Sentences with phrase «public health programs like»

At least 60 % of Planned Parenthood patients rely on public health programs like Medicaid and Title X for preventive and primary care.

The bill puts off major policy decisions, including whether the exchange will actively purchase and negotiate benefits for consumers and whether public health programs like Medicaid will be part of the exchange.

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«Even though there is yet to be a concussion law passed in our state we believe it is extremely important for us as an association to provide a quality educational program like Concussion Wise ™ to the public and the health care community.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

CSEA also pointed out the Empire Center's hypocrisy in challenging public employee health care coverage at a time when many irresponsible businesses benefit at taxpayer expense under programs like Family Health Plus and Child Healthhealth care coverage at a time when many irresponsible businesses benefit at taxpayer expense under programs like Family Health Plus and Child HealthHealth Plus and Child HealthHealth Plus.

«Ninety - four percent of chronic conditions, like pneumoconiosis, weren't captured by the Part 50 program,» said Kirsten Almberg, research assistant professor of environmental and occupational health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health and a co-author on the health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health and a co-author on the Health and a co-author on the paper.

«We'd like to see these programs focus less on direct care and more on larger issues of public health,» Melby said.

«Like it or not, pesticide use is an integral part of our food production and public - health programs,» said Monty Eberhart, director of product safety management at Bayer CropScience, in a presentation to a panel from the National Academy of Sciences this past January.

«Text message programs like these allow for healthcare providers to care for their patients even when they are not in front of them in the office, somewhat like a modern day house call,» said Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Medical Center, and principal investigator.

But even though four decades of Clean Air Act programs have already done a lot to improve our health, environment leaders and public health advocates alike would like to see lawmakers put in place even more stringent rules to reduce pollution of all kinds and put our economy on a cleaner, greener path overall.

This finding suggests that government programs designed to promote marriage, such as the federal Healthy Marriage Initiative and others like it that emerged from the 1996 welfare - reform legislation, aren't likely to improve public health, the researchers say.

The daily weighers were more likely to leap whole - heartedly into a weight - loss program while adopting additional healthy habits, like cutting between - meal snacks, restaurant meal and TV time and adding exercise, says lead author Kristine Madsen, MD, of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.

In recent years, large public universities have moved to devise competency - based programs, like the Flexible Option program at the University of Wisconsin, Purdue's transdisciplinary bachelor's program at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute, and the Master's in Public Health Education at the University of Michigan Medical Spublic universities have moved to devise competency - based programs, like the Flexible Option program at the University of Wisconsin, Purdue's transdisciplinary bachelor's program at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute, and the Master's in Public Health Education at the University of Michigan Medical SPublic Health Education at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Public school families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack funding.

This year's program, much like previous years, will award scholarships to students in all areas of professional interest, including food animal medicine, small animal clinical medicine, research, government services, public health, and organized veterinary medicine.

To achieve its mission, The Center coordinates animal - assisted therapy in the VCU Medical Center through its Dogs On Call Program, provides a pet loss support group for clients of participating veterinary clinics like Midlothian Animal Clinic, conducts and publishes research documenting the health benefits of interacting with companion animals, and educates students, professionals, and the public on the human - animal interaction.

If you want to see what a lost public - health opportunity looks like and don't mind experiencing a wave of frustration, please read «Dengue, Urbanization and Globalization: The Unholy Trinity of the 21st Century,» a chilling 2011 paper by Duane J. Gubler, professor and founding director of the emerging infectious disease program at the Duke - NUS Medical School in Singapore.

These sorts of sites already exist to some degree in community health centres, which often offer for low - income clients not only health services but also early childhood education services, immigration advice, housing services, and guidance around income support programs like social assistance or public pensions.

«The Prevention Fund makes up 12 percent of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's budget and supports key public health activities like childhood lead poisoning prevention, vaccination, smoking cessation and other programs in all 50 states.

«Texas would rather throw health care for hundreds of thousands of women overboard than allow Planned Parenthood to provide health care like breast and cervical cancer screenings, birth control, and STD prevention through public health programs.»

Planned Parenthood's health centers are like hospitals that receive payments from public coverage programs like Medicaid and Medicare for specific medical visits, treatments, and procedures.

«Defunding» keeps people who use public programs from getting preventive reproductive and sexual health services like birth control, STD tests, breast cancer screenings, and family planning education at Planned Parenthood health centers.

He's trying to prevent the 60 % of Planned Parenthood patients who rely on Medicaid and other public health programs from getting their preventive care — care like birth control, family planning, STD tests, and lifesaving cancer screenings.

«Defunding» Planned Parenthood really means blocking patients who depend on public health care programs (like Medicaid and Title X) from getting their care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

With the aim of shutting Planned Parenthood down completely, national «defund» legislation would close health center doors to at least 60 % of Planned Parenthood's patients — those who use public programs like Medicaid (the government - funded insurance plan for people with low incomes) and Title X (the government - funded family planning program, which helps people with low incomes).

But in 2013, anti-abortion legislators in Texas cut Planned Parenthood out of its public family planning program for low - income women — ignoring the fact that its health centers offer lifesaving preventive services, like cancer screenings and birth control.

«Defunding» Planned Parenthood really means blocking patients who rely on public health care programs (like Medicaid and Title X) from getting their care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

All of these improvements are exciting and represent positive changes in policy and behavior of Nebraska's children and adults like decreased smoking and improved nutrition, access to physical and mental health care, the gradual reduction of poverty in recent years, and public health insurance programs.