Sentences with phrase «big public health issue»

Outdoor air pollution — that toxic mix of particulate matter, biological materials, and chemicals that react with each other in the air is a big public health issue around the globe.

It's not just an inconvenience — it's a big public health issue.

«Mercury is a big public health issue up north, and from the stool samples that provided the DNA marker used in our study, we will perform deeper metagenomic analyses that will help us explore this contaminant's interactions with Inuit microbiome.»

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To move that kind of big money, Harris began an organizational expansion of the foundation when she took over in 2010, building an outfit that has gone beyond Bloomberg's core interests of global public health and climate change to tackle new issues, like overfishing.

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadiabig interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary CanadiaBig Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

My accounts are pretty popular and I'm sure there are people that have thought that by looking at them, but I promise behind the happy photos there are lots of insecurities and hang ups, there are big personal issues, struggles with health things, stresses over running a business and becoming a public figure that people can openly pull apart.

Findings indicate that both consumers and foodservice operators must play a role in relation to broad issues associated with public health and the environment, with the biggest contribution the foodservice industry can make toward environmental sustainability being the reduction of red meat consumption as part of a larger shift toward more plant - based dishes.

«Price promotions were one of the big issues that Public Health England majored on,» said Malcolm Clark of the campaign.

It has been a matter of great concern among public health activists who work on child health and nutrition that the issue of malnutrition was being converted into a marketing opportunity to be addressed through products that big corporations could sell as the answer, instead of being seen as a basic lack of access to food caused by structural inequities in food distribution.

It exposes infant feeding as one of the most important global public health issues of our time, and describes how big business and vested interests influence the intimate relationship between mothers and their babies to the detriment of all, rich or poor, in the West or in the developing world.

On salience, health and the economy are seen as two of the three biggest issues facing the country by Labour members, Labour voters and the general public.

Former Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander, of the pro-EU campaign group Open Britain, said: «Without this, it is genuinely not clear how Labour members, supporters and the public are meant to contribute to the party's policymaking on the biggest issue we face as a country.

With 67 members, it is the third biggest committee in the chamber, after those responsible for foreign affairs and public health and environment issues.

On Dec. 1 - 2, those issues will come to the fore as national experts in genetics, medicine, law, big data and other fields gather for Frontiers in Precision Medicine II: Cancer, Big Data and the Public, a unique precision medicine symposium at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences, University of Utah Health Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and University of Utah Center for Excellence in ELSI Research (UCEER) addresses those topics as precision medicine is gaining more attention nationwide from health care systems, practitioners, researchers, insurers and federal agencibig data and other fields gather for Frontiers in Precision Medicine II: Cancer, Big Data and the Public, a unique precision medicine symposium at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences, University of Utah Health Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and University of Utah Center for Excellence in ELSI Research (UCEER) addresses those topics as precision medicine is gaining more attention nationwide from health care systems, practitioners, researchers, insurers and federal agenciBig Data and the Public, a unique precision medicine symposium at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences, University of Utah Health Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and University of Utah Center for Excellence in ELSI Research (UCEER) addresses those topics as precision medicine is gaining more attention nationwide from health care systems, practitioners, researchers, insurers and federal ageHealth Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and University of Utah Center for Excellence in ELSI Research (UCEER) addresses those topics as precision medicine is gaining more attention nationwide from health care systems, practitioners, researchers, insurers and federal agehealth care systems, practitioners, researchers, insurers and federal agencies.

Using big data from social media to carry out public health surveillance raises some clear ethical issues, very few of which are anywhere close to resolution.

The authors argue that this developing field faces not only the traditional ethical issues of both big data and public health, considered separately, but also new ethical issues created by their merger.

Reliable nutrition information obviously is critical in the fight against obesity, diabetes and related maladies, together the biggest public - health issue in the world.

While the climate issue is still poorly understood by the general public, we all need to promote the benefits of a real transition towards a sustainable and renewable system model: job creation, restoring democracy, community power - decentralisation of energy systems which are now mostly in the hands of big corporations, energy sovereignty, improved air quality and health, a better quality of life...

2020 Mom has issued a national call to action that sets forth an aggressive new path for solving what some have called one of the biggest public health concerns of our time: the silent maternal mental health crisis impacting up to 20 % of expecting and new moms.

When it comes to public health issues, the prevalence of teen dating violence is a pretty big deal, which is why the Centers for Disease Control has an entire section of their website dedicated to educating people about healthy teen relationships, and researchers are giving considerable attention to the issue.