Sentences with phrase «health catastrophe on»
«If we don't do something about this very quickly, we have a public health catastrophe on our hands,» Hemingway says.
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Modus operandi: WHO estimates that 60 percent of individuals infected with the virus will die, a rate on par with the Black Death and other public health catastrophes.
A year after the Fukushima reactor catastrophe, we can start to estimate its effects on people's medical and mental health.
Gov. Jerry Brown (D) declared the law will make a positive mark on an emerging «climate catastrophe» while mending the health impacts of air pollution.
Some opponents may also exaggerate the potential for a public health catastrophe resulting from a spill in Vancouver harbour, as well as the effect of increased tanker traffic on the health of struggling Salish Sea orca populations.
Interestingly it would also suggest that the efforts of organisations like The Waubra Foundation and Sarah Laurie, with their foretelling of a health catastrophe brought about by wind turbines, are having no adverse effect on health (or again, only in a few people).
Regular Croakey readers will be aware of our efforts to crowdfund the #JustJustice campaign in order to put the spotlight on the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, which has been described as a «public health catastrophe».
And Professor of Public Health at Bond University, Chris Del Mar, wrote a fascinating long read for Inside Story on antibiotic resistance — and how it is a serious threat to our way of life, describing it as a «looming catastrophe».