Sentences with phrase «important public health priority»

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.

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«Our investment here signifies our commitment to discovering and developing new vaccines across a range of pressing public health priorities, including those important here in the U.S,» Luc Debruyne, president, GSK Vaccines, said in a statement.

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.

As the single most important cause of serious lower respiratory tract disease in infants and young children in the United States and globally, RSV is of considerable public health importance and a high priority for vaccine development.

An article in the edition highlighted important milestones in the history of health and medical research in Australia, covering the establishment of the National Health and Medical Research Council, the broadening of Australian research to include biomedical science, clinical medicine, public health and health services, and the adoption of Indigenous health research as a strategic priority for our cohealth and medical research in Australia, covering the establishment of the National Health and Medical Research Council, the broadening of Australian research to include biomedical science, clinical medicine, public health and health services, and the adoption of Indigenous health research as a strategic priority for our coHealth and Medical Research Council, the broadening of Australian research to include biomedical science, clinical medicine, public health and health services, and the adoption of Indigenous health research as a strategic priority for our cohealth and health services, and the adoption of Indigenous health research as a strategic priority for our cohealth services, and the adoption of Indigenous health research as a strategic priority for our cohealth research as a strategic priority for our country.

Mental health promotion is now a national priority and support for parents is recognised as an important element of public health policy.