Sentences with phrase «public health consequences of»

The public health consequences of child physical abuse are sizeable, and extend into adulthood.

We are working to refine our mapping processes and enable new types of analysis to help understand the environmental and public health consequences of mountaintop removal mining.

Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer and narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman, Eating Animals is an urgent, eye - opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming.

The dire public health consequences of mercury contamination, combined with decades of improper handling and disposal, made cleanup a national priority.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally approved into the market a direct - to - consumer genetic screening service after initially banning the device back in 2013 following concerns about the public health consequences of inaccurate results.

«Unjustified homicide by police should be added to the long list of the public health consequences of societal racism.»

Little coverage has raised public health consequences of climate change such as higher incidence of asthma, allergies, disease and heat stroke amongst many.

For the first time, the FDA has asked that an opioid pain medication be pulled from the market due to «the public health consequences of abuse.»

What do you worry will be the negative public health consequences of an unqualified recommendation against bedsharing?

The three - day international conference on the Critical Public Health Consequences of the Double Burden of Malnutrition and the Changing Food Environment in South and South East Asia is underway at India International Centre, New Delhi.

But in 2013 the FDA announced that it was concerned about «the public health consequences of inaccurate results» from these mail - in spit tests and banned them.

It's clear that the environmental and public health consequences of our meat consumption demand more scrutiny and, according to some governments, taxation.

Take, for example, the recently published report entitled «Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes,» by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — which the Academies helpfully point out is a «congressionally mandated» study.

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«With the Sodium Mandate, the Board has required the disclosure of just enough inaccurate and controversial information about sodium in certain food items to cause far reaching negative consequences rather than help consumers and reduce public health risks.»

«It will have serious consequences for the health of the public and our planet, and the American people deserves actual answers,» Carper added.

Infectious diseases also spread more easily after these kinds of weather events, and general infrastructure damage (such as to the water supply) carry unpredictable public health consequences.

«The consequences of resistance spreading further into India and Africa could be grave if drug resistance is not tackled from a global public health emergency perspective.»

It is a major public health problem with adverse consequences particularly for women of reproductive age and for young children.

Three years later, King Corn captured the nation's attention and shone a spotlight on the political and health — both public and individual — consequences of corn subsidies.

Inform Government agencies, health professionals and the public of issues relating to the Code and WHA resolutions — Bring attention to the extent and consequences of the promotion of breastmilk substitutes and commercial infant and young child feeding products for the health and wellbeing of all children through on - going monitoring and reporting.

Concussions in sport are a recognized public health problem because of their frequency of occurrence and their potential short - and long - term consequences.

When viewed as a public health issue with lifelong consequences including poverty, mental illness, injustice, and risk of infectious disease — we all benefit when children are diapered.

Tough new EU rules could see the majority of e-cigarettes forced off the market, in a move which could have dramatic consequences for public health.

After weeks of warning about its possible consequences, a federal cut to New York's hospitals took effect on Sunday, adding stress to the state's already overworked public health care system.

Norman Lamb, the former Health Minister who set up the Lib Dems» expert panel, said ORB's findings about licensed cannabis sales showed that the public were way ahead of most politicians who, he claimed, doggedly support prohibition despite its disastrous consequences.

While we recognize that gun ownership is legal, and that most gun owners are responsible citizens, we nevertheless regard the proliferation of guns in our communities as a major public health problem with devastating consequences for children and their families.

Legislator Savage said, «No one objects to reasonable measures that assist people to quit smoking; however we must also be mindful of the unintended consequences that may also impact public health, such as the use of these devices in public places and the accidental or recreational use by children and young people.»

«I firmly believe that New York can develop an approach to marijuana regulation that addresses public health concerns while reducing the exposure of so many people, and particularly young people of color, to interactions with the criminal justice system that have much more damaging life consequences than marijuana use,» said state Sen. Liz Krueger (D - Manhattan), who's sponsored a bill that would legalize, regulate and tax pot.

Unless the true facts as expressed by the anti-frackers take hold the consequences for the future of our environment, communities and public health will be catastrophic.

Senior author A. David Paltiel, MBA, PhD, professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, says, «Our aim is to confront donor nations with the clinical and economic consequences of any decision to substantially cut HIV program funding and to help recipient nations respond in the least harmful ways possible to the actions of countries in the developed world.»

The consequences of straying from the regimen are so high that public health authorities try to monitor TB patients to make sure they take their pills, an approach called directly observed therapy.

«The evidence is clear that there would be consequences if we lowered the legal drinking age,» said lead researcher William DeJong, Ph.D., of Boston University School of Public Health.

In addition to the dangers posed to fetal development, unregulated amounts of nanoparticles in the environment are now known to affect us at the cellular level, and the genetic consequences could be at the root of the greatest public health crises, including heart disease, hypertension, obesity and diabetes.

«One of the major problems for those of us interested in estimating the public - health consequences of the accident has been the paucity of reliable data,» says Baverstock.

As the particles break down and disperse, they have a wide range of adverse environmental, public health and economic consequences with the potential to kill wildlife, destroy natural resources and disrupt the food chain.

«The results of our study find substantial public health and economic consequences with even minor reductions in MMR coverage due to vaccine hesitancy and directly confront the notion that measles is no longer a threat in the United States.

«Potential public health, economic consequences of declining childhood vaccination.»

«As researchers, increasing awareness of short sleep and its consequences remains a critically important task to improve public health,» said Basner.

«Health care and public health professionals now have a limited window of opportunity to engage policymakers about protecting Dreamers through legislative action, with an emphasis on the potentially dire mental health consequences of failing to enact a definitive legal remedy,» VenkataramaniHealth care and public health professionals now have a limited window of opportunity to engage policymakers about protecting Dreamers through legislative action, with an emphasis on the potentially dire mental health consequences of failing to enact a definitive legal remedy,» Venkataramanihealth professionals now have a limited window of opportunity to engage policymakers about protecting Dreamers through legislative action, with an emphasis on the potentially dire mental health consequences of failing to enact a definitive legal remedy,» Venkataramanihealth consequences of failing to enact a definitive legal remedy,» Venkataramani said.

According to Dr Gasparrini, «Current public - health policies focus almost exclusively on minimizing the health consequences of heat waves.

Violence is often seen as a social and criminal justice problem, and not as a clinical or public health issue, but the health system has a crucial part to play both in treating the consequences of violence, and in preventing it (Paper 2).

It remains an extremely common health burden in all societies, with enormous public health consequences due to the morbidity and mortality of the resulting fractures.

Being physically active may offset some of the deleterious consequences of spending large amounts of time not being active, the paper published in BMC Public Health has revealed.

The economic consequences of such health problems may be considerable, according to a report published November 8 by the Oxford Health Alliance, a public health health problems may be considerable, according to a report published November 8 by the Oxford Health Alliance, a public health Health Alliance, a public health health group.

Large - scale irrigation projects have dire consequences for public health, particularly through the spread of water - borne diseases.

«The consequences of excess diesel NOx emissions for public health are striking,» said Susan Anenberg, co-lead author of the study and co-founder of Environmental Health Analytichealth are striking,» said Susan Anenberg, co-lead author of the study and co-founder of Environmental Health AnalyticHealth Analytics LLC.

An average systolic blood - pressure difference of 3 percent could, however, have consequences for overall public health.

However, he added, «anything that raises the blood pressure of an entire population, even a small amount, can have large public health consequences.»

«Why to quit smoking messages are more powerful because those ads typically show graphic portrayals of the health consequences of smoking or feature personal testimonies to evoke emotion,» said Jennifer Duke, Ph.D., senior research public health analyst at RTI and co-author of the study.

The findings, which will be published online on Apr. 16 in the journal Public Health Reports, are based on computer simulations that suggest a foodborne illness outbreak can have large, reverberating consequences regardless of the size of the restaurant and outbreak.