Sentences with phrase «how disease burden»
And next month officials are expected to release an agency - wide strategic plan that they say will address how disease burden should influence the allocation of research dollars.
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The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.
«We are learning more and more about how the early - life environment can influence the development of certain health conditions,» said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. «If we can develop strategies to prevent asthma before it develops, we will help alleviate the burden this disease places on millions of people, as well as on their families and communities.»
To figure out not only how many people die from specific diseases but also how much each disease affects people's quality of life, researchers in 1992 first estimated what's called the global burden of disease.
Eileen Crimmins, a gerontologist at the University of Southern California, studies how life expectancy influences chronic disease burden, as measured by the time one needs help and care.
«Our research team modelled how the HCV disease burden and associated health care costs in Australia will increase as the infected population ages.»
Chronically - ill cancer patients have different exercise limitations than their healthy counterparts and other concurrent diseases and high symptom burden add challenges in how best to study and implement physical activity programs in lung cancer patients.
By studying how research funding is allocated relative to the global burden of disease, and assessing the outputs and impact of research, the resulting data will be used to better inform future investment decisions.
It includes an overview of African Americans» burden of cardiovascular disease; how traditional risk factors and adverse health behaviors affect the disparities between African Americans and whites; a discussion of the genetic and biological factors that might contribute to cardiovascular disease in African Americans; and medical treatments and the social, cultural and environmental factors that influence prevention and disease management in African Americans.
«This is the first study to collect data on how sick people with measles actually feel, which helps us to understand the impact that measles infection has on the population so that we can compare the burden of measles to other diseases.
This «observational intensity» suggested diagnosis is not solely an attribute of underlying disease burden, but could also reflect how often patients encounter the health care system.
«By discovering the mechanism of how and where bacteria initiate disease, we think we can give a strong message to the medical community to stimulate the revision of currently used therapies and this could potentially result in a reduction of disease burden and mortality in the UK and elsewhere.»
The burden of proof lies with those making the claim, particularly when said claim is contrary to how humans have eaten since (and while) we first became human (without any inflammatory disease to speak of until very recently).
Once a dog is determined to have heartworm disease, treatment may differ somewhat depending on how advanced the disease is and worm burden.
Keeping this in mind, how prepared are you to bear the financial burden in case any disease tightens its grip on any of your beloved family members?
The task is urgent to sort out the nature of that disadvantage, how it leads to such an increased burden of non-communicable disease in adults, and what to do about it.