Sentences with phrase «global public health problem»

Here I'll examine whether climate change is likely to be the most important global public health problem if not today, at least in the foreseeable future.

VAD remains a serious global public health problem where an estimated 250 000 to 500 000 vitamin A-deficient children become blind every year, half of them dying within 12 months of losing their sight.

Worm infections represent a major global public health problem, leading to a variety of debilitating diseases and conditions, such as anemia, elephantiasis, growth retardation and dysentery.

Dengue, a viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, is a serious global public health problem, infecting 50 to 390 million people each year in more than 100 countries and resulting in at least 20,000 deaths annually.

«Obesity and poor nutrition are global public health problems,» CEO Michael Johnson said in a statement.

This chapter summarizes how a simple point mutation in the human genome has evolved to become a global public health problem, as well as a remarkable example of.

Estimates suggest that child maltreatment costs the United States $ 124 billion annually, with per - person lifetime costs higher than or comparable to those of diseases such as a stroke or type 2 diabetes mellitus.18 Childhood maltreatment has thus been referred to as «a human rights violation and a global public health problem [that] incurs huge costs for both individuals and society.»