Sentences with phrase «global health experts»

Global health experts believe the best way to reduce tobacco use is by stopping people starting to use tobacco, and encouraging and helping existing users to stop.

Societies are failing women, children and adolescents, particularly in the poorest communities around the world, and urgent action is needed to save lives and improve health, say global health experts.

It's written by Gates» late friend, Swedish statistician and global health expert Hans Rosling, and Rosling's son and daughter - in - law, who helped finish the book after he died in 2017.

At a time global health experts are urging people to eat less meat to combat chronic diseases, live exporters are actively encouraging increased meat consumption by pushing more animals into more countries.

The similarities are fueling concern among global health experts that the U.S. could face its own Zika outbreaks — the question is when.

When health officials realized in April 2009 that an unusual number of people in Mexico were being hospitalized and dying from a novel strain of the influenza virus, global health experts girded for the worst: the possibility of a devastating pandemic like the 1918 one that killed up to 100 million people.

But an increasing chorus of global health experts believes the world has been ignoring another health crisis of equal or even greater magnitude: the spiraling epidemic of noncommunicable diseases.

President Barack Obama this morning surprised many people with his nomination of Dartmouth College president and global health expert Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank.

But because of the threat that the parasite could develop resistance to medications or insecticides, global health experts consider a vaccine — even a partially effective one — to be a vital tool.

«Every time an imported case comes, you're rolling that dice in terms of a local outbreak occurring,» David Pigott, a global health expert at the University of Washington, told Business Insider Insider in August when the virus started circulating on the US mainland.

That means that global health experts are arguing that there's a case for lumping harmfully excessive video gaming alongside addiction to substances like alcohol or drugs.

Understanding how many people die of which causes is invaluable for designing effective public health programs, global health experts say.

Earlier this month, more than 150 global health experts and innovators gathered at Massachusetts General Hospital for a comprehensive «Zika Innovation Hack - a-thon.»