Sentences with phrase «health at»

What's more, says Hughes, now a professor of public health at Emory University in Atlanta, the fund was intended to launch innovative prevention initiatives, «not to replace core public - health capacity support».

Ian Hamilton, lecturer in mental health at the University of York, said: «The link between cannabis and psychosis has been an ongoing research topic since the drug became popular in the 1960s.

Only half of parents were confident that they would know what to do if their child were choking and 1 in 10 parents would immediately take their child to the ER for a minor burn, according to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.

We also examined more health outcomes than previous studies and were able to thoroughly check women's medical records,» says the lead author Dr. Abbey B. Berenson of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health at University of Texas Medical Branch.

Rosling, a professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute, explained the kind of regulation he thinks can both serve poor countries and protect pharmaceutical companies» financial interests.

After all, a study based on flimsy evidence would needlessly put your health at risk and potentially waste money.

These behaviors predict more serious adverse outcomes later in life, such as substance abuse, delinquency, and violence, explains study leader Anne Riley, PhD, professor in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health.

But Grazyna Jasienska, who studies longevity and reproductive health at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Cracow, Poland, believes that the effects of sons on a woman's lifespan are certainly real — and are probably due to biological factors, such as breastfeeding.

«This diagnostic advancement provides us with a more precise ruler for measuring the effectiveness of diagnosis, treatment and progression of TBI,» says Mony J. de Leon, EdD, director of the Center for Brain Health at NYU Langone, professor of psychiatry and an investigator with NYU's Steven and Alexandra Cohen Veterans Center.

says Lance Price, PhD, co-senior author and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at Milken Institute SPH.

«We know unequivocally that when you grow food at elevated CO2 levels in fields, it becomes less nutritious,» notes Samuel Myers, principal research scientist in environmental health at Harvard University.

«It's concerning that we saw a higher rate of diagnosis of schizophrenia and seemingly an undertreatment in terms of pharmacotherapy for that group,» said Ashli A. Owen - Smith, co-author of the study and assistant professor of health management and policy in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

«This is a refreshingly novel approach, and the studies are of top quality and are highly convincing,» says Richard Sharpe, who specialises in male reproductive health at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Parents» major concerns often included misunderstandings about medical care, potential suffering and cost related to child organ donation, according to this month's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.

Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, talks to Scientific American editor - in - chief Mariette DiChristina about the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the efforts to create vaccine platforms for rapid responses to epidemics.

A study by a doctoral student in epidemiology at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis showed that vehicle inequities have a significant impact on survivability in head - on collisions.

«For women to have timely access to services that can help to save her life she still needs the community, husband and family to be able to provide access and transportation,» explains Grace Kodindo, an assistant clinical professor of population and family health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Horwitz, a sociologist of mental illness and mental health at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Stossel, editor of The Atlantic magazine, give remarkably similar historical overviews.

«It's not that you require a scientific breakthrough to solve these situations — in developed countries the knowledge and technical tools have been available to women for many, many years,» says Ana Langer, coordinator of the Dean's Special Initiative on Women and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Memtsoudis is also clinical professor of Anesthesiology and clinical professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College.

«Conspiracy theories may put children's health at risk.»

«There are still many parts of the world where the mode of delivery is the home, and it's difficult to really deal with emergencies in that setting,» says Robert Black, a professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

That we found any [effect] suggests this is occurring at relatively low levels,» said Wright, an associate professor of pediatrics and environmental health at Harvard.

«Considering the overall impact, I think this really puts noise on a footing where it needs to be taken seriously,» says Deepak Prasher, who studies the effects of noise on heart health at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, UK.

The US population experiences poorer health at all stages of life than the populations of 16 other rich countries.

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

Lucilla Poston, who studies the impact of maternal nutrition on infant health at King's College London, says that if there is an effect at all, it could be down to folate in cereals.

For example, Lawrence B. Lindsey, President Bush's assistant for economic policy, says the Kyoto Protocol, which calls on nations to limit their CO2 production, «could damage our collective prosperity and, in so doing, put our long - term environmental health at risk.»

W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, led the scientific team that identified the first U.S. outbreak of West Nile virus in 1999.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

As I look back on a 30 - plus year career split equally between Harvard Medical School and the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I am struck by the even greater contrasts in culture, values, leadership style, and work ethic between the «Eggheads» of the Ivy League and the «Cheeseheads» in Wisconsin.

The Michelson Center unites USC experts across disciplines to solve some of the most intractable research challenges related to health at the molecular level.

Survivors of melanoma were more likely to limit exposure to the sun than people who had never had the disease, but some still reported seeking out suntans and getting sunburns, reports a new article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research by Rachel Isaksson Vogel, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Minnesota.

Dr Alan Dangour, Reader in Food and Nutrition for Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «This is the first trial of the effect of vitamin B12 supplementation on neurological and cognitive function in older people with moderate vitamin B12 deficiency.

«Our corrected calculations show that women just past 65, when current guidelines state that screenings can stop for many women, have the highest rate of cervical cancer,» says the study's lead author, Anne F. Rositch, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.

People who read the «health at every size» or «fat rights» articles were substantially more likely to say that overweight women could be healthy at their weight (65 percent to 71 percent across the three experiments) than participants who read «public health crisis» or «personal responsibility articles» (25 percent to 27 percent across the three experiments).

«It's superficially an easy question to ask, but answering it is fraught with difficulties,» says Al Aynsley - Green, an emeritus professor of child health at UCL, who led the study.

A recent study, published in The American Journal of Addiction by Joseph J. Palamar, PhD, MPH, a CDUHR affiliated researcher and an assistant professor of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC), is among the first nationally representative studies in the US to examine self - reported use of bath salts.

«The reason why [the current influenza outbreak] getting so much attention is that it started really early, which really speaks to the susceptibility in the population,» said Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University who studies influenza and climate.

Feinberg, who is also a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University, suspected that this variation might be an adaptive feature by which built - in epigenetic randomness would give some cells an advantage in rapidly changing environments.

Rolf Halden, cofounder of the Center for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins University, has shown that triclosan and triclocarban show up in many waterways that receive treated wastewater — more than half of the nation's rivers and streams.

«Health at Every Size» frame, which emphasizes the fact that body fat level is only weakly associated with health once a person's exercise and dietary choices are taken into account (i.e., a person can be both «fit and fat»).

«Most people with mental illness are not violent toward others and most violence is not caused by mental illness, but you would never know that by looking at media coverage of incidents,» says study leader Emma E. «Beth» McGinty, PhD, MS, an assistant professor in the departments of Health Policy and Management and Mental Health at the Bloomberg School.

We fed the fruits of our research back to the Ministry of Health at the policy level; to public health staff, through training; and to the community in the form of manuals, community mobilisation leaflets, and films.

«It's a way to utilize an available resource instead of discarding it into the ocean, where it's instantly no longer of use as freshwater,» says environmental health scientist Kellogg Schwab, who directs the Center for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins University.

L.M.: When I was young, I heard a woman who gave a talk, and I think she was at a very high level at the National Institutes of Health at the time.

«The most common problem we see in everyday medicine is one of understanding and care due to language barriers,» says Anita Rieder, Head of the Centre for Public Health at the MedUni Vienna.

«Canada is second in the world only to the U.S. in our rates of prescription opioid use, and the rise of prescription opioids in our provinces has also shown to be strongly linked to overdose deaths,» cautions Dr. Rehm, who is also Head of the World Health Organization / Pan-American Health Organization (WHO / PAHO) Collaborating Centre in Addiction and Mental Health at CAMH.

«The bay is acting as a big mixing bowl where toxins from both fresh and marine water are found together,» said senior author Raphael Kudela, the Lynn Professor of Ocean Health at UC Santa Cruz.