Sentences with phrase «rather than treatment»

However, men scored noticeably higher than women on the item reflecting positive treatment by rather than treatment of one's partner («spouse makes me feel loved and cared for»).

This is consistent with the idea that Home - Start is a prevention program, rather than a treatment program.

Also consistent with our predictions, men offered consistently more positive assessments on items referring to spouse's treatment of them, rather than their treatment of the spouse.

Sanctuary is a cultural model rather than a treatment intervention and helps staff and families to discuss behavior using a common language.

The following themes were identified: (1) personal acceptance of having a mental health problem rather than treatment access is the major barrier to treatment entry; (2) tightly connected, supportive peer networks can decrease stigma related to mental health problems and encourage treatment; however, soldiers in impoverished or conflicted peer networks are less likely to receive these benefits; and (3) soldiers are generally positive about the idea of peer - based programs to improve treatment engagement, although they note the importance of leadership support, peer assignment, and unit specialty in implementing these programs.

People died because SA leaders, significant numbers of media opinionators, and even ordinary people, valued the local wisdom about AIDS being a nutritional disease rather than HIV, routinely lauded western AIDS heretics and snake - oil salesmen, and entertained conspiracy theories about the disease itself being a plot by western outsiders, and that anti-retrovirals, rather than a treatment, were just another aspect in this devious plot of western - medicine to sicken people in Africa.

Once any underlying causes have been addressed mild cases of this disorder may require observation rather than treatment.

For these reasons the goal should always be prevention rather than treatment of this horrible disease.

Our medical team focuses on the whole pet and the maintenance of health rather than the treatment of a single disease.

Due to the uncertain outlook and the possibility of underlying heart disease, at least a quarter of pet parents elect humane euthanasia rather than treatment.

Holistic is derived from the word whole, and refers to the treatment of the whole body, rather than the treatment of individual body parts, or the removal of symptoms.

«Our visit becomes more focused on education rather than treatment.»

SATURDAY, May 5, 2012 (Health.com)-- Babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) have a higher risk of birth defects than those conceived naturally, but the increased risk may stem from the parents rather than the treatment itself, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Nor did the first drug for «prevention» — rather than treatment — immediately alter the landscape.

«They intend to pursue a disease - based rather than a treatment - based approach to quality improvement.

The study, which published today in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, is the first to link psoriasis severity to an increased risk of death using an objective measure of disease severity — called Body Surface Area (BSA)-- rather than treatment patterns, such as whether or not a patient was receiving oral, injectable or phototherapy treatment for the condition.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

They blame themselves, rather than the treatment or their unrealistic goals, and won't believe they can maintain their new weight.»

Studies were excluded where the intervention (a) was aimed at prevention rather than treatment; (b) was aimed specifically at children, the whole family as a unit or at teachers; or (c) was non-structured, such as an informal support group or unstructured home visits.

A blood clot that forms inside the deep veins of the legs and pelvis is very difficult to diagnose so it is better to concern yourself with prevention rather than treatment.

Thus, the criterion of judgment is the treatment of disciples by the nations rather than treatment of human kind in general.

You want the solution to the underlying problem, when possible, rather than treatment for a symptom.

The team behind the announcement is not the first to attempt something of this nature, and previous efforts by other companies have been criticized for having too little research behind them or focusing too much on detection rather than treatment.

Not exact matches

Telemedicine services, such as Teladoc, can streamline the treatment process because it connects patients remotely to certified physicians around the US, via phone, video - conferencing, and online, rather than relying on local access to physicians.

British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline won a critical Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its landmark HIV treatment Juluca — the first HIV drug cocktail to contain just two medicines rather than three or more.

At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

This plan would see the Customs Code cleaned up, imports from China receive the least favourable tariff treatment, and tariffs for Canadian consumers go down, rather than up by $ 333 million per year.

For instance, just last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved ViiV's Juluca, the first - ever treatment for HIV - 1 that contains just two drugs (rather than the three or more involved in most HIV therapy cocktails).

However, there is a consensus within the medical community that the diagnosis and treatment should be medical rather than psychiatric.

(Though it's important to note that the treatment, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America's Radicava, is mightily expensive and only treats symptom progression rather than the root cause of the disease.)

Rather than raising corporate tax rates, the Rhode Island legislation, Senate Bill 2796, would give preferential treatment in state contract bids to companies that pay their highest - paid executive no more than 32 times the pay of their lowest - paid full - time employee.

Some of the others: lack of political will, and the system's focus on treatment, rather than prevention.

Since Marathon won an approval to treat a condition that afflicts fewer than 200,000 Americans per year and has a dearth of treatment options (rather than trying to become an also - ran in the saturated steroid therapy field), it has carte blanche over the drug's pricing.

Rather than a one - size - fits - all approach, doctors and researchers will be able to predict more accurately which treatment will work for a particular person.

The new study tested Keytruda as a standalone treatment, rather than as part of a combination of meds.

Second, Darzalex secured an important FDA label expansion last year for its use as a second - line multiple myeloma treatment rather than only as a third - line therapy.

But some Koreans might give the impression that they should still enjoy special treatment and protections they no longer need, and that they see every negotiation as a choice between winning or losing, rather than win - win opportunities between long - term equal partners.

And when the stock is eventually sold, it will be eligible for capital gain tax treatment rather than being taxed at [higher] ordinary income tax rates.»

Portugal now treats drug users as individuals who need care, rather than as criminals, Costa said — a measure that involved bolstering the country's health care system to offer treatment alternatives, rather than jail time, and which has earned plaudits from the United Nations.

So better I live and die in my country as honorable as I could rather than taking for immigration and living in other people's countries afraid and humiliated... it is enough what I read here about America & Europe ill treatment to Asian / MidEastern Muslim immigrants...!!

The focus on euthanasia rather than on treatment, and state support for palliative and psychological treatment makes premature physician assisted death a default option.

But Betel strongly believes in advocating abstinence in drug and alcohol treatment rather than tolerating continued substance use.

Sadly, Hitchens's treatment of addiction fails to recognize the various ways in which addiction impacts the will, and rather than empowering addicts, his position runs the risk of encouraging people to abandon them to their own diminished willpower.

In the 1970s, priests who were reported to be abusers of children were quietly sent for psychiatric treatment to be treated, rehabilitated, and reintegrated into parish ministry, rather than punished according to canon law.

Psychotherapy — of a supportive and relationship - oriented variety rather than a depth, uncovering type — has a crucial role in the treatment of some alcoholism.

Through a series of brief questions at the end of his book, Sigmund invites liberation theologians to seek ways of fusing capitalist market «efficiency» with the «preferential love for the poor,» to consider how private property is not always oppression but may in fact free people from it, to develop liberalism's ideal of «equal treatment under the law,» to nurture the «fragile new democracies» in Latin America, and, finally, to develop «a spirituality of socially concerned democracy, whether capitalist or socialist in its economic form,» rather than «denouncing dependency, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation.»

When it comes to making decisions about cancer treatment, I appear to be what Schwartz would call a «satisficer,» one who is willing to live with the «good enough» rather than insisting on the «best.»

Given these radically distinct treatments of the four themes, will not any parallels that emerge between (e.g.) Whitehead and Pannenberg have to be mere analogies or coincidences rather than substantive metaphysical agreements?

What is important for our purposes is to recognize that he is in the tradition of Leopold, emphasizing systems rather than individuals in his treatment of nature's value.