Sentences with phrase «sustained improvement in health»

This must not only continue to address the need for sustained improvement in health services, but also consider the education of children in schools and adults in their workplaces and communities.

The authors say «We have provided the first evidence that two brief psychological therapies targeting the two leading mental health related causes of the global burden of disease, delivered by the same lay counsellor in routine primary care, to patients who had never received such therapies before, can lead to sustained improvements in health over one year, and that the investments made in providing this intervention is excellent value for money.

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Sustained improvements in hand - hygiene are key to the World Health Organisation's SAVES LIVES strategy to reduce health - care associated infection, yet hand - hygiene compliance amongst healthcare workers remains poor, with levels of 25 - 40 % being cHealth Organisation's SAVES LIVES strategy to reduce health - care associated infection, yet hand - hygiene compliance amongst healthcare workers remains poor, with levels of 25 - 40 % being chealth - care associated infection, yet hand - hygiene compliance amongst healthcare workers remains poor, with levels of 25 - 40 % being common.

A sustained modest weight - loss of five to 10 % body - weight is associated with improvements in various indices of cardiometabolic health including but not limited to insulin sensitivity, vascular function, blood pressure and lipid levels.3 These beneficial effects of weight - loss can be partially explained by accompanying reductions in adipose tissue mass and dysfunction.5 There is however, some evidence to suggest that energy restriction (ER) alone can confer metabolic changes which are independent to those of weight - loss, by facilitating an acute negative energy balance 6 - 9 and / or by activating adaptive stress response pathways.10

The economic analysis allowed for the possibilities that 50 % of the improvement in a young person's mental health would either have occurred anyway, since some children will recover without counselling support, or that their recovery might not be sustained over time.

Coordinates safety functions by promoting continuous improvement of the safety and health management program that resulted in a 57 % reduction of recordable accidents and illness for 2009 and sustain through 2010.

«Families receiving this intervention reported significant and sustained improvements in their children's ADHD symptoms and sleep,» said lead researcher and Centre for Community Child Health Associate Professor Harriet Hiscock.