Sentences with phrase «health epidemic among»

And when I started looking into health statistics, I realized that there is a major health epidemic among Black women in this country that is hidden under the veneer of strength.

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«This is an important issue to study because mental health problems and social isolation are at epidemic levels among young adults,» lead author Brian Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on media, technology and health said in a statement.

Between the endless natural disasters, political paralysis, loneliness epidemic, job stealing (or even world - ending) robots, and regular threats of nuclear annihilation, it's no wonder the nation's mental health professionals claim anxiety (particularly among young people) is on the rise.

There's been a high cost in terms of women's health, including an epidemic of infertility caused by sexually transmitted infections, and a startling rise in cervical and oral cancers among young women from the same cause.

His beliefs and politics: As a counselor, Clinton advocates for greater mental health awareness among Christians and addresses pornography as an epidemic hurting marital intimacy.

«Since the increase in opioid use among women has been accompanied by an increase in adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, including neonatal abstinence syndrome, reproductive - age women should be of particular concern in public health efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.»

The findings, published online and scheduled for an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Public Health, indicate that public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age Health, indicate that public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age women.

Considering the urgency of addressing the current diabetes and obesity epidemics, their article is also a call to action for researchers and health systems to develop successful interventions to increase physical activity among women of reproductive age.»

Although no vaccine against HIV exists, advances in prevention and treatment have led to a growing conviction among researchers, public health officials, and politicians that the HIV / AIDS epidemic can be brought to a halt with existing tools.

«Obesity is an epidemic among youth,» says Dr. Ron Sigal of the University of Calgary's Institute for Public Health and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta.

«Sleep deprivation is epidemic among adolescents, with potentially serious impacts on mental and physical health, safety and learning.

Now there is growing interest in the application of genomics to the management of infectious diseases and epidemics [2], which are among the top global public health burdens [3].

The School of Community Health Sciences will hold a retirement celebration for Dr. Mary Guinan, founding dean, on May 9 at 1:30 p.m. in the Stan Fulton Building, Ballroom A. Guinan was among the first scientists to investigate the AIDS epidemic.

The impact of social instability has become more obvious on the lung environment, and its impact on epidemics, particularly among the immigrant population, is of great concern for health in EU.

The Office for National Statistics regularly measures well - being and Seldon believes it would be possible to make school - level comparisons, which could go some way to tackle the «epidemic» of mental health problems among young people.

The report gave the same odds that some food - and water - borne diseases will also increase among susceptible populations, but said «major human epidemics» were unlikely as long as public - health systems remained effective.

The «Childhood Obesity Epidemic» Racial / Ethnic Differences in Mental Health Service Use Among Adults.