Improving maternal health

The Strategy focuses on improving outcomes for children in four key areas good health, safety and security, success at learning, and social engagement and responsibility.

(iv) Improving access to health services and health information

Ultimately, more equal societies have better health outcomes.

Speakers also requested more information on how UNICEF was addressing disability and improving learning outcomes.

Improving the quality of priority reproductive health services.

Improving the quality of health care and services.

We will continue to work towards improving the outcomes for youth in Canada and around the world.

In fact, more, better targeted redistributive policies, which account for the effects of selective upward social mobility and different rates of diffusion of behavioral change, are crucial to improving health outcomes in lower socioeconomic groups.

Differences in health outcomes are exacerbated further by women s tendency to use health care services more than men.

It's China there, moving against better health there, improving there.

Calculation The QALY is a measure of the value of health outcomes.

Improving health facilities and infrastructure providing equipment materials, buildings renovations for health centres and operating rooms.

There are a number of initiatives targeted at improving educational outcomes for indigenous students in the Northern Territory.

A Women's Health Project focused on improving the health, nutrition and social status of women and girls.

A decade of significant progress in health outcomes has proved the skeptics wrong.

In order to attain the goals of reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV AIDS, Nigeria has initiated health sector reform aimed at raising the standard of primary health care and vastly improving health care delivery services in our hospitals.

The source of poor and uneven health outcomes lies in the disparities in household incomes and physical access to health services.

Mental health practitioners A mental health practitioner is a health worker who offers services for the purpose of improving the mental health of individuals or treating mental illness.

Special attention will be given to those interventions that address both health and nutrition outcomes.

Reducing inequalities in health outcomes requires more intensive health care for patients in lower socioeconomic brackets, tailored to their specific needs and challenges.

The result is a reconciliation of medication and patient education resulting in increased patient health outcomes and decreased costs to the health care system.

The reproductive health and family planning project, which is aimed at improving the quality of health services, providing training and setting up community family planning centres and health huts

Article 12.2 requires parties to take specific steps to improve the health of their citizens, including reducing infant mortality and improving child health, improving environmental and workplace health, preventing, controlling and treating epidemic diseases, and creating conditions to ensure equal and timely access to medical services for all.

The paradox of South Asia is that growth has been instrumental in reducing poverty and improving social outcomes, but poverty rates and social outcomes have not improved fast enough to reduce the total number of people living in misery.

Significant and persistent health inequality indicates that, by raising the health levels of those with lower incomes or less education, massive strides could be made in improving populations overall health.

Other health metrics are equally disappointing, with data indicating poorer health outcomes for Americans throughout their lives. And, for at least three decades, matters have been getting worse.

Improving education and access to reproductive health services was essential to redressing the situation of rural women.

This is supported by the Agency's emphasis on building partnerships with employers as the most effective way of securing organizations' commitment to improving equal opportunity outcomes.

But, while these policies have reduced inequalities in some social and economic outcomes, including income, housing quality, and health care access, they have been insufficient to eliminate health inequalities.

Now we must leverage current scientific opportunities and invest the resources needed to develop more effective, less toxic therapies, thereby improving outcomes for all children with cancer.

As a result, initiatives aimed at improving health, education, and gender equality have replaced large scale construction projects.

The reason that not for profit providers can achieve higher quality care with better health outcomes at lower cost is evident.

Women Health Project The project aims at improving the health, nutrition and social status of women and girls by developing Women Friendly hospitals in 20 districts of Pakistan.

This could mean providing day care services and preschool activities, improving hygiene and health services, or teaching parenting skills.

Governments must broaden opportunities for young people by improving access to, and the quality of, health and educational services.

Taiwan initiated a single payer system in 1995, significantly curbing health care costs and improving the population s quality of life.

Improving the communication and transport system between outlying areas and health care referral centres, in particular by equipping health facilities with radio communication, purchasing ambulances, and establishing contracts with transport operators.

The Malawian government faces challenges in building and expanding the economy, improving education, health care, environmental protection, and becoming financially independent.

Founded in 1873, the mission of UCSF is to serve as a public university dedicated to saving lives and improving health.

We are also on track to achieve the targets of reducing child mortality, attaining greater gender equality and improving maternal health.

The State policy on public health stressed the importance of improving client oriented services, particularly access to reproductive health care for vulnerable groups and in remote regions, and of strengthening partnerships in providing health care services in remote areas.

At the same time, ensuring that these efforts translate into better health outcomes requires a revolution in the way families prepare their children s food.

First, it was committed to reducing child mortality rates, with a focus on family health, immunization and vaccination, and to reducing maternal mortality by expanding and improving sexual and reproductive health services.

UNICEF is also supporting the Ministry of Health in improving access to health services through the provision of basic equipment and essential drugs to all health centres as well as through the establishment of community volunteer networks and outreach activities.