Sentences with phrase «public health departments»

Among Title X — funded family planning clinics, Planned Parenthood sites represented 13 % of clinics and served 41 % of all contraceptive clients, public health departments administered 48 % of clinics and served 28 % of clients, FQHCs accounted for 26 % of clinics and served 19 % of clients, hospital outpatient sites represented 4 % of clinics and served 5 % of clients, and other independent clinics accounted for 9 % of total clinics and served 7 % of clients.

These sites may be operated by a diverse range of provider agencies, including public health departments, Planned Parenthood affiliates, hospitals, community health centers and other, independent organizations.

Ultimately, tiering has the same effect of denying public support to disfavored organizations, while enabling policymakers to argue that the policy merely rewards «worthy» organizations — most often, public health departments or safety - net providers that offer family planning services in the broader context of primary care.

In order to serve all the women currently obtaining contraceptive services at Planned Parenthood health centers nationwide, other types of safety - net family planning providers would have to increase their client caseloads by 47 %, on average.2 Federally qualified health center (FQHC) sites offering contraceptive care, hospital sites and others would have to increase their capacity by more than half (see chart 1).2 Sites operated by public health departments nationwide would have to increase their contraceptive client caseloads by a lesser proportion.

Public health departments operated 21 % of centers and served 20 % of all safety - net contraceptive clients.

Key partners may include local and state public health departments, legal services, social work organizations, food pantries, faith - based organizations, and community development organizations.

In this article on The Conversation, Professor Emily Banks, Scientific Director of the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study, outlined why one of the most powerful weapons that doctors, public health departments and governments could use in their battle to decide which disease to help prevent next was the long - term population study or «longitudinal cohort study», because it can build up a comprehensive picture of health at a population level over time.

Promoted a full line of vaccines and one pharmaceutical product and other services to physicians, pharmacist, hospitals, and public health departments.

In the past she has provided coordinated medical treatment and services to both outpatients and inpatients in diverse settings such as hospitals, physician offices, nursing homes, public health departments, and community health centers.

Collaborated with home health care agencies, public health departments and schools in providing care to patients.

The final rule continues to permit covered entities to disclose protected health information without individual authorization directly to public health authorities, such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as state and local public health departments, for public health purposes as specified in the NPRM.

They may help public health departments deal with a range of concerns from teen smoking to quarantines in the face of an epidemic.

Serving hospitals, nursing homes, public health departments, psychiatric institutions and other health care providers, we offer practical legal advice and protect our clients from future litigation.

Another example: public health departments.

As animal control agencies worldwide mostly work under public health departments, the impetus to change directions had to come from public health directors.

Those same studies also found that public health departments, together with animal control agencies, are seeking innovative and cost - effective long - term solutions that respond to the public's increasing desire to see community cats treated with humane, nonlethal methods.

Her clients include Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, and many public health departments across the United States.

Wilkinson would also like to see more community awareness regarding the availability emergency contraception, such as advertising from a variety of sources, like drug companies, sex educators, community health workers and public health departments.

You actually have lots of options, «such as family physicians, student health services, and STD clinics provided through public health departments,» says Dr. Kwong.

The results of the randomized, controlled trial are important because some public health departments in places where Zika and dengue viruses are endemic do not necessarily monitor for insecticide resistance.

Public health departments are now realizing the huge impacts of pollution, drought, stormwater runoff, and other negative factors.

How will full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) affect the work and goals of state and local public health departments — and how can public health personnel contribute to the success of health care reform?

Executives from a broad range of health care - focused organizations — including hospitals, health centers, medical schools and public health departments — across the U.S. and from other countries participate in a two - day training session in Boston that focuses on defining disparities and their causes, developing strategies to identify and address disparities and fostering the leadership and change - management skills to implement those strategies.

Return on investment in county public health departments in California exceeds return on investment in many other areas of medical care, according to a new study by a University of California, Berkeley economist.

Public health departments regulate food service establishments, provide disease screening and treatment for communicable disease, offer prenatal care, regulate various aspects of the water supply, provide immunizations, and provide other services that can immediately improve population health, as well as improve population health over the longer term.

Unlike medical care, which primarily focuses on treating disease, county public health departments focus on the prevention of disease.

But the report says public health departments are underfunded and «stretched too thin,» leading to delays in identifying and containing infections.

CDC is coordinating a nationwide effort by state and local public health departments to find new cases, she said.

Free breastfeeding services are available in most areas through volunteer mother - to - mother support organizations and public health departments.

Comprised of health professionals from hospitals, clinics, state - level public health departments, and universities, concerned parents and citizens, and volunteers from community organizations, each member contributes time, energy, and expertise to activities that support breastfeeding in Pennsylvania.

And these kitchens are inspected by public health departments for safety & sanitation compliances and employees are required in most if not all states to have a food handlers / workers card / license.

Florida's public health department has said that there are now a total of 14 cases in the community that were likely contracted from local mosquitoes rather than from someone traveling abroad or having sex with a partner who was infected while abroad.

Having spent the past three years (up until August 1991) working in the public health department of a Florida city, I can assure you that AIDS can be transmitted through heterosexual intercourse, and that it in fact is being so transmitted at an increasing rate.

As the names began to be released, we discovered that they included some of our co-workers from the Department of Social Services, the Juvenile Hall, the Public Health Department, the offices of county government.

Most health experts, including the American Pediatric Association and the Tarrant County Public Health Department, agree with Schaffner.

MPS received support through local restaurants and businesses, the public health department, internal funding, as well as by working closely with United Fresh Foundation, a partner of Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools.

To promote and support breastfeeding for all mothers in Ottawa, I also urge you to consider having the City of Ottawa follow the initiative of the City of Toronto's Public Health Department, which is working towards the internationally recognized Baby - Friendly Initiative (BFI) designation.

«We support women breastfeeding any time, anywhere, but this assures those women who do want privacy that they will have that option,» says Carolyn Barber, manager of the Toronto public health department's nutrition services.

Paul Levin, the regional engineer with the state Public Health Department who discovered the problem at Hale and Norwood Parks, said the problem may be with the type of chlorine used by the district, not contamination.

The Chicago Park District and the Chicago Public Health Department sample beach water daily, more frequently than some surrounding communities.

Nestle is a professor in the nutrition, food studies and public health department at New York University, and here she provides a concise but comprehensive overview of where federal school food reform now stands, almost one year after President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 into law.

2011 Belo Horizonte Public Health Department and Belo Horizonte for Normal Birth.

Marion Nestle is the author of «Food Politics, «Safe Food» and «What to Eat,» and is a professor in the nutrition, food studies and public health department at New York University.

Marion Nestle is the author of «Food Politics,» «Safe Food,» «What to Eat» and «Pet Food Politics,» and is a professor in the nutrition, food studies and public health department at New York University.

But I'm also a Nurse Practitioner who read a lot of research, had a great Lactation Consultant and called the public health department who was overseeing the nutrition portion of the on post daycare.

Created as part of «Healthy Places,» a partnership between the city's public health department and the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, the challenge reinvigorates and extends what has been a consistent movement toward healthy vending.

It requires the state Board of Education to work with the state's Public Health Department to develop a «concussion education plan.»

Then, just so you are aware, check with your local public health department to find out if there are any known mosquito - borne diseases in your area (e.g., West Nile Virus).

In Milwaukee, the public health department recently released an ad campaign warning mothers that co-sleeping with a baby is as dangerous as putting the baby to bed with a butcher knife.

I had been working on equity initiatives locally through the LLL Groups, other organizations, and in my own job in the public health department, but I had been mostly working as an individual.