Sentences with phrase «health crisis caused»

County leaders recognize the significant public health crisis caused by the opioid addiction.

The scale of the public health crisis caused by air pollution and the importance of the energy sector to its resolution are the reasons why the IEA is focusing on this critical topic for the first time.

Anne Bull, national chair of LACA, believes schools face a serious health crisis caused by bad diet with almost 20 per cent of children classed as obese by the time they leave primary school

Nevertheless, the public health crisis caused by tobacco remains quite serious.

This country faces a serious health crisis caused by bad diet.

Such «solutions» would only compound the industry's horrific treatment of workers and animals and exacerbate the environmental and health crises caused by the industry.

CFS has four stated goals, which promote organic agriculture by restricting traditional farming methods: «Ensuring the testing, labeling and regulation of genetically engineered (GE) foods; Preserving strict national organic food standards; Preventing potential animal and human health crises caused by food borne illness — including «mad cow» disease; Educating the public on the hazards of industrial agriculture.»

Not exact matches

«The shameful scale of the public health crisis London faces, with thousands of premature deaths caused by air pollution, must be addressed,» Khan said.

While the companies denied any wrongdoing, there was irrefutable evidence that PFCs caused a public health crisis in the affected communities.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

I avoid all grains for my health, because I feel a thousand times better when I am grain free and because I think grain consumption is the cause of the national obesity crisis.

«One of the causes of the fiscal crisis we are living is the unfair treatment by the federal government on health care funding for Puerto Ricans.

The Borough President has shown great leadership and sensitivity and has made the point that this is a frightening health crisis that has raised many questions and caused significant anxiety among Bronx residents.

«We must respond decisively to the health crisis indebting our citizens, leaving others uninsured and causing too many to live in fear of bankruptcy because of illness and high deductibles,» Beals said in a prepared statement.

NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray writes of the struggle to find treatment for anxiety, addiction and depression for her daughter, Chiara, and her conclusion that the mental health system in this country is «broken,» causing the country to face a crisis of care.

«As a St John's blue light ambulance driver, Gillian has seen first - hand the extent of the crisis caused by this Conservative government, which has chosen to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest instead of our health service.

Research on the causes of obesity, though valuable, will not solve this public health crisis; what may, is behavioral science, which tells us how to change our habits and our «food environment.»

Republicans on the committee focused their questions on how Pruitt will work to prevent pollution from causing serious public health problems like the lead contamination crisis affecting Flint, Michigan, and criticized the Obama administration's climate regulations.

This news has caused a few raised eyebrows because the company continues to face «accusations that [it] has enlisted prominent health researchers to help downplay the role of sugary drinks in the obesity crisis.

«Given both the extreme and chronic stressors Yemenis are continuing to face, there is serious cause for concern of a nationwide mental health crisis,» said Dr. Lindsay Stark, associate professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning Nehealth crisis,» said Dr. Lindsay Stark, associate professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning NeHealth at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning NeHealth and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning Network.

Suicide is now a leading cause of death of young Indians, and an Indian is likely to suffer from a heart attack at least ten years earlier than in developed countries and yet the health care system has barely responded to these urgent health crises.»

On July 13, approximately fifty practicing scientists met with Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) President Alain Beaudet to discuss reforms to the grantsmaking process, the problems they caused, and the scientific community's subsequent crisis of confidence in the integrity of the process.

Our body can handle a lot of challenges from a lot of different sources but when the combination of all of those things reaches our limit and causes our tub to overflow, we will experience a health crisis of some kind.

Next Page: People with bipolar aren't the only ones at risk [pagebreak] Harder times ahead for everyone In October, the World Health Organization warned that the global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems and even suicides as people struggle to cope with poverty and unemploHealth Organization warned that the global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems and even suicides as people struggle to cope with poverty and unemplohealth problems and even suicides as people struggle to cope with poverty and unemployment.

This health crisis led her to become an integrative physician focused on helping people treat the root cause of their conditions.

Simply put, our bodies were never designed to handle being perpetually inundated with sugar, and it's causing a public health crisis (not to sound too dramatic!).

He's stopped taking care of himself, is drinking too much, and is ignoring a mounting health crisis that's causing him to spit up blood in the middle of the night.

If we are serious about tackling the root causes of these growing health crises, then every school should be able to provide well - designed, high ‑ quality outdoor facilities.

Young dogs are particularly susceptible, but dogs of any age can ingest something they shouldn't and cause a potentially fatal health crisis.

However, we also provide alert dogs for those with other very dangerous health conditions including Addisonian crisis, which causes severe pain, convulsions and unconsciousness which lead to collapse and hospitalisation; and severe allergic responses.

In addition, our world is currently the sad witness of energy crises and speculation, of health disorders caused by the overabundance of food in some places and by famine elsewhere, and of old diseases in a new form as a result of antibiotic - resistant microbia.

An amendment to prevent any government agency from accounting for the costs of the extreme weather and health risks caused by the climate crisis;

This crisis is compounded not only by many other environmental problems caused by industrialised agriculture — loss of biodiversity, pollution, over-use of water and land, to name but a few — but also by escalating health problems caused by industrialised food production — including obesity, cardiovascular diseases, some cancers, and diabetes — alongside continuing problems of hunger and malnutrition, worldwide.

In China, the report says, fossil fuels impose $ 1,790 bn in health costs from air pollution, more than 18 times what the nation pays to oil, gas and coal producers, helping to fuel a public health crisis that is already causing 1.6 million premature deaths every year.

By using lawyers to solve legal problems that can cause illness — from fixing faulty furnaces to navigating immigration rules that may make patients afraid to apply for food or housing assistance — doctors believe they can prevent more serious health crises, such as malnutrition, job loss, and domestic violence.»

«Defendants caused a public health crisis by exposing (Flint residents) to contaminated water» and «exacerbated the crisis by concealing and misrepresenting its scope, failing to take effective remedial action to eliminate it, and then lying about it to cover up their misconduct,» it continued.

Since it is not the case and any disease or medical ailment causes considerable financial crisis, a health insurance policy is deemed important.

Claim Process — We all buy health insurance to help meet the financial crisis caused by any medical emergency.

Of course, if any of your concerns are cause for a health crisis (such as toxic mold from a damp kitchen or chronic back pain from second - hand chairs), it needs to be addressed immediately so that management can come up with a company - wide solution.

Violence against health care staff by patient's visitor in general hospital in Greece: Possible causes and economic crisis