Sentences with phrase «rely on public health»

In reality, what «defunding» means is blocking patients who rely on public health care programs, such as Medicaid and Title X, from getting their care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

People with low incomes, patients of color, people in rural areas, and the LGBTQ community — who are more likely to rely on public health programs due to discriminatory and racist public policies — would take the brunt, depriving many of anywhere to go for basic care.

So when people talk about «defunding,» what they mean is blocking patients who rely on public health care programs from going to Planned Parenthood health centers for care.

«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.

In areas where other providers do exist, many don't take patients who rely on public health programs.

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

According to the Congressional Budget Office, if patients who rely on public health programs are blocked from coming to Planned Parenthood, up to 650,000 people would face decreased access to health care in just a one - year period.

Many of these patients are people with low incomes who don't have health insurance, or who rely on public health care funding like Medicaid.

More than half of the 2.7 million people who use the services of Planned Parenthood health centers and affiliates each year could potentially lose access because they rely on public health programs such as Medicaid to cover their costs.

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While it's laudable that Cameron and others contribute to the CASA Foundation which supports mental health for children, teens and their families, the fact that the Alberta government is relying more and more on charity to fund essential public services is making things worse.

They are much more likely to leave of school; receive inadequate prenatal care; rely on public assistance to raise a child; develop health problems; or end up divorced.

Public health efforts rely mainly on the work of nurses for day - to - day implementation.

They rely heavily on the manipulation of public opinion, appearing respectable; using front groups, funding science and infiltrating food safety systems — all with the purpose of weakening legislation — legislation that is essential for stopping marketing practices that violate children's rights to health and improves product quality and safety.

In the absence of reform, such countries will be forced to rely on tax increases or cuts to public expenditures to restore their public finances to good health.

It is the Wal - Mart's of the business world who are profiting most from the low minimum wage standard and also relying on taxpayer subsidies to keep their poverty wage workers fed, housed, and health enough to work for them because these minimum wage workers are paid so low they qualify for food stamps, Section 8 and public housing rent subsidies, Medicaid, and the Earned Income Tax Credit,» Hawkins said.

«New York's working families who rely on vital public services such as education and health care are not breathing a sigh of relief from the so - called property tax relief recommendations presented today by the state's Tax Relief Commission,» said Stated United Teachers President Dick Ianuzzi.

«We can not rely on a profit - driven industry to promote public health.

Those tax cuts would be paid for by New Yorkers that rely on public safety and health services, youth and elderly programs, and K - 12 education.

As residents of Ulster County, we rely on county government to maintain critical county infrastructure, such as roads and bridges as well as protect public health and safety.

Finally, after a public warning from the E.P.A. in mid-December, a state health department spokesman said residents should rely on bottled water.

Nick Phin, head of respiratory diseases at Public Health England, thinks the study relies too much on animal data.

The announcement comes amid a debate over the use of experimental drugs in the outbreak: a leading epidemiologist hopes the announcement will shift international focus toward relying on basic public health measures to control the disease.

«Many studies deserve praise for being the first of their kind, but if we actually began relying on the claims made by big data surveillance in public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the Public Health research professor and senior author of the Health research professor and senior author of the study.

Public health messages have long relied on the notion that by changing attitudes, you can shift behavior.

Public health efforts to prevent epidemics of infectious diseases typically rely on herd immunity: The more people in a community are vaccinated or otherwise protected from a disease, the less likely it is to be transmitted throughout the population.

Some public health officials have said they are hesitant to rely on the program.

In «E-cigarettes: Public Health England's evidence - based confusion,» the editors of The Lancet seized on the methodological limits of one of the many studies on which the review had relied.

That would be a significant hurdle for an agency that often relies on data that is proprietary or must remain confidential to protect the privacy of participants in public - health studies.

Front - line protection of U.S. communities against disease epidemics relies on seamless information sharing between public health officials and doctors, plus the wherewithal to act on that data.

Public health researchers seeking to determine an individual's risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), or stroke have previously relied on national US data, such as that provided by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHhealth researchers seeking to determine an individual's risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), or stroke have previously relied on national US data, such as that provided by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHHealth and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES).

He alleges that the agency's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) discounted his research in April and created «a public health threat» by relying on a less dependable human test for the Zika virus.

«Reform should be a shared priority for all who support IARC's mission and rely on IARC for useful information about how to enhance public health.»

Public health programs, for example, often rely on persuasion techniques identified by social psychologists to encourage people to engage in healthy behaviors while avoiding potentially dangerous ones.

And, one Public Health Nutrition study found that people who cook at least five times a week are 47 % more likely to be alive 10 years later compared to those who rely more on processed foods.

To be sure, these activists sometimes deployed ecology but it was always a relatively minor part of the larger struggle (environmentalists fighting pollution in the early 20th century typically made arguments about public health or efficiency, they did not rely on ecology).

Science advocacy groups say the restriction would curb all regulation to protect public health because health research routinely relies on confidential patient information.

The whole and entire basis of the lawsuit is the claim that «the IPCC, and therefore the EPA, relied on flawed science to conclude that greenhouse emissions endanger public health and welfare», and Texas is seeking to block the EPA regulations explicitly and solely «Because the Administration predicated its Endangerment Finding on the IPCC's questionable facts.»

Moreover, the true cost of coal energy, on which Australia and the USA rely heavily, is approximately triple the market price, which does not account for factors like impacts on public or environmental health.

However, it has also ruled that «-LRB-...) provided that the conditions for recourse to Article 95 EC -LCB- 114 TFEU -RCB- as a legal basis are fulfilled, the Union legislature can not be prevented from relying on that legal basis on the ground that the protection of -LCB- for example -RCB- public health is a decisive factor in the choices to be made.

For example, the general statutory authorities relied on by one state health agency to investigate disease outbreaks or to comply with health data - gathering guidelines for reporting to certain federal agencies are permissible disclosures to public health agencies.

In my view, to assert that the kind of representations made by Health Canada and relied on in the Fresh Statement of Claim can, coupled with reliance on those representations, create a relationship of proximity, is in reality to assert that the public duties set out in the legislative scheme can become a private law duty of care if relied on by an individual member of the public.

Of those who do, approximately 60 % obtain their insurance through an employer or other group health care plan, close to 9 % rely on individual market insurance, and 13 % turn to Medicaid, Medicare or other public programs (according to the Kaiser Family Foundation).

In order to stay open and serving their communities, these health centers rely on various public funding streams, including the Title X national family planning program, Medicaid, and other federal and state funds.

Given the complexity of the health reform environment, the need for sustained and ongoing efforts at health reform, and the inadvisability of relying on «the market» to drive health reform, this Commission — if sufficiently empowered in the public interest (rather than professional, bureaucratic or private interests)-- could be very useful, not least in helping to demonstrate your genuine commitment to a healthy future for Medicare.

Fewer Texas women got birth control and more got pregnant after the state blocked patients who relied on public programs from care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

«Paul Ryan's warped idea of «a better way» is to zero out family planning dollars — the very resources that 4 million women and men currently rely on and are the very services even more in demand with the looming public health crisis with Zika.

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.

Studies show that Planned Parenthood health centers are critical to the health care safety net, delivering irreplaceable high - quality contraceptive care to a majority of women who rely on public funds for health care.

It's plain to see: These unfair laws disproportionately affect low - income women, men and families who rely on Medicaid and other public programs for health care.

Defunding is when gynoticians push extreme laws to block patients who rely on public programs from turning to Planned Parenthood health centers for preventive care.