Sentences with phrase «through population health»

Reducing smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers while pregnant should remain a particular focus, along with prevention of take - up by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and youth, through a population health campaign approach.

It is a holistic intervention which can complement and enhance traditional healthcare approaches through health promotion, prevention, treatment or aftercare / recovery, from the individual through the population health level.

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That figure could serve as a bellwether for the future of American health care, because Massachusetts led the nation in extending insurance to virtually its entire population through Romneycare, starting in 2006.

«For anyone receiving the diagnosis, or supporting a loved one through it, cancer can be overwhelming,» Kyu Rhee, MD, chief health officer, IBM Watson Health, said in the release, adding, «With this first - ever U.S. rollout of the technology, the full breadth and depth of Watson's services can benefit an entire population of individuals who need them.&health officer, IBM Watson Health, said in the release, adding, «With this first - ever U.S. rollout of the technology, the full breadth and depth of Watson's services can benefit an entire population of individuals who need them.&Health, said in the release, adding, «With this first - ever U.S. rollout of the technology, the full breadth and depth of Watson's services can benefit an entire population of individuals who need them.»

As noted by senior executives at Rodale, just having an organic landscape can improve the health of the whole employee population, through reduced use of chemicals from lawn maintenance, while creating a space that is more engaging, educational, and productive.

Let's work through the ABCs of these classic controversies: Contraception: A. «The use of contraception in the West has led to a stabilising of the population... However, in less developed countries, the population is rising by as much as 3 \ % a year... This is placing great pressures on food supplies, health services and education».

Ongoing projects include studies of gene - environment interactions and adverse pregnancy outcomes, as well as informed medical decision making demonstration projects in Medicaid maternity populations and within HealthWise, the nation's largest source of health information materials distributed through healthcare networks.

The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74

Recruitment of populations was via self - referral, media advertisement or fliers in 44 studies; through health professionals or organisations in 10 studies and in 3 studies there was no information on recruitment.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Whether through problems of increasing obesity, addictions, mental health issues or an ageing population; better health policies, funding and support will be key to improving quality of life.»

To enable talented, early - career scholars combining biomedical science and population health to participate actively in the IOM study process, promoting the linkage of public health and medicine — both scientifically and through practice and policy.

Public health addresses the needs of populations and seeks, through intervention and education, to prevent the spread of disease.

Topics include the rights of persons with disabilities; the rights and responsibilities of drug users and ethical considerations for dignified addiction treatment; improving maternal and child health through advancements in women's rights; the effects of violence; access to affordable and appropriate health care and treatment; health disparities between different population groups; health during war and conflict; the health of internally displaced persons and refugees; and recognition of social and structural forces that impact the health of individuals and groups.

«Enacting well - crafted age restriction laws to maximize compliance through enforcement of penalties on the state level and moving towards a national ban with similar accompanying strong enforcement as proposed by many national and international health organizations are essential to reduce skin cancer risk in the vulnerable youth population,» she adds.

As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.

Put together, measurements through time reveal the health of a population and even changes in their environment.

The Offspring of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus mothers Registry (OSLER) is a large, Canadian, population - based cohort which includes all women who have had one or more hospitalizations for childbirth after lupus diagnosis as identified through health care databases between the years of 1989 and 2009.

Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in the past.

To try to tease out the relationship between social rank, stress, and health, Altmann teamed up with Elizabeth Archie, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and Susan Alberts, a behavioral ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, to analyze data collected from 1982 through 2009 in the Amboseli region of Kenya, home to a large population of wild baboons.

All had health care coverage through Kaiser Permanente Southern California, and their demographic and socioeconomic profiles mirrored those of the greater Los Angeles population.

We are testing new payment and service delivery models focused on prevention and population health, such as our Million Hearts initiative, through the CMS Innovation Center,» says Dr Patrick Conway, another study author and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, in Baltimore, USA.

NIH Deputy Director for Science, Outreach, and Policy Kathy Hudson, who co-chaired the working group, said the project hopes to recruit some participants through federally funded health clinics that serve low - income minority populations.

Although the initiative reached a limited geographic population, the HER Salt Lake team hopes to take this study further to increase access for women through provider training and stocking at community health centers and rural clinics.

«The database has allowed us to assess the national burden of HIV infection through vertical transmission throughout the HIV / AIDS epidemic and to identify the populations at greatest risk,» said Joel Singer, professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, who is presenting at IAS 2015.

«Therefore, we need to strongly consider how these health complications could further impact this population, and how we can prevent or reduce these conditions among individuals with cerebral palsy through their lifespan.»

This new review looks at how conflict can negatively impact all aspects of reproductive health, directly through damage to services, gender - based violence and forced displacement of populations and indirectly through reductions in the availability of basic healthcare.

Establishing a unique long term picture of population health in Kilifi County through a platform that links clinical events with high quality laboratory data and demographic surveillance of a population of nearly 300,000.

The MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health (CGGH) is supporting TRAC by leading a genome - wide association study and population genetic analysis that integrates TRAC clinical data with genome sequencing data generated through a partnership with MalariaGEN and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Objective: We carried out de novo recruitment of a population - based cohort (MANOLIS study) and describe the specific population, which displays interesting characteristics in terms of diet and health in old age, through deep phenotyping.

Improvements in the rabbits» health through better nutrition and sanitation has made the raising and maintenance of rabbit populations easier, making them increasingly useful as a research tool.

Courses completed through Pelvic Health Solutions: Level I: The Physiotherapy Approach to Female and Male Urinary Incontinence — 2014 Level II: The Physiotherapy Approach to Female and Male Pelvic Pain — 2014 Level III: Treating Pain: A New Model of Care — 2014 Pregnancy and the Pelvic Floor — 2014 Pelvic Girdle Pain, Coccydynia and the Pelvic Floor — 2014 Gastrointestinal Disorders and the Pelvic Floor - Susan Clinton — 2015, 2016, 2017 Pelvic Neurodynamics — 2015 Pain Management in the Real World — Bronnie Thompson Course — 2015 The Pressure System and the Pelvic Floor — Susan Clinton Course — 2015 The Diaphragm / Pelvic Floor Piston for Adult Populations — Julie Wiebe Course — 2015 The Psoas Muscles and the Pelvic Floor — 2016 Relieving Sacro - Iliac and Pubic Pain During and After Pregnancy — Cecile Rost Course — 2016 Cultural Implications of Sex, Shame & Vulnerability — 2017 Let's Talk About Sex — 2017 Mobilization of Visceral Fascia for the Treatment of Pelvic Dysfunction — 2017 The Female Athlete — Bullet Proof Your Core and Pelvic Floor - Antony Lo — 2017 The Use of Pessaries For Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation - 2017 Piston Science Part 2: Clinical Decision Making - Julie Wiebe - 2017 Male and Female Sexuality - Holly Herman - 2017 Effective Communication & Collaboration for Enhanced Client Care: The Physiotherapist and the Physiotherapist Assistant Dynamic Workshop - hosted by Ontario Physiotherapy Association - April 2018

So if I'm sitting across from a patient who has a long list of health symptoms that seems like they're not connected and has digestive symptoms — and 40 - 60 % of the population, in general has some kind of digestive symptom, whether it be bloating after eating, feeling fatigued after eating, just feeling like your food is sitting in your stomach and not really moving through, GERD, so acid reflux, heartburn, diarrhea and constipation, or those IBS symptoms, gas and bloating — when I sit across from a patient with any of those symptoms, the first place we go, in terms of treatment, is to look at the gut.

To find these numbers, Dr. Lee and his colleagues developed a computer model to represent the U.S. adult population, and estimated lifetime health effects for people who were obese, overweight, or healthy weight at ages 20 through 80.

More ominously, the scientists warn that, «If we do nothing, endocrine disruptors may not only impact on human health but all the ecosystems including those on which we depend — if we compromise soil productivity and sustainability of our agricultural systems or cause imbalance in marine and freshwater ecosystems through damage to populations of top predators, ultimately, we threaten our own survival.»

«In the United States, employment is the most important source of health insurance coverage for the nonelderly population; 81 percent of those with any coverage receive it through their own or a family member's employment,» says Brown.

Seminars focus on everything from children through to the ever expanding ageing population, from the impact of physical activity on mental health and how healthy lifestyles can be promoted through positive stimuli.

Finally, Study Three is a clinical study investigating how gender dysphoria, social stressors (particularly those experienced in school), and lack of social support contribute to poorer health in transgender populations through inflammation and immune deregulation pathways.

The health care sector tends to perform well through the different stages of an economic cycle because of the population's perpetual need for health care and its services.

It is our position that through judicious TNR and implementation of SNR, we can stabilize cat populations, increase overall cat health and indirectly human health, and also reduce shelter intake and needless euthanasia of endless cats through alternative approaches.

Promoting the health and long - term sustainability of wildlife populations through the integration of wildlife ecology and veterinary medicine.

Through the power of online education, join veterinary students and professionals in learning how to evaluate and modify shelter protocols to enhance physical health and well - being of populations of dogs and cats.

Liability should not be an issue for towns or municipalities that implement TNR programs for the purpose of reducing cat populations, protecting public health through vaccination efforts, or resolving nuisance complaints.

In collaboration with the adoption specialists and Center Manager, performing intake exams for verification of health and behavior wellness as well as data entry of history in the population inventory software on both cats and dogs as outlined in Admissions Protocol for both Best Friends Animal Society and Best Friends - New York coalition animals and following all procedure through the adoption process as indicated in said protocol.

Improve the health of the pet population in Bryan / College Station and Brazos county through increased vaccination of pets in the community.

The program teaches current and future veterinarians to treat and prevent disease; provides high quality care to sick, injured, and abused animals; consults on population health and protocols, including diagnostic assistance in instances of disease outbreaks; helps reduce pet overpopulation and euthanasia through spay / neuter programs; and improves animal health through education of new and existing pet owners.

Through a grant awarded by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), The Nature Conservancy of Canada created an inventory of bat populations in southern British Columbia, including the locations of their habitats and habitat health.

Some research exists which suggest that the health benefits of helmets may be outweighed by the detrimental effects on overall health in the population through the decrease in cycling activity in jurisdictions where helmets have been made mandatory.

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populations.

Health and education outcomes can be best improved through economic development and this results in reduced population pressure, as well as providing resources for agricultural soil conservation and increased organic content, for conservation and restoration of ecosystems and for «water sensitive urban design».