Sentences with phrase «sector impacting the health»

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«Tech isn't even its own stand - alone sector, because it has tentacles into all the other industries,» says Koch, ticking off its impact in retail (e-commerce), automotive (self - driving cars), banking (mobile payments), health care (big - data genomics), and more.

Kostin said that these correlations are «mean - reverting» and are likely to fall given the idiosyncratic impact of policy risks, adding that equities within the consumer discretionary and health care sectors offer the best stock - picking opportunities.

Specifically, let's look at two health - care sectors that could see the greatest impacts: biotechnology and managed care.

In the public sector, accounting methods used by governments in education, health and social services impact on how these services are provided, who receives the services and the costs of these services.

From helping entrepreneurs launch and grow high - impact ventures to capturing global market opportunities for our ventures, MaRS focuses its work on four main sectors: Energy & Environment (Cleantech), Finance & Commerce (FinTech), Health, and Work & Learning.

While US personal incomes are rising, health care costs are rising faster, taking away purchasing power, which is impacting consumer - facing sectors such as restaurants and retailers.

There are powerful forces at work which are likely to negatively impact the entire health sector.

No other sector of state spending has been more disproportionately impacted by repeated cuts than health care.»

While this investment in public health will have a significant impact on countywide lead exposure, we will also work with partners at all levels of government and in the private and not - for - profit sectors to eliminate lead in Erie County.»

To investigate the impacts, Yale's Jodi Sherman, M.D. and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.

The ability to manufacture proteins, which at present are very difficult or even impossible to produce, in large quantities and in their native form, rapidly and inexpensively, will have an enormous impact in all sectors of biology (biotechnology, nutrition, pharmacy, human and animal health care, and, in the near future, nanotechnology).

«And, just as with the ACA, the impact of broader health insurance coverage in Massachusetts is intertwined with the effects of numerous efforts in the public and private sector to improve health care quality and contain costs,» he adds.

A blue - ribbon panel has recommended creating a secure, digital portal for researchers to study the impact of U.S. government spending on health care, education, housing, labor markets, and other sectors of the economy.

The AAAS analysis also traces global scientific output, breaks down R&D spending by sectors such as health and energy, looks at the balance of R&D spending between the civil and defense sectors and weighs the use and impact of tax policies to spur R&D spending.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Within nations, addressing climate health impacts is a matter of weighing upfront versus deferred costs — that is, deciding to spend money to reduce emissions and pursue sustainable development or spending more money many years down the line to contend with disease, persistent flooding and an overwhelmed health sector.

«If the environmental impacts are unavoidable, the health sector needs to be mobilized so that the health impacts become avoidable,» said Dr. Carlos Corvalán, Pan American Health Organization senior adviser on sustainable development and environmental health in Bhealth sector needs to be mobilized so that the health impacts become avoidable,» said Dr. Carlos Corvalán, Pan American Health Organization senior adviser on sustainable development and environmental health in Bhealth impacts become avoidable,» said Dr. Carlos Corvalán, Pan American Health Organization senior adviser on sustainable development and environmental health in BHealth Organization senior adviser on sustainable development and environmental health in Bhealth in Brazil.

To investigate the impacts, Yale's Dr. Jodi Sherman, and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.

Finally, the team quantified impacts at scales useful for decision - making in eight sectors of the state's economy: hydrology and water resources, energy, agriculture, salmon, forests, coasts, infrastructure, and human health.

She has over 25 years of experience in global health across research, public health, and philanthropic sectors, with focus on strategy, global health product development, and the introduction and scale - up of tools and strategies resulting in impact on endemic populations.

10/13/2017 - Hundreds of millions of people will be affected by climate change impacts and their implications for health or migration already within the next few decades, sectors that so far often get overlooked in this context.

She has over 20 years of fundraising and event planning experience, and significant expertise in making an impact in the non-profit sector through building awareness, developing allies, and raising funds for non-profit organizations across the Bay Area Peninsula, including the Children's Health Council, Menlo Park City School District, and Lucille Packard Children's Hospital.

I think mobile broadband there will have a huge impact on traditional and conservative sectors like education, health, creative arts (film, etc.) and certainly democracy.

The aim of the paper is twofold: first, it documents the range of risks that climate change poses to human health associated with humanitarian emergencies, and secondly, it proposes policy directions to manage the health and humanitarian impact of climate change for consideration by the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC, the health sector and by the humanitarian community.

2009: Geneva - World Climate Conference 3, focusing on climate predications and its impacts on users such as agri - sector, water, health, tourism, UM Millennium Goals, Hyogo Framework Action on Disaster and Risk Reduction, etc..

The goal of the Global Green Freight Action Plan is to facilitate collaboration among governments, the private sector, and civil society to enhance the efficiency of global goods movement in ways that significantly reduce climate, health, energy, and economic impacts.

This analytical report evaluates potential health impacts of mitigation options for the residential building sector.

It includes the results of the economic assessments of the impacts of climate change on the agricultural, coastal and marine, energy and transportation, health, freshwater resources and tourism sectors in the Caribbean subregion; and an examination of adaptation strategies and key policy recommendations for policymakers.

This analytical report identifies expected climate change risks for Trinidad and Tobago generally and by their potential impacts on six priority sectors, namely agriculture, human health, human settlements, coastal zones, water resources and energy.

These changes and other climatic changes have affected and will continue to affect human health, water supply, agriculture, transportation, energy, coastal areas, and many other sectors of society, with increasingly adverse impacts on the American economy and quality of life.3

WHO's Health in the Green Economy sector briefings examine the health impacts of climate change mitigation strategies considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change, Health in the Green Economy sector briefings examine the health impacts of climate change mitigation strategies considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change, health impacts of climate change mitigation strategies considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change, 2007).

The four areas not covered here (forestry, water resources, ecosystems and human health) are smaller impact sectors.

Also its responsibilities in dealing with climate change impacts on sectors like agriculture, energy, disaster management, water and health must be clearly defined, he added.

The results can be exploited in climate change impact and adaptation studies for several sectors of the Finnish society, e.g., agriculture and forestry, construction and energy industry, public health, transport and rescue services.

Sectors such as water, agriculture, energy, health and trade will be highly affected by climate change and this could have a destabilising impact on a state's ability to provide people with basic services.

By replacing freezers and refrigerators used to keep medicines, vaccines, and other medical supplies cold in labs, clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies with appliances that use HFC - free refrigerants, the health sector can lead the way on reducing climate impacts of HFCs.

To understand better the potential health impacts of climate variability and change in these countries, this report synthesizes the information presented and identifies key recommendations for improving the health sector's capacity to anticipate and prepare for climate variability and change.

In the declaration, the Ministers express concern that potential adverse impacts on health could overwhelm the response capacity of the health sector and could jeopardize progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

The first of the TAR chapters (Chapter 7) was largely devoted to impact issues for human settlements, concluding that settlements are vulnerable to effects of climate change in three major ways: through economic sectors affected by changes in input resource productivity or market demands for goods and services, through impacts on certain physical infrastructures, and through impacts of weather and extreme events on the health of populations.

Make it legal for general consumption and it will have an impact far beyond our criminal justice system and the health sector.

Nicola Crawford, CFIRM, Chair of the IRM goes on to comment: «This cyber-attack has affected more than just the health sector and has impacted on companies globally.

However, while there may be no statistical evidence demonstrating that a forced revision of the junior doctor contract will have any impact on hospital mortality; experienced legal practitioners in the health sector will readily acknowledge «the weekend effect», although not necessarily in the context of patient deaths.

Brian Carey's legal practice focuses on advising a wide range of clients on federal legislative and regulatory issues impacting the life sciences and health care sectors.

Here are a few themes that sum up the impact of budget on the insurance sector: Increase In Tax Benefit: In lieu of extending benefits to middle - class taxpayers, the FM increased the limit of deduction against health insurance premium from Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000.

The decision to curtail level of insurance coverage will have an adverse impact on the country's private health sector, which would have seen a massive business growth as the programme channeled millions of new patients into private hospitals.

Contributors also stressed the need to actively address the social determinants of health, and suggested the health and health research sectors may need to play a facilitating role, inviting other sectors — such as education, justice, local government — to collaborate and maximise the impact of their collective efforts to bring about change.

For three decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks for various health domains (such as MCH) and monitored progress to encourage collaboration across communities and sectors, empower individuals to make informed health decisions, and measure the impact of prevention activities.

• Alison Verhoeven, CEO of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (representing health services in the public sector), says «it is incumbent on all Australians and all institutions to reflect on our practices and the impact of our attitudes, behaviours and judgements about Aboriginal Australians».

One of the continuing issues in rural and remote communities that impacts health and all sectors is the need for reliable, stable access to high - speed broadband.

The lack of a comprehensive national mental health workforce strategy has been a significant policy gap.The workforce strategies that have been developed have not addressed the community managed psychosocial rehabilitation sector, and has meant that reforms which have a significant impact have no guiding policy.