Sentences with phrase «provided health interventions»

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it provided health interventions to 3.8 million people affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast in the...

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The method is to move to the level of secondary prevention by providing more skilled early intervention by community helpers in the health and social services.

Infant Mental Health Mentor — Research / Faculty (Level IV) You will provide a research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name Health Mentor — Research / Faculty (Level IV) You will provide a research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name health needs of infants and toddlers, to name a few.

You will provide a research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name a few.

Infant mental health services that meet Category III specialized work criteria are provided by professionals whose role includes intervention or treatment of the infant / toddler's primary caregiving relationship, (i.e., biological, foster, or adoptive parent); these experiences are critical to the development of a specialization in infant mental health.

To that end, school nurses facilitate normal development and positive response to interventions; promote health and safety including a healthy environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self - management, self - advocacy, and learning.»

Innovative Treatments for the Post-Institutionalized Child: A Guide for Families and Mental Health Professionals The most important intervention which families and professionals can provide to the older post-institutionalized child is an immediate and comprehensive medical and neurodevelopmental assessment.

Athletic trainers (ATs) are highly qualified, multi-skilled health care professionals who collaborate with physicians to provide preventative services, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.

By expanding the pools of midwives who are qualified and family physicians who are supportive of providing opportunity for women to have their babies with limited medical intervention (if any), the costs for childbirth health care will drop significantly.

Another strength is that our results provide a more complete assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27

Both the Health Belief Model and Social Cognitive Theory were used to provide a theoretical foundation and process support for the design of the intervention material.

Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the two groups.

19 December 2017 — eLENA has been updated to include interventions from the recently released guidelines Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services and Assessing and managing children at primary health - care facilities to prevent overweight and obesity in the context of the double burden of malnutrition

This study provided comprehensive evidence of the effect of interventions on early initiation, exclusive, continued and any breastfeeding rates when delivered in five settings: (i) Health systems and services (ii) Home and family environment (iii) Community environment (iv) Work environment (v) Policy environment or a combination of any of above.

For example, Early Head Start, which provides comprehensive services focusing on early learning experiences, health and nutritional status, social - emotional behavior, early intervention, and parent support, offers increased access to health care, well - child exams, immunizations, and screening tests for children enrolled in the program.

Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care provides compelling evidence that unnecessary medical interventions disturb these hormonal processes, reducing the benefits of physiologic pathways and creating new health challenges for mothers and newborns.

However, the World Health Organization (WHO; 2007), the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS; 2007) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; 2008) state that evidence indicates male circumcision significantly reduces the risk of HIV acquisition by men during penile - vaginal sex, but also state that circumcision only provides partial protection and should not replace other interventions to prevent transmission of HIV.

The workshop is intended for all mental health clinicians, family therapists, and school counselors who provide interventions to children, adolescents, and families.

«Currently, breastfeeding promotion focuses on encouraging women to breastfeed without providing the necessary economic and social conditions such as supportive health - care systems, adequate maternity entitlements and workplace interventions, counselling, and education», says Dr Rollins [1].

This guideline provides global, evidence - informed recommendations on protection, promotion and support of optimal breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services, as a public health intervention.

Nutritional interventions for the HIV - infected mother may improve her health and quality of life, provide additional nutrients to support pregnancy and lactation, and meet the increased energy needs resulting from the HIV infection.

One of the most enterprising financial establishments in the country, uniBank (Ghana) Limited, having made an immense contribution in providing pivotal social interventions through its agile CSR commitments, has again donated substantial support, including a health post, marketplace, a cow, 50 bags of rice, 25 bags of sugar, cartons of drinks and bottled water, etc. to the Muslim community at the Hajj Village in an estimated amount of Two Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH cents 275,000.00).

Insurance policies that cover the child but not the parent, must provide coverage for maternal depression screening, as a critically important preventative care intervention for the health of the child.

The county is providing crisis intervention and mental health first aid training to encourage police officers to de-escalate situations involving individuals with special needs.

Published in BMC Medicine, the study underscores the need for effective substance use policies and public health interventions, and provides key principles to guide policy decisions.

This includes interventions such as providing adequate nutrition for optimal cognitive development and detecting and managing postpartum depression and other maternal mental health issues.

Using Twitter as a window into a community's collective mental state may provide a useful tool in epidemiology and for measuring the effectiveness of public - health interventions.

The researchers concluded that providing PrEP according to the CDC guidelines strikes a good balance between public health impact and intervention efficiency, given these results.

Rather, they say, street lighting, pedestrian infrastructure, public transit, parks and vacant lot greening may be promising targets for future research to discover whether such interventions may provide social and health benefits.

«Worksites are self - contained environments with established communication systems where interventions that modify food options and provide physical activity have the potential to reach large numbers of adults,» said Diana Fernandez, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Rochester Department of Public Health Sciences and lead author of the study.

Dr Kathryn Adcock, Head of Neurosciences and Mental Health at the Medical Research Council, said, «Although this is quite a small study and therefore can't provide a definitive answer, the work shows very promising indications of the benefits of early intervention.»

IDEA is well suited for providing rapid assessments of outbreak growth and public health interventions, according to the researchers.

Provide both general and targeted interventions as needed to support child health, development and positive family adaption

The authors say «We have provided the first evidence that two brief psychological therapies targeting the two leading mental health related causes of the global burden of disease, delivered by the same lay counsellor in routine primary care, to patients who had never received such therapies before, can lead to sustained improvements in health over one year, and that the investments made in providing this intervention is excellent value for money.

Dietitians are health professionals who specialize in this area of study, and are trained to provide safe, evidence - based dietary advice and interventions.

While improving access to interventions such as ART, condoms and lubricant for sex workers needs to be an urgent priority for health policymakers across the world, the Series shows that a focus on providing greater coverage of biomedical interventions will not be enough.

While community - based, these programs are different from usual mental health services programs in most states because they provides a more intensive level of care and a broader range of mental health services and supports, such as medication management, crisis intervention, case management and peer support.

«By recognizing which women are at risk, health care professionals could provide early interventions, treatments and closely monitor these treatments to prevent preterm birth or to improve health outcomes,» McFarlin said.

This means we may have early and important opportunities to provide sleep interventions that may have a real impact on these children's general health and their development.»

«Many health care systems are currently focused on providing interventions at or soon after hospital discharge to reduce readmissions,» Nguyen said.

This will lead to the ability to provide health and medical interventions that are timely, customised and highly specific.

The model will provide a setting for translational research in cancer - related lifestyle changes and psychosocial interventions, and training for behavioral health care providers.

Existing frameworks for health program planning provide robust guidelines for developing, implementing and evaluating health interventions and services and so can help to overcome existing challenges.

Results from these studies will provide direct evidence for the importance of these nutritional factors in maintaining retinal health and preventing advanced retinal disease, and may reveal new options for therapeutic intervention.

NIH Clinical Center (CC)-- Est. in 1953 The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first - in - human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state - of - the - art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.

While several of these have found modest benefits by providing protein - deficient elderly patients with small protein supplements, by far the most important intervention trial is that published by a group led by Bess Dawson - Hughes of Tufts University showing that protein intakes far beyond the minimal requirement actually improve bone health.

CPMs are trained to provide health - promoting and preventative care that is evidence based and avoids unnecessary use of drugs and interventions.

The curriculum will provide experiential training in a community setting, and give graduates the skills to do a health assessment for a specific population, create nutrition education interventions or programs, and evaluate their effectiveness.

In conclusion, it was found that a periodized resistance training intervention performed within the workplace improved different aspects of health and fitness in untrained men, thereby potentially providing other work - related benefits.

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