Sentences with phrase «because protecting public health»

«This is a really proud moment for every one of them because protecting public health triumphed over industry pressure.

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First, because a policyholder must act quickly to protect public health, it might not have the opportunity to confirm that actual contamination has occurred before making the decision to recall the product.

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

But because the Pine Barrens are near suburban communities, fires have been «suppressed regularly in the interest of protecting public health and safety,» he said.

But Brownsville's public - health officials were alarmed at the possibility of a deadly dengue epidemic because there is no vaccine to protect against it or medicine to cure it.

Traditional chemical - by - chemical and facility - by - facility regulation does not sufficiently protect public health, because people come into contact with numerous pollutants where they live, work and play, and the interactions among those pollutants can be significant.

While I'm for transparency, I don't like the California initiative because it's rife with exemptions and special cases, all of which speak of a double standard and point to the intent being less to protect public health than make life complicated or costlier for some agriculture sectors.

Science advocacy groups say the restriction would curb all regulation to protect public health because health research routinely relies on confidential patient information.

All came about because of the failure of public agencies charged with protecting human health and the environment to respond in a timely manner and do their jobs.

Because until we are sure beyond any doubt that companies will actually fix faulty pipelines, until we know that public health officials will actually protect our children, until we know what we're dealing with and how to clean it up, tar sands oil is just too dangerous.

In the final rule we have added it because we believe there are situations in which a covered entity, for example, a public hospital conducting post-mortem investigations, may need to use protected health information for the same purposes for which it would have disclosed the information to a coroner.

Additional commenters who argued that the definition was too narrow raised the following concerns: the difference between «research» and «health care operations» is irrelevant from the patients» perspective, and therefore, the proposed rule should have required documentation of approval by an IRB or privacy board before protected health information could be used or disclosed for either of these purposes, and the proposed definition was too limited because it did not capture research conducted by non-profit entities to ensure public health goals, such as disease - specific registries.

(B) If the individual is unable to agree because of incapacity, a law enforcement or other public official authorized to receive the report represents that the protected health information for which disclosure is sought is not intended to be used against the individual and that an immediate enforcement activity that depends upon the disclosure would be materially and adversely affected by waiting until the individual is able to agree to the disclosure.

Although some commenters urged that special rules should be included for state and federal agencies that need protected health information, the Secretary rejects that suggestion because, wherever possible, the public and the private sectors should operate under the same rules regarding the disclosure of health information.

We permit disclosure of protected health information to law enforcement officials without authorization in some situations precisely because of the importance of these activities to public safety.