Sentences with phrase «public health need for»

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While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has generally downplayed the seriousness of the public health crisis, Clinton yesterday toured a Miami neighborhood health clinic near ground zero of the Zika outbreak and admonished lawmakers for having adjourned until after Labor Day without resolving a partisan impasse over the urgently needed spending bill.

It's unclear if the vaccine, rVSV - ZEBOV, will actually be used in this particular instance — but public health officials are preparing for the need should the DRC request it.

«The workplace culture should be that if you're sick, stay home,» says Gerilynne Carroll, Toronto Public Health's manager for pandemic plan and preparedness, «because you need to get better and we don't want your germs interrupting the office flow.»

In the next breath, however, Harper added: «It should not matter who delivers health care, whether it is private, profit, not - for - profit or public, as long as Canadians have access to those services through the public insurance system regardless of their financial needs.

Villar has been unable to find several of the medications needed to treat his wife's multiple sclerosis in Venezuela for the last two years, a story not uncommon in a country whose public health system has been crippled by shortages.

This is true for transportation systems, public utility systems, education infrastructure, health care infrastructure, and senior care infrastructure, to mention only some of the areas where more infrastructure investments are needed.

We've identified 34 digital health companies on our Tech IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for rethealth companies on our Tech IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for rethealth companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for retHealth, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for returns).

When churches believe that their mission requires them to provide education, health care, social work, disaster relief, refugee resettlement, shelter for the homeless, food for the hungry, assistance to the aged, or whatever, they are often providing needed public services for which the public is willing, able and responsible to pay.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

AAFRC now keys its 1960 - 1972 figures for charitable giving in the areas of education and health — the second and third largest areas of charitable giving, religion being the first — to figures developed by the Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs, commonly referred to as the Filer Commission after its chair, John H. Filer.

Additionally, for the first time, it established as a matter of public policy the need to provide a wide range of mental health services to prevent mental illness and to improve the mental health of the American people.

We often tell people that about a cup of Golden Rice can provide half of an adult's vitamin A needs, but for them to actually see the simple rice grains that could help nations overcome a public health problem affecting 190 million children has an impact all its own.

However, there is a need for progress to meet tomorrow's agricultural, environmental and societal challenges, to be vital for public health and wellbeing and to have a major impact on global food systems.

Among public health measures for the prevention of obesity are the need to restrict the consumption of energy - dense snacks and sugar - sweetened soft drinks and to increase the consumption of whole grains and energy - dilute vegetables and fruit (15).

Further Information The effectiveness of Food and Drink industry's endeavours to improve the nutritional value of many products continues to be debated, along with the value of the voluntary Public Health Responsibility Deal and the need for government regulation.

But scepticism remains about the industry's ability to drive significantly better public health outcomes without the need for greater regulation.

To provide information for public health or public policy purposes, a larger long - term trial targeting individuals with marginal vitamin A status is needed.

The findings add further weight to calls for food labels that do not require background knowledge or numerical skills and highlight the need for population - based public health interventions.

It would be a fairly big change for industry and we've decided that we think that we need to get public health and industry together to try and look at improving either the daily intake guide, which is the thumbnails which are widely seen across the food sector at the moment, or look at another system.

Primary care trusts will play a key role in commissioning services that contribute to improving public health, encourage partnership working and user involvement, and emphasise normality.33 Further research is needed on the factors that maximise normal births and healthy outcomes for mothers and babies, in the short and longer term.

We need strong campaign finance reform and sweeping corporate - directed pressure so that there is space for public health decisions to truly be about public health, not private profit.

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease preveHealth Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevehealth care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevehealth and disease prevention.

According to Sackett (2001) «evidence - based medicine» in the form of public health recommendations must meet the needs, desires, and possibilities of those for whom the recommendations are intended.

These kinds of studies pile on the guilt for a mother who desperately needs sleep and whose only option might be to sleep with her child, but the public health community refuses to do evidence - based studies into best practices to give her practical advice she can actually use.

For breastfeeding practices to improve, there needs to be support at every level: supportive frameworks should exist within public policy, law, the health - care system, communities, families and friends.

-- supportive public health system that can ensure parents have the resources they need to properly care for their children (including vouchers for transportation to routine medical appointments, and clinics located in the neighbourhoods where people live).

More and more evidence points to the importance of breastfeeding on a cultural, public health, psychosocial, ecological and economic level, and the need to support, protect and promote it in all aspects of healthcare and society, as well as asserting breastfeeding as a human right for both babies and women.

Austin Public Health and Mom's Place WIC Breastfeeding Clinic are currently assessing lactation support needs at Austin - area shelters for incoming Hurricane Harvey evacuees.

Recognizing the need for parents and caregivers to be fully informed of evidence - based public health risks of intrinsic contamination of powdered infant formula and the potential for introduced contamination, and the need for safe preparation, handling and storage of prepared infant formula;

We need to embed the learning from what's happened from this tragic case and ensure we can treat child sex abuse as a public health problem to ensure the victims are believed and treatment is available for them.»

We need public education reforms, investments in public health, and creation of sustainable financing structures for both health and education.

For Poland is not immune to external economic pressures and needs to reform its public sector, especially the judiciary and the health system, and such reforms are always controversial, and painful for some of the electoraFor Poland is not immune to external economic pressures and needs to reform its public sector, especially the judiciary and the health system, and such reforms are always controversial, and painful for some of the electorafor some of the electorate.

Animals need medicines for the high standards of animal health essential for public health and food safety: the UK veterinary medicines sector is also essential for the wellbeing of the pets sharing 12 million UK households, as well as nearly 10,000 assistance animals and 1500 working dogs.

«Local authorities, landlords, retailers and the public need to work together to really animate the spaces they occupy; re-imagined as destinations for retail, socialising, culture, health, wellbeing, creativity and learning.»

The most repulsive part of McCray's speech, however, was when she insinuated that it was a financial struggle for her and then - Public Advocate de Blasio to pay for their daughter's treatment: «It was quite a task for us to find affordable mental health professionals and a program to meet Chiara's needs.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Appropriates $ 40M to address a variety of capital needs including: the creation of new public access projects to connect hunters, anglers, bird watchers, and other outdoor enthusiasts to untapped State - owned lands; providing for air monitoring infrastructure and information technology investments; and health and safety repairs for dams, State lands, fish hatcheries, and other State infrastructure.

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Instead of giving 1 percenters a massive tax break they don't need, I am using my platform as a celebrity to advocate for LGBTQ equality, women's health, and better public schools.

The coalition agreement acknowledged the need to take action to promote public health, encourage behaviour change to prevent ill - health and create innovative techniques to help people take responsibility for their own health.

In addition, I anticipate the need for debris removal, which poses an immediate threat to lives, public health, and safety.

He also reiterated that there was no need for the public to panic: «As the World Health Organization has acknowledged, this country has some of the best plans to deal with it in the world.

It was not until the formation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948 that it became a public duty to provide ambulances for all those who needed them.

Dr. Daniel Miller, head of the Rockland County Department of Health Water Bureau, reiterated the urgent need for a new water source at a public meeting of the County Water Quality Committee on March 12, 2013.

Given the number of potential environmental problems in and around Gallagher Beach, Poloncarz said public health needs to be a priority in determining whether to open it for swimming.

During her first - ever speech before the Association for a Better New York — a nearly 30 - minute speech which drew a mere 90 attendees — Malliotakis mainly rehashed her usual criticisms of de Blasio: an insufficient plan to address the homelessness crisis, a need to better tackle mental health issues, troubled schools, the city's overspending and public urination.

«It isn't just about finding a safe alternative to the drinking water, we need to do some public health training for the pediatricians and the primary care physicans who are up there,» Smyth said.

«While I commend the health board for conducting a review into its own services and making their findings public, they now need to act on those recommendations and ensure that the situation at the hospital improves.

The election in 2015 is shaping up to be a desperate scramble for cash to fund public spending after the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that the next government would need to impose large tax rises or even bigger welfare cuts to protect health and education spending.

We need to give people the choice of travelling by public transport, walking and cycling, but that can only happen if we make the polluter pay and use the money raised to invest in things that are good for our health and our environment.