Sentences with phrase «as a public health problem»

In comparison to messages that defined climate change in terms of either the environment or national security, talking about climate change as a public health problem generated greater feelings of hope among subjects.

However, the impact of this resistance on malaria as a public health problem has been harder to demonstrate, for reasons that remain unclear.

The location of the gene linked to Alzheimer's disease within a narrow chromosomal region was achieved through a study focusing on Alzheimer's disease as a public health problem involving 1,100 participating Icelandic patients and their unaffected relatives.

It occurs with enough regularity across the country, at all levels [of society], that it should be viewed as a public health problem.»

We need to embed the learning from what's happened from this tragic case and ensure we can treat child sex abuse as a public health problem to ensure the victims are believed and treatment is available for them.»

Dr Sorichetta comments: «It's crucial we understand human mobility, so we can quantify the effect it has on our societies and the environment and provide strong evidence to support the development of policies to address issues, such as public health problems.»

The new model concludes that improved active screening — making sure that all people are screened equally, regardless of risk factor — may allow elimination as a public health problem between 2023 and 2031.

«The stigma around this disease makes it difficult to address obesity as a public health problem,» said George A. Bray, M.D., of Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., who chaired the task force that developed the Scientific Statement.

The World Health Organization and other groups have announced the goal of eliminating rabies as a public health problem.

Slutkin's work focuses on violence as a public health problem.

Dengue, which emerged as a public health problem in the 1950s, is endemic in the majority of countries along the equatorial belt and has been reported in the southern United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is gaining attention as a public health problem.

Communicating about climate change as a public health problem also faces barriers from how messages are shared and spread online, suggests another recent study.

In a series of studies that I conducted with several colleagues in 2010 and 2011, we examined how Americans respond to information about climate change when the issue is reframed as a public health problem.

The first is to eliminate the disease as a public health problem and have fewer than 2000 cases by 2020; while the second goal is to achieve zero transmission around the globe by 2030.

The good doctor has spent much of the past 35 years reframing our national epidemic of gun violence as though it were any other epidemic — that is to say, as a public health problem.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists it as a public health problem.