Sentence examples for discouraging practices from inspiring English sources

Our results show that the impact of case-mix adjustment on practice-level performance scores is modest for most practices but may meaningfully improve the measurement of performance for practices with less typical patient populations, discouraging practices from 'cream-skimming' by avoiding enrolling patients who could be seen as 'hard to treat'.

This indicates that, despite traditional and culturally discouraging practices associated with the husband's presence during childbirth [ 17], the women benefitted from their husband's company.

This report should encourage us to promote programs that protect vulnerable populations, such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and universal health insurance, and to discourage practices that put us in greater danger.

Over the last few decades, and more strikingly in the past few years, the European Union has implemented a number of directives designed to discourage practices such as insider trading.

In part, this is because certain religious traditions discourage practices that bring health risks (e.g., alcohol consumption).

This single text message was designed to be a pragmatic, uncomplicated intervention that would not discourage practices from participating, but that aims to address some of the key barriers to vaccination.

Lower-quality drum sets tend to discourage practice, as the student may feel as if the quality of their overall sound is limited not by their skill level, but by the drums themselves.

Family and community support structures should be strengthened and equipped to help promote good practices and discourage inappropriate practices by involving significant others in the community.

Such practices are a good short term strategy for discouraging the practice, but ultimately it's users who suffer.

It wasn't until 1948, when the U.S. Golf Association distributed a strongly worded encyclical discouraging the practice of Calcuttas, that the members of Augusta National ended the pari-mutuel wagering.

A month later, Rhode Island Bishop Thomas J. Tobin posted a message on Facebook discouraging the practice.