The first will be to reduce the health gap between children in different social classes.
The previous Conservative government, keen to deny opposition charges that the health gap was a direct result of growing income differentials, sought to blame diet and lifestyles.
Areas with the biggest problems will be given more cash from 2003 to help them close the health inequality gap.
But this is closing the health care gap.
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The new health-reform bill that allows dependents to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26 should also help close the health-care gap for young adults.
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In implementing this program, TAMUCC-COHNS has seen firsthand the obstacles that arise from the gap between enlisted health care training and academic training requirements.
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The partnership for the production of the course seeks to contribute with an amplified access to training in Sexual Education among educators and health professionals, fulfilling an existent gap in Brazil, given its dimensions and specificities.
Also use utmost caution if considering short-term temporary health coverage intended as a stop-gap measure.
If anything, Social Security and Medicare should be expanded to cover the huge gap in retirement savings and health care coverage.
We're spending about 23 percent of GDP and we take in 18 percent of GDP, and that gap is growing, because health care costs -- Medicare and Medicaid in particular -- are growing, and we've got to do something about that.
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Meanwhile, teachers, school secretaries, and health aides must step in to fill the gap, and the potential for mistakes increases.
In addition to that set of challenges, we also face a long-term fiscal gap, which is driven primarily by health care costs.
If productivity in health continues to lag the rest of the economy, and health spending continues to rise to make up this gap, our net debt could be twice as high by 2060 as the OBR's base forecast.
They face a pay gap at work, or higher premiums for health insurance, or inadequate options for family leave.
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This is the sort of market gap that tends to attract intermediaries, and Generation Health is vying to be the lead company in this new space.
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Though that formula would not keep up 100% with rising health costs, Medicare does suffer an enormous long term financing gap that must be closed in some way.
Ken Judge, professor of public health and health policy at Glasgow University, said that in general terms health was getting better for everyone but that the "relative gap had widened".
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Runaway health care entitlement costs are the prime driver of our long term budget gap.
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Then if you add in the value of all of the tax, the benefits paid out, then add in again all of the government services (in the UK including health as well as education, defence and so on) the actual gap in consumption possibilities falls to about 6 to 1.
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That's what you hear most of all from their proposals -- Senate McCain in the campaign had a proposal to add those dependents onto your parents' health care up to a certain age to allow for what is a gap in the uninsured based on when someone leaves the dependency of their parents and gets a job that provides health care.
Fifteen percent cited the growing gap between the rich and the poor, while 10% cited health care and 7% the deficit.
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But look farther ahead and a much bigger gap appears, as an ageing population needs ever more pensions and health care.
This skills gap is sure to grow as the population ages and industries from health care to manufacturing are altered by technology.
The gap between surgeons and food servers widens if you include benefits like health insurance, which often represents 30% of an employee's salary and isn't offered for many low-paying jobs.
The project will focus on opportunities to create replicable models for bridging the gap between enlisted training and academic coursework, improving the documentation of health care training, and working with other key stakeholders such as state licensure boards.
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So this is money that will help bridge in many ways that gap as it relates to vaccines and antivirals and any other public health infrastructure that may be needed as -- out of an abundance of caution.
Sebelius said mobile apps can bridge the information gap between doctors and patients and help patients take better charge of their health.
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The list of critically important issues for developed countries is daunting: Rates of unemployment are unacceptable, the income gap has never been higher, too many people have no access to health care, educational systems are inadequate, there is a chronic shortage of affordable housing.
The Government Accountability Office reported last week that the average state "fiscal gap" is 14.2% over the next 50 years, largely because of health-care costs.
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