Innovative New Ways to Redirect Funds to Community Prevention, we identify four new models that hold promise for beginning to do this.
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Another approach is to create a wellness trust a funding pool set up by levying small taxes on health insurers and hospitals and using the proceeds to support evidence-based community prevention efforts.
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Mr Baeza adds that they also targeted car theft networks, educated the community about prevention and promoted anti-theft devices.
The 96-hour shifts are among proposals being considered by the fire authority, including cutting back on community fire prevention visits and reducing crew numbers at Somerset stations to match how Devon operates.
We need to listen when the scientific community focuses on prevention.
We have also worked to develop a nationwide, community-based prevention system that joins stakeholders at every level of government with local organizations that can deliver local solutions.
It's one of several new initiatives transforming the nation's suicide-prevention community as more survivors find the courage to speak out and more experts make efforts to learn from them.
We helped to create and launch a Pacific Resource and Training Center and support community-based projects and social marketing campaigns including the San Francisco Hep B Free Campaign- a successful community-based prevention model.
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The current emphasis in the research community is on cure, prevention, and treatment.
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said closing prisons and reducing prison numbers "offers major social and economic gains" but warned it "would be a gigantic mistake if the justice secretary were to revive the discredited idea of titans and pour taxpayers' money down the prison building drain" instead of investing in crime prevention, healthcare and community solutions to crime.
In an effort to develop a comprehensive program for substance abuse prevention there, the Asian Health Coalition banded together with various sectors of the Chinatown community in 2007 to create the Coalition for Asian Substance Abuse Prevention (CASAP), a grantee in the Drug Free Communities Support Program.
Against that, Mr Christie and his team say that they are setting out a mid-term vision of an entirely different culture in public provision: prevention rather than cure, community-based rather than top-down.
My agency, Old Pueblo Community Services, provides free default and foreclosure prevention counseling services to home owners in need.
Move forward with restoring our community health centers, provide resources for the prevention and public health fund, establish the Ready Reserve Corps, and rebuild our primary care system.
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He said the all-Wales obesity pathway sets out a four tiered approach for the prevention and treatment of obesity, from community based intervention to specialist medical and surgical services.
The Platform explored the intrinsic linkages between world heritage and intangible cultural heritage, which is embedded in the living tradition of the city and which drives Kyoto's community engagement and deliberate commitment towards disaster-risk prevention in the future.
Imagine prevention education going viral in the Native Hawaiian community, where people are over 5 times as likely to experience diabetes.
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Thompson has taken a leading role in using the obesity issue as a way to access prevention of chronic diseases, funding a series of community-based efforts to educate children and parents about the subject.
It set up the Prevention and Public Health Fund to make investments in infrastructure through Community Transformation Grants.
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Each will also be required to complete 50 hours of community service with senior citizens and must take part in a formal bullying prevention program.
The architect, who studied in Wisconsin, had been shocked when, on a visit home to the town of Buea, he was confronted with a community ravaged by AIDS. Though aid workers were teaching the message of prevention, Menyoli found that most locals trusted foreigners more readily when they said that HIV was not a lie or a conspiracy but a fatal disease.
The youth-targeted Above the Influence campaign balances broad prevention messaging at the national level with targeted efforts at the local community level.
But as with all prevention focused coalitions they also strengthen family and build resiliency and self-reliance for a community.
Community health workers in villages would have computers that prompt them through color-coded questions on disease diagnostics, prevention and treatment for each individual patient.
The best prevention of student-instigated violence on campus is an educated, well-trained and caring school community in which everyone understands what to do when they see a weapon on campus and why it might save lives to act.
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