Sentences with phrase «important public health»

Therefore, improving the efficacy of HIV prevention interventions for Hispanic adolescents, especially those that target specific risk processes associated with HIV contraction, is an important public health priority.

As Carmona said in his testimony, the Bush administration silenced him on many issues, including emergency contraception and comprehensive sex education — and the public was denied access to the latest unbiased evidence on important public health issues.

A RAND Corporation study found that people with depressive symptoms spend more days in bed than those with disabilities, arthritis, back problems, lung problems, or gastrointestinal disorders.5 Mental illness and mental health conditions are an important public health issue; if left untreated, they can devastate families, dismantle a career, end a marriage, or cause other serious difficulties.

Limiting exposure of young adolescents to movie smoking could have important public health implications.

According to the World Health Organization, mental ill health is — alongside cardiovascular disease — one of the two most important public health problems worldwide.

Because relationship dissolution affects a large proportion of the population, this remains an important public health issue.

ADHD is a common condition, affecting between 3 % and 5 % of children, with important consequences for adverse long - term outcomes in health and education and welfare; as such it is an important public health problem.

To my mind, these are all important public health concerns.

By building the capacity of teacher and school support staff to deliver the Alert Program to students, an important public health goal is that children in the Fitzroy Valley will improve their executive functioning and self - regulation skills.

The increasing market power of tobacco companies is identified as an important public health challenge in a major new report on the economics of tobacco control, from the US National Cancer... Read more

Is there any more important public health issue than climate change?

Despite these limitations, our study has important public health implications.

Street food has often been associated with travelers» diarrhea, thus improvements in the safety of street food is an important public health concern as well as tourist concern.

We believe the approach of § 164.512 (b) strikes an appropriate balance between the objective of promoting patient privacy and control over their health information and the objective of allowing private entities to collect data that ultimately may have important public health benefits.

A fact sheet released December 20 by the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology explains a number of hypothetical scenarios in which protected health information (PHI) may be shared in support of public health activities or other important public health policies.

Never mind their statutory duty to «take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker,» don't employers who are vigilant in ensuring their workplaces are free of H1N1 fulfill an important public health objective?

Several scientific studies have shown candles with lead wicks to emit lead when burned, often resulting in indoor lead levels higher than EPA - recommended limits, making leaded wick candles an important public health concern.

Legislative and policy experts close to the issue said that if Inhofe's proposal had been passed, it would have removed vitally important public health protections more than two decades in the making that every year prevent up to:

The high emission - reduction efficiency of DPFs provides important public health benefits and climate change co-benefits associated with the reduction of black carbon emissions from diesel engines.

Limiting GW to no more than 2 degrees is humanity's most important public health objective.

FACE is fulfilling an important public health and safety service through the IndyFeral community cat program.

It's important that your legislators hear from veterinarians about this important public health issue!

Still, though, teenage pregnancy remains an important public health issue: the US has the highest rate of teen pregnancy among Western industrialized nations (CDC), and pregnancy is the leading cause of high school dropout among girls (Freudenberg & Ruglis, 2007).

All school districts in the United States employ occupational therapists who have the expertise to assist parents, teachers, and students in dealing with this important public health issue.

Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues.

These studies have important public health implications in a society that is inundated with high - sugar foods and tantalizing food stimuli.

Life - threatening anaphylactic responses to food are an increasingly important public health problem (1).

This new knowledge is important for a better understanding of the pathophysiology of the metabolic syndrome in relation to physical exercise and has important public health implications.»

She said, «Using cotinine level to measure exposure to secondhand smoke has important public health implications, because increasing the scope of smoke - free environments would likely decrease cotinine levels in the general population, and ultimately death.»

Page says, «These studies have important public health implications in a society that is inundated with high - sugar foods and tantalizing food stimuli.»

But if calcium supplements do boost the risk of polyps, «this has important public health implications» for colon cancer prevention and screening, the study authors concluded.

Access to improved water sources have reduced disease incidence in parts of the world but the use of efficacious vaccines is seen as an important public health tool for countries with a high disease burden.

«Our findings highlight a potentially important public health message on the benefits of a diet rich in fruit and vegetables for the prevention of diabetes,» wrote the authors.

These studies have important public health implications in a society that is inundated with high - sugar foods and tantalizing food stimuli.

«Our findings have a number of important public health implications.

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.

The study, titled «Epidemiology of Hospital Based Emergency Department Visits Attributed to Injuries Due to Legal Interventions in Children in the United States: An Important Public Health Issue!»

«This may have important public health implications, since low testosterone levels in young boys can negatively impact reproductive development, and in middle age can impair sexual function, libido, energy, cognitive function and bone health in men and women,» one researcher said.

Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), or concussion, accounts for 75 percent of all TBI and represents an important public health problem.

But because extra fat in the liver is likely to be detrimental to health, we conclude that e-cigarettes are not as safe as they have been promoted to consumers,» said lead author Theodore C. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Endowed Professor of Cardio - Metabolic Medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science in Los Angeles, Calif. «This has important public health and regulatory implications.»

He notes that this new insight into how the brain processes social standing may have important public health consequences, possibly even paving the way to new stress - reduction therapies.

The paper does not address what Keith Baverstock, a radiation health expert formerly at the World Health Organization and now at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, considers the most important public health question: What were the external and internal doses in the days and months after the release of the radiation?

Air pollution is an important public health concern.

These findings suggest that lowering the NAAQS for fine particulate matter will produce important public health benefits, especially among self - identified racial minorities and people with low incomes,» said Francesca Dominici, principal investigator of this study and professor of biostatistics at Harvard Chan School and co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative.

Inorganic arsenic is naturally present at high levels in the groundwater of many countries, creating an important public health issue affecting millions of people.

«This has important public health implications, given that standing is a common behaviour that usually replaces sitting, and that can be encouraged in the workplace with interventions such as sit - stand desks.

The authors say: «The most important public health implication of our analysis was that decreases in overall IPD rates in children — the group targeted for PCV7 vaccination — occurred quickly and were sustained after vaccine introduction despite increases in [non-vaccine serotype] rates.»

Multidrug resistant H58 has spread across Asia and Africa over the last 30 years, and created a previously underappreciated and ongoing epidemic through countries in eastern and southern Africa with important public health consequences.

This is an important public health issue even in the wealthiest of countries and more research is required into better treatments, better implementation of the tools we already have, and ongoing surveillance of the problem.

«Using cotinine level to measure exposure to second - hand smoke has important public health implications, because increasing the scope of smoke - free environments would likely decrease cotinine levels in the general population and ultimately death,» said Emanuela Taioli, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Translation Epidemiology at Mount Sinai.