Sentences with phrase «population health policies»

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This is a mixed bag from a public policy standpoint: Increased marijuana use can have ill effects on the health of the population but the increased sales bring in more revenue for the government.

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AFSA has long campaigned for the creation of an inter-departmental Ministerial Food Forum to ensure strategic and coherent policy development and integration of planning in and across departments managing local food and food systems, population health, transport, land use, education, environmental sustainability, natural resources, infrastructure and economic development.

The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74

Physicians have a primary responsibility for translating research and evidence into guidance for parents and children, and they are credible and influential voices for advancing public education and policy concerning population health.

All facilities, regardless of the racial / ethnic composition of the populations they serve, can support the breastfeeding decisions of their patients by implementing evidence - based policies and practices shown to be critical for establishing breastfeeding, so that more infants are able to reap the numerous health benefits of breastfeeding.

Many fail to realise that the UK has driven multiple progressive policies aimed at improving the health of the population, whether plain packaging for cigarettes, minimum pricing units for alcohol, or the most recent sugar tax.

According to him, the policy also lays emphasis on primary health care as the bedrock of national health system in addition to the provision of financial risk protection to all Nigerians particularly the poor and vulnerable population.

Bobbie Sackman, director of public policy at LiveON NY, a senior citizen advocacy organization, said the Cuomo proposal would lead to a cut in the number of meals served to the city's aging population as well as a reduction in services, including social activities, eviction assistance and help with health care.

Whether through problems of increasing obesity, addictions, mental health issues or an ageing population; better health policies, funding and support will be key to improving quality of life.»

New York state, he said, should be a bulwark against what he said was damaging federal policy and must counter efforts to roll back cuts to health care, environmental protections and safeguards of marginalized populations.

According to a new analysis by Empire Center health policy director Bill Hammond, a $ 1.1 billion - dollar state program to reimburse hospital charity care is shortchanging hospitals that serve poorer patient to the benefit of those that serve more affluent populations.

Public health professionals play a critical role in monitoring a population's health, controlling disease, and fostering policies to improve and promote health and health services.

To enable talented, early - career scholars combining biomedical science and population health to participate actively in the IOM study process, promoting the linkage of public health and medicine — both scientifically and through practice and policy.

These findings could be taken into account when developing policies and strategies aiming to improve population health with more efficient use of health resources.

This matter should be taken into account when developing policies and strategies addressed to improve population health.

However, federal policies can reach larger populations and fund programs that benefit populations at risk for obesity, and thus play an essential role in improving public health.

«Public health efforts are needed to raise university administration and student population awareness of the harms that indoor tanning poses to young adults in order to increase demand for policy - related action.

Given past evidence that a wider rich - poor gap can be harmful to a population's health, tax policies that widen or narrow this gap may influence the overall health of a society.

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.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

These limitations «suggest that the ability to estimate population trends in caloric intake and generate public policy relevant to diet - health relationships is extremely limited,» said Archer, who conducted the study with colleagues at the Arnold School.

But implementation of policies is not enough; countries, and the global health community, need to collect timely, reliable, and detailed information on the effect of those policies, particularly among vulnerable populations and those being directly targeted by the tobacco industry.

Many of these identified endocrine - disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which include pesticides and substances used in manufacturing a multitude of products, have been reported to interfere with thyroid hormone function, yet public health policy does not fully address the risks to vulnerable populations.

«We need to understand why these differences exist... and figure out how to translate it to the broader population of physicians,» said Dr. Ashish Jha, a professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and senior author of the health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and senior author of the Health and senior author of the paper.

This work defines an element, often missing from health policy discussions, in improving outcomes for this important population and underscores the importance of social factors in affecting health outcomes both for people at risk of becoming infected with HIV and for those living with HIV or AIDS, said the researchers.

In a related commentary, Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, writes: «There is broad consensus among physicians, hospital and health insurance leaders, and policy makers to reform payment to health care providers so as to reduce the role of fee for service, which encourages high volume, and instead to use systems that reward better patient outcomes, such as bundled payments for a population or for an episode of care.»

«As Hispanics make up an increasingly larger share of the Texas population, it's critical that we consider their needs when developing and implementing policies about health insurance,» said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at Rice's Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medhealth insurance,» said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at Rice's Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medhealth economics at Rice's Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of MedHealth and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

The authors noted that broadening scientific workforce diversity has been an official policy of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for decades, yet the percentage of URM scientists who hold faculty positions today is still well below their representation in the general U.S. population.

NIH Deputy Director for Science, Outreach, and Policy Kathy Hudson, who co-chaired the working group, said the project hopes to recruit some participants through federally funded health clinics that serve low - income minority populations.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Hhealth at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public HealthHealth.

«This approach can be used to better understand people, prevent diseases, and predict important trends, including views on policies that affect transgender populations or changes in health,» Krueger said.

The findings appear in the December issue of The Milbank Quarterly, a multidisciplinary journal of population health and health policy.

The states chosen had diverse populations, geographies and policies with respect to health insurance reform.

«Health officials in both Mississippi and West Virginia report that overwhelming majorities of the public support their policies and that opposition comes from a very small number of the population.

Genomic data about individuals and groups might be consulted during disease outbreaks, in planning for public health programs, or in developing new or assessing existing public health policies; for instance, where are the hotspots for infection (and are these associated with specific pathogen or host genomics), where should vaccines be deployed most urgently, which therapies should be offered to which genomic populations, and where should treatment programs, isolation policies or public health control programs be implemented to halt the spread of infections?

He's trying to influence health policy, at the same time as improving health care access to marginalized populations in Canada.

The report recommended prioritizing cannabis research — clinically and in health policy, health economics, public health and public safety — especially in at - risk and under - researched populations, such as children and youth, older populations, pregnant women and heavy users.

Areas of Expertise: Mental health services and health systems transformation for refugee clients, social determinants of health, health care access for socially excluded populations, health policy

«Water quality is of great concern to California's Tribal governments not only for personal consumption, but also for the long term health and restoration of cultural habitats for traditional plants and animal life, ecosystems for healthy fish population, and access to traditional plants for food and ceremonial use,» adds Anecita Agustinez, a Tribal Policy Advisor at California's Department of Water Resources.

This requires not only that we expand the presence of health clinics in schools serving high - risk student populations, but enact policies to support those programs.

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.

By contrast, just one in 50 pupils in the wider population suffer from mental ill - health research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has found.

Executive Order 12898, «Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), (E.O. 12898 or E.O.) requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low - income populatiPopulations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), (E.O. 12898 or E.O.) requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low - income populatiPopulations (February 11, 1994), (E.O. 12898 or E.O.) requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low - income populatipopulations and low - income populationspopulations.»

Second, the DOT Order sets forth guidance for determining whether a DOT or a DOT - funded program, policy, project, or activity (DOT action) is likely to have disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on low - income or minority populations.

Those OAs whose programs, policies, or activities may have disproportionately high human health or environmental effects on minority populations and low - income populationshave or will develop tools and documents, that may include guidance, best practices, handbooks, administrative statements, circulars, or other products, as appropriate, for achieving EJ in their programs, consistent with DOT's EJ Order.

Each OA whose programs, policies, or activities may result in disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority or low - income populations will develop or update OA tools and documents on EJ, consistent with the DOT EJ Order.

Executive Order (EO) 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low - income populatiPopulations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low - income populatiPopulations (February 11, 1994), requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low - income populatipopulations and low - income populationspopulations.»

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