Sentences with phrase «surgeon general report»

A U.S. Surgeon General report indicates that one in five children and adolescents will face a significant mental health condition during their school years.
It's the first Surgeon General report on e-cigarettes» risks for youth.
«The 2014 U.S. Surgeon General Report recommended an endgame strategy for the country's tobacco epidemic, but no additional strategy was laid out other than the current status quo tobacco control policies,» he says.
(This followed the landmark 1964 U.S. Surgeon General report prominently highlighting the health dangers of smoking.)
But amid the gloomy news that 30 percent of all cancer deaths in this country can be linked to smoking, the Surgeon General reported one «encouraging trend»: An annual survey conducted by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Drug Abuse has found that the number of high - school seniors with a daily cigarette habit has dropped from 29 percent...
In 1939 the Navy's Surgeon General reported on the detrimental health effects of prolonged asbestos exposure, acknowledging that asbestos caused asbestosis.
Our findings are even more sobering because the prevalence of psychosocial problems among youth seems to be increasing.110, 111 The US Surgeon General reports that the unmet need for services is as high now as it was 20 years ago.112 Even youth who are insured often can not obtain treatment because few child and adolescent psychiatrists practice in poor and minority neighborhoods.113, 114

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To quote from a recent report by Surgeon General Novell a in The Female Patient (January 1992), «Women and perinatally infected children represent the fastest growing subgroup with the disease.
Nestle, chair of nutrition studies at New York University, has been on the front line of the food wars as managing editor of the first — and so far only — Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, which appeared in 1988.
In the U.S.A., for example, there have been the 1928 National Committee for the Study of Social Values in Motion Pictures, the decade - long Senate hearings on the role of the media in juvenile delinquency in the 1950s, the 1968 National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, and the 1972 Surgeon - General's Scientific Advisory Committee's Report on Television and Social Behaviour.
The first Surgeon General's Report on the prevention, treatment, and recovery of substance misuse and substance use disorders.
In addition, the U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, who launched a report about fighting obesity with Obama in late January, endorsed breastfeeding in workplaces, hospitals and communities, «as this practice has been shown to prevent childhood obesity,» Benjamin wrote.
Mental health: A report of the Surgeon General.
Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General.
Dr. Daniel F. Whiteside, former Assistant Surgeon General, reported that, «Corporal punishment of children actually interferes with the process of learning and with their optimal development as socially responsible adults.
Featured items include the CDC Breastfeeding Report Card, action guides for the Surgeon General's Call to Action, and The CDC Guide to Breastfeeding Interventions.
Report of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Breastfeeding and Human Lactation.
According to a Surgeon General's report issued last year, some 64 percent of American women breast - feed during their infants» first weeks to month of life.
Iain Anderson, Royal College of Surgeons report author and a consultant general surgeon at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, urges improvements for emergency patients in the NHS.
The U.S. Surgeon General recently released a report indicating that 90 percent of people who struggle with addiction problems are receiving no treatment whatsoever.
But as the illness spread — South Carolina alone reported 30,000 cases by 1912 — Surgeon General Rupert Blue felt increasing pressure to escalate PHS efforts.
In a report from the U.S. Surgeon General, e-cigarette use has risen to the level of a public health concern.
In adult female mice, MIS can also be a perpetual snooze button for primordial follicles, Pépin and colleagues, including Mass General and Harvard pediatric surgeon Patricia Donahoe, reported in the Feb. 28 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
«In 1964 when the Surgeon General finally reported that smoking causes lung cancer, awareness and policy followed.
A July, 2014 Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer by acting Surgeon General Dr. Boris Lushniak points out that indoor tanning is «strongly associated with increased skin cancer risk,» but stops short of reporting that tanning causes cancer.
Increasing e-cigarette use among teenagers is a cause for concern, according to a report from the US surgeon general.
Since the release of the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and health 50 years ago, there have been 20 million deaths due to tobacco.
The study, providing the first picture of alcohol use and binge drinking by US college students with disabilities, is out in Public Health Reports, a SAGE Publishing journal and the official journal of the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service.
It's been 50 years since the U.S. surgeon general's report on smoking and health spurred one of the largest public health behavior changes success stories of the 20th century.
A recent Surgeon General's report on e-cigarettes and youth notes that there are significant known deleterious health effects resulting from nicotine exposure in adolescence, including changes to the developing brain.
The researchers, who also included surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, report an overall positive response rate of 90.7 %.
According to a literature review in the July 2017 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, lower (lumbar) back pain is a commonly reported symptom among the general population; however, low back pain among elite athletes who play varsity or professional sports requires additional important considerations.
A report of the Surgeon General
The Genome Report is delivered to the physician along with patient - entered family history information from the US Surgeon General's Family History Tool.
Approximately 21 million Americans have some form of substance use disorder, according to a 2016 report by the U.S. surgeon general.
All kinds of nicotine use are unsafe for teenagers because it affects brain development, according to the 2014 Surgeon General's report.
The Surgeon General's report says the newly recognized drastic leap in e-cig use could lead many teens to try smoking.
In response to increased use among young people, the U.S. Surgeon General released a report Thursday arguing that e-cigarette use among young people is public health threat.
Filters, Proctor says, joined other devices such as «ventilation» and the addition of menthol, which diverted attention from the tsunami of evidence that finally led to the famous 1964 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health.
According to the 2006 Surgeon General's Report, there are more than 50 carcinogens in secondhand smoke.
In Miami Beach, 44 confirmed cases have been reported so far, according to Dr. Celeste Philip, Florida's surgeon general, who also spoke at the briefing.
According to this article, «Only about 24 percent of American adults currently meet the physical activity recommendations outlined in the 1996 Surgeon General's Report»
There's been a major decrease in smoking prevalence since the 1st report on smoking and health by the surgeon general in 1964.
It was included in the Surgeon General's report in 1996 as well as the report of an NIH conference around the same time.
The Surgeon General's report called for all sectors of society to take part in preventing [children from becoming] overweight and obese.
The report is an update of the U.S. Surgeon General's 1972 report on televised violence, which suggested that such a link existed.
Continuing his seeming obsession with the relationship between food and cognition, Rothstein writes, in a March 2001 column, «Surgeon General David Satcher reported... that more than a third of poor children have untreated dental cavities.
According to Physical Activity and Health, a 1996 report from the U.S. Surgeon General, physical activity «reduces stress, anxiety and feelings of depression, promotes social interaction, and contributes to social integration.»
Report on the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health - A National Action Agenda (Office of the Surgeon General).
The breakthrough year was arguably 1988, when Republican Surgeon General Everett Koop took on the issue with a full - frontal assault in his famous Report.
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