Sentences with phrase «population health gains»

The evidence of the impact of anti-smoking campaigns among the non-Indigenous population highlights the need for a sustained and properly resourced anti-smoking focus over decades to make significant and consistent population health gains.

This is believed to correspond with reduced expenditure on public campaigns, highlighting the need for a sustained and properly resourced anti-smoking focus over decades to make significant and consistent population health gains.

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We believe that the gains from increased farm productivity and income will be amplified and produce longer - term benefits if the health and nutrition of a population, especially of vulnerable communities, are enhanced.

Some of the statistical gains by women are due to a shrinking male population: The number of white men who earned science, engineering, and health Ph.D. s in 2000 was 15 % lower than 20 years ago.

For the first time, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health studied the effects of gestational weight gain on childhood obesity risk among a multi-ethnic urban population.

As they gained familiarity with the insurance industry, the public health community became «better prepared to conceptualize new models for linking population health with reimbursable clinical care.»

The greatest health gains would result from fewer cars and increased walking in Delhi, reducing DALYs by 13,000 when modelling the population in 2030 compared with the same population under business - as - usual conditions.

«Those taking intermediate - acting insulin were more likely to gain weight,» said Dr. Tricco, who has a PhD in population health and is also an assistant professor in the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Hhealth and is also an assistant professor in the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public HealthHealth.

«These findings add to our understanding of how childhood stress is a more important driver of long - term weight gain than adult stress, and how such processes differ for men and women,» said Hui Liu, MSU associate professor of sociology and an expert in statistics, population - based health and family science.

While in college, Trudi held several positions where she gained experience in college and career planning, mental health, data collection and evaluation, working with dually diagnosed developmentally disabled populations and goal setting.

Integration of the FCMH and HV could promote overall efficiency and effectiveness and help achieve gains in population health through improving the quality of health care delivered, decreasing duplication, reinforcing similar health priorities, decreasing costs, and decreasing health disparities.

Long - term effects of childhood sexual violence include substance misuse, early sexual debut, more sexual partners, trading sex for financial gain and less use of contraception, as well as interpersonal difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behaviour.44 — 51 Our results imply that interventions to reduce peer - related violence among primary school children could be beneficial for mental health, as well as for sexual and reproductive health in this population.

[2] More public health benefit is gained through interventions which aim to shift the population mean than by reducing the level of the problem in the most affected group.

It is for this reason the National Strategic Framework contains a commitment to «comprehensive» primary health care encompassing «clinical / medical care, illness prevention services, specific population health programs for health gain, access to secondary and tertiary health services and client / community support and advocacy.»

The Pew Home Visiting Campaign presents 12 studies highlighting gains in education, health and future livelihoods at less cost to taxpayers through home visiting Read a Pew brief that synthesizes key findings from a new body of home visiting research It explores the importance of program quality and target populations — and the interactions between them — in determining ultimate outcomes for children and families.

In fact, a December 2017 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report found the mortality and life expectancy gaps are actually widening due to accelerating non-Indigenous population gains in these areas.

Volunteering for the MFP is an amazing opportunity to further the mission of expanding culturally competent mental health services to underserved populations, contribute to the growth and development of the behavioral health workforce, and gain access to members with similar interests and professional goals.

In this particular population the exposure to infant massage sessions resulted in an improvement in several health indexes, such as weight - gain, increases in length, head circumference, bone density, and body temperature (Scafidi et al., 1986; Scafidi et al., 1990; Kuhn et al., 1991; Wheeden et al., 1993; Moyer Mileur et al., 1995; Jinon, 1996; Dieter et al., 2001, 2003; Ke et al., 2001; Duan et al., 2002; Ferber et al., 2002; Liu, 2005; Lu et al., 2005; Na et al., 2005; Diego et al., 2008).

Because of these rapid health gains in the general population, and despite some significant health gains being made by Indigenous peoples in the 1970s and 1980s, the relative health status of the two population groups is marked by a significant equality gap that has remained static or even grown wider across a number of indicators as set out below in the text under various sub-headings.