Sentences with phrase «addressing health epidemics»

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Secretary Alex M. Azar II of the Department of Health and Human Services began a multiagency news conference on the flu epidemic by addressing the Florida shootings.

Indeed, this widespread and largely irrational fear has become a second epidemic — one that must also be addressed by pastors concerned for people's spiritual health.

His beliefs and politics: As a counselor, Clinton advocates for greater mental health awareness among Christians and addresses pornography as an epidemic hurting marital intimacy.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon, Chairwoman of the Health and Human Services Committee, led an important discussion on Thursday to address the growing heroin and opioid epidemic facing the community.

Another way in which Erie County is protecting the public's health is in addressing the terrible opioid addiction epidemic facing our community.

Health officials say they know a treatment that works to address the opioid epidemic: prescription medication that reduces cravings and withdrawal symptoms.

In the face of roughly 11 deaths each week in Erie County due to opioid drug overdoses, the County Legislature is poised to approve a «crisis response plan» today that would better connect those suffering from addiction with services and expand Health Department programs aimed add addressing the epidemic.

Coleman is a member of the Transgender Advisory Group assembled by the state health department's AIDS Institute to develop recommendations for addressing trans community needs in Governor Andrew Cuomo's Ending the Epidemic Blueprint.

Molinaro also wants to enhance the county's focus on addressing the opioid epidemic with additional addiction and mental health initiatives.

Officials say the statistics could have been even worse if not for a host of initiatives that the government, health officials and medical community have taken to address a drug epidemic that has swept through communities across the United States with devastating results.

It is our hope that these additional deputies are another step towards addressing the heroin epidemic,» said Legislator Lynne Dixon, Chairwoman of the Health and Human Services Committee.

The findings, published online and scheduled for an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Public Health, indicate that public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age Health, indicate that public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age women.

The researchers hope their findings could help other large health systems use their own electronic medical systems as part of a larger initiative to address a key aspect of the nation's epidemic of painkiller overdoses and opioid addiction.

Adds senior author Mark Ilgen, Ph.D., «These results highlight the importance of addressing provider behaviors in our efforts to address the opioid epidemic, and the need for large health systems to develop and implement systematic approaches that are flexible enough to allow clinicians to make individual decisions while still reducing the overall prevalence of potentially risky prescribing.»

Considering the urgency of addressing the current diabetes and obesity epidemics, their article is also a call to action for researchers and health systems to develop successful interventions to increase physical activity among women of reproductive age.»

As with all these other health problems, however, addressing the HIV epidemic in the southern U.S. requires much more than just having effective and affordable medicine.

Improving women's health means overhauling attitudes toward sex and addressing hidden epidemics, such as domestic violence

History Lesson «The early - 2000s SARS epidemic is a good illustrator of information as one of the most critical tools in addressing any type of public health crisis,» says Agarwal.»

Ideally, the National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutical industry would each pick up half the tab, NIH Director Francis Collins has said, to fund research aimed at addressing the opioid epidemic.

2012 — MHRP Researchers awarded $ 5 million grant to fund research into a novel heroin / HIV vaccine — The innovative dual - vaccine model would concurrently address the entwined epidemics of heron abuse and HIV and could provide considerable public health benefits.

I'd like to see our medical and health insurance communities address barriers and biases — how can we really beat the obesity epidemic until we start treating people for it?

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Heavy metal toxicity is a modern - day epidemic that is not being appropriately addressed by traditional medicine and even most natural health practitioners.

Consumers are becoming more health conscious as the obesity, diabetes and other diet - related health problems reach epidemic proportions while government efforts to address these and related issues of food quality and safety issues intensify.

West Coast LEAF has issued a press release jointly with the BC Civil Liberties Association, Pivot Legal Society, BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre, and Community Legal Assistance Society calling on the BC government to raise social assistance rates and address the resulting epidemic of food insecurity and the dire consequences for human health and safety.

Ramsey County Forms Coalition to Address Opioid Epidemic Due to continued increases in opioid - related deaths in the area, the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office has partnered with Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge to address the devastating public health Address Opioid Epidemic Due to continued increases in opioid - related deaths in the area, the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office has partnered with Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge to address the devastating public health address the devastating public health crisis.

We applaud the state's public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes.