Sentences with phrase «wider community health»

They include the formation of a coalition of child and youth health and wellbeing expert bodies to drive national investment in the early years as the most evidence - based way of improving child, youth and wider community health.

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«Within the United States, a wide array of empirical evidence indicates that more guns in a community leads to more homicide,» David Hemenway, the Injury Control Research Center's director, wrote in Private Guns, Public Health.

Funding under the AFLA went, as Congress intended, to a wide variety of recipients including state and local health agencies, private hospitals, community health associations, privately operated health care centers, and community and charitable organizations, many of them with ties to religious denominations.

Community clergymen can therefore move into action in the prevention of mental and emotional disturbances in each of these three areas: (1) by using the mental health center resources to make their total pastoral ministry more effective in the early detection of problems; (2) by becoming more comfortable in the use of their own style of helping troubled people so that some crisis situations can be contained; (3) by using the rich resources of social concern in the churches to attack the wider problems out of which so many individual cases of emotional disturbance arise.

An ideal program of prevention would imply cooperation between the mental health center staff and community clergy in attacking these wider community problems.

As members of one of the oldest counseling, caring professions, clergymen can affirm their heritage by increased involvement in mental - spiritual health ministries within both religious and wider communities.

Since September 2013 the Food Alliance (Deakin University) has begun the process of establishing Australia's first Urban and Regional Food Network, bringing together 20 local governments as well as a wide and expanding cohort of researchers, food businesses, health professionals, planners, community gardeners, not - for - profit organisations, Transition groups, permaculturalists and others.

The school district will engage a committee composed of students, parents, teachers, (including teachers of physical education), administrators, food service professionals, health professionals, and other interested community members in developing, implementing, monitoring and reviewing district - wide nutrition and physical activity goals.

FNP's wide scope also draws the dads in, since the programme is concerned with far more than just the pregnant woman's body and covers health, parental role, home, neighbourhood, family and friends, parenting, resources and community and other services.

In California's Central Valley, Colleen developed a county - wide educational track for nurses to train as midwives in order to help reduce high pre-term birth and teen pregnancy rates in Kern County, and provided well woman and prenatal care in a community health center primarily serving migrant farm workers.

As societies change, however, in particular with urbanization, support for mothers from a wider circle is needed, whether it is provided by trained health workers, lactation consultants, community leaders, or from friends who are also mothers, and / or from fathers / partners.

Kathy has worked as a midwife in a wide variety of settings, including inner city, high - risk hospitals, neighborhood health clinics, and community hospitals.

She has helped with a number of health and nutrition programs in the school, including a student group to create a healthy snack program, the Smarter Lunchrooms initiative and the school's Wellness, Allergy, Safety, and Health committee (WASH), taking her contributions beyond the kitchen to the wider school commhealth and nutrition programs in the school, including a student group to create a healthy snack program, the Smarter Lunchrooms initiative and the school's Wellness, Allergy, Safety, and Health committee (WASH), taking her contributions beyond the kitchen to the wider school commHealth committee (WASH), taking her contributions beyond the kitchen to the wider school community.

This series provides economic data to inform policy makers about how breastfeeding leads to savings in health costs and other costs, raises awareness among the academic and wider community and highlights a new and publicly relevant area of research.

With our roots in community - based breastfeeding support and our expansion into the arena of public health, we've found that we best impact global health by engaging across a wide variety of fields and experiences.

Abrams E, Eliminating vertical transmission, Rights here, right now: Slide presentation at XVIII International AIDS Conference, July 18 - 23, 2010, Vienna, Austria ICAP Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV slide set ICAP Video, Saving two lives: Improving retention, adherence & psychsocial support within PMTCT services, Uploaded by ICAP Columbia on 3 Mar 2011 This video is a component of the «Improving Retention, Adherence and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: A Toolkit for Health Workers,»; reinforces key PMTCT messages; can be shown to a wide range of audiences, including PMTCT clients, family members, and caregivers of HIV - exposed and HIV - infected children; including in clinic waiting rooms, as part of group education sessions, and in the community.

We also helped advocates at the California WIC Association fine - tune their messages about the community - wide health benefits of breastfeeding.

This group will then work closely with the wider community to support primary caregivers, infants and families to achieve optimum mental health and wellbeing across the perinatal period.

We also support wider projects organised by Love Support Unite focusing on improving the lives of local communities through sustainable education, health checks, feeding programmes and clean water.

Originally aimed at health workers, educators and community workers in different local regions in developing countries, these resources provide practical information on a wide range of care, support and prevention issues concerning HIV, AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

This can be achieved with wider community care teams including nurses, physiotherapists, social and mental health workers and pharmacists working together with GPs as the clinical leaders.

The research by Professor Christina Victor of Brunel University, found very few, at best five to ten per cent of the older people within these communities who were interviewed received any form of formal care, apart from health services, from the wider community or government.

Another example of our success in building on the past is how we are protecting Public Health: Through the creation of the anti-opioid task force, Erie County is leading the way in developing a community - wide response to the scourge of opioid addiction.

Governor Cuomo launched the NYS Community Schools initiative in 2013, a statewide program that is transforming schools in distressed communities into hubs for a wide range of support services for children and their families, including health care, counseling, nutrition, and job preparation services.

The fact that such a wide range of cabinet ministers are involved suggests the Government recognises that mental health affects every aspect of society — from our families and communities, to the health system, schools, business and the economy.

In U.S. history, the two most notable efforts to develop religious communities that served much of the role of the welfare state to its members that most developed countries provided through government to its citizens, have been the Roman Catholic Church, which has developed a large parallel education and health care system, and the Church of the Latter Day Saints, which uses tithes to finance a wide variety of services and economic supports for members of the Mormon community.

Preventive health care is essential to a healthy community; it saves lives and reduces healthcare costs community wide.»

«We were pleased to undertake this research, recognising the growing importance of understanding wider health and social factors that arise when sustainable transport solutions are developed for communities.

«These developments, and others, have cast a pall of uncertainty and fear over the Hoosick Falls community, with wide ranging impacts from health and emotional well - being to the local economy,» he wrote in the letter.

Acting State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker will lead a tour throughout the state visiting organizations working on community - wide initiatives that address obesity and lack of physical activity.

He introduced and enacted legislation on a wide range of issues including expanding job opportunities for public housing residents; protecting the City's affordable housing stock; improving mental health resources for the LGBT community, and establishing work standards for industrial laundromats.

Such moves would delight the research community, which for years has joined with a wide range of groups — including military and public health advocates — in calling for Congress to break the caps.

«So it is gratifying to see our global health community with our Haitian colleagues rallying to the cause and providing the many insights we need to not just eliminate cholera but to conquer a wide range of water - borne diseases.»

Cardiac arrest treatment is a community issue, requiring a wide range of people to be prepared to act, including bystanders, family members, first responders, emergency medical personnel, and health care providers.»

The CDC and the Texas Department of State Health Services remain confident that wider spread in the community can be prevented with proper public health measures, including ongoing contact tracing, health monitoring among those known to have been in contact with the index patient, and immediate isolations if symptoms deHealth Services remain confident that wider spread in the community can be prevented with proper public health measures, including ongoing contact tracing, health monitoring among those known to have been in contact with the index patient, and immediate isolations if symptoms dehealth measures, including ongoing contact tracing, health monitoring among those known to have been in contact with the index patient, and immediate isolations if symptoms dehealth monitoring among those known to have been in contact with the index patient, and immediate isolations if symptoms develop.

The participants also agreed to try to better explain their work to each other and to the wider public health community by, for instance, sharing data sets and specialized software as much as possible.

Founded in 1873, Newport Hospital is a private, 129 - bed, not - for - profit hospital offering a wide range of health care services including the Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center; diagnostic imaging; the Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center, including inpatient, outpatient, stroke, pulmonary, cardiac and cancer rehabilitation; an inpatient mental health program; a wound care center; and community - based primary care and medical specialty practices.

UC San Diego Health receives a $ 15.3 million Beacon Community Collaborative award from San Diego health care providers and other community partners — to pilot the wide - scale use of health information technology to improve patientHealth receives a $ 15.3 million Beacon Community Collaborative award from San Diego health care providers and other community partners — to pilot the wide - scale use of health information technology to improve patiCommunity Collaborative award from San Diego health care providers and other community partners — to pilot the wide - scale use of health information technology to improve patienthealth care providers and other community partners — to pilot the wide - scale use of health information technology to improve paticommunity partners — to pilot the wide - scale use of health information technology to improve patienthealth information technology to improve patient care.

Founded by the Providence Jewish community in 1926, The Miriam Hospital today offers a wide range of medical services, with notable expertise in cardiac care, total joint replacement, bariatric surgery, minimally invasive and robotic surgery, and men's health.

VIPR delivers a community - wide patient record across the Great Lakes Health Connect's network.

Online health summits provide a forum to share this information with the wider patient community; condensed information source, wide audience.

Now regarded as the Silicon Valley Health Institute and led by chairman, Dave Asprey (bulletproofexec.com), this community continues to meet monthly to discuss a wide range of topics including nutritional medicine and anti-aging.

We will be working in towns and cities across the country to launch community - wide campaigns around this health message, and look forward to working with you to do the same in Ridgefield.»

We're delighted that the health impacts of nutrition are spreading — and excited to share our expertise with the wider healthcare community and the families who want to cook nutritious, tasty meals.»

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The Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing Survey, led by Dr Philip Riley from the Australian Catholic University, is a key piece of research informing the wider community about the challenges and struggles facing Australian school leaders.

The nonpartisan coalition, based in Washington, includes a wide range of national, state, and community - based nonprofit organizations promoting children's health, education, and well - being.

That means smaller class sizes, more one - on - one attention, a wider array of community supports (nutrition, health, and after school programs for any student who needs it) and the best possible materials, resources and educators available.