Sentences with phrase «health achievements»

Family planning, one of the greatest public health achievements in human history, allows individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births.

Robert V. Tauxe, MD, MPH, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, and co-author of the latest CDC report on attribution of foodborne illnesses to food commodities in the US, confirms that the CDC is concerned about the trend of consumers drinking raw milk and says, «The practice of pasteurizing milk is one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.»

However, the wider cost of inaction is the risk of losing ground on some of the region's biggest health achievements of the past few decades, as diabetes cases further increase and costs spiral.

Earlier this year, researchers published an academic study examining the long - term stock performance of companies that had won the Corporate Health Achievement Award, an annual prize that the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has bestowed since 1996.

That's according to a new report on the top global health achievements in the first decade of this century, put out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Occasionally patting yourself on the back for health achievements in social media can propel you to keep them up,» Dr. Saltz says, «especially if you get reinforcement from friends like «Go you!»»

She is also the recipient of the Excellence in Course Coordination Award from the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Award of Excellence in Global Health Achievement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Major medical groups say fluoridated water helps prevent cavities, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even says the addition of fluoride to water is one of the 10 biggest health achievements of the 20th century.

A report from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPact) about the impact of birth control on American women notes the CDC named the invention of the pill as one of the top 10 public health achievements in the past century.

That's a stunning public health achievement.

Just before describing (and dismissing) the proposed link between prostate cancer and contraceptive pills, a classic «falsehood» embraced by traditional - minded conservatives, Stepp points out that «the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, counts contraception as one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 20th century.»

New York seemed poised to have secured a historic public health achievement that saved thousands of lives and reduced strains on our healthcare delivery system.

Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African «meningitis belt» countries have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to celebrate one of Africa's biggest public health achievements — the introduction of a vaccine, MenAfriVac ®, designed, developed, and produced for use in Africa, that in five years of use has nearly eliminated serogroup A meningococcal disease from meningitis belt countries and is now being integrated into routine national immunization programs.

Given the frequency and severity of Pseudomonas infections, he says, «a vaccination against it could be a spectacular public health achievement.»

Jack left Seagrams in 1977 to chair the board of the Samuel Bronfman Foundation where he assisted with the selection of winners of the Bronfman Prizes for Public Health Achievement.

Successful record of maintenance excellence, safety & health achievement, and people management.