Sentences with phrase «reduced emergency room visits»

Nurse - Family Partnership reduced child abuse and neglect by 48 % and reduced emergency room visits for accidents and poisonings by 56 % (Olds, et al., 1997).

Climate mitigation through energy efficiency in the residential and commercial sectors will improve local and regional air quality, particularly in large cities, contributing to improved public health (e.g., increased life expectancy, reduced emergency room visits, reduced asthma attacks, fewer lost working days) and avoidance of structural damage to buildings and public works.

Not exact matches

Such events can cause injuries and emergency room visits, but the changing climate also has oblique effects on health, such as reducing food security, altering the range of disease - spreading ticks and mosquitoes and harming mental health.

According to Landers, implementing changes to the Medicare policy means utilization of home health agencies for management of acute and chronic health conditions reduces the risk of emergency room visits and rehospitalization, thereby reducing healthcare costs for both the government and the patient.

While two - legged family members benefit from health insurance because it helps reduce the upfront costs at doctor visits and in the emergency room, insurance works differently for our four - legged family members.

Weatherization programs decrease emergency - room visits, prevent missed school and work days, reduce asthma symptoms, prevent climate change, and offer many other values that Greenstone didn't attempt to quantify.

«Our results indicate that mind body interventions can reduce individual disease burden as well as the utilization of healthcare resources and are well suited to the changing healthcare environment... Mind body interventions are inexpensive relative to the cost of an emergency room visit, a hospitalization, or even other complementary and alternative medicine therapies.»

Matthews said the new coverage will help reduce unnecessary emergency room visits and stress on health providers.

Conducted assessments of patients in their homes on asthma self - management and care with the goal of reducing or preventing further emergency room visits.

There is strong research evidence that these programs also yield Medicaid savings by reducing preterm births and the need for emergency room visits.

Studies have found the centers improve community health outcomes and are linked to reduced hospitalizations, emergency room visits and better chronic care management.