• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Since the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines have been restrained, it is more important than ever for the physician experts in adult medicine to help lead the way. (acponline.org)
  • Using mortality and population data from an agreement with the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we have calculated life expectancy at birth for every U.S. state, congressional district, major metro area, and for the major racial and ethnic groups in each of these geographies. (measureofamerica.org)
  • This independent state agency, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs, administered a comprehensive program that supported community health coalitions and evidence-based public policy changes. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • To address the rapid decline in hypertension control, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention convened a virtual workshop with multidisciplinary national experts. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr Sirven, you just gave a very interesting presentation at this year's Wake Forest Symposium on social determinants of health and epilepsy. (medscape.com)
  • Some of this started with a very wayside conversation with someone not involved in the field of epilepsy, who said, "I suspect that this is really all about social determinants of health. (medscape.com)
  • As someone who is not an expert in that topic, it was kind of a genesis of a larger project which we worked on for a few years and published, both in paper and in book form - this whole idea of social determinants of health and how they affect epilepsy. (medscape.com)
  • First, social determinants of health include those key demographics that we often quickly overlook the moment that someone seeks care. (medscape.com)
  • We were able to access this database that sits quietly in this place at Arizona State and examine it for patients with epilepsy and, to try to understand how those demographics, those social determinants of health, impact the care of epilepsy. (medscape.com)
  • The common ground underpinning public health approach in palliative care is the social view of health including equity and inclusion, community engagement and empowerment, supportive policy environment, public advocacy and social determinants of health i.e. conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, age and die [3]. (edu.au)
  • These actions are to improve equity knowledge and capacity building, accessing equity related data, engagement with community groups in the design and implementation of palliative care services, and vertical and horizontal collaborations with health and non-health sectors to address social determinants of health. (edu.au)
  • 2022). 2022 Educational policy and accreditation standards for baccalaureate and master's social work. (edu.au)
  • We are providing the clinical and public policy guidelines to allow certain economic and social activities to be resumed in a phased-in and prioritized way," said Dr. Jacqueline W. Fincher, president of ACP. (acponline.org)
  • The review of the manual's section on tobacco taxation has revealed contradictions and inconsistencies when compared against international best practices and recommendations in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 6 Guidelines on tobacco tax and price measures, which 180 governments worldwide have committed to implement. (seatca.org)
  • This civil society report gauges tobacco tax measures in ASEAN countries in relation to the recommendations of the FCTC Article 6 Guidelines and urges ASEAN governments to strengthen and hasten the implementation of their tobacco tax policies. (seatca.org)
  • 2006). Developing Policies to Prevent Injuries and Violence: Guidelines for Policy-Makers and Planners. (cdc.gov)
  • Advocacy Tools and Guidelines: Promoting Policy Change. (cdc.gov)
  • They are not simply 'channels' to work upstream for policy change, they are, in the ultimate sense, the co-creators of these interventions. (blogs.com)
  • Interventions that change the way lonely individuals interpret social interactions show the most promise in reducing loneliness. (researchamerica.org)
  • Social workers who develop pain-specific knowledge are better able to assess and advocate for appropriate care and employ evidence-informed interventions that contribute to the team management of pain and related suffering. (iasp-pain.org)
  • We describe in this article the creation of ITPC, its implementation of evidenced-based interventions, and the health and economic results of policy changes effected by ITPC from 2000 to 2011. (cdc.gov)
  • Fueled by work on tobacco prevention and control, in numerous areas such as environmental health and health promotion and education intervention planning immunizations reinforced the integration of health pro- and delivery embraced the integration of policy advocacy motion and education into comprehensive public health and media advocacy as critical components of comprehen- interventions. (cdc.gov)
  • The new CSR advertising on cigarette packs highlights an important gap in tobacco control research and policy. (bmj.com)
  • From the later part of the 1970s she has been engaged in linking "grassroots activism, advocacy, teaching, research, training," obtaining grants, and works of scholarly nature. (wikipedia.org)
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., July 30 announced the selection of William Riley, Ph.D., as the next Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). (aamc.org)
  • He moved to the National Cancer Institute in 2012, where he was Chief of NCI's Science of Research and Technology Branch in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. (aamc.org)
  • In particular, I believe that the lack of a well-developed or documented research base, and not working with the research community to make that happen, has thwarted many efforts to become active players at the policy table where decision-makers ask for evidence-based solutions and not rhetoric. (blogs.com)
  • Earning respectability from our outside world - the research community, policy-makers and others important for our success. (blogs.com)
  • Internationally, we work in coalition with organisations such as the Union for International Cancer Control to promote global initiatives, in affiliation with the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and other leading global agencies. (cancerqld.org.au)
  • Now employed by Microsoft Research New England, she has been talking with government regulators and privacy advocacy groups to determine how best to help users protect their personal information. (technologyreview.com)
  • Research that informs and improves health outcomes also includes inquiries into the areas of behavior and social sciences. (researchamerica.org)
  • The last but not the least is the key role research and evaluation play to generate evidence and to assess short-, medium- and long-term equity impacts of policies and initiatives. (edu.au)
  • Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying with its extensive experience in the field, multidisciplinary team, and strong networks and relationships nationally and internationally is in an excellent position to lead equity-focused research to inform future palliative care policies and practices. (edu.au)
  • As reported in the 2010 paper, The economics of tobacco in Lebanon: an estimation of the social costs of tobacco consumption, produced as part of the American University of Beruit Tobacco Control Research Group, "Lebanon has high smoking rates for both cigarettes and waterpipes, especially among the youth aged 13-15. (ku.edu)
  • Dr. Ruth Malone is known nationally and internationally for her research and analysis on the tobacco industry's strategic efforts to counter public health and how tobacco policy problems are not being understood socially as actionable. (sacculturalhub.com)
  • Dr. Brown's research focuses on how children's academic, psychological and social lives are shaped by the social groups they below to. (srcd.org)
  • During Dr. Goldstein's time with SRCD, she will develop evidence-based advocacy approaches to translate research for policy, present evidence-based developmental science to a general audience and develop a book proposal on the science of acting, role play, pretend play and identify development, social skills and empathy. (srcd.org)
  • Dr. Sagi-Schwartz's primary research interests focus on socioemotional development across the life span and diversified socio-cultural contexts, early child care, socioemotional development, child and family well-being, and adaptation under extreme life circumstances and experiences (especially the effects of the Holocaust and chronic exposure to war and political violence) and translating developmental science knowledge into social, public, and foreign policy. (srcd.org)
  • Another is directing government and philanthropic money toward research and advocacy for greater censorship of social media platforms. (americasfuture.net)
  • The multiple facets that converge around pain are relevant for social work intervention whether at the level of clinical care, research, policy, ethical analysis, advocacy, or education. (iasp-pain.org)
  • Race', anti-racism and social welfare research. (edu.au)
  • To give an example close to home, without these data, my organization, Measure of America - a project of the Social Science Research Council - would not have the raw materials necessary for our calculations of life expectancy at birth , youth disconnection, and many other vital measures of the lives of ordinary Americans. (measureofamerica.org)
  • In short, there is tremendous demand for these data as a basis for research, policy, advocacy, and local actions to build healthier communities. (measureofamerica.org)
  • The survey was completed by 158 respondents from a range of sectors, including advocacy, research, media, and more. (ploughshares.org)
  • by Prof. Hana Ross, Principal Research Officer of the Economics of Tobacco Control at the University of Cape Town, is an academic review commissioned by the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA). (seatca.org)
  • The following three steps are necessary for developing a prevention strategy: 1) a gender perspective must be incorporated into infectious disease analysis and research to target policies and programs. (cdc.gov)
  • The presentations and discussions included potential reasons for the decline and challenges in hypertension control, possible 'big ideas,' and multisector approaches that could reverse the current trend while addressing knowledge gaps and research priorities. (cdc.gov)
  • Factors such as stable economies, strong health systems and supportive social environments are associated everywhere with well-being and security. (who.int)
  • MWSC assumed an ecological perspective, incorporating targeted safety promotion campaigns reinforced by supportive environments and policy. (ed.gov)
  • The below case studies are intended to capture insights from Indiana behavioral health organizations on how they have implemented tobacco treatment initiatives and supportive policies. (in.gov)
  • Our work focuses on strategies designed to improve cancer control systems (legislation, policy and practices) in ways that will benefit the community. (cancerqld.org.au)
  • It highlights a contradiction emerging from their exposure to two distinct historical sources of values and principles that affected people's ideas and practices and how they manoeuvre in both the intimate and the social realm. (africanarguments.org)
  • However, this system simultaneously controlled and policed women's bodies, as well as liberal and non-heteronormative sexual practices and expressions through vehement punishment of what was defined as sexual corruption. (africanarguments.org)
  • Epistemologically I explore the forms of knowledge produced through the practices and experiences of these movements and mobilisations for social change. (lu.se)
  • Methods Multiple logistic regression models to identify predictors of having or of adopting a total HSB, and Generalised Estimating Equation models to compare patterns of change after implementation of smoke-free legislation to a control country without such legislation. (bmj.com)
  • Harmonization of separate vector-borne diseases control programme in seven countries through a national strategic and implementation plan. (who.int)
  • Political context supporting of equity, accountability for equity, gathering equity knowledge and evidence to inform policy, meaningful collaboration and engagement in policy formulation and implementation are critical. (edu.au)
  • We fulfil this role in cooperation with Atria, Institute on gender equality and women's history , by means of substantive analyses and clearcut recommendations for policy and implementation. (wo-men.nl)
  • This toolkit presents a range of issues, policy options, and considerations that each country needs to take into account for purposes of developing country efforts for the implementation of Article 5.3 related to protection of tobacco control measures from interference by the tobacco industry of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). (seatca.org)
  • The toolkit also provides some policy templates that can assist in the implementation of Article 5.3 and its expected output and impact on policies. (seatca.org)
  • This is the second Tobacco Industry (TI) Interference Index to assess the implementation of World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Article 5.3 in the ASEAN region. (seatca.org)
  • control has been focused on global implementation of FCTC demand reduction measures. (who.int)
  • It describes some of the key policy and practice initiatives since 2016, including the National FASD Strategic Action Plan 2018-2028 , and considers further opportunities for responding to the needs of children and families affected by FASD. (aifs.gov.au)
  • The proliferation and targeted promotion of sugar-sweetened beverages to marginalized communities makes it a racial and health equity issue," said Rod Lew, MPH, Executive Director of Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL), "And in this era of renewed attention on racial justice, we must support proven policy initiatives that puts the health of our communities first. (phi.org)
  • To achieve the goal of high-quality palliative care for ALL Australians who are affected by life-limiting illnesses, equity and social determinants lens is to be used in Australian palliative care policies and initiatives. (edu.au)
  • As a nation, we need to implement the new federal policy on the beneficial use of dredged material as the standard practice for federally sponsored dredging projects. (asce.org)
  • Social workers committed to doing anti-racism should fervently advance reparations in social work education and practice as a social justice policy priority. (edu.au)
  • This article envisions ways that social workers can actualize advocacy for reparations as an anti-racist practice. (edu.au)
  • We also provide systemic advocacy to influence policy and practice changes that benefit people with disability as a whole. (actionadvocacy.org.au)
  • Professional gun control advocates have always had a seat at the table in the Biden White House. (nraila.org)
  • In June 2019, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) and the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA), invited leaders and advocates in public health, behavioral healthcare, government agencies, Medicaid managed care entities and tobacco control to host the Indiana Leadership Academy for Wellness and Tobacco-Free Recovery Summit to address the high prevalence of smoking among adults in Indiana with mental illness or substance use disorder (behavioral health conditions). (in.gov)
  • These resources were developed to help leaders and advocates in public health, behavioral healthcare, government agencies, Medicaid managed care entities, and tobacco control to address the high prevalence of smoking among adults in Indiana with behavioral health conditions. (in.gov)
  • She is one of a few tobacco control advocates who has consistently worked on each African American priority population contract funded by the California Tobacco Prevention Program (CTPP) competitive grant programs since inception. (sacculturalhub.com)
  • Bridgeman, P. A., & Kemp, D. (2017) Reparations as a key to reconciliation with communities of slavery descent: A matter of social justice. (edu.au)
  • What types of strategies do anti-hunger advocacy organizations employ? (h-net.org)
  • The book's analysis employs a constructivist approach within the field of political science and makes the case that international anti-hunger advocacy organizations do not converge around a common target actor who they all agree is responsible for hunger. (h-net.org)
  • Because advocacy organizations are not in agreement in laying blame squarely on states for the situation, despite the fact that they are considered duty-bearers with respect to internationally codified human rights, the book argues that there is no established norm that accompanies the Right to Food. (h-net.org)
  • In other words, if international advocacy organizations take a harsh stance by blaming the governments of countries that have high levels of hunger, they may find themselves unable to carry out their on-the-ground activities to address hunger within those countries. (h-net.org)
  • p>Choosing community guides, configuring preference choices, and determining which common data elements and validated instruments to use, are just some of the critical elements in which disease advocacy organizations engage. (rwjf.org)
  • His work with Terry, whom he first met in the context of running the disease group, has been a natural outgrowth of the experience the two share in leading condition-specific support organizations and seeking ways to create better systems for disease advocacy organizations and the individuals they serve. (rwjf.org)
  • Does engagement through advocacy organizations and condition-specific communities unduly coerce potential participants? (rwjf.org)
  • For more information on CDC's web notification policies, see Website Disclaimers . (cdc.gov)
  • Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Center for health. (cdc.gov)
  • The Plan of action for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases of noncommunicable diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region represents a step forward in preventing noncommunicable diseases in the Region, and in strengthening regional efforts to implement prevention and control programmes. (who.int)
  • It is aimed at decision-makers, policy in the Eastern Mediterranean Region analysts and health professionals involved in designing appropriate and effective noncommunicable disease prevention and control programmes. (who.int)
  • 1. Chronic Disese Eastern Mediterranean Region - prevention and control 2. (who.int)
  • Community ownership has been pivotal in sustaining gains of project activities, which was achieved mainly through partnership for change among all relevant stakeholders through advocacy meetings, multiple behavioural change campaigns and countrywide communications. (who.int)
  • 22-25 In addition, media advocacy is needed to counter CSR campaigns and tobacco marketing that appeal to biospheric values. (bmj.com)
  • Michelle Jurkovich's Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight against Hunger explores a series of important questions around advocacy campaigns to fight global hunger. (h-net.org)
  • These campaigns differ from human rights advocacy campaigns that are focused on advancing civil and political rights, which zero in on states as key actors responsible for upholding those rights. (h-net.org)
  • Other political science scholars in the constructivist vein have modelled advocacy campaigns for civil and political rights, demonstrating "boomerang" and "spiral" patterns of advocacy, which target the state where human rights abuses occur as the actor who needs to change its behavior. (h-net.org)
  • [2] But as Jurkovich points out, in the case of the right to food, advocacy campaigns typically follow what she terms a "buckshot" pattern, targeting multiple actors - including governments, corporations, financial speculators - as being responsible for both causing and addressing hunger. (h-net.org)
  • Jurkovich contends that because the right to food sits at the nexus of development and human rights, it is difficult for advocacy groups to take the same kind of name/blame/shame approach towards national governments seen in the case of civil and political rights campaigns because those same advocacy groups are also often engaged in operational activities within the countries experiencing hunger. (h-net.org)
  • coincide with specifc expected ponents of individual behaviour advocacy activity to influence how outcomes, as described in Figures change and public wil campaigns, mes ages are framed and 5.3 and 5.34. (who.int)
  • 2023). Reconciliation as a school of social work. (edu.au)
  • Srilatha Batliwala, a social activist, advocate of women's rights, scholar, and author of many books on empowerment of women is from Bengaluru (earlier known as Bangalore), Karnataka, India. (wikipedia.org)
  • The goals of women's empowerment according to Batliwala are "to challenge patriarchal ideology, transform the structures that reinforce and perpetuate gender discrimination and social inequality, and enable women to gain access and control over, both material and information resources. (wikipedia.org)
  • I am delighted my colleague the Minister of International Development and La Francophonie is launching Canada's first Feminist International Assistance Policy, which targets gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. (gc.ca)
  • As a result of this new policy we will focus on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in a manner that is both targeted and crosscutting. (gc.ca)
  • It is time for a global social marketing organization. (blogs.com)
  • To jump-start this process, I announced that we already have over $250,000 committed to establishing a global social marketing platform (or organization or association if you like) from USAID, the National Social Marketing Centre and CDC. (blogs.com)
  • Shelton has a child who was pre-natally diagnosed with a chromosomal variation that affects approximately 1 in 650 children, and which led to his serving for seven years as chairman of the nation's largest disease advocacy organization for that condition prior to forming Private Access. (rwjf.org)
  • and the tion, contributed to both the capacity of the organization adoption of the social-ecological approach to public health and the improvement of the public's health. (cdc.gov)
  • The productivity of MWSC was vulnerable to the changing policy priorities of external sponsoring agents and critically dependent on the advocacy skills of its leaders. (ed.gov)
  • Advocacy refers to any actions which seek to influence political or social outcomes for a just cause. (cancerqld.org.au)
  • The outcomes of our advocacy include the introduction of world-leading laws for smoke-free spaces, including smoking bans in outdoor malls and bans on smoking in cars carrying children under 16 years of age. (cancerqld.org.au)
  • One of the major outcomes of our advocacy was the culmination of a decade-long advocacy campaign calling for an increase of Queensland Health's Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme, to improve regional patient access to health services. (cancerqld.org.au)
  • A concurrent public health concern is the abuse of controlled substances, including opioids. (iasp-pain.org)
  • 6. It is for the above reasons that the World Health Assembly mandated the first public health treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.7 The Convention was adopted in May 2003 and opened for signature from 16 June 2003 to 29 June 2004. (who.int)
  • It is crucial that we urgently intensify advocacy efforts to secure resources and review current national plans to realign and prioritize activities that will have a more positive impact on public health. (who.int)
  • TB programs throughout the nation must be revitalized if they are to provide core TB control activities that enable effective responses to this public health challenge. (cdc.gov)
  • Failure to meet these core standards can decrease a TB program's effectiveness in controlling this reemergent public health risk. (cdc.gov)
  • Policy and media advocacy as essential elements of public and control methods such as epidemiology, testing, and health improvement counseling, would strengthen an existing overall public health strategy. (cdc.gov)
  • In this category I particularly reference social innovators and social entrepreneurs, those looking at business approaches to the base of the pyramid or the next 4 billion marketplace and social capitalists . (blogs.com)
  • However, all systems are prone to state and policy capture, a form of systemic corruption whereby private interests strongly influence government decision-making. (u4.no)
  • Tuberculosis (TB) rates declined steadily for decades in the United States, but several complex social and medical factors caused TB morbidity to increase 14% from 1985 through 1993. (cdc.gov)
  • The Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis has prepared this report to provide a national standard by which policymakers, TB control program managers, and others evaluating TB programs can assess individual TB control programs. (cdc.gov)
  • These include use of social accountability tools and establishing links between the health and governance Sustainable Development Goals. (u4.no)
  • After all, we need to act if we truly want to ensure that gender equality and women's rights become part of global policy. (wo-men.nl)
  • Transformation can only be achieved if gender equality and women's rights activists have access to funding and social and political participation. (wo-men.nl)
  • Gender equality and women's rights organisations are forced to perform their work in a rapidly shrinking social, political and financial space. (wo-men.nl)
  • An examination of health policies over the last 2 decades in most of the Americas illustrated the following points: 1) Women's health, in and of itself, rarely has been at the forefront of international development programs or national health planning and policies. (cdc.gov)
  • Her team published the first analytic review of the endgame literature and recently published a paper laying out the arguments for phasing out sales of cigarettes that has provided support for emerging national and international advocacy in this area. (sacculturalhub.com)
  • The government has refused the request, and its special advisor to the VSB criticizes trustees for engaging in "advocacy" rather than making "cost containment" first priority. (ubc.ca)
  • The VSB, indeed all school boards and other social services in the province, are now subject to the rule of the market, thus justifying "cost containment" as the first priority of those mandated to deliver education to the public. (ubc.ca)
  • Dr. Goldstein's work focuses on children's developing social and emotional skills, particularly theory of mind, empathy, and emotional control and regulation, and how such skills intersect with children's engagement in pretend play, theatre, drama, and other imaginative activities. (srcd.org)
  • continuing my empirical and experimental work on children's engagement in theatre, and the effects such engagement has for developing social and emotional skills. (srcd.org)
  • SWHPN is developing an ongoing list of resources for this page, tips for social workers on the front lines, and facilitators for virtual Social Work Open Discussions. (swhpn.org)
  • These values are a fundamental platform upon which social workers can build necessary skills to understand and influence the social, cultural, political, ethical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of pain. (iasp-pain.org)
  • With pain-specific knowledge, social workers are equipped to identify the need for referrals from pain specialists and to assess and intervene to reduce the negative impact that pain may have on an individual's life. (iasp-pain.org)
  • Because pain is the most common reason a person seeks clinical care, and social workers are present in a variety of clinical settings, social workers are well positioned to identify patients' unique needs when versed in pain's presentation and impact. (iasp-pain.org)
  • Episode 38: Black power, black liberation & social work: back to the beginning of the National Association of Black Social Workers - Founder Garland Jaggers, MSW & archivist Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, AM [Audio Podcast]. (edu.au)
  • Home care workers regarded the networking and brainstorming featured in COMPASS sessions as unique opportunities for social support, so valuable that some caregivers organized regular contact with teammates afterward. (cdc.gov)
  • 3. The tobacco industry continues aggressive expansion into the developing world, obstructing effective tobacco control by influencing sales and corporate social responsibility programmes. (who.int)
  • I focus on the dynamics of intimacy and social interaction amongst young adults in urban Maputo to critically reflect on how to write about Africa in contemporary times. (africanarguments.org)
  • Generally, the issue of sexual violence in Africa is difficult to overcome because of the social stigma that comes with it. (ku.edu)
  • She graduated from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Social Work. (wikipedia.org)
  • We work collaboratively with the community and all levels of government to advance cancer control by advocating for all Queenslanders, in relation to all cancers. (cancerqld.org.au)
  • IASP encourages all programs in social work to use the following curriculum outline to embed pain education and training. (iasp-pain.org)
  • The social work discipline has historically employed a biopsychosocial, strengths-based approach of assessing a person within the environment and honoring the subjective experience as the initial entre into the lives of those served. (iasp-pain.org)
  • The social work profession has the potential to serve and support the Black reparations movement through education, collaboration, and community organizing. (edu.au)
  • Social Work, 67(3), 239-248. (edu.au)
  • The British Journal of Social Work, 30(1), 71-89. (edu.au)
  • North American Association of Christians in Social Work. (edu.au)
  • Canadian Association for Social Work Education. (edu.au)
  • Doin' the Work: Frontline Stories of Social Change. (edu.au)
  • Council on Social Work Education. (edu.au)
  • Task force to advance anti-racism in social work education. (edu.au)
  • 4. Support operational planning of NTD work at country level in line with the Global NTD roadmap and regional framework for integrated control, elimination and eradication of tropical and vector borne diseases. (who.int)
  • Data revealed inadequate safety equipment in caregivers' isolated and unregulated work environments, and absence of policy provisions for advocacy or appeals. (cdc.gov)
  • European Journal of Social Work. (lu.se)
  • Second edition of the ASEAN Tobacco Control Atlas with a foreword by world-renowned tobacco control activist Dr. Judith MacKay of the World Lung Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a preface by SEATCA director Bungon Rithiphakdee. (seatca.org)
  • GDD brings together CDC-wide expertise to support capacity-building activities and training in epidemiology, surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, data management/reporting, infection control, and outbreak investigations in NAMRU-3's 40 country area of operation. (cdc.gov)
  • An influenza cooperative agreement with the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) of WHO provides international support to countries in this region for pandemic influenza preparedness and response, infection control, International Health Regulations, health communications, and outbreak response. (cdc.gov)
  • Therefore, her sole income [in retirement] was from Social Security ," Vernon Wildy told hundreds of AARP members and community activists and leaders in Richmond, Va., on March 19. (aarp.org)
  • By involving the community in finding its own solutions, MWSC attempted to catalyze structural, social, and political changes that empowered the community and, ultimately, individuals within the community, to modify their environment and their behavior to reduce the risk of injury. (ed.gov)
  • The Missouri Community Advocacy Network (MoCAN) and a team of AmeriCorps VISTA Volunteers (Volunteers in Service to America) provide education and training on the importance of community inclusion for individuals with developmental disabilities. (ku.edu)
  • Our curriculum is designed to give students an invaluable foundation in law, social justice, community advocacy and forensic science. (bowiestate.edu)
  • To foster a comprehensive understanding of crime as well as the most equitable methods to prevent and control it, our internships give students the opportunity to both earn field-specific experience and be servant leaders in the community. (bowiestate.edu)
  • In December 2021, Ploughshares Fund commissioned a survey of the international nuclear policy community in order to better understand the current landscape and to determine areas of opportunity and excitement over the next several years. (ploughshares.org)
  • The survey was conducted by ChangeCraft, a private contractor familiar with the nuclear policy community. (ploughshares.org)
  • ITPC and its partners enabled social and cultural changes, reduced cigarette use rates, and increased the number of community smoke-free environments. (cdc.gov)
  • Desired Policy and Environmental Changes: A Guidebook Informed by the NW Community Changes Initiative. (cdc.gov)
  • This challenge requires expert assessment of the complex intersecting aspects of the pain experience as well as advocacy for access to multidimensional treatment modalities to balance the ethical obligation to manage pain properly with the safety of patients, the public, and prescribers. (iasp-pain.org)
  • You'll engage a multidimensional approach to studying crime, from its causes, offenders and victims to the corrective processes, agencies and laws working to control it. (bowiestate.edu)
  • This policy responds to the recommendations made by stakeholders and reflects Canadian values. (gc.ca)
  • I am especially interested in the ways in which restrictive European migration policies produce spaces of irregularity and deportability - and how those spaces are experienced and contested by migrants and activist networks. (lu.se)
  • Empirically my focus lies in the area of migration rights as articulated in advocacy and activist movements/networks, as well as the experiences of migrants active in those networks and their experiences of national and European migration politics of control and categorisation. (lu.se)
  • Generalised Estimating Equation models indicated that the change in total HSB in the intervention countries was greater than that in the control country. (bmj.com)
  • for, and contribute to policy and media production and placement Selecting measures of efectivenes social change. (who.int)
  • 1. On 27 February 2005, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control entered into force and became legally binding for the first 40 countries--including five African countries--that became Contracting Parties before 30 November 2004. (who.int)
  • Individuals with FASD will experience some degree of challenges in their daily living, and need support with motor skills, physical health, learning, memory, attention, communication, emotional regulation, and social skills to reach their full potential. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Based on a conceptual framework that uses social capital dimensions to study collective action, trust, cooperation and communication were identified as the key elements responsible for ensuring cohesion in informal groups engaged in mushroom production. (pdffox.com)
  • and 3) outreach activities must be supported, using information, education, and communication strategies and materials for advocacy and training. (cdc.gov)
  • Each Party shal promote and strengthen public awarenes of tobac o control is ues, using al available communication to ls, as ap ropriate. (who.int)
  • The social sciences explore how individuals interact with each other: in small groups, families, and communities, as well as within populations and in society. (researchamerica.org)
  • Twlia Laster has been working in tobacco control specifically serving African American and African Immigrant populations since 1996. (sacculturalhub.com)
  • May 15, 2020 (ACP) - The American College of Physicians has released a new policy statement that provides criteria for policymakers to consider as they prepare to resume social, medical and economic activities. (acponline.org)
  • However, while MWSC was rich in social resources, human and financial resources were largely controlled by external agencies. (ed.gov)
  • Jurkovich suggests that economic and social rights such as the right to food generate different kinds of advocacy strategies - especially when there is no clear actor to blame. (h-net.org)
  • and it brings important insights about transnational advocacy strategies through its application of a constructivist political science lens and the articulation of the buckshot model of campaigning. (h-net.org)
  • Two pre-legislation waves from the UK were used as control. (bmj.com)
  • At the same time, specific risk areas, such as of transparency in drug pricing and clinical trials, have received attention in terms of policy guidance. (u4.no)
  • As I said in the government's foreign policy statement, our job today is to preserve the achievements of previous generations and to build on them, as we are doing through Canada's first Feminist International Assistance Policy. (gc.ca)
  • Rather, education policy in B.C. reflects the key features of neoliberal globalization, not the least of which is the principle that more and more of our collective wealth is devoted to maximizing private profits rather than serving public needs. (ubc.ca)
  • The U.S. Chamber of Commerce , having close ties to the tobacco industry, has been actively derailing tobacco control regulations and undermining life-saving policies in dozens of countries around the world, according to a new report released by a coalition of public interest and health groups. (seatca.org)
  • Today, many have forgotten that in 2021, stories about the so-called " Facebook Files " were released which explained that the social media site used by some 2.9 billion people was manipulating its News Feed algorithm to suppress disfavored views. (americasfuture.net)
  • With tobacco endgame policy pathways, Sacramento can create a healthier environment for its residents, free from the harmful effects of tobacco. (sacculturalhub.com)
  • Ms. Laster also serves as Co-Chair of the Equity and Diversity Subcommittee for the Greater Sacramento Smoke and Tobacco Free Coalition (GSSTFC) and is a founding member of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC). (sacculturalhub.com)
  • Marissa Bashore (Greenband), MPH, CHES is the Chairperson of the Greater Sacramento Smoke and Tobacco Free Coalition and Chairperson to the Policy Taskforce of the Coalition. (sacculturalhub.com)
  • She formerly served as the Tobacco Control Programs Director at Breathe California Sacramento Region. (sacculturalhub.com)
  • In our case - cancer control - to prevent people from getting cancer, to help patients and their families, to save lives, and to stop deaths. (cancerqld.org.au)
  • Well designed and adequately resourced cancer control systems and structures are essential to the attainment of health equity. (cancerqld.org.au)
  • Dr Heikki Hi lamo works as a Atty. Deborah Sy is a global professor of social policy at health lawyer who serves as the University of Helsinki. (who.int)
  • In Richmond and at simultaneous events in Miami, Denver and Columbus, Ohio, participants stood up to speak, recorded their opinions in video booths, completed questionnaires and encouraged others to raise their voices through social media (hashtag #earnedasay). (aarp.org)
  • Let Social Media Today's free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. (socialmediatoday.com)
  • While most of the media are focusing on ISIS's use of social media to post gruesome pictures and slick videos, The Atlantic took a deeper dive into how ISIS is gaming Twitter. (socialmediatoday.com)
  • the National Science Foundation (NSF) has made at least 64 government grants totaling $31.8 million on the science of "countering" social media "mis/disinformation" and two government grants totaling $7 million. (americasfuture.net)
  • Steve Rendall, a panelist at the World Social Forum and the senior analyst at the U.S. media-advocacy group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, said that "Venezuela's mainstream media deserves the censure of anyone who values ethical and balanced journalism. (newsdesk.org)
  • Two decades after the end of its civil war, El Salvador has been trying to limit the influence of criminal gangs that control large portions of the country. (crisisgroup.org)
  • To achieve this, a framework describing how problem frames, or explanatory naratives, influence government policy decisions was developed and applied to actual cases. (bvsalud.org)
  • A guide to monitoring and evaluating policy influence. (cdc.gov)
  • To continually improve the knowledge base and skill level of people who use social marketing in their professional activities to improve the health and social conditions of people around the world. (blogs.com)
  • These boundary-spanning relationships accessed an estimated 6.5 full-time equivalents of human resources and US$750,000 in 2004 that it used to deliver a suite of injury control and safety promotion activities, associated with a 33% reduction in injury deaths over the period 2002 to 2010. (ed.gov)
  • In the recommendations released on May 7, ACP urges that policies on restarting certain economic and social activities rely on the best available evidence. (acponline.org)
  • Advocacy (2012) for instituting tobacco industry monitoring activities goal. (who.int)
  • The report may also help local programs to obtain and maintain adequate resources for TB control activities. (cdc.gov)
  • TB control program managers should make every effort to incorporate each of these components into their program activities. (cdc.gov)