Sentences with phrase «increased public health measures»

To help improve health in future generations, the authors call for a joint focus, including better guidance and support for individuals planning pregnancy, and increased public health measures to reduce obesity and improve nutrition.

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The exclusion of health services, as well as a number of other services provided by the public sector, largely explains the relatively modest increase in the market goods and services excluding volatile items measure of underlying inflation over the past year.

Among public health measures for the prevention of obesity are the need to restrict the consumption of energy - dense snacks and sugar - sweetened soft drinks and to increase the consumption of whole grains and energy - dilute vegetables and fruit (15).

From that time, governments began to justify increasing duties as a public health measure.

The tobacco industry makes grand gestures in the direction of its competition, and claims that effective public health measures will increase the illicit and counterfeit tobacco trade.

«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.

As public health officials worry that the increase of opioid use among young adults has helped to spread the hepatitis C virus to a new generation, a study in Rhode Island finds that while screening is common, the follow - up measures needed to stop the spread of the virus are significantly less so.

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.»

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.»

This was a public health measure to increase the population - wide consumption of folic acid as a widespread tool for decreasing the risk of NTDs.

In a study of children in a mountainous area of Greece with a high prevalence of goiter, public - health measures taken to eliminate iodine deficiency were followed by a three-fold increase in the prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis.

The increase in human life expectancy has had little to do with medicines and immunizations; the greatest strides have been from public health measures, treating our water and our sewage.

Foremost among them is that we need to employ externally funded public health measures in order to increase population and lifespans in countries whose biospheres can not support them.

Under PM's Vice President of Corporate Affairs Ellen Merlo, the department was responsible for the formation of the smokers rights front group the National Smokers Alliance, a fake «grassroots» group set up to protest public smoking laws, cigarette tax increases and other public health measures.

I'm generally in agreement with Bob and Gary M, but the increase in longevity was, and is continuing to be, primarily from public health measures, chief among them treating water and sewage.

Despite the ongoing increase in air's CO2 content, various measures of public health and welfare — life - expectancy, heat - related mortality, weather - related mortality, air quality, agricultural productivity — continue to improve.