Sentences with phrase «address public health threats»

Gene drives have the potential to address public health threats, conservation - related issues, agricultural pests, and other challenges.

Superbugs don't respect political or geographical boundaries, so we have to work together to address this public health threat.

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The United States is failing to seriously address lead poisoning in its low - income communities, a severe public health threat touching more than 535,000 children a year, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said Wednesday.

The United States is failing to seriously address lead poisoning in its low - income communities, a severe public health threat touching more than 535,000 children a year, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said.

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

«The Ebola crisis right now is one of the clearest illustrations that [of] the link between the conditions on the ground — the lack of public health resources and infrastructure — and the importance of addressing that as a threat to global health security,» said Scott Gordon, director of the Window of Opportunity Project at PATH, an international non-profit organization working on global health innovation.

It's important that we identify this as a serious public health threat and start addressing them!

There are public health programs in some locations that address climate - sensitive health issues, and integrating such programs into the mainstream public health toolkit as adaptation needs increase would improve public health resilience to climate change.195, 296,297,298 Given that these programs have demonstrated efficacy against current threats that are expected to worsen with climate change, it is prudent to invest in creating the strongest climate - health preparedness programs possible.244 One survey highlighted opportunities to address climate change preparedness activities and climate - health research275 before needs become more widespread.

It is important that they apply this knowledge to a very practical concern: assessing the impact of climate change in their cities, and planning public health interventions to address this threat in support to their communities.

New video highlights impacts to aquatic life and public health, calls on clothing industry to solve problem FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 1, 2017 MEDIA CONTACT: Elisa Ringholm, [phone], [email protected] CALIFORNIA 3/1/17 — A new movie from a California - based nonprofit is putting pressure on the clothing industry to address a major emerging threat to aquatic life.

Specifically, the letter addresses Rep. Barton's statement that mercury and particulate pollution do not pose health threats to the public.

At this point, Terreform's proposal may seem a little far - fetched, but Manhattan's daily gridlock must be addressed simply because it has become both a financial burden and a public health threat.

Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.

Corporate Real Estate Community Addresses Air Quality Issues in China April 18, 2017 China is grappling with a serious air pollution crisis that not only poses a threat to public health, but also could very well be an impediment to China's economic growth.