Sentences with phrase «as protect public health»

As residents of Ulster County, we rely on county government to maintain critical county infrastructure, such as roads and bridges as well as protect public health and safety.

Response: This level of detail is necessary to ensure that individuals» rights with respect to their health information are clear, while also ensuring that information necessary for important public functions, such as protecting public health, promoting biomedical research, fighting health care fraud, and notifying family members in disaster situations, will not be impaired by this regulation.

Not exact matches

Even if you don't get a flu vaccine before October, as is considered ideal, public health officials recommend that everyone — including pregnant women in any trimester — aged 6 months and older, as well as those with compromised immune systems such as small children and the elderly, get their seasonal flu shots in order to protect both themselves and those around them.

Having served under both Republican and Democratic presidents, we recognize each new Administration's right to pursue different policies within the parameters of existing law and to ask Congress to change the laws that protect public health and the environment as it sees fit.

As Scott explains, they «contain 30 or more chapters providing special protections for foreign investors; extending patents and copyrights; privatizing markets for public services such as education, health, and public utilities; and «harmonizing» regulations in ways that limit or prevent governments from protecting the public health or environment.&raquAs Scott explains, they «contain 30 or more chapters providing special protections for foreign investors; extending patents and copyrights; privatizing markets for public services such as education, health, and public utilities; and «harmonizing» regulations in ways that limit or prevent governments from protecting the public health or environment.&raquas education, health, and public utilities; and «harmonizing» regulations in ways that limit or prevent governments from protecting the public health or environment.»

«As well, ISDS puts a serious chill on the ability of governments at all levels to enact legislation and public policies that protect the health and well - being of citizens or promote sustainable development.

«A provincial data strategy will ensure that Ontarians own and control their data so that it can become an engine of prosperity for the province of Ontario as well as a tool that protects our privacy, public safety, democracy and public health.

As a communicable disease, certain legislative measures are in place to protect public health and roommates will be screened and informed of the possible risk.

Caulfield says he believes Temptime's products will be in even greater demand in the near future as the foodservice industry seeks to find reliable and effective technologies to further protect the public's health.

The movement to protect public breast - feeding, which began in the mid-1980s in New York, has gathered steam as research has shown the value of breast milk to a baby's mental and physical health.

In hospitals and health providers» offices, in stores and public spaces, at work and among friends and family, our Allies are making a long - term investment in protecting healthy infant feeding and are positioned as trustworthy for expecting moms, new parents, and the public.»

More and more evidence points to the importance of breastfeeding on a cultural, public health, psychosocial, ecological and economic level, and the need to support, protect and promote it in all aspects of healthcare and society, as well as asserting breastfeeding as a human right for both babies and women.

Breast feeding is clearly an issue for public health consideration as it provides significant protection against infections in newborns and infants.12 Because breast feeding has been shown to protect against infections so profoundly in developing countries, it is estimated that an increase in breast feeding worldwide by 40 % would reduce deaths from respiratory infection by 50 % in children less than 18 months of age.3

«It's a shame that Congress seems more interested in protecting industry than protecting children's health... this legislation may go down in nutritional history as a bigger blunder than when the Reagan Administration tried (and failed) to credit ketchup as a vegetable in the school lunch program,» — Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest in a press release

The New York State Caucus of Environmental Legislators is billed as a «non-partisan» forum to consider measures aimed at protecting both the environment and public health.

«As children begin another school year, I'm proud to sign this legislation, which marks a major step forward in protecting the public health and ensuring the future growth and success of students across the state.»

The Mayor's Office continues to work in coordination with the City Council, as well as with our state and federal partners, to keep our people safe and protect public health.»

As state leaders, we have an innate responsibility to investigate public health and safety crises and protect those who are not powerful to stand up to government malfeasance.»

«We have an obligation as policymakers and influencers to protect our youth from the lifelong health problems associated with picking up that first cigarette,» wrote Michael Seilback, vice president for public policy and communications for the American Lung Association in the Northeast.

Picente: «Finding Warrants Precautionary Spraying to Protect Public Health» Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. has authorized aerial spraying over an approximate 30 - thousand acres in the area where five more mosquito pools collected in August have tested positive for the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus as a precautionary measure to protect public Protect Public Health» Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. has authorized aerial spraying over an approximate 30 - thousand acres in the area where five more mosquito pools collected in August have tested positive for the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus as a precautionary measure to protect public hPublic Health» Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. has authorized aerial spraying over an approximate 30 - thousand acres in the area where five more mosquito pools collected in August have tested positive for the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus as a precautionary measure to protect public hHealth» Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. has authorized aerial spraying over an approximate 30 - thousand acres in the area where five more mosquito pools collected in August have tested positive for the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus as a precautionary measure to protect public protect public hpublic healthhealth.

Public Health Thank You Day 2013 honors all those health heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disaHealth Thank You Day 2013 honors all those health heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disahealth heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disahealth such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disasters.

As public servants, we must do everything to protect the health and welfare of the residents of Erie County.

Hudson Valley Delegation Public Hearing Reply Form March 5, 2010 Pomona hearing 1:00 - 4:00 PM Health and Mental Health Transportation, Economic Development, Environmental Conservation Please respond by Friday, February 26th: E-mail to: [email protected] Or fax to: [phone] I would like to testify at the hearing on March 5th (The committee will accommodate as many witnesses as possible.)

Further, in service to its mission to protect public health from the effects of pollution and to support the continued development of strong science as a basis for effective decision making, the US EPA is co-sponsoring the meeting.

The AAAS Dialogue Group offers this Statement as a contribution to the on - going public debate in the hope of protecting Americans from discriminatory practices in health insurance based on the use of genetic information produced by predictive testing.

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Architects and engineers are required to protect public health, safety and welfare as an ethical priority in their work, Sperry said.

The studies, published online this week in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, come as the Obama administration is making a concerted effort to link efforts to tackle climate change with protecting public hHealth Perspectives, come as the Obama administration is making a concerted effort to link efforts to tackle climate change with protecting public healthhealth.

As our knowledge of the role of pathogen and host genomic factors in the prevention and treatment of infectious disease expands, it is critical that we evaluate current legal frameworks to determine the extent to which current genetic privacy laws - for example, both state and federal in the US - may hinder our ability to use genetic information to protect the health of both individuals and the general public.

Those antibodies could be used to develop vaccines to protect against Zika, as well as therapies to treat the virus, according to the study, which was a collaboration between researchers at UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC School of Medicine.

Members of the Pulitzer Prize - winning team from InsideClimate News, together with the Center for Public Integrity and The Weather Channel, reveal that as oil and gas booms in Texas, legislators and regulators are more intent on protecting the industry than residents who fear for their health from the air they breathe.

The report contained 18 recommendations designed to help ensure that, as synthetic biology advances, the risks and ethical concerns are proactively addressed, the public is continually engaged, and oversight mechanisms are assessed and adjusted as needed to protect public health and the environment.

• Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard School of Public Health also found that moderate coffee consumption, defined as two 8 - ounce servings a day, may protect against heart failure11

U.S. soda sales have dropped 25 percent since 1998, no doubt due to successful public health advocacy, and this makes the current scandal all the more scandalous, as it's an attempt by a high - level health official to undo all the work that's already been done to protect the public health.

Our main goals are to increase awareness of eczema as a public health issue and to protect and improve access to services and medications for people whose lives are impacted by this disease.

As EWG's executive director, she fights everyday to protect consumers, inform the public, and make the connection between our personal health and the environment.

The leaves and seeds of moringa may protect against some of the effects of arsenic toxicity, which is especially important in light of news that common staple foods, such as rice, may be contaminated.13 Contamination of ground water by arsenic has also become a cause of global public health concern, and one study revealed: 14

«ICPB is at the heart of the veterinarian's pledge to protect animal health and welfare, public health, as well as the universal mandate among the healing professions to «first, do no harm.

The Southeast Louisiana Veterinary Association shall be dedicated to fostering and preserving the health and well - being of animals, preventing the spread of disease to both animals and people, and protecting the institution of and camaraderie within veterinary medicine, through education of both the public and the veterinary community, by acting as liaison to the public and governing officials, and through other activities deemed reasonable by our constituency to achieve these goals.

16.25.1.6 OBJECTIVE: To promote, preserve and protect the public health, safety and welfare by regulating the practice of veterinarians, veterinary technicians, bovine artificial insemination technicians, and bovine pregnancy diagnosis technicians; to establish the authority to take action against any licensee or permittee for failure to meet set minimum standards for licensure or permit certification as promulgated by the board; and to inspect and regulate veterinary facilities to further protect the public.

The MVMA is an organization dedicated to supporting Maine veterinarians as they work to improve the well - being of animals, to encourage the human - animal bond, and to protect public health.

Rep. Steve King, R Iowa, has once again shown his true colors — and his servitude to corporate agriculture interests — by introducing the Protect Interstate Commerce Act, H.R. 4879, which is set to dismantle state and local agricultural laws and will threaten public health and safety, as well as weakening states» abilities to govern.

They are not only educated to protect the health care of pets, livestock as well as zoo, exotic, competition and laboratory animals but they play an important role in environmental protection, food safety and public health.

Helping Ferrets The goals of the AFA are many: To promote the domestic ferret as a companion animal through public education via shows, newsletters, legislative education, and other venues; to protect the domestic ferret against anti-ferret legislation, mistreatment, unsound breeding practices and overpopulation, needless scientific research, and any practice deemed to lower the health standards or survivability of the animal; and to provide constant and up - to - date information about veterinarians, legislative activities, medical developments, research data, rescue shelters and other information of interest to ferret fanciers everywhere.

Assisting other authorities such as police, or other emergency services and public health agencies when necessary, to protect animals and people

When a veterinarian reasonably believes that disclosure of records as defined in this section, is necessary to protect the health or welfare of a companion animal, a person or the public, the veterinarian may disclose such records to the police, duly incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, peace officer, animal control officer, department of agriculture and markets, other appropriate government agency, or any agent thereof.

Some will regard the council's trade as a ploy to undo the EPA's authority to protect not just climate — where it may be largely ineffectual anyway — but public health.

Lois Gibbs on the implications of Love Canal, her experience as an environmental and public health activist, and how citizens must make their voices heard in order to protect their health.

A number of leaders are calling on states to secede from the union once again — at least as it applies to the national environmental laws that are designed to protect public health and save money.

(G) using techniques, including health impact assessments, to assess various climate change public health preparedness and response strategies on international, national, State, regional, tribal, and local levels, and make recommendations as to those strategies that best protect the public health;