Sentences with phrase «huge public health burden»

Our findings indicate that atrial fibrillation is on the rise around the world and it's a huge public health burden.»

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«There might not be a huge burden of disease from heat - related illness right now in your community,» says Jeremy Hess, an emergency medicine physician and public health researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Spinal cord injuries place a huge burden on the health system — about A$ 150 million a year in Australia, according to figures from the Department of Human Services and Health — so even a small cut in the frequency of such injuries would represent a huge saving to public hospitals, as well as benefiting people in gehealth system — about A$ 150 million a year in Australia, according to figures from the Department of Human Services and Health — so even a small cut in the frequency of such injuries would represent a huge saving to public hospitals, as well as benefiting people in geHealth — so even a small cut in the frequency of such injuries would represent a huge saving to public hospitals, as well as benefiting people in general.

«As the price and accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests and other diagnostic instruments improve, I think we have a chance to really make a difference in clinical settings facing huge burdens of acute undifferentiated febrile infections that I believe are being misdiagnosed,» said Stoler, who also holds a position in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UM Miller School of Medicine.

We in the field of public health advocate a comprehensive approach to disease prevention, and in the case of Africa, would agree that confronting the already existing huge burden of disease is of utmost priority.

Pielke's comment, «Under IPCC projections the additional burden of climate change on Africa is only a very small marginal addition to what is already a huge burden,» would raise very much concern in the public health arena.