Sentences with phrase «for public health interventions»

The PedsQL scores can be mapped to generic EQ - 5D utilities, facilitating calculation of QALYs, 15 thus meeting most recent NICE guidance for public health interventions.25

Sufficiency and stability of evidence for public health interventions using cumulative meta - analysis.

The R2HC programme aims to improve health outcomes by strengthening the evidence base for public health interventions in humanitarian crises.

Schools play an important role in children's health and are often prime settings for public health interventions.

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The findings add further weight to calls for food labels that do not require background knowledge or numerical skills and highlight the need for population - based public health interventions.

Framing community breastfeeding education as a public health strategy can allow us to look for opportunities in childhood initiatives, mental health programs, social interventions, and more!

Public Health Service Task Force recommendations for use of antiretroviral drugs in pregnant HIV - infected women for maternal health and interventions to reduce perinatal HIV transmission in the United SHealth Service Task Force recommendations for use of antiretroviral drugs in pregnant HIV - infected women for maternal health and interventions to reduce perinatal HIV transmission in the United Shealth and interventions to reduce perinatal HIV transmission in the United States.

Public health information and interventions should be rigorously evaluated before being recommended as techniques for managing infant crying.

Results published in the American Journal of Public Health were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young chiPublic Health were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young chiHealth were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young chipublic health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young chihealth intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young children.

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

Although additional studies are required to confirm these findings and to understand the mechanisms of breast milk protection, public health interventions to promote predominant breast feeding for at least six months and any breast feeding up to one year may reduce the prevalence and subsequent morbidity of respiratory illness and infection in infancy.

«This powerful intervention from doctors and health professionals underlines the compelling case for protecting children from smoking in cars,» Labour shadow public health minister Luciana Berger said.

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

«This may represent a another way toward advancing prevention and early intervention for this major public health issue.»

The findings, published online and scheduled for an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Public Health, indicate that public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age Public Health, indicate that public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age Health, indicate that public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age women.

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.

Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delhealth policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delHealth and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delHealth Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.

In 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that public health officials trigger epidemic intervention when two non-familial locally - acquired cases of Zika are reported in an area.

Reich's findings suggest women with more time, education, and resources claim greater freedom to reject public health interventions, which potentially carries consequences for undervaccinated children from lower income backgrounds who may not have access to care.

The HOPE intervention, led by psychologist Sean Young, Ph.D., associate professor of family medicine and executive director of the University of California Institute for Prediction Technology, aims to harness the immense power of social media to improve public health.

«Our findings are important for health professionals and might be used as a simple message for lifestyle - based interventions and public health strategies, as well as informing dietary recommendations and guidelines.»

Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.

Using Twitter as a window into a community's collective mental state may provide a useful tool in epidemiology and for measuring the effectiveness of public - health interventions.

Rather, they say, street lighting, pedestrian infrastructure, public transit, parks and vacant lot greening may be promising targets for future research to discover whether such interventions may provide social and health benefits.

To get around that problem, this study used the Bradford Hill criteria: a standard tool for assessing the impact of broad - based public health interventions where it is ethically not feasible or operationally impractical to conduct randomized controlled trials.

«From a clinical point of view, this is relevant in order to execute evidence - based counselling, and from a public health perspective, it may guide health interventions for the general population.»

IDEA is well suited for providing rapid assessments of outbreak growth and public health interventions, according to the researchers.

«Even though tobacco shops have rarely been targeted by the police or community for intervention,» he added, «based on our data, we believe tobacco shops in urban communities of color should be regulated to improve community health in the same way as alcohol outlets and other public nuisances.»

The results of the new study are notable because positive effects of an intervention, especially one that aims to improve self - regulation and academic achievement, can be difficult for researchers to find, said McClelland, the Katherine E. Smith Healthy Children and Families Professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

Instead it urges states, regulators and public health agencies to work toward universal access to evidence - based interventions for substance abuse, including treatment programs and full coverage of medications approved to fight addiction.

«For years in public health we have been working on immunizations and other medical interventions to set the course for the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealFor years in public health we have been working on immunizations and other medical interventions to set the course for the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Hpublic health we have been working on immunizations and other medical interventions to set the course for the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Hhealth we have been working on immunizations and other medical interventions to set the course for the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healfor the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Hhealth of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healfor American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HHealth at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HPublic HealthHealth.

«We had hoped the new pharmacotherapy would help more people quit, but this is not what is happening,» said lead author Shu - Hong Zhu, PhD, a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and director of Center for Research and Intervention in Tobacco Control at UC San Diego.

«Prenatal visits may present a good opportunity for screening and brief intervention regarding tobacco and particularly alcohol use,» noted co-author Deborah Hasin, PhD, professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

According to Malo, «public health interventions designed to increase HPV vaccine recommendation for males should focus on increasing recommendations by family practitioners and also identifying and supporting innovators and early adopters who may help diffuse HPV vaccination guidelines and encourage later adopters to support the recommendations.»

Even fewer interventions are tailored for racial and ethnic minorities, and not one intervention has been evaluated with sexual - and gender - minority people,» said Robert Coulter, M.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and lead author of both studies.

Findings of such work would have implications not only for improving biological understanding of mechanisms but also for clinical and public health interventions.

«Getting health care providers to pay for home - based interventions is going to be necessary if we want to make a dent in the asthma problem,» said Patrick Breysse, a former Hopkins official, who as director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is one of the country's top public health offihealth care providers to pay for home - based interventions is going to be necessary if we want to make a dent in the asthma problem,» said Patrick Breysse, a former Hopkins official, who as director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is one of the country's top public health offiHealth at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is one of the country's top public health offihealth officials.

«There is an urgent need for looking at perfectionism with a person - centred approach as an individual and societal risk factor, when formulating clinical guidelines for suicide risk assessment and intervention, as well as public health approaches to suicide prevention,» says Flett.

Ebi, K. L., R. S. Kovats, and B. Menne, 2006: An approach for assessing human health vulnerability and public health interventions to adapt to climate change.

Out - of - hospital cardiac arrest is a major public health issue accounting for approximately 200000 deaths per year in the United States.1 Despite more than 2 decades of evidence demonstrating significant benefits from early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation, wide variation in CPR training, bystander and first - responder intervention, and survival after out - of - hospital cardiac arrest remains.2 - 5

By the time the results are available, they might well be irrelevant for clinical diagnostics and guiding public health interventions.

The other study contributors have their affiliation at Innlandet Hospital Trust, the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Nepal, Center for Intervention Studies in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC) at the University of Bergen, Oslo and Akershus University College, Haukeland University Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

With the potential for tailored interventions for particular individuals, populations or subpopulations, ethical, legal and social implications (ELSIs) may arise for public health and clinical practice.

Vinetz said the next step will be to begin exploiting the genomic information «for vaccine and diagnostics development, experimental approaches to understanding mechanisms of disease pathogenesis and how Leptospira persist in the environment, all critical for developing new public health interventions aimed at reducing the global impact of this important but neglected zoonotic disease.»

In the past few years, we've increasingly seen the potential for genomics to transform our understanding of how infectious pathogens bypass our biological defences and respond to public health interventions.

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«We found compelling evidence for impact of several interventions on preventing stillbirths, especially emergency obstetric care; screening and treatment for maternal infections such as syphilis, and prevention and treatment of malaria,» said Gary Darmstadt, MD, MS, co-author and co-editor of the study and former director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's International Center for Advancing Neonatal Health.

The Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center focuses the Institute's strengths in immunology, virology and immune - oncology disciplines to improve public health around the globe through the creation of new and improved interventions and treatments for some of the most dangerous and widespread diseases.

With the rise in female drinking, public health officials need to step up alcohol interventions for young adult women, especially since there's such a wide variety of health problems associated with drinking, said Dr. Geetanjali Chander.

«These findings suggest the need for institutions and public health entities to plan for intervention and prevention resources and strategies during periods of reduced sun time,» they wrote.