Sentences with phrase «health epidemics makes»

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If there was a flu epidemic, and 60 percent of the country had the flu, it wouldn't make it normal... the problem is growing, and it's growing because there's a subtle war - in America, and in the world - between business and health.

At the same time an epidemic of childhood obesity threatens to rob a generation of its health and bankrupt the nation with a $ 147 billion annual tab for weight - related illnesses, agribusiness and corporate food processors are making out like bandits.

Our efforts range from a digital application that ensures human breast milk is safely pasteurized to community - developed videos on pressing health issues to supporting countries in tracking epidemics through data use for decision - making.

In addition, the changes to our diets that health experts recommend to fight the obesity epidemic, less meat and dairy, less processed foods, and more fruit and vegetables, are the same changes that will make feeding a growing population easier with farming systems that cause far less environmental damage.

At 9:30 a.m., Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Commissioner of Health Gale Burstein, U.S. Attorney for the Western District William Hochul and police chiefs make a plea for volunteers to help combat the region's ongoing opioid abuse epidemic, Erie County Fire Training Academy, 3359 Broadway St., Cheektowaga.

Together with the German Chancellor and the Norwegian Prime Minister, President Mahama will on Saturday host a major side event on Strengthening a healthy future: Resilient Health Systems to fight epidemics and ensure healthy lives, a follow - up to the proposal made by the three world leaders to the UN Secretary General to set up a panel to review the world's response to health cHealth Systems to fight epidemics and ensure healthy lives, a follow - up to the proposal made by the three world leaders to the UN Secretary General to set up a panel to review the world's response to health chealth crisis.

Adds senior author Mark Ilgen, Ph.D., «These results highlight the importance of addressing provider behaviors in our efforts to address the opioid epidemic, and the need for large health systems to develop and implement systematic approaches that are flexible enough to allow clinicians to make individual decisions while still reducing the overall prevalence of potentially risky prescribing.»

Because of drift and shift, the World Health Organization [WHO] makes a prediction every year about the strain that is the most likely to cause an epidemic in the Western world.

Curtailing the epidemic But Osterholm says that the ongoing discussion of such experimental drugs and vaccines is diverting international attention away from the measures that he said are needed to stop the outbreak — for instance, tracing the contacts of infected individuals and deploying teams of health workers to make sure all affected individuals are diagnosed.

The WHO's declaration of a global public health emergency is the third ever made under international regulations enacted in 2007; the first came in 2009 during the H1N1 influenza epidemic and the second in May, warning of the potential for international spread of the polio virus.

«The single most important thing that we can do to prevent a more serious outbreak here in the U.S. is making sure that we get what is a raging epidemic right now in West Africa under control,» said Aaron Firoved, senior biodefense advisor in the Department of Homeland Security Office of Health Affairs, restating President Obama's 15 October comments on Ebola.

Lowe says that the study also demonstrates the potential value of incorporating climate information in the public health decision - making process not only in Ecuador but also in any epidemic - prone region, impacted by El Nino events.

New Scientist echoed the point in an editorial: «If the purpose of the Microbiological Research Establishment is to learn to make vaccines and devise other measures to protect the country against man - made epidemics — just as we try to protect ourselves against influenza or measles — then there is every reason to bring the establishment under the Ministry of Health» («Porton — the infection spreads», 30 May 1968).

What Perkins really wants to know is how closely epidemics in local regions match the model's predictions, so he has made his team's full results available to health authorities in the region.

A report issued July 7 by a panel that analyzed the global response to the Ebola outbreak says the WHO and its member states were ill - equipped to handle the epidemic and must make changes to safeguard public health.

That has made responding to the epidemic even more difficult in countries that had too few health workers to begin with.

The incidence of overweight and obesity has reached epidemic proportions, making the control of body weight and its complications a primary health problem.

But the increase of cases and birth defects in Brazil in the past year — suspected to exceed more than 4,100, making that nation the epicenter of the epidemic — has prompted health officials there to warn pregnant women or those thinking of becoming pregnant to take precautions or consider delaying pregnancy.

It should be quite clear to everyone that whatever agricultural policies, public health policies, and dietary recommendations we've employed in the US so far have been and still are severely flawed, because they're not making even the slightest dent in this epidemic.

The prevalence of obesity has reached epidemic proportions, making finding effective solutions to reduce obesity a public health priority.

The link between cardiovascular health and the development of other major diseases such as diabetes, poor thyroid function and probably also dementia, too, makes sense since many of these also point to a lack of nutrients rather than the presence of one single substance as a likely explanation of such epidemics.

In a time where our country is suffering from a concerning health epidemic that is affecting our children, making sure the students are having fun, being challenged, and finding enjoyment in positive competition is the next step towards creating a sustainable physical fitness foundation for today's youth.

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.

«Processed and toxic pet foods are one of the top three major factors in the epidemic of chronic disease and cancer seen in pets today, and feeding wholesome food is the single most important decision a canine guardian can make toward a life of good health and longevity.»

In the 1980s, however, the health care industry began shifting to single - use versions, often made from inexpensive plastics, partly because the emerging H.I.V. epidemic raised fears about the risks of recycling equipment.

Nursing home abuse and neglect are epidemic in our country, making it very important that you take your time to select a home in which the health, safety, and happiness of your loved one...