Sentences with phrase «preventive health care practice»

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Health services and agricultural extension services, secondary schools, women's groups, and other outreach networks provide opportunities to promote better infant feeding and maternal dietary practices and to offer preventive care and counseling.

After 14 years in a busy group pediatric practice, Dr. Tanya founded Calabasas Pediatrics, a concierge practice providing innovative and personalized pediatric health care with an emphasis on nutrition, a healthy lifestyle and preventive medicine.

Everyone has the right of access to preventive health care and the right to benefit from medical treatment under the conditions established by national laws and practices.

She has more than 30 years of experience in health care, including managing the practice of her husband, Dr. James E. Harrell, and founding the Breast Imaging Center, a mammography center specializing in preventive care for women.

Dr. Shah's experience in preventive care and his focus on integrating effective public health practice with the delivery of medicine will improve the health status of New Yorkers.

The findings could be explained by factors independent of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation, the authors acknowledged, but they concluded the paper with this concern: «We believe our findings may be indicative of a shift in practice patterns away from detailed pre-screening discussions among health care providers who have implemented the [USPSTF] recommendation into their care giving.

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Tracey Roizman, DC is a writer and speaker on natural and preventive health care and a practicing chiropractor.

Sidestepping Senior Mobility Issues with Preventive MedicineSidestepping Senior Mobility Issues with Preventive Medicinecover storiesPosted: June 24, 2008By Jessica TremayneAlthough senior care has vastly improved over the past 10 years, senior - health advocates say practices need to focus on education and prevention in all facets of their senior care regimen.

Building a preventive health care program takes time and commitment from all members of the veterinary practice team.

Your regular veterinarian, also called a «primary care» or «family» vet, is in general practice and has the primary responsibility to manage your pet's health, including preventive care.

We utilize the latest technological advances, and implement the foremost medical practices to evaluate your pet's age, breed, and lifestyle to design a preventive health care and vaccination plan that works best for your pet.

Preventive care is the cornerstone of pet health and the foundation on which All Creatures Animal Hospital has built its practice.

When it comes to preventive health care, many practices are looking to incorporate wellness plans, billed in monthly installments, as a profitable means to increase visits and improve care.

Shelter medicine differs from traditional small animal private practice in that it blends individual patient care with population health management, including preventive medicine and behavioral health.

According to the American Animal Hospital Association, a white paper titled «The Opportunity» is an online, easy - to - use survey tool designed to give practices customized insight into the communication gaps between clients and the health care team regarding preventive medicine.

North Carolina Linkages for Prevention brought together primary care practices and local state health departments in Durham to improve the delivery of preventive care in pediatric primary care practices and implement intensive HV to low - income pregnant women and their infants.

Perinatal depression may be comorbid with marital discord, divorce, family violence (verbal and / or physical), substance use and abuse, child abuse and neglect, failure to implement the injury - prevention components from anticipatory guidance (eg, car safety seats and electrical plug covers), 10 failure to implement preventive health practices for the child (eg, Back to Sleep), 10, — , 13 and difficulty managing chronic health conditions such as asthma or disabilities in the young child.11, 14 Families with a depressed parent (ie, any parental depression) overutilize health care and emergency facilities.14 Studies of families of a person with major depression that began before 30 years of age demonstrate that the parent, siblings, and children are 3 to 5 times more likely to have major depression themselves.

Implementing the Promoting the Healthy Development Survey (PHDS) Commonwealth Fund (2006) Comprehensive guidelines to State officials, physician practices, and health systems on how to implement the PHDS, a parent survey to assess and improve the quality of preventive and developmental care provided to young children.

Evaluation results demonstrated both enhanced quality of care and promotion of more - favorable parenting practices related to perceptions of children's behavior at 30 to 33 months, discipline at 30 to 33 months, and health care seeking at 2 to 4 months and 30 to 33 months.4 — 7 In addition, HS reduced income disparities in the use of preventive services and enhanced parents» satisfaction with care at 30 to 33 months.8 Using observational data and a longitudinal sample, Caughy et al9 reported that participation in HS was associated with positive child development outcomes, including greater attachment and fewer child behavior problems when children were 34 to 37 months of age.

These health services should be culturally appropriate, taking into account traditional preventive care, healing practices and medicines.