Sentences with phrase «acute public health need»

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This increases public and private costs of absenteeism, pharmaceuticals and acute health - care needs.

«The need to educate customers about the nutritional content of restaurant foods is acute because consumers increasingly eat away from home, restaurants serve large portions of energy - dense and high - sodium foods, and obesity and the prevalence of other diet - related diseases are high,» according to lead researcher Amy Auchincloss, PhD, MPH, of the Drexel University School of Public Health.

Three acute cases needing hospital admission and a further twenty cases have been identified in Somerset thanks to research by J. V. S. Pether, director of the Public Health Laboratory Service at Taunton.

The authors argue not only for more resources, but for an integrated national health care system, built around a strong public primary care system with a clearly defined supportive role for the private and indigenous sectors, that (i) addresses acute as well as chronic health care needs; (ii) offers choice of care that is rational, accessible, and of good quality, (iii) is cashless at the point of service delivery, and (iv) is governed by a robust regulatory framework to ensure accountability.

«Public health officials, neurologists and critical care and emergency medicine specialists need to be alert to the likely rise in Guillain - Barre syndrome cases that will occur in other parts of the world that are currently going through epidemics of acute Zika infection,» Willison said.

When the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) was founded in 1930, the acute health care needs of children were largely infectious in nature.1 Over the ensuing 80 years, as increasingly effective vaccines, hygiene, and other public health initiatives produced dramatic gains, astute observers began to note that many noninfectious disease entities, such as developmental, behavioral, educational, and family difficulties, were playing increasingly prominent roles in affecting child health and well - being.

Although the impact of these «new» morbidities on pediatrics, public health, and society in general is no longer in question, 3 — 5 the professional training and practice of pediatricians continues to focus primarily on the acute medical needs of individual children.