Sentences with phrase «health advocacy»

The public health advocacy group found that 92 % of apples contained two or more pesticides, putting them on top of the list (translation: buy organic apples).

One British mental - health advocacy group went overboard in the exploration of this concept of «functional mental illness,» however.

That police learning be designed and delivered by a combination of police personnel, adult educators, mental health professionals, mental health advocacy organizations and people living with mental illness.

Major health advocacy organizations have expressed grave concerns about the well - being of these roaming representatives, reporting health problems ranging from weight gain to viruses and — you guessed it — insomnia.

The other founders of the group who have been working very hard to promote and emphasize the importance of health advocacy made single served pizzas from coconut flour.

Everyone seemed to be hyped about it, particularly friends I've made through mental health advocacy who claimed it was helping with their anxiety.

The main points of oral health advocacy should be agreed on by the entire staff.

She worked in local television and advocacy for ten years before shifting her focus to maternal mental health advocacy.

The employers of community health workers include health facilities, health advocacy organizations and public health agencies.

(See also the excellent comments submitted by Public Health Advocacy Institute on junk food products created for schools.)

He is the author of over 300 journal articles, book chapters and scientific proceedings and is the recipient of numerous professional awards and honors, including the T. Berry Brazelton Infant Mental Health Advocacy Award, the Award for Leadership in Public Child Welfare and the Alberta Centennial Medal.

Earlier this week Croakey published an article on health advocacy from health consultant Terry Barnes, which noted he was a former advisor to Coalition Health Ministers Michael Wooldridge an... Read more

Mr. Rubin is active in community organizations and currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of Mental Health Advocacy Services, a non-profit organization that provides direct legal services to protect and advance the legal rights of children and adults with mental disabilities in the Los Angeles area.

The annual health fair also promotes health advocacy for students once they leave the halls of McIlvaine.

«This study offers some real possibilities to address the weak link in epidemiological studies — which is the exposure science,» said Ted Schettler, science director at the Science and Environmental Health Network, a nonprofit environmental health advocacy organization.

However, a child health advocacy group backed up by several other similar organizations and individuals believe that the Messenger Kids app isn't good for children, urging the social network to kill it with fire.

Protesters from several health advocacy groups gathered this morning in front of the Washington, D.C., offices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Student Health Advocacy Coalition, co-led by ASCD, sponsored two Capitol Hill briefings to share information with lawmakers and their staffs about the new Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model of coordinated school health.

A tax on sugar sweetened drinks has been proposed as one means to reduce consumption and raise revenue; it is gaining traction both politically and among health advocacy organisations

«Nutritionally, this change is minor and doesn't undermine the overall nutrition standards,» said Wootan, whose health advocacy group backed the 2010 law.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, as well as many other health advocacy organizations recommend breast feeding for babies under one year.

Mrs Bawumia said this while addressing the National Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy forum in Kumasi.

«Women's heart awareness has stalled, despite almost three decades of campaigning by numerous women's heart health advocacy groups,» said C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., FACC, medical director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute and the study's lead author.

Earlier this year a group of more than a dozen health advocacy groups and individuals petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban lead acetate from hair dyes.

Although Alwan says that WHO is pleased overall with the outcome document, the recommendation for the World Health Assembly to set targets such as salt reduction and tobacco taxation in 2012 isn't likely to please health advocacy groups such as NCDA.

After a summer of negotiations whose slow pace and political gaming has drawn the ire of numerous health advocacy organizations, representatives of U.N. member states appear to have come to a compromise on a political declaration document for the 19 September U.N. high - level meeting on the prevention and control of on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).

Her mental health advocacy efforts promote open and honest discourse about difficult subjects such as suicide, addiction, depression, and bulimia.

In fact, the South has significantly higher rates of obesity than the rest of the country, according to the 2007 «F Is for Fat» report by Trust for Americans Health, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health advocacy group.

Curious thing though, if interval training burns far more calories in the same amount of time why is it that the all the big health advocacy organizations like AHA recommend brisk walking rather than intervals as the best way to lose weight??? Its because there are other factors to consider when deciding what the best form of carido is!

That's why we launched our Consumer Health Advocacy initiative — to bring you these convenient, helpful videos, infographics, e-guides, our and now, Clean Green Talk radio show co-hosted by renowned green cleaning coach Leslie Reichert.

Also, the dating app's STD - awareness page helped Tinder fend off serious attacks from the leading sexual health advocacy group's crusade against unprotected sex and unsafe sexual hook - ups promoted via online dating sites.

7 — Mental Health: Academic Teaching Conference Series: Preventative Intervention and ChildMental Health Advocacy: A Natural Alliance, sponsored by the Judge Baker Children's Center and Children's Hospital Boston, for school administrators, social workers, and psychiatrists, at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston.

In addition to my own work, I've been writing professionally about Asia, travel and health advocacy since 2007, providing regular content to several publishing companies and travel publications in Asia and North America.

She also worked for NIU LAW's Health Advocacy Clinic conducting outreach to low - income community members in need of legal assistance.

The Harlem Health Advocacy Partnership sends community health workers into housing developments to work with low - income residents to help manage chronic diseases, find affordable health insurance, and set health goals.

In a provocative piece that has generated some interesting discussions on Twitter, Michael Thorn, Chief Executive of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, argued that public health advocacy needs to become more effective, and that it is too timid and naive.

The clinics serve more than 40 percent of women who receive birth control from safety - net providers in 18 states, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit reproductive health advocacy organization, and more than half of such women in 11 states.

AIDA is also looking to expand its Associate membership category, to tap into the multiple partnerships that it has with numerous stakeholders and organisations across the country, including medical schools, post-graduate medical educational bodies, regional training providers, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous health advocacy bodies.

British Association for Community Child Health / Child Public Health Interest Group / Child Health Advocacy Committee

On Monday — again, the second day of National Women's Health Week — the State Department announced plans for instituting the expanded global gag rule, sparking heated criticism from global health advocacy groups.

The Public Health Advocacy Institute WA is also seeking supporters for an advocacy campaign around the proposed closures.

However, Miriam Herzfeld, convenor of the Social Determinants of Health Advocacy Network of Tasmania, argues that while there are some positive signs, there is still plenty of room for the major political parties to lift their game in this area.

Saja also worked as a pro bono attorney at Mental Health Advocacy Services and the Learning Rights Law Center.