Sentences with phrase «public policy interventions»

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There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

This paper explores the concept of What Works Centres, independent and non-partisan organizations structured to create, collect and curate evidence on public policy challenges and the success — and failure — of government and community - based interventions.

The problem isn't wide access to military - style weaponry, Rubio argued; it's Broward County Public Schools» disciplinary policies and the previously little - known program PROMISE (Preventing Recidivism Through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education).

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

In «Government Intervention in Venture Capital in Canada: Toward Greater Transparency and Accountability,» author Richard Rémillard argues that improving the quality of venture capital policy will provide a win - win outcome for the wider public, government and the venture capital industry itself.

The character of this suffering moves theological attention to the social systems that shape our lives — economic, political, cultural — as well as to public events themselves (the Holocaust, programs and policies of economic austerity, military intervention, terrorism, ethnic nationalist expression, struggles for survival and freedom).

In the area of foreign policy we are thrust into wars and involved in dozens of interventions, military and otherwise, into the affairs of foreign nations without the consent of either Congress or the public.

And so, a few years ago, Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center was condemned for suggesting that public policy should set a point, say age eighty - five, above which no more medical interventions aimed at curing should be attempted.

The most effective intervention we have is a focus on parental attachment, through a public policy of home visit programs, starting in the first days of a child's life.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

In such circumstances, «when ecosystems are able to support sustainable diets, nutrition programmes, policies and interventions supporting the use of supplements, RUTF [ready - to - use therapeutic foods], fortificants and infant formulas are inappropriate and can lead to malnutrition, and the marketing of these food substitutes and related products can contribute to major public health problems.»

In a review of U.S. - based randomized trials evaluating breastfeeding interventions targeting minorities, interventions to change hospital or WIC policies, including enhanced practices and services, were among the public health approaches found to successfully improve breastfeeding outcomes among minority women (9).

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

A review of US programmes by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy shows several interventions, including drug treatment programmes, intensive supervision of parolees, and various behaviour management courses can work — and that wraparound services tailored to individuals» needs are most effective of all, when done well.

His party, its leadership, its policies, eurosceptics, Iain Duncan Smith — Sir John, whose interventions in public life are few and far between, did not hold back.

The prime minister has given a robust defence of his policy of overseas military intervention and warned the public they must be prepared for a long campaign to ensure Britain's security.

«opposed higher tax rates, wanted to privatise large parts of public service provision, opposed most government intervention in the economy, and was a liberal interventionist in foreign policy»

However, writes Andreas T. Schmidt (University of Groningen), within an environment where private companies frequently adopt nudge strategies, public policy nudges need not have greater implications for democracy and transparency than other forms of government intervention, and can be one tool in exerting democratic control over private sector nudge tactics.

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.

In a new, hospital - level analysis by health policy researcher Laura Attanasio at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Katy Kozhimannnil at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, they report that women who gave birth at hospitals that had a larger percentage of midwife - attended births were less likely to have two specific medical interventions, cesarean delivery and episiotomy.

Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.

The continued marketing and use of experimental stem cell - based interventions inside and outside the United States is problematic and unsustainable, according to a new paper by science policy and bioethics experts at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Wake Forest Univepolicy and bioethics experts at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and Wake Forest UnivePolicy and Wake Forest University.

«It is often difficult to penetrate these age groups with effective public health interventions and policies to prevent drinking and driving,» says Carter.

When communication happens regularly among scientists, policymakers, industry and the public, the public's sense of safety increases, and disasters may even be prevented by timely policy interventions, he said.

«Most hookah smokers in the U.S. are not daily users, whereas many cigarette smokers smoke multiple times a day, so it may seem that the vast majority of public health and policy - related interventions should be directed at cigarette smoking,» said study author Dr. Brian Primack.

Quick links to main pages Public health, «prevention», and early intervention policies Public health policy: blog posts, books, and articles «Prevention» and «early intervention» policy Frequency about 1 post per week.

Quick links to main pages Public health, «prevention», and early intervention policies Public health policy: blog posts, books, and articles «Prevention» and «early intervention» policy Frequency about 1 post per week.

Here, I look forward to continuing to collaborate with esteemed colleagues and talented students, conducting research to inform setting - level interventions and public policy to support academically vulnerable populations.»

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study of the Chicago Public Schools» (CPS) double - dose algebra policy for struggling 9th grade students — the first such study to examine long - term impacts of this intervention — has found substantial improved outcomes for intensive math instruction on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.

Yoshikawa is a developmental and community psychologist who conducts research on the development of young children in immigrant families, and the effects of public policies (particularly antipoverty policies and early childhood intervention) on children's development.

The Council will also continue its investigations into the early childhood roots of lifelong health disparities — with profound implications for public health policy in states — and critical periods of development and brain plasticity across the lifespan — with important implications for the timing of interventions.

Apparently, some governments have taken inspiration from this book to introduce behavioral change interventions in their public policies.

Given that the standards will likely continue to be implemented for at least several more years in most states, we wondered if we could develop an intervention targeted at dispelling common misconceptions about the standards in order to ensure that public opinion regarding the policy is at least based on facts.

Heckman's generalizations are to present public childcare policies, but his data are from the Abecedarian project, an intensive birth - to - five early childhood intervention program delivered to roughly 50 children who were judged at birth to be at risk of mental retardation.

His groundbreaking research on the effect of public policies on children in the U.S. and abroad is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of child development and effective interventions,» said McCartney.

Bob served as the Executive Director of Planning and Policy for the Minneapolis Public Schools where he led the development of new models for serving students, expanded the Response to Intervention (RtI) model and assisted develop a «value - added growth accountability model.»

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The future will require more active intervention in the challenges of public education, discernment about what constitutes good policy, grassroots involvement in the political process, and, above all, unity.

Comparative results from the first Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) show that education systems can best support teachers by shifting public and governmental concern away from the mere control over the resources and content of education toward a focus on outcomes, by moving from hit - and - miss policies to targeted interventions, and by moving from a bureaucratic approach to education to devolving responsibilities and effective school leadership that supports teachers through targeted professional development, appraisal, and feedback.

He has focused and written extensively in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, and field research methodology.

Interventions Principals, who are highly trusted by the public, have the power to influence policies and execute programs that can mitigate the effects of poverty on children.

Standards detailing the required procedures of the trademark intervention were established in each national context to account for the unique conditions of that nation's educational systems (e.g., university policies, public school procedures, etc.).

Pathways to College Credentials and Careers: In order to increase the economic mobility of low - income and minority students, the Joyce Foundation will support state and federal policy work to: (1) better prepare students for college and career through early college credits, work - based learning, and high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic payoffs.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

What will make or break today's accountability systems is whether policymakers dig down into the data or make the mistake of NCLB by drawing quick conclusions about interventions or sanctions, says Ben DeGrow, director of education policy for Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Ppolicy for Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public PolicyPolicy.

Quick links to main pages Public health, «prevention», and early intervention policies Public health policy: blog posts, books, and articles «Prevention» and «early intervention» policy Frequency about 1 post per week.

Brazil's remarkable decline in deforestation provides valuable lessons on the importance of public policies, monitoring systems, and supply chain interventions in slowing the advance of a vast, complex agricultural frontier.

The entire process of the development and imposition of the consensus — with the intervention of government, funding agencies and media — is remarkably similar to the process in the area of climate studies, up to and including the demand for public policy before the research has been solidified.

Beyond pricing instruments, the other approaches include regulation under the Clean Air Act, energy policies not targeted exclusively at climate change, public nuisance litigation, and NIMBY and other public interventions to block permits for new fossil - fuel related investments.

Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains