Sentences with phrase «which public health authorities»

In truth, these are the unwanted side effects that can follow the administration of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil — which public health authorities insist can be safely given to children as young as 9... Read More»

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Both the Ölfus Spring source and our facility are also regularly inspected by the Icelandic Public Health Authority, which carries out stringent tests to ensure the facility is operating in compliance with WHO standards.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

The Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffuor - Awuah, has indicated that his Ministry is developing an Occupational Health and Safety Bill which when passed, will establish an authority to regulate occupational health and safety issues at workplaces and public sHealth and Safety Bill which when passed, will establish an authority to regulate occupational health and safety issues at workplaces and public shealth and safety issues at workplaces and public spaces.

The specter of the 1918 Spanish flu — which may have started in the United States, not Spain, and killed about 20 million to 50 million people worldwide — has prompted public - health authorities to predict that we are unprepared to deal with a pandemic based on a highly pathogenic new strain of the H5N1 avian flu.

The veterinary teams that typically run them don't work together with public health authorities and tend to prioritize cattle and other valuable livestock, which usually die of other diseases.

All of which will complement and add to the proven prevention approaches by public health authorities.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leAuthority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leauthority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Over 5,000 schools are now enrolled in the programme, which is supported by the Big Lottery fund and commissioned by Local Authorities and regional public health teams to address key health and wellbeing priorities in their areas.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is committed to protecting current and former Federal employees and applicants for employment from interference and retaliation when making protected disclosures, or «whistleblowing,» which includes disclosing information related to a violation of law, rule, or regulation; gross mismanagement; gross waste of funds; abuse of authority; or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.

It was an outgrowth of the all - important 2007 decision of the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v EPA, which upheld EPA's authority under the Act to address climate change and required action to reduce CO2 emissions unless the agency could conclude that they did not endanger public health and welfare.

But ancillary benefits are still benefits, and the White House has a good reason to hype them given that the legal rationale for the new regulations is rooted in the Clean Air Act, which gave the EPA the authority to regulate pollutants that «endanger public health and welfare.»

Ever since a climate bill stalled in the Senate four years ago, environmental and public health activists have been pressing Obama to use his executive authority to impose carbon limits on the power sector, which accounts for 38 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions.

Mr. Grossman updated the chapter «Products Liability Claims and Chapter 93A,» which covers the products liability state of the law, including attorney general regulations regarding scope of rulemaking authority, as well as regulations concerning breaches of warranty and protection of public health, safety and welfare.

They will need to know how to design services which appeal to new «customers» — clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) led and owned by GPs but with representation on their board from nurses, hospital doctors and lay members, the NHS commissioning board and its regional outposts based initially on clusters of PCTs, local authorities, who have a new duty to improve public health, and of course increasingly savvy personal budget - holding patients and service users.

Since the statutory authority to which the commenter refers does not often exist, many uses of protected health information that are in the public interest (described above in more detail) would not be possible under such an approach.

However, in the absence of some nexus to a government public health authority or other underlying legal authority, it is unclear upon what basis covered entities can determine which registries or collections are «legitimate» and how the confidentiality of the registry information will be protected.

Health oversight agency means an agency or authority of the United States, a State, a territory, a political subdivision of a State or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of authority from or contract with such public agency, including the employees or agents of such public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is authorized by law to oversee the health care system (whether public or private) or government programs in which health information is necessary to determine eligibility or compliance, or to enforce civil rights laws for which health information is relHealth oversight agency means an agency or authority of the United States, a State, a territory, a political subdivision of a State or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of authority from or contract with such public agency, including the employees or agents of such public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is authorized by law to oversee the health care system (whether public or private) or government programs in which health information is necessary to determine eligibility or compliance, or to enforce civil rights laws for which health information is relhealth care system (whether public or private) or government programs in which health information is necessary to determine eligibility or compliance, or to enforce civil rights laws for which health information is relhealth information is necessary to determine eligibility or compliance, or to enforce civil rights laws for which health information is relhealth information is relevant.

Comment: Several commenters recommended expanding the scope of disclosures permissible under proposed § 164.510 (b)(1)(iii), which would have allowed covered entities to disclose protected health information to private entities that could demonstrate that they were acting to comply with requirements, or at the direction, of a public health authority.

In the absence of some nexus to a government public health authority or other underlying legal authority, covered entities would have no basis for determining which data collections are «legitimate» and how the confidentiality of the information will be protected.

The proposed rule would have defined «health oversight agency» as «an agency, person, or entity, including the employees or agents thereof, (1) That is: (i) A public agency; or (ii) A person or entity acting under grant of authority from or contract with a public agency; and (2) Which performs or oversees the performance of any audit; investigation; inspection; licensure or discipline; civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding or action; or other activity necessary for appropriate oversight of the health care system, of government benefit programs for which health information is relevant to beneficiary eligibility, or of government regulatory programs for which health information is necessary for determining compliance with program standards.&rWhich performs or oversees the performance of any audit; investigation; inspection; licensure or discipline; civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding or action; or other activity necessary for appropriate oversight of the health care system, of government benefit programs for which health information is relevant to beneficiary eligibility, or of government regulatory programs for which health information is necessary for determining compliance with program standards.&rwhich health information is relevant to beneficiary eligibility, or of government regulatory programs for which health information is necessary for determining compliance with program standards.&rwhich health information is necessary for determining compliance with program standards.»

Dental assistants shall endeavour to protect the profession, the oral health care team and members of the public by reporting to regulatory authorities all actions which contravene provincial, territorial or federal jurisdictions.

It is a threat because the number of historic buildings which are being declared redundant by public sector owners — and this is not just local authorities, but also includes the Ministry of Defence, fire services, health trusts and so on — exceeds the number of community groups and commercial developers able to take them on.»