Sentences with phrase «health departments often»

Local health departments often manage lists of community resources and lead projects that can greatly benefit children and families who have been exposed to violence.

Not exact matches

Unlike caterers, bakers are often allowed to work out of a non-commercial home kitchen as long as they meet health department requirements.

The health department will often require these to be included with the plan review application to verify that the equipment is NSF certified.

While most brands of baby formula once recommended boiling as a part of their instructions, they now often recommend asking your baby's doctor or local health department instead.

He said state health departments are often cautious, and focus on avoiding public alarm rather than delivering the blunt truth.

Advocates in Erie County often complain that the state Health Department is several years behind in releasing lead poisoning data and fails to include children who test within the federal threshold.

While there are no safe levels of lead exposure, children living in high risk areas of Utica with its aged and often deteriorating housing stock are in greater danger of lead poisoning and its long - term effects, according to Cathe Bullwinkle, Quality Improvement Coordinator for the Oneida County Health Department.

A panel of about three dozen state lawmakers subjected the commissioners of the health and environmental conservation departments to five hours of often - intense grilling.

Gayle Meyers, with Statewide Senior Action Council, says her group often gets calls from people who have filed complaints to the health department against nursing homes, and never hear anything back.

CHICKENPOX COMMON AMONG CHILDREN DESPITE VACCINE The highly contagious varicella - zoster virus (VZV), commonly known as chickenpox, often affects children under age 12 and sometimes even after they have been vaccinated against the disease, Oneida County Health Department officials warned today following reports of an outbreak in Herkimer County.

Two Vaccines to consider this Winter Health Department urges Tdap and Flu vaccination As the temperature drops and we bundle up, conversation often turns to the common cold.

In addressing the vermin themselves, both the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Parks Department will increase their efforts with more bait stations, plugging rat burrows, and pruning greenery where rats often take shelter.

Most of the largest, often government, funders — for example, US National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Energy, HHMI, and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)-- sponsor early - career fellowships.

«This study, on one hand, brings to the forefront gaps in women's knowledge about their reproductive health, and on the other, highlights women's concerns that are often not discussed with health providers,» said senior author Jessica Illuzzi, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine.

Washing your hands often, especially after wiping a young child's nose, mouth or tears or changing diapers is important, said Stephanie Browning McVicar, co-author and director of the Cytomegalovirus Public Health Initiative at the Utah Department of Health.

However, all too often initiatives are «small and homegrown or based in individual departments,» says Ingram, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

«Our findings represent a significant step toward clarifying the mechanisms that help the body manage the risk of keeping potentially dangerous, but often useful, bacteria around,» says lead study author Dan Littman, MD, PhD, the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology in the Department of Pathology at NYU Langone Health.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that overweight and obese men often have weight loss success when following 1,200 - to 1,600 - calorie meal plans.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services encourages adults to engage in strength - training exercises at least twice each week; train more often to maximize muscle - mass gains.

Enjoy this moment because it is not often that overweight or obese people have an advantage over slim people in the health department.

Rhode Island's health department says the increase in diagnoses is due in part to better and more frequent access to STI screening, but also believes dating services are at fault for allowing users to easily «arrange casual and often anonymous sexual encounters.»

Critics often point to the results of the Head Start Impact Study released in October 2012 and funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, which they claim show a so - called fade out by the end of kindergarten.

Poor health, lack of transportation to school, and dangerous circumstances are the leading factors to chronic absences in students, according to the Department of Education, many of which are often tied to poverty.

Poverty Line The poverty guidelines, often referred to as the poverty line, are published annually by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Antioxidants often serve other purposes in the body (for example, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, and beta - carotene, which play key roles in full - body health, all double as antioxidants), but in the cancer - fighting and disease - preventing department, they go above and beyond.

The local city / county Health Department / Board of Health, because abuse of animals often involves unsafe or unsanitary conditions for humans

Often we are called upon to provide emergency services and transport for other rescue personnel who are not equipped to move animals, such as the Fire Department, CHP, and Health Department.

Lepto does infect humans, so it's often a reportable disease, so your local public health department might be able to tell you if there is an outbreak.

A survey released by the Department of Health revealed that while almost 50 % of British travellers have become ill or injured on holiday, 35 % of these have delayed, often essential, medical treatment until they return home.

British Council, British Petroleum, Broom's Barn Sugar Beet Research Centre, Central Electricity Generating Board, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Commercial Union, Commission of European CommunitiesCEC, often referred to now as EU), Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), Department of Energy, Department of the Environment (DETR, now DEFRA), Department of Health, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Eastern Electricity, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Greenpeace International, International Institute of Environmental Development (IIED), Irish Electricity Supply Board, KFA Germany, Leverhulme Trust, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), National Power, National Rivers Authority, Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Norwich Union, Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Overseas Development Administration (ODA), Reinsurance Underwriters and Syndicates, Royal Society, Scientific Consultants, Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Scottish and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, Shell, Stockholm Environment Agency, Sultanate of Oman, Tate and Lyle, UK Met.

The California Department of Public Health found dangerously high amounts of mercury in skin creams, which are often made outside the U.S.

Transportation departments, health organizations, and local police departments often document local injury statistics.

This practice often requires him to deal with a range of government agencies, from the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, to the Internal Revenue Service, Departments of Defense, Agriculture and Health and Human Services among others.

The policies ask few or no health questions and, according to the New York State Insurance Department, these policies are often more expensive than policies that require more underwriting (evaluating the risk to the insurance company).

You can often find these on the health department's website, as well.

Health departments have long been under - resourced and are often already stretched thin when it comes to maintaining the public funding and capacity necessary to meet the needs of their communities.

Ultimately, tiering has the same effect of denying public support to disfavored organizations, while enabling policymakers to argue that the policy merely rewards «worthy» organizations — most often, public health departments or safety - net providers that offer family planning services in the broader context of primary care.

Affordable or free condoms are often available at Planned Parenthood health centers, family planning clinics, your local health department, community centers, college health centers, or your doctor's office.

Local agencies — such as tribal organizations and departments of health, human services, or education — match home visitors with new or expectant parents interested in receiving services.2 Home visiting is a voluntary, home - based service - delivery strategy that provides services to parents and children that help the whole family.3 Parents often learn about home visiting through their children's pediatricians, social workers, and other support professionals.

Critics often point to the results of the Head Start Impact Study released in October 2012 and funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, which they claim show a so - called fade out by the end of kindergarten.

«People often assume bullying is a problem for schools alone but it's clear from this study that parents also have a very important role to play,» Prof. Dieter Wolke of Warwick's Department of Psychology and Division of Mental Health & Wellbeing, said in a press release.

They include literacy groups, mental health services, drug and alcohol prevention groups, the Department of Human Services, and others who understand that inadequate or abusive parenting often are at the core of the difficulties their clients face.