Sentences with phrase «health campaigns about»

Rates of melanoma and other skin cancers have doubled there over the past ten years, prompting a wave of hard - hitting health campaigns about the dangers of UV radiation and heightening concern about the impact that ozone depletion might have in the future.

Thanks to another well - meaning, but not appropriately nuanced, public health campaign about safe sleeping conditions for babies, many people have become convinced that parents sleeping with their babies and young children is mortally dangerous to them.

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A growing number of grassroots organizations and social media campaigns are raising awareness about the roughly one in five Americans who will be affected by a mental health condition in their lifetime.

Lowe Roche CEO Monica Ruffo told Marketing mag, «The campaign is really about getting people to understand that they can greatly influence their health outcome — it is about making the right choices to reduce your risk factors.

February 5: Former employees of Facebook and Google help launch the education campaign The Truth About Tech to explore tech addiction and the mental health consequences of using social media.

An Ontario teen whose campaign for mental health made national news, a Vancouver woman raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women, and a young man from Calgary who designed a new...

They have, instead, systematically suppressed and concealed material information about the health consequences of cigarette smoking and waged an aggressive campaign of disinformation.

This campaign raises awareness about environmental sustainability, health benefits and new technological applications of industrial hemp.

As well as a thousand children picking up good nutritional habits, a thousand families are becoming aware of the campaign, as what the kids learn about health and sustainability is coming home with them.

Riverford recently launched a campaign called How Much Meat, inspiring debate about how much meat should be consumed to ensure the best for the environment and our health.

Participants were briefed about the nutrition status of Bicolanos and the interventions that the government and other partners are implementing to address malnutrition; the nutrition and health aspects of rice, during which much of the discussion involved brown rice and its health benefits; the National Year of Rice campaign; and healthier rice varieties.

If it was really about health, the «contains sulfites» campaign would have included products like dried fruit, which have around 3500 PPM, compared to wine, which averages around 80 PPM and by law can not exceed 350 PPM.

Through a dedicated webpage, social media and events, the campaign aims to raise awareness about the sugar content of food and drink products and to educate and inform about the impact of high sugar intake on health.

Think About Your Eyes is a national public awareness campaign that is working on getting the word out to everyone about the benefits of eye health and urging people like you to make sure you are making time to get your annual comprehensive eye About Your Eyes is a national public awareness campaign that is working on getting the word out to everyone about the benefits of eye health and urging people like you to make sure you are making time to get your annual comprehensive eye about the benefits of eye health and urging people like you to make sure you are making time to get your annual comprehensive eye exam.

For the past decade, no conversation about breastfeeding promotion can escape the legend of the 2003 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services / Office on Women's Health Advertising Council breastfeeding campaign.

They are very important in the whole birth process and we are delighted to support the campaign to enhance their knowledge about the health of their Mum to be.»

A current campaign is hijacking the public health message about the importance of nutrition during the 1000 days from conception and branding it with SMA.

Learn about their school food service program and help create a marketing and public health campaign around fresh, Washington grown fruits and vegetables in their school.

We need strong campaign finance reform and sweeping corporate - directed pressure so that there is space for public health decisions to truly be about public health, not private profit.

Various health workers have contacted us about a curious market research exercise being conducted by the Millward Brown market research company into a Nestlé SMA advertising campaign.

I see numerous campaigns and programs geared toward removing fat and cholesterol out of school lunch and reducing calories, but almost nothing is talked about in terms of serving real food to children — schools continue to serve processed, toxic, fake foods to children and there is constant wonderment about how we can improve their health because they are supposedly too sedentary.

«We think that's entirely too long,» said Tricia Obester, a spokeswoman for Public Voice, the Washington - based consumer health organization that long has campaigned for improvements in the nation's school lunch programs, which feed about 25 million children a day.

-LSB-...] A Simple Breastfeeding Campaign (thelazymama.net) Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post This entry was written by The Lazy Mama, posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:33 PM, filed under Breastfeeding and tagged UNICEF, World Health Organization.

I don't know about anyone else but these campaigns leave me with a sick feeling in my stomach and show exactly why the World Health Assembly was right to warn about conflicts of interest in all child health progrHealth Assembly was right to warn about conflicts of interest in all child health progrhealth programmes.

And finally, I just learned about the Healthy Schools Campaign, a non-profit organization that addresses not just food but general issues of environmental health and wellness in schools.

To find out more about the campaign or to get help with breast - feeding, contact the National Women's Health Information Center's free breast - feeding help line at 800-994-9662, or visit the Web site at www.4woman.gov.

Schaumburg — Chicago Tribune health and fitness reporter Julie Deardorff's interesting column «Breast - feeding debate eclipses mom - feeding» (Q, June 25) injected some clear thinking into the recent media discussion about the government's Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign.

In partnership with First Candle and the National Institutes of Health, Colgate created an educational campaign targeting nurses and health practitioners to increase awareness about safe sleep pracHealth, Colgate created an educational campaign targeting nurses and health practitioners to increase awareness about safe sleep prachealth practitioners to increase awareness about safe sleep practices.

#TLBmoves is not a fitness campaign; yeah, we're talking about steps and activity, but the bigger goal here is overall health and happiness.

Chicago Tribune health and fitness reporter Julie Deardorff's interesting column «Breast - feeding debate eclipses mom - feeding» (Q, June 25) injected some clear thinking into the recent media discussion about the government's Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

The data further suggest that health promotion campaigns have been influential in their ability to educate women about the benefits of breastfeeding; both formula and breastfeeding women were aware of some of the advantages of breastfeeding.

Mychildren» steeth.org contains oral health campaigns which will provide you with information and resources about various issues related to your child's oral health care.

and also join the global campaign for a toxic - free world by reading the FAQ Sheet, Towards Healthy Environments for Children: Frequently asked questions about breastfeeding in a contaminated environment which emerged out of the combined efforts of breastfeeding and environmental health and justice groups in addressing breastfeeding in a contaminated environment.

NHS Together campaign NHS Together is a campaign alliance of health staff formed to raise the alarm at what is happening to the NHS and to press the government for honest and open discussion about its reform agenda.

The president noted that just as it is the case in the United States, the health of the candidates is something that the electorates will talk about, but then that will not form part of his campaign «I noticed in the US elections too there were issues about candidates» health so it's something that people will talk about but I don't take advantage of a person's health... I believe that I have enough to talk about without running on somebody's health».

The same basic ideas that a lot of us in the Democratic political world have been talking about, that Democratic campaigns ignored big - picture messaging around the economy, the health care law, immigration and other base - mobilizing issues while still running a turnout operation that was highly proficient technically.

Also published on techPresident Watching Obama's online army creak into action on health care reform is painful, particularly for someone who wrote about the ruthless efficiency of his online campaign for president.

Clearly concerned about slipping poll numbers in Iowa, Hillary Clinton's campaign went after Bernie Sanders this week, attacking him over past gun - control votes and his health care proposals.

As well as looking at how young people obtain alcohol, the government will also attempt to deter them from binge drinking with renewed public health campaigns, as well as warnings targeted at teenage girls about what alcohol can do to their looks.

When pressed on whether he has at least thought about a campaign for the formerly GOP - held seat he won back in 2006 (the post was open due to the retirement of former GOP Rep. Sherwood Boehlert; Arcuri defeated former state Sen. Ray Meier), the congressman said he's focused right now on health care -LRB-!)

Watching Obama's online army creak into action on health care reform is painful, particularly for someone who wrote about the ruthless efficiency of his online campaign for president.

I also had a diary on a different subject «rescued» by SusanG a few months ago, and had another diary (about our campaign for children's health care) front - paged by Elisa, Markos» wife, who blogs at Mother Talkers.

In addition, the state's Department of Health and the Office of Mental Health will create a new public awareness campaign to help women and their loved ones spot the signs of maternal depression and learn about ways to seek help.

[5] Jenkins was absent from the final weekend of campaigning, prompting questions about his health.

«This campaign is all about helping people understand how many units are in their favourite drinks, and helping them to keep an eye on their intake for the good of their long - term health.»

An internal strategy memo shows Lazio's campaign thought spreading «misinformation» about health care reform was a good idea.

Cuomo said the Department of Health has been getting the word out about the «Get Screened, No Excuses» campaign, and he praised the healthcare union 1199 SEIU for doing radio and television ads to promote the importance of screenings.

Second, the Governor will direct the Department of Health and the Office of Mental Health to launch a strategic awareness campaign to provide critical information about symptoms and treatment options, and to more broadly remove the stigma associated with maternal depression.

Fascinating article in Slate today about the use of political campaign tactics to build demand for Michael Moore's new film about health care in America, Sicko: