Sentences with phrase «reduced access to care»

«The people most likely to experience reduced access to care would probably reside in areas without other health care clinics or medical practitioners who serve low - income populations.

The CBO estimates that the «defund» Planned Parenthood provision would result in reduced access to care for

As a result of the plan to not provide Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood — coupled with increased spending for Medicaid services for patients who would have reduced access to care — the CBO estimates that «defunding» Planned Parenthood for one year would result in $ 156 million less in direct spending from the federal government over 10 years.

Not exact matches

With the relentless pressure to cut federal spending, digital solutions like telemedicine — which expands access to care and reduces costs by up to 90 % — will become a key part of that equation.»

Gates established the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, a private philanthropic foundation dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing health care, improving education opportunities, and providing access to technology worldwide.

«Reducing the number of uninsured adults in Louisiana makes it easier to improve access to needed care, to limit costs for families and individuals with private insurance and to create greater stability in Louisiana's state budget,» Salles said.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

This is about restructuring our health insurance and health care industry to provide people with better access, and hopefully reduce healthcare costs.

Through this partnership, we fund the establishment of drug and alcohol courts that give the most dangerous, repeat offenders access to the care they need, and reduce the rate of recidivism.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

A family's access to a reliable supply of clean diapers reduces the risk of disease, improves the baby's health and comfort, and enables the baby's participation in early care and education programs.

The Sustainable Development Goals include ensuring access by infants to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food (2.1); ending all forms of malnutrition and achieving targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age (2.2); addressing the nutritional needs of lactating women (2.2); reducing neonatal mortality (3.2); ensuring access to reproductive health - care services (3.7); and recognizing and valuing unpaid care provided by women and girls (5.4).

These included distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to reduce inequalities; lay health workers and training of traditional birth attendants to increase participation in health by consumers; contracting out of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, reminders and recall for immunisation; working with for - profit providers to increase the effectiveness of care; subcontracting the delivery of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, addressing the distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, substitution of doctors by nurses, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to increase coverage or access; and outpatient referrals to improve the coordination of care.

Our villages can support women by helping them integrate mothering with employment, increasing access to human milk, improving media support, and reducing inequities in care.

The Legislature finds that access to prenatal care and delivery services is limited by the inadequate number of providers of such services and that the regulated practice of midwifery may help to reduce this shortage.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

«Crystal Run Health Plans continues to be committed to providing access to high quality healthcare and the triple aim — improving patient care, improving health and reducing cost for to the people and business of the Hudson Valley,» Steve Zeng, executive director of Crystal Run, said in an email.

The additional funds — only a fraction of the city's $ 78 billion budget — would be used to support programs to reduce the spread of HIV infection in local communities and provide people living with HIV with access to care, medications that make viral loads undetectable, and other treatment supports.

Teaming up with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, the Rock on Café program runs a «Week of Caring» to collect food donations to support the Food Bank's BackPack Program, which provides healthy, kid - friendly, and easy - to - prepare foods to children at risk of hunger over weekends and holiday breaks when they do not have access to free or reduced price school meal programs.

Over the next four years many disabled people will see a reduction in the overall value of their benefits, as well as specific reductions in the levels of housing benefit; unemployment benefit; the loss of disability living allowance (DLA), which contributes towards the - often significant - extra costs of living as a disabled person; as well as reduced access to social care services as a consequence of local government funding cuts.

The way to reduce health inequality isn't only increasing access to care or providing health insurance, they say.

They and GPs are concerned that the Government's top - down, one - size - fits - all imposition of polyclinics in London and in each primary care trust across the country will reduce access to their GP services and undermine the GP - patient relationship, which is at the heart of the successful delivery of health care.

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Others will reduce choice, affect public health, eliminate protections, and curtail access — no indication is given that these proposals may actually cause costs to rise — imposition of copayments and onerous limits on community - based care and rehabilitation are notable.

«Despite these substantial, tangible benefits, the Legislature advanced this bill, which effectively restricts access to mental health care in Western New York, reduces investments in community based services and is inconsistent with recent agreements negotiated with the Legislature during the annual budget discussions,» Cuomo wrote in the veto message.

Studies show that access to paid sick days promote safer and healthier work environments by reducing the spread if illness and workplace injuries and it reduces health care costs and supports children and families by helping the parents fulfill their care - giving responsibilities.»

Getso said that over the last two years, the state government had renovated more than 300 primary and secondary health care facilities in Kano, with a view to improving access and quality of healthcare services towards reducing maternal and child mortalities.

Government and other health policy - makers should acknowledge the importance of providing postnatal care check - ups for mothers and babies, invest more and seek to increase access to postnatal care services, for example, by reducing user fees at point of care, Langlois said.

Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.

African - Americans» lower rates of eye care are believed to stem from less access and more barriers to care, fewer eye care providers with practices situated in their communities, and a lack of awareness of their high - risk status for vision loss and how routine preventive care could reduce that risk.

«But we are more likely to improve access to care and reduce preventable hospitalization rates if we focus on offering residents insurance plans that minimize cost barriers and are widely accepted by doctors.»

«Self - administered treatment for keloid scars can reduce the economic burden on the healthcare system and provide a treatment option for patients who have limited access to medical care,» comments Professor Jeffrey Karp from Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, US, an expert on medical device design who was not involved in this study.

Bringing «virtual dental homes» to schools, nursing homes and long - term care facilities can keep people healthy — reducing school absenteeism, lessening the need for parents to leave work to care for an ailing child, and helping to prevent suffering for millions of people who have no access to a dentist, a six - year study by University of the Pacific demonstrates.

Possible reasons for advanced stage diagnosis among minorities may include lower screening rates, lower income levels, and reduced access to education and health care.

The commentary calls upon health care providers to expand their use of medications to treat opioid addiction and reduce overdose deaths, and describes a number of misperceptions that have limited access to these potentially life - saving medications.

Although resources have grown to support women and girls in the aftermath of violence (e.g., access to justice and emergency care), research suggests that actions to tackle gender inequity and other root causes of violence are needed to prevent all forms of abuse, and thereby reduce violence overall (Paper 4).

«With the increased stability that comes from having a home and reduced financial burdens, and being introduced into the social service system and the access to other support services it provides, people receiving housing assistance are getting improved access to primary care health services.

The top five things (from a list of 16) that the public believes would improve people's health a great deal are: improving access to affordable healthy food (57 %), reducing illegal drug use (54 %), reducing air, water, or chemical pollution (52 %), increasing access to high - quality health care (52 %), and improving the economy and the availability of jobs (49 %).

On the other hand, preliminary studies have found that medical home initiatives — where patients have access to a primary care provider who can help prevent exacerbations of chronic illnesses that might otherwise lead to acute crisis — are effective in reducing ED use among Medicaid patients.

The plan, drawn up after months of meetings around the country with affected communities, also calls for increasing access to quality care, reducing stigma, and better coordinating the response from the many government branches that now address HIV / AIDS.

«Improving access to child psychiatrists through consultation services and collaborative care models may help address potential undertreatment while also reducing the risk of prescribing medications before other treatments have been tried.

The authors review over 800 recent studies addressing human rights violations against sex workers, HIV, law and policy, concluding that criminalization of sex work fuels and fosters human rights violations and increases sex workers» susceptibility to HIV, including by reducing sex workers» access to HIV prevention, treatment and care.

Research is essential to reducing the burden of mental illness by improving access to effective care and achieving urgently needed knowledge about the brain, mind, and behavior.

The strengths of the present study include the large size and the relatively homogeneous nature of the cohort, which reduced confounding by several variables, such as access to medical care, educational attainment, and socioeconomic status.

People have been kept oppressed by reducing access to health care and basic needs like healthy food.

A number of programs are working to do that — to reduce exposure to violence, malnutrition, and poverty, or to enhance children's access to responsive, enriching interactions with caring adults, which play a critical role in a child's healthy development.

The Maryland Cares for Kids Act The Maryland Cares for Kids Act uses state funds to cover reduced - price school meal co-pays so that all low - income students have access to free school meals.

If we can all commit to empowering pet owners with access to information, resources, and care, pets and their people would stay together — which of course reduces the need for shelter and rescue, but also ensures that the loving bond they have stays in place.

FHF participants will have access to reduced rates for routine veterinary care, including spay or neuter and rabies vaccination.