Sentences with phrase «important global health»

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Unlike many global health nonprofits, which focus their work in the poorest regions of the planet, Bush has always felt it was important for fellows to address problems in the US in addition to those in other countries.

According to the Global Well - Being Index, people say their most important concerns in life are community, finances, physical health, sense of purpose and a happening social life.

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This is especially important as the potential in Canada - Korea relations moves beyond the purely bilateral sphere of the past 50 years to more cooperation on international issues of common concern, such as the health of the global economy, effective global governance in the G20 and elsewhere, and preserving a peaceful and secure Asia Pacific region.

Facts for Life: Breastfeeding - factsforlife.org Why it is important • All key messages • Resources Supporting information for key messages: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 The Baby - friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a global effort by UNICEF and the World Health Organization to implement practices that protect, promote and support breastfeeding.

BFHI has been shown to be very effective in increasing breastfeeding initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration in many countries, as well as improving mother's health care experiences and reducing rates of infant abandonment.12 Given the short and long - term benefits of breastfeeding to the infant, mother and society, implementing BFHI — alongside with the other objectives stated in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding - continues to have an important role to play in health services worldwide.

The findings of this study contribute accurate and reliable data to the global estimates, and have important implications for public health programmes to improve maternal and newborn survival.

With increased emphasis on male involvement in the reproductive health care and decisions in global health, it is important to understand where engaging men as a social and behavior change approach, broadly speaking, may support EBF practice and if it could hinder it.

It exposes infant feeding as one of the most important global public health issues of our time, and describes how big business and vested interests influence the intimate relationship between mothers and their babies to the detriment of all, rich or poor, in the West or in the developing world.

GLOBAL CAMPAIGNS The Marie Stopes International (MSI) Global Partnership plays an important role in shaping international policy on sexual and reproductive health through its campGLOBAL CAMPAIGNS The Marie Stopes International (MSI) Global Partnership plays an important role in shaping international policy on sexual and reproductive health through its campGlobal Partnership plays an important role in shaping international policy on sexual and reproductive health through its campaigns.

«Because of our nation's childhood and teenage obesity public health crises, it is important to raise awareness about how companies are using celebrities popular with these audiences to market their unhealthy products,» said Dr. Bragg, who is also a faculty member at the NYU College of Global Public Hhealth crises, it is important to raise awareness about how companies are using celebrities popular with these audiences to market their unhealthy products,» said Dr. Bragg, who is also a faculty member at the NYU College of Global Public HealthHealth.

To compute how additional pollution from ships increases risk of disease for exposed populations, especially those living in coastal communities or along major shipping lanes and far inland in some nations like India, the team incorporated important underlying health information from the World Health Organization and Global Asthma Nehealth information from the World Health Organization and Global Asthma NeHealth Organization and Global Asthma Network.

Founded in 1896, Roche has been making important contributions to global health for more than a century.

COPD is expected to be the third largest cause of death globally by 2030, and it is important that we identify its key causes so that this burden can be reduced,» says study author Professor Shyamali Dharmage, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

«Animal disease reservoirs are extremely important for global public health.

Atmospheric contamination due to heavy metals is currently a severe problem of global proportions, with important repercussions in public health.

Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.

The researchers say the finding is an important reminder that identifying new viruses in animals and quickly determining their potential to infect people is a key way to reduce global health threats.

«Our study does not imply that economic development is not important in a general sense but cautions policymakers about relying solely on the trickle - down effects of economic growth on child nutrition,» said Sebastian Vollmer, assistant professor of development economics at the University of Göttingen, adjunct assistant professor of global health at HSPH, and lead author of the study.

Researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new computational method to study the function of disease - causing genes, starting with an important new discovery about a gene associated with malaria — one of the biggest global health burdens.

«Our findings offer new evidence for a potentially important social determinant of health that so far has not been recognized: sudden loss of wealth in late middle or older age,» said senior author Carlos Mendes de Leon, professor of epidemiology and global public health at University of Michigan's School of Public Hhealth that so far has not been recognized: sudden loss of wealth in late middle or older age,» said senior author Carlos Mendes de Leon, professor of epidemiology and global public health at University of Michigan's School of Public Hhealth at University of Michigan's School of Public HealthHealth.

An audacious global plan to stop future influenza pandemics in their tracks — adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) last month — may have an important flaw, researchers say in a new paper.

We believe that genetic variation is an important factor contributing to this risk or resilience,» said senior author Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who leads the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute.

This comprehensive review makes a very valuable contribution to the evidence base around interventions may make an important contribution to improving Global Health.»

This study underlines how important it is for all countries to embrace the WHO global action plan and put it into practice,» said Dr Oleg Chestnov, Assistant Director - General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health.

In an accompanying editorial, David Goldblatt, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., of the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, and Elizabeth Miller, F.R.C.Path., of Public Health England, London, write that the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts recently decided to revisit the issue of nonspecific effects of vaccines as part of its continued appraisal of important issues that could be relevant to inform global immunization policy.

In a resignation letter to the research community, Varmus decried the harsh budget climate he has faced and pointed to a list of accomplishments, from creating an NCI center for global health to launching a project to find drugs targeting RAS, an important cell signaling pathway in cancer.

Ninth, the Global Fund should open a new financing mechanism to bolster primary health care, including — most important — the construction of clinics and the hiring and training of nurses and community health workers.

«Ants represent half of the global insect biomass,» and these mulches could be playing an important role in soil moisture, soil health, and agricultural field efficiency.

One strong candidate to replace Lee would be Mexican health minister Julio Frenk Mora, who introduced universal health care coverage in his country and has emerged as an important voice in global health, says Gerald Keusch, associate dean for global health at Boston University School of Public Hhealth minister Julio Frenk Mora, who introduced universal health care coverage in his country and has emerged as an important voice in global health, says Gerald Keusch, associate dean for global health at Boston University School of Public Hhealth care coverage in his country and has emerged as an important voice in global health, says Gerald Keusch, associate dean for global health at Boston University School of Public Hhealth, says Gerald Keusch, associate dean for global health at Boston University School of Public Hhealth at Boston University School of Public HealthHealth.

Given high rates of international trade in wild meat and human movement, this could easily have important short - term global health consequences [68].

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

«Understanding which risk factors contribute to back pain and controlling exposure to these risks is an important first step in prevention,» explains Associate Professor Manuela Ferreira, Ph.D., with The George Institute for Global Health and Sydney Medical School at The University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

«Although individual physical and behavioral factors associated with asthma have been examined before, people are often exposed to multiple risk factors so it's important we understand the combined impact,» said Dr. Jayadeep Patra, lead author of the study and an epidemiologist at the Centre for Global Health Research of St. Michael's Hospital.

Vinetz said the next step will be to begin exploiting the genomic information «for vaccine and diagnostics development, experimental approaches to understanding mechanisms of disease pathogenesis and how Leptospira persist in the environment, all critical for developing new public health interventions aimed at reducing the global impact of this important but neglected zoonotic disease.»

«The addition of a ReWalk system with the Kessler Foundation is a very important step in advancing fundamental research on the health benefits gained from exoskeletal walking,» said Jodi Gricci, Vice President of Global Marketing for ReWalk Robotics.

In a 2008 presentation, Dunn stated «I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality.»

A time of global transition is upon us and the wisdom used by ancient cultures to achieve vibrant health against all the odds has never been more important to understand.

The leaves and seeds of moringa may protect against some of the effects of arsenic toxicity, which is especially important in light of news that common staple foods, such as rice, may be contaminated.13 Contamination of ground water by arsenic has also become a cause of global public health concern, and one study revealed: 14

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Veterinarians have an increasingly important role to play in addressing the grand global challenges of the 21st century, particularly in areas such as infectious disease control, antimicrobial resistance, food security and global health.

We also publish specialty publications that focus on a single topic considered critically important to the horse industry (Equine Sanctuary Rescue Facility Guidelines, Suspensory Ligament Injuries in Horses, Global Health and the Sport Horse, Racing Against Time).

We are showing we are serious about supporting the future of the veterinary profession by funding one of the most important studies on companion animalhealth ever conducted,» said David Haworth, DVM, PhD, Director, Global Alliances for Pfizer Animal Health.

«What this new alliance offers in addition to funding important canine research is significant,» says David Haworth, DVM, PhD, Director of Global Alliances for Pfizer Animal Health.

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«75 % of millennials say that travel is one of the most important things to them, and more than 65 % say health and well - being is the most important thing,» said SVP and global brand leader for Westin Hotels & Resorts Brian Povinelli.

This is always the most important barometer of the health of the global art market.

«As the world in which we live becomes more pluralistic — and issues such as global peace, environmental health and economic justice become more urgent — institutions with strong interfaith and intercultural commitments such as the Rothko Chapel become increasingly important.»

In the big, wide - ranging world of global change effects, one would be hard pressed to find a topic that is more important — or of more interest to more people — than effects on human health.

It also draws on a series of examples from around the world that demonstrate that the health sector is indeed already beginning to provide leadership in this most important area of concern to the global community.