Sentences with phrase «with the public health system»

Our community - centered, holistic and strength - based approaches to health are critical to upholding the credibility the Centre has established with First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, with the public health system, among educational institutions, with government stakeholders and more.

Not exact matches

Unlike Americans, however, residents of New Zealand enjoy the protection of a robust welfare state including a public health system, 18 weeks of subsidized parental leave and benefits for middle - and low - income families with young children.

Even if you don't get a flu vaccine before October, as is considered ideal, public health officials recommend that everyone — including pregnant women in any trimester — aged 6 months and older, as well as those with compromised immune systems such as small children and the elderly, get their seasonal flu shots in order to protect both themselves and those around them.

Abigail Bozarth, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca, said «AstraZeneca believes it is important to engage with policymakers, key partners, and the public — across all states in the United States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.»

What kind of health insurance makes sense (and the best locales with low - cost but top - quality public health systems)...

Collaborate with the business community and mental health care NGOs to ensure that the public health - care system provides timely, quality, and accessible mental health care and addiction services.

Ultimately, we are promoting a more sustainable fashion system to improve the environment and, crucially — which comes hand - inhand with this — protecting the public health of millions of people.

The organic sector looks forward to continued collaboration with FDA to help create and support food safety systems, helpful guidance and research that meet the needs of organic farmers, consumers and public health regulators.

The Health Star Rating Advisory Committee, which is responsible for overseeing the HSR system, is currently conducting a five - year review of the HSR system with public submissions open until 30 June 2017.

The system categorises the four key nutrients most associated with public health issues — fat, saturated fat, sugars and salt — as high, medium or low compared to the recommended level of intake of these nutrients.

The Health Star Rating system was developed by the Australian, state and territory governments in collaboration with industry, public health and consumer gHealth Star Rating system was developed by the Australian, state and territory governments in collaboration with industry, public health and consumer ghealth and consumer groups.

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

We advance our mission through public policy analysis, advocacy, and collaboration with partners to promote a patient - and community - centered health system.

Public Citizen claims that by supplying US healthcare providers with product samples to distribute to parents, the firms have failed to adhere to the principles of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - notably Articles 5.2 («Manufacturers and distributors should not provide, directly or indirectly, to pregnant women, mothers or members of their families, samples of products») and 6.2 («No facility of a health care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula&raHealth Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - notably Articles 5.2 («Manufacturers and distributors should not provide, directly or indirectly, to pregnant women, mothers or members of their families, samples of products») and 6.2 («No facility of a health care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula&rahealth care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula»).

They rely heavily on the manipulation of public opinion, appearing respectable; using front groups, funding science and infiltrating food safety systems — all with the purpose of weakening legislation — legislation that is essential for stopping marketing practices that violate children's rights to health and improves product quality and safety.

David was also the producer of «An Inconvenient Truth,» and just as that film served as a wake - up call for climate change, «Fed Up» hopes to similarly educate the public about the serious flaws in our food system and how the food and beverage industries have a vested interest in maintaining a status quo that puts profits over our collective health — and often with the assistance of the federal government.

His international public health and development career spans five decades, including more than 30 years with agencies of the United Nations system (International Labour Office, United Nations Children's Fund, and the World Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, Cameroon and health and development career spans five decades, including more than 30 years with agencies of the United Nations system (International Labour Office, United Nations Children's Fund, and the World Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, Cameroon and Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, Cameroon and Haiti.

Included studies were conducted in the public health systems in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom with variations in model of care, risk status of participating women and practice settings.

We probably would be, if it were being done in a thought - through manner, with cannabis moving out of the purview of the justice system and under the umbrella of public health and education.

Surveys of public opinion indicate that Germans by and large are satisfied with their health care system (as opposed to the U.S. where a large portion of the population thinks that system needs substantial changes).

· 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.

Riverkeeper is teaming up with partners in public health to promote routine maintenance of private septic systems, an important way homeowners can protect water quality.

«These projects include the completion of the 2017 Farmland Protection Plan, with a grant from the NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets we have hired a Farm to School Marketing Coordinator to help our regions farmers sell locally produced food products to our public schools» lunch programs and with the support of the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Oneida County Health Department, Oneida County Planning Department, Mohawk Valley Community College ThINCubator and the Mohawk Valley Food Policy Council we will be conducting an extensive study of the total Oneida County Food system.»

However, today Mr Hutton argued that you can not deal with differences in life expectancy through the pension system - these must be tackled with better strategies on public health, child poverty and improved education and skills training.

These include: · Restricting trade hours of on - licence venues to limit the availability of alcohol in the early hours of the morning · Enhancing community involvement, better facilitating the engagement of local residents with licensing systems · Adding / prioritising public health and / or harm minimisation objectives in alcohol legislation · Restricting the sales of high risk products in areas of concern; and · Deprioritising government support for industry voluntary schemes in place of policies supported by evidence.

«Like you, we agree that in order to truly give Albany a «clean bill of health,» a system of public campaign finance along with other campaign finance reforms including lower contribution limits, closing loopholes and strong but fair enforcement, must be enacted.»

Members of the Public Accounts committee have been unhappy with the financial management system at the Health ministry particularly the Ghana Health Service.

Negotiations with the public employee unions on contracts will have a dramatic impact on the budget as the county grapples with the rising cost of health insurance and rapidly escalating costs of paying into the public employee retirement and pension system.

New Labour were also hampered with the theory of the «Third Way» mantra, meaning that even intellectuals like David Milliband were reduced to abandoning big ideas which could have a real impact, and instead being forced to concentrate on administrative details - hence the awful targets system he dreamed up to improve the performance of public services like education, policing and health.

The money flows through 25 Performing Provider Systems, or PPS, that have each chosen from a menu of public health projects with the ultimate aim of reducing avoidable hospitalizations by 25 percent by the end of the five years, or 2020.

Hospitals in New York also have gone into overdrive against the Republican measure, saying it «would threaten health coverage for millions of New Yorkers, create a fiscal crisis for the state, and burden hospitals and health systems with fewer resources and more uninsured or underinsured patients,» said Bea Grouse, president of the Rensselaer - based Hospital Association of New York State, which represents over 500 not - for - profit and public hospitals in the state.

The Correction Department has ended the use of solitary confinement for all inmates under 22 years old and allocated funds to expand public health services throughout the criminal justice system, with the aim of diverting more people with mental health and substance abuse problems from Rikers.

«I firmly believe that New York can develop an approach to marijuana regulation that addresses public health concerns while reducing the exposure of so many people, and particularly young people of color, to interactions with the criminal justice system that have much more damaging life consequences than marijuana use,» said state Sen. Liz Krueger (D - Manhattan), who's sponsored a bill that would legalize, regulate and tax pot.

Lady Williams, known to be wary of increasing the role of the private sector in public services, said she agreed with the need to respond more closely to patient demand, but warned against a move to a privatised American health system in which the focus on the producer interest simply shifted to the «insurance interest».

Picente cited the many benefits of a revitalized downtown district that, in conjunction with Mohawk Valley Health System's soon - to - be constructed state - of - the - art hospital, will create employment opportunities, add new revenue streams for economic growth, supply additional public parking, improve community health with green spaces and stimulate property vHealth System's soon - to - be constructed state - of - the - art hospital, will create employment opportunities, add new revenue streams for economic growth, supply additional public parking, improve community health with green spaces and stimulate property vhealth with green spaces and stimulate property values.

The Erie County Department of Health (ECDOH) has partnered with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System to offer free information and resources for the public on various health related tHealth (ECDOH) has partnered with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System to offer free information and resources for the public on various health related tPublic Library System to offer free information and resources for the public on various health related tpublic on various health related thealth related topics.

While the Rockland County Commissioner of Health Dr. Patricia Ruppert stated that measurements did not reach levels that represent a public health concern, turbidity can interfere with disinfection and provide a medium for microbial growth; may indicate the presence of disease causing organisms; and those dynamics can have effects on health, particularly those with compromised immune syHealth Dr. Patricia Ruppert stated that measurements did not reach levels that represent a public health concern, turbidity can interfere with disinfection and provide a medium for microbial growth; may indicate the presence of disease causing organisms; and those dynamics can have effects on health, particularly those with compromised immune syhealth concern, turbidity can interfere with disinfection and provide a medium for microbial growth; may indicate the presence of disease causing organisms; and those dynamics can have effects on health, particularly those with compromised immune syhealth, particularly those with compromised immune systems.

The patients with the telemedicine visits were covered through a health plan offered by the California Public Employees» Retirement System, which provides health insurance to the state's public woPublic Employees» Retirement System, which provides health insurance to the state's public wopublic workers.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

A patient with extensively drug - resistant TB flew from Mumbai to Chicago, and the deadly disease could become an infamous export due to problems in India's public health system

«The system could also be adapted for use with other respiratory viruses, and with some modification, for infectious diseases more broadly,» says lead author Sen Pei, a postdoctoral scientist in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

The study was conducted at Parkland, the public health system for Dallas County, the ninth largest county by population and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S.. From Parkland's system of 10 neighborhood - based pediatric clinics, researchers identified four clinics with the largest volume of patients aged 11 to 18.

«Our research explores a novel approach to treating mite allergy in which specially - encapsulated miniscule particles are administered with sequences of bacterial DNA that direct the immune system to suppress allergic immune responses,» says Peter Thorne, public health professor at the UI and a contributing author on the paper.

IPHI's California Cancer Reporting and Epidemiologic Surveillance (CalCARES) Program works in partnership with the California Department of Public Health to manage the day - to - day operations of the California Cancer Registry (CCR), the state mandated population - based cancer surveillance system.

Yesterday, however, WHO consulted with influenza experts and public health officials from 23 countries who backed the continued use of a phasing system based on geographic spread of the virus.

«Worksites are self - contained environments with established communication systems where interventions that modify food options and provide physical activity have the potential to reach large numbers of adults,» said Diana Fernandez, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Rochester Department of Public Health Sciences and lead author of the study.

«There are some individual and public health risks with daily dosing of sublingual buprenorphine, such as missed doses and accidental pediatric exposure, as well as the risk of theft or intentional diversion,» said Richard N. Rosenthal, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Shealth risks with daily dosing of sublingual buprenorphine, such as missed doses and accidental pediatric exposure, as well as the risk of theft or intentional diversion,» said Richard N. Rosenthal, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Behavioral Health SHealth System.

SARS was a good example of how a little virus can change how people behave, how economies and travel are affected, and how our public - health system is inadequate to cope with it.

Co-author Dr. Susan Cu - Uvin, professor of public health and of obstetrics and gynecology at Brown, said women with HIV are especially susceptible to cervical cancer from HPV because their weakened immune systems are less able to clear the virus.

Its report, Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Research with Public Values, stresses that although gene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered orgaPublic Values, stresses that although gene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered orgapublic health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered organisms.