Sentences with phrase «health agenda»

As the national public health agenda moves toward prevention and population - level measures of health, expansion of universal early childhood home visiting may become a priority for communities nationwide.

At the time, there were other concerns on the global health agenda.

The report also said directors of public health in each locality should be a chief officer of the local authority, who has a statutory duty to address the local public health agenda in full.

The Na tional Breastfeeding Commission, organized in 1992, has also kept breastfeeding high on Chile's child health agenda.

Such events are vitally important so that we can call on these influential people to keep breast cancer on the political health agenda.

Kamilaroi / Gomeroi man Tom Brideson, coordinator of the NSW Aboriginal Mental Health Workforce Program and chair of the TheMHS management committee, said the conference had been instrumental in advancing the Indigenous mental health agenda.

The Foundation has a strong focus on evidence - based preventive health policies, and recently partnered with the Public Health Association of Australia to launch a new campaign Prevention 1st (@Prevention1stAU), calling on all Australian governments and political parties to commit to a strong preventive health agenda to tackle the nation's greatest health challenge: chronic disease.

But these are all side issues that have attached themselves to this core idea that men and women should be able to decide when they want to have a child... Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda.

Media titan and former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has donated $ 300 million to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to fund a public health agenda in line with causes he has long supported: fighting drug addiction, obesity, gun violence, and environmental threats, and promoting adolescent health.

Healthy CPS aligns with Healthy Chicago, the city's first public health agenda.

As the Healthy People 2030 development process is now underway to update national health objectives, the month seeks to «chart the course together» to ensure that breastfeeding is incorporated into all relevant areas of the public health agenda.

Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs called it a «celebratory event» and that «frivolities that are fun and an exceptional joy are quite distinct from a public - health agenda.»

Help ensure secondary breast cancer is placed high on the health agenda.

«That's why the RCN is saying this is not the time to leave trusts to sink or swim, this is the time for support and solutions, this is the time to put high quality patient care back at the top of the health agenda, this is the time to work together to tackle the deficits crisis.»

The latter have long been on the public health agenda, but we are arguing that in order to make the most effective challenge to health inequalities, in addition a much wider range of intervention needs to be brought into play.

This year, both Gottfried and the Senate health committee chairman, Long Island Republican Kemp Hannon, think the health agenda will be dominated by the need to secure additional investment in hospitals.

The debate has rumbled on for decades, but recent findings about the role circumcision can play in preventing transmission of HIV have placed the foreskin — or its absence — firmly back on the public - health agenda.

Alliances with national advocacy efforts to incorporate sleep health into the national health agenda

If the government were to use the criminal law as a means of enforcing its public health agenda, we could potentially face the prosecution of parents for all manner of actual or perceived failures in respect of their children's health, including those who refuse or fail to vaccinate their children, because that exposes them to potentially life - threatening diseases and threatens the health of others by diminishing the «herd immunity» in the population.

The Komen Foundation's decision is the latest result of an anti-women's health agenda to shut down Planned Parenthood.

The resolution passed by the mayors highlights the importance of women's health and reproductive rights, urges legislators to pursue a positive women's health agenda and strongly supports continued federal funding for Planned Parenthood health centers to provide preventive health services to nearly three million people a year.

The roadmap website actually reinforces the health agenda by stating that the conditions, or lack thereof, such as essential and municipal services «affect residents» health and wellbeing and, when a living environment is unsafe, unclean and overcrowded, children are less likely to attend school and adults are less likely to be employed».

We want Medicare reform but it must be based on a wider debate about a national health care plan that puts patients first, and a new narrative that gets us back on to setting the health agenda based on good policy principles,» Ms Wells said.

Addressing the «silent crisis» of men's health will require a greater focus on the gendered nature of health attitudes and behaviours in current models of health psychology and behaviour change, and within the public health agenda and health services.