Sentences with phrase «health crisis on»

In 2001, she created Psychology Today's «Blues Buster», a print newsletter that was the first publication to identify and document the mental health crisis on America's college campuses.

There is a mental health crisis on college campuses these days, with alarming numbers of students engaging in self - destructive behaviors like binge drinking and cutting or disconnecting through depression.

Create healthy children and teens, help them create a healthy new generation of babies someday, and we can turn around the health crisis on our planet.

There are a number of reasons why, but that doesn't change the end result: that we have a public health crisis on our hands, and it's only getting worse.»

Not exact matches

Lately, though, this game has lost all its fun and taken on the urgency of a public - health crisis.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

Maybe you just had a baby; maybe you're super stressed at work; maybe there's a health crisis going on in your family.

All levels of government, hurting from the toll the public health crisis has had on budgets, are taking action, from municipalities (Kermit, WV; Chicago, Il, Everett, WA) to counties (Mingo in WV; Nassau in NY; Orange in California) to states (Mississippi, Ohio, New Mexico).

Heading off crises for even a fraction of these patients would not only save countless lives; it would cut down on the costly hospitalizations that account for a large chunk of health care spending.

In a freewheeling 1 - on - 1 interview with Time Inc.'s Chief Content Officer, Alan Murray, Bertolini relates how two very personal health care crises dramatically transformed his management philosophy — and why other corporate leaders should take heed.

It would be nice if all political parties were to declare a moratorium on all proposed tax cuts until we have a strategy to deal with looming health care crisis.

It seems like nothing at all will be done on the country's most urgent public health crisis, just as the White House did nothing about the severe flu outbreak over the winter or about the blackouts in Puerto Rico.

In the event of a public health crisis that resulted in a high rate of employee absenteeism, Schwab would focus available personnel on critical business functions that directly support client needs.

It's not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental - health crisis in decades.

«Every parent hopes that if their child was in mental health crisis that there would be help available for them immediately, but Chester's story shows us that in Christy Clark's B.C., children in crisis are left on standby behind a 200 day wait list,» said Horgan.

The picture of that disgusting, pathetic, utterly gross fat woman (see the picture on the headline) reminded me of two things: one, she (and those like her) are the reason health care is in crisis, and two, why should I, or my tax dollars, pay for her utterly bad judgement and complete lack of self respect?

Writing in The Times, Kate Lampard, chairwoman of GambleAware said: «As a society, we should be concerned about the rising risk of harm from wider access and more regular participation in gambling on future generations, resulting in a possible public health crisis in gambling addiction.»

No longer plagued by wearisome journeys and constant anxieties for the health of the churches, the more meditative and developed tone of these writings show Paul's ability to think things through rather than react to crises on the hoof, as in Galatians or the Corinthian correspondence.

He also gets personal, diving into his personal health crisis, the time doctors told him he had 48 hours to live, and how the entire ordeal ultimately gave him a new perspective on business and life.

Which brings me to the deeper reason you will need not simply to address food prices but to make the reform of the entire food system one of the highest priorities of your administration: unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change.

«For too long we've depended on a food system that favours the profits of major corporations, degrades the environment, forces farmers off the land and has resulted in a diabetes, heart health and obesity crisis.

The initiative launched at Carlisle College on 19 January, bringing together Carlisle & Cumbria's public health leads, school children and young people pledging to work together to tackle the health crisis brought on by too much sugar.

More recently, Cara's consulting has extended beyond individual families to include fortune 500 companies seeking expert advice on safety issues, child health, and crisis management.

The more Jamie puts human faces on this health crisis, the better he drives home the terrible and real consequences of how we live and eat as a society.

Its a fact, that women are many times more likely to stay with a sick man, than the other way around, MAny women find their husbands walk out on them in a health crisis.

I have a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling and have worked on teams dealing with domestic violence, crisis interventions and severe mental illness.

We're facing a dual public health crisis — on the one hand, the childhood obesity epidemic is threatening the health and security of our children and our nation.

In the past, we have touched on cloth diapering, babywearing and breastfeeding (which ended, sadly), and now that we are past a scary health crisis, we are trying to get our focus back on our love of the outdoors and other natural parenting topics!

2001 Association for Pre - and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), panel on «Crises in Childbirth,» San Francisco, December.

Stepping aside from dangerous social factors, such as adult inebriation or adult bedsharing while under the influence of drugs, or infants sleeping alongside disinterested strangers, and ignoring (for the moment) the physical - structural - furniture and bedding aspects of «safe infant sleep» always occurs in the context of, and under the supervision of, a committed, sober adult caregiver who is in a position to respond to infant nutritional needs, crises, and can exchange sensory stimuli all of which represents just what babies depend on for maximum health.

In response to the health crisis in Flint, Michigan, the state passed a supplemental budget in February 2016 that included $ 2 million for Early On Part C early intervention services for children affe...

Since I started blogging, I've become better acquainted with two school nurses (one a new friend, one who serves with me on Houston's Student Health Advisory Council) and now realize that it's often school nurses who are on the front lines of the childhood obesity crisis, conducting diabetes screenings and BMI evaluations, and using those few precious minutes with students to try to educate them as much as they can about nutrition and hHealth Advisory Council) and now realize that it's often school nurses who are on the front lines of the childhood obesity crisis, conducting diabetes screenings and BMI evaluations, and using those few precious minutes with students to try to educate them as much as they can about nutrition and healthhealth.

He said the health service was in crisis under the Conservatives, which «would be even worse if many on the Leave side had their way».

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito who has been outspoken on the issue of Puerto Rico's debt and health care crisis is also expected to attend the rally and conference.

Crain's article on Borough President Adams calling out the City for not doing enough to combat diabetes and the wider preventable health crisis.

As reported by the New York Post's Yoav Gonen, Kavanagh joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett for a press briefing on the City's proactive response to the threat of the Zika virus, and the need for Congress to fund a robust, decisive effort by the federal government — in New York and especially in warmer places where mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are prevalent — to avert a health crisis in the United SHealth Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett for a press briefing on the City's proactive response to the threat of the Zika virus, and the need for Congress to fund a robust, decisive effort by the federal government — in New York and especially in warmer places where mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are prevalent — to avert a health crisis in the United Shealth crisis in the United States.

«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.

In his most recent State of the State address, he listed several priorities, including reforming the criminal justice system, holding pharmaceutical distributors responsible for their role in the opioid crisis and fighting the federal government on its tax plan and policies on immigration, abortion, the environment and health care.

President Donald Trump is on vacation at his New Jersey golf club, where he will participate in a briefing on the opioid crisis with Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price.

What has been an environmental and health crisis for village residents was quickly snowballing into a political headache for top state lawmakers, including the Senate GOP, which had been criticized for not pushing for public hearings on the issue.

By Jesse McKinley ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOA.

Calling Cuomo «cold and silent» on the health care crisis in Brooklyn and on issues such as underfunded schools, she said, «I have a vision for this state where everyone has meaningful access to health care and health facilities.

«Heroin has become a public health crisis in communities across the nation, but today New York State is taking a stand to turn the tide on this epidemic,» Governor Cuomo said.

«The health service will face a financial crisis within a matter of years that will threaten the very values we hold so dear - of a comprehensive health service, available to all, free at the point of use and based on need and not the ability to pay,» he concluded.

«Today, we launch an aggressive assault on a public health crisis that is reaching epidemic proportions: the scourge of dangerous new drugs that are killing people and sending thousands upon thousands to emergency rooms in New York City and around the country,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

HOOSICK FALLS — Gov. Andrew Cuomo made his first visit to Hoosick Falls on Sunday, about 100 days after the polluted town water supply blew up into one of the most serious public health crises his administration has experienced.

Suffolk County Legislator Ed Romaine convened the 16 - member Tick & Vector - Borne Disease Task Force earlier this fall in an attempt to focus on the health crisis facing the East End.

The governor is also relying on some one - time revenues from bank settlements after the financial crisis, to pay for improving the New York City subways, funding hospitals and other health care providers, and paying for some day - to - day state operating expenses.

The two men have for months engaged in a bruising public rivalry that has had an effect on policy decisions ranging from education to managing two public health crises.

The dedication marks the culmination of a five - year drive to finally create a public space to honor those lost to HIV as well as the many activists who battled to bring public attention and government dollars to bear on the unprecedented health crisis.