And as their use has soared,
the debate around their health effects has ignited.
During this past summer's rollout of the EPA's historic climate initiative, the president and his allies went to great lengths to reframe the climate change
debate around the health of our children and the elderly, as opposed to the fate of the polar bears and the melting ice caps that have long served as the de facto mascots of the climate movement.
Shale gas development has attracted a great deal of
debate around health, safety and the environment in recent years and GMB and UKOOG will seek to address these issues.
With news breaking today that Sir Michael Marmot — a leading global advocate for action on the social determinants of health and health inequalities — will deliver the 57th Boyer Lectures Series later this year, Croakey wonders what impact this might have upon the dominant
debates around health and policy?
Not exact matches
And while we must remain mindful of the moral
debates, what is missing is the discourse
around the
health costs — the emotional, physical and relational costs paid by both young and old.
There is much advocacy
around the issue of cost containment as we enter the great
debate over
health care «reform.»
The recall of Patties Foods products has prompted renewed
debates on Country - of - Origin Labelling (CoOL) on foods in Australia, with Chief Executive of Australian Made, Ian Harrison, saying «This issue exemplifies the differences in
health and safety standards for the production of food
around the world.»
It will allow
debate and discussion
around issues such as the implementation of the new fuel poverty strategy in England which is taking effect from 2015, how we can reduce the
health impacts of fuel poverty and will explore the effect of the changes to welfare reform.
Dr Kathryn Adcock, head of neurosciences and mental
health at the MRC, said: «There is a lot of
debate around whether or not training can improve cognitive ability as there is currently little evidence of the claimed benefits or otherwise.
But, after researchers at Oregon
Health and Science University managed to change the mutated version of the MYBPC3 gene to the unmutated version in a viable human embryo last month, the predictable bioethical
debate was reignited, and terms such as «Designer Babies» got thrown
around a lot.
There's just no getting
around the fact that a lot of
health topics are controversial and the science can be
debated.
Before the
health care bill passed earlier in the year, the
health care
debate provided the primary topic of conversation
around the country.
Not only starting a
debate around mental
health and suicide but also working on breaking down the stigma surrounding it.
It is an opportunity to bring our issues before 500 PTA leaders from
around the state each year with important
health and nutrition information for a minimum of 1/2 hour of education and
debate.
The «
debate», if you want to call it that — though I suppose it was more civil than, say, the «
debate» over
health care reform — focused
around two things: How much was to be cut from the federal budget, and which «riders» would the GOP be allowed to attach to it?
Just as we've seen in political
debates, sentiment
around health care was clearly divided along party lines.
We hope that this will provide a platform for
debate and discussion
around the wider medical, psychological, biological, social, economic and legal aspects of mental
health.
The release of the COAG Reform Council's final
health report could not have been more timely, given the ongoing Budget fallout and
debate around the proposed $ 7 co-payment.
Women's reproductive
health supporters will also gather at rallies and watch parties
around the upcoming
debates on October 16th and 18th.
Over those two days, the overall approach of the Campaign and the draft National Indigenous
Health Equality Targets were presented to the delegates, with discussion and
debate around these being encouraged and fed back into the target development process.