... Systemic Reforms to Improve ChildrensAccessto Dental Care While states have substantial opportunities to improve childrensaccessto dental care in Medicaid and SCHIP, fundamental reforms ... progress into cavities, and, sometimes, abscesses and destruction of tooth structure.40 Drilling out and filling cavities addresses a major symptom of dental disease, but not the disease itself ... diverse experts, including state and federal policy officials and program administrators, dental professionals, and others, to discuss childrensaccessto dental care in Medicaid and SCHIP, and to...
... appropriated, ATSDR is expected to assess the extent of children's exposure to mercury from former industrial sites and other sources nationwide, and to issue a report of its findings 12 months after ... Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (HSEES) system (www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HS/HSEES) to collect data on uncontrolled and/or illegal releases of any hazardous substance [ATSDR 2007a] Releases ... mercury exposure events and provides examples of potential exposure scenarios 12 DISCUSSION The ATSDR\CDC Mercury Workgroup was formed to address the Congressional directive that ATSDR assess the extent...
... discussions on the immediate, underlying causes of health implications and ways to address these causes CONCLUSIONS DALYs lost varied considerably among the durations as well as for the types ... Septic tanks and pour-flush latrines connected to a sewer line were considered as sanitary latrines for the purpose of this study Unsanitary types consisted of cesspools, pit latrines and storage ... water Households using mixed sources of water Sanitation system Households using overhead hanging latrine Households using sanitary latrine Households using unsanitary latrine Households using no...
... approach tochildrens mental health, the public health system to place a greater emphasis on childrens mental health, and other child-serving systems and sectors to identify themselves as partners ... must ensure that our health system responds as readily to the needs of childrens mental health as it does to their physical well-being One way to ensure that our health system meets childrens mental ... child-serving systems and sectors to work as partners in a comprehensive and coordinated childrens mental health system The guiding vision for this effort is that communities, as well as society at...
... commitments addressing NCDs 29 In addition to commitments focusing on the health MDGs and NCDs, stakeholders made commitments across sectors to address the full spectrum of MDG priorities Some illustrative ... governments committed to expanding accessto essential health services, with 24 governments explicitly committing to expand accessto family planning, and 18 to expanding accessto skilled birth ... literacy, as well as screenings for risk factors and disease management In the spirit of MDG 8, which aspires to building global partnerships for development, some commitments address multiple MDGs simultaneously...
... of existence that states had acted to limit beneficiaries’ accessto health care settings of states’ choosing or had restricted payments to providers in certain settings.35 States can “impos[e] ... beneficiaries to government facilities, and Massachusetts had refused to reimburse private physicians in teaching hospitals for services to Medicaid beneficiaries President s Proposals for Revision ... incidence of STIs The WHP policy changes would reduce accessto screening services and therefore reduce accessto early treatment for these diseases as well It is unclear how Texas s policies will...
... open-ended responses, where users could discuss reasons for their preferences and their likes and dislikes regarding the system 4.2 Results Data was collected from all 44 participants Due to technical ... Interacting with the system The system described here is an advanced user interface prototype which provides multimodal accessto databases of media content such as movies or television programming ... graphical display When the user presses ‘CLICK TO SPEAK’ a message is sent to the Speech Client, which activates the microphone and ships audio to a speech recognition server Handwritten inputs are...
... Doctor Mercedes de Onis heads the WHO project She says the current growth standards used by 99 countries not support international health goals She notes that one of these goals is to increase ... thousand fifteen Experts Say Babies Should Be Fed Only Breast Milk for the First Six Months By Jill Moss Health experts commonly advise mothers to feed babies only breast milk for the first six ... United Nations He says that some NGOs represent industries or businesses, the interests of governments, or even criminal groups He says it would be a mistake to believe that all NGOs are neutral The...
... reduced, as the authors of several of these studies note This raised the cost of schooling to households Since there is some evidence that human capital investments of girls are more price responsive ... these findings, while limited in number, should be a source of concern to policymakers This is especially the case because, as discussed below, trends such as increasing female headship and smaller ... rigorous evaluation designs to assess program impacts 27 the investments in human capital that these programs represent), public sector involvement is necessary Private markets for ECCD may fall short...
... pressure childrento disclose confidential discussions with assessors or present the perpetrator in a favourable light to evaluators and the court Research conducted with abused mothers also ... (2001) posit that pre-schoolers who witness violence have more behavioural problems (aggressive and possessive behaviour), social problems (poor social skills), post-traumatic stress symptoms which ... Martin suggests that extreme fear may manifest itself in psychosomatic problems such as headaches, stomach aches and asthma, as well as insomnia, nightmares, sleepwalking and enuresis (Hester et...
... programmes for communication strategies to increase awareness of the diseases and service delivery for the diseases Table gives state-wise estimates with regards to symptoms reported for RTI/STI according ... e conomic accessibility; administrative accessibility; cognitive accessibility, and psychosocial accessibility (ibid) The term, access , thus not only connotes physical access (physical proximity, ... variations in the percentages of men and wome n re porting RTI/STI symptoms and awareness of AIDS across the districts of a state and across the states as well This has implications for designing...
... for business The section also refers to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and other relevant instruments The Childrens Rights and Business Principles As businesses express increasing ... use the Workbook Who is it for? This Workbook is for businesses that see gains for children as gains for business This applies to businesses of all shapes and sizes, large or small, multinational ... Integrating childrens rights into core business practices spells out the management process for assessing and addressing the impact of your company It demonstrates the various steps your business can...
... Fertilizer, seeds; π Accessto markets: Storage, wholesale markets, roads, railways, ports, etc; – Clustering of agribusiness to reduce costs, improve accessto inputs and markets – It is estimated ... companies’ unique assets and expertise – In all cases, cross-sector, cross-industry partnerships are key to success: companies rarely have the legitimacy, expertise and resources to act in isolation ... NGOs million viewers gives a sense of the scale The returns for TV Globo itself are easier to Government agencies Universities establish, because the company s commitment to social issues is an...
... purpose Typically, a tactile translation session includes a few labor-intensive tasks [3–9] Based on our study, some key subtasks that a specialist may complete during a tactile translation session ... information is not only used to guide the system to further lower-level processing, but also assists a user to mentally integrate and interpret the impressions from all levels of outputs to form a ... contain mostly line structures, such as mathematical plots, diagrams, and illustrative figures such as street maps, contour of an animal Simple color-filled shapes such as pie charts are also included...
... covariates with these same outcomes Baseline covariates used in the model were those found to be associated (p < 0.1) in univariate analyses as well as those shown to be risk factors in the literature ... Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA, 2Infectious Disease Service, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio TX, USA, 3Division of Biostatistics, University ... AIDS-defining illness can lead to medical separation with retention of health benefits Although the MV analysis adjusted for several clinical factors such as previous AIDS event, it is possible...
... through a network of ambulatory care centres where nurses triage and doctors diagnose, prescribe, or refer to specialist care at public hospitals [6] This system is free tochildren under the age ... barriers to successful treatment Doctors find diagnostic criteria confusing Insufficient consultation time for history, examination, peak flow measurement Organisation of care necessitates instant ... the first visit, the pharmacist used a visual aid, a set of printed glossy materials similar to those used by pharmaceutical company representatives, structured as a plastic laminated desk blotter,...
... different to those experienced accessing HIV/AIDS services, and barriers to accessing government HIV/AIDS services are different to those accessing NGO services Indeed, there are differences between specific ... understanding the complex and specific access issues facing marginalised groups such as IDUs seeking HIV/AIDS services in countries with low/concentrated epidemics For example, earlier access studies ... drug use and police harassment remained substantial barriers to accessing essential HIV/AIDS services in 2007 and 2008, especially harm deduction services delivered by NGOs to IDU clients Discriminatory...
... articleprocessing charges References 10 Although several journals now offer free accessto their articles online, this is different from open access (as defined by the Bethesda Statement [15]) Journals ... promote journals [7], the high profile of these journals will raise awareness of open access and encourage researchers in all disciplines to understand and accept open access, with APCs as an acceptable ... and aid scientific research, and we hope you will support this progress by submitting your next research article to an open access journal Competing interests ES and PST are employees of BioMed...
... http://www.capmh.com /content/ 1/1/9 lessness/hopelessness, guilt, suicidal thoughts/attempts, irritability, aggression and changes in psychomotor patterns Symptoms were noted as either present or absent within ... first expected that, as the children's MA increases, so should the number of internalizing symptoms, operationalized as the ratio of internalizing symptoms to total symptoms identified It is also ... hopelessness, feelings of guilt and suicidal thoughts or attempts were combined into an internalizing symptom score, then divided by the number of total symptoms (of the seven symptoms studied) to...