research and career focus on occupational and environmental health for high - risk, low - wage vulnerable populations.

As separate courses, we can delve deeper in specialty topics and focus on specific health scenarios and populations, like our upcoming Reversing Cognitive Decline course or the subject of this article, Men's Hhealth scenarios and populations, like our upcoming Reversing Cognitive Decline course or the subject of this article, Men's HealthHealth.

The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the IER literature to date, with a specific focus on its effects on cardiometabolic health indices in rodent and human populations.

The report focuses on three factors affecting the structure of dating and relationships: demographic projections (including life expectancy, population, ethnography, health), social projections (including marriage rates, alternative relationships, religious / cultural shifts) and technological shifts (rate of technological change, effects on labour market, emerging technologies).

She applied to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health intent on focusing on underserved populations in developing countries and immunizations.

Seminars focus on everything from children through to the ever expanding ageing population, from the impact of physical activity on mental health and how healthy lifestyles can be promoted through positive stimuli.

http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/ A Synthesis of Research on Reading from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Bonita Grossen University of Oregon November, 1997 The National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) educational research program, initiated in 1965, began to focus more on reading difficulties as it became clear how extensive the reading problem was in the general population.

http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/ A Synthesis of Research on Reading from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Author: Bonita Grossen University of Oregon November, 1997 The National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) educational research program, initiated in 1965, began to focus more on reading difficulties as it became clear how extensive the reading problem was in the general population.

Topics focused on this year's special theme can be directed at populations across the lifespan and in a variety of settings that interact with public systems of care and are influenced by public health policy.

Resources focus on such topics as literacy, school climate, special populations, physical activity, military alliances, health and safety, male engagement, special education, and urban family engagement.

«Pete's Pet Posse is part of an increased wellness focus on the emotional health of our campus population.»

Essential Duties: - Work with Senior Manager - Georgia to develop and execute shelter medicine plan focusing on herd populations, health management for shelter medicine, status reports, budgets and comprehensive documentation as it relates to Georgia programs.

Her work has focused on infectious disease, immunology, and population medicine to improve the understanding of shelter animal health, disease responses and animal welfare.

Elanco Animal Health and Dow AgroSciences Announce Strategic R&D Agreement Agreement will focus on developing integrated solutions to enable livestock producers to increase meat and milk production to meet the demands of the growing global population.

Rarely is this targeted to have an impact on the overall cat population or to focus on the cats that present the greatest welfare, environmental, or public health concerns.

Her academic work has focused on clinical studies in infectious disease, immunology, and population medicine to improve understanding of shelter animal health, disease response and animal welfare.

Rather than focus on reducing emissions, I prefer to provide clean water, health and medicine and education opportunities to the third world population.