Sentences with phrase «effective public health intervention»

Introducing smokefree public places is recognised as possibly the single most effective public health intervention for a generation.

Dietary sodium reduction is a cost - effective public health intervention to reduce chronic disease.

When we first promoted this intervention, it was considered controversial but now has become recognized as one of the most vital, cost - effective public health interventions in the world.

Despite the evidence that investing in breastfeeding is one of the most cost effective public health interventions available, insufficient priority is being given to this, which put infants and children at risk of reaching their full potential...»

«It is often difficult to penetrate these age groups with effective public health interventions and policies to prevent drinking and driving,» says Carter.

Not exact matches

Food Futures: Developing effective food systems interventions to improve public health nutrition.

The latter have long been on the public health agenda, but we are arguing that in order to make the most effective challenge to health inequalities, in addition a much wider range of intervention needs to be brought into play.

Published in BMC Medicine, the study underscores the need for effective substance use policies and public health interventions, and provides key principles to guide policy decisions.

«A tool to support public health decisions on Zika virus predicts most planned interventions to be cost - effective.»

There is no easy answer in our ongoing battle against obesity, but identifying the link between the drop in physical activity and increased BMIs, as well as the groups particularly affected, can assist public health officials to develop targeted, effective interventions.

«The high burden of early complications in youth with diabetes requires additional research to clarify the underlying causes and to identify effective intervention strategies,» said Dr. Dana Dabelea, lead author and co-chair of the national SEARCH Study and professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

These estimates suggest that substantial health gains could be made, say the authors — a 40 % relative reduction in smoking prevalence and almost 13 million smoking attributable deaths averted and more than 154 million life years gained by 2050 — by extending effective public health and clinical interventions to reduce active smoking.

Perry Renshaw, MD, PhD, director of the Brain Imaging Center at McLean Hospital and senior author stated, «The development of an inexpensive, widely available intervention such as yoga that has no side effects but is effective in alleviating the symptoms of disorders associated with low GABA levels has clear public health advantage.

Our organizations are committed to working with officials at all levels to reduce emissions of heat - trapping pollution, and to work with health agencies to promote research on effective interventions and to strengthen the public health infrastructure with the aim of protecting human health from climate change.

In the post below, public health physician Patricia Fagan outlines the gaps in effective action in the past and says governments and communities need to be aware that the current approach to STIs in remote areas is «ineffective and wasteful, being characterised by poorly or inappropriately resourced, uncoordinated, piecemeal and often ill - conceived interventions.»

Given the high prevalence of child maltreatment and the serious consequences in terms of its impact on the lives of the individuals concerned, their families, and society more generally, it is important that we identify effective methods of prevention and intervention, and there are some suggestions that a public health approach is now needed.27 Although there is limited research available in terms of what works to prevent child maltreatment, there have been significant gains over the past 20 years in terms of the development of new approaches.

See also this article in BMC Public Health on a systematic review that looked at whether interventions to promote healthy eating is equally effective for all, which concluded that interventions aimed at improving population health should be routinely evaluated for differential socioeconomic iHealth on a systematic review that looked at whether interventions to promote healthy eating is equally effective for all, which concluded that interventions aimed at improving population health should be routinely evaluated for differential socioeconomic ihealth should be routinely evaluated for differential socioeconomic impact.

Translating advances in developmental science into effective interventions and lifelong health will require a fundamental shift in the way the general public and policy makers view and invest in early childhood.

Two decades of restrictions on public health research into gun violence has left us willfully ignorant about the full scope of this problem and the most effective interventions to prevent it.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) The NCTSN works to serves the nation's traumatized children and their families by raising public awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of America's children and youth; advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard of care; working with established systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national resource.

During the next decade we will focus on biological influences on behavior; the rigorous examination of intervention processes; and the development of effective strategies for implementing evidence - based programs in public health settings in communities.

Given the deleterious outcomes associated with EBP, as well as the staggering public health costs that accompany special education placements (Pelham et al. 2007), significant efforts have been made towards developing effective early intervention programs.