Sentences with phrase «leading public health threats»

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The United States is failing to seriously address lead poisoning in its low - income communities, a severe public health threat touching more than 535,000 children a year, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said Wednesday.

The United States is failing to seriously address lead poisoning in its low - income communities, a severe public health threat touching more than 535,000 children a year, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said.

«As long as childhood lead poisoning remains a public health threat in Oneida County, children's health, education and employment opportunities will be impacted across their life spans resulting in higher taxes for residents to cover the costs of healthcare, special education and social services.

But the monitor's primary task would be to expedite repairs to problems like broken boilers, mold and lead paint, which pose a threat to public health.

«The emergence of A H7N9 influenza in March 2013 posed a public health threat both locally and internationally because of the risk for airborne transmission,» said K.Y. Yuen, MD, FRCPath, a lead author of the study.

Eventually, the effort might lead to a way to predict new pathogens before they emerge as public health threats.

«Air quality is leading environmental threat to public health: Switzerland tops the report while India falls to the bottom tier.»

Public interest in possible health threats posed by EDCs is on the rise, leading to development of federal and state policies designed to regulate or mediate perceived EDC health risk.

Given the pressing need to better understand this growing public health threat, our team in the Broad Fungal Genomics group (led by Christina Cuomo)-- in partnership with Anastasia Litvintseva at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and institutions around the globe — have examined outbreak isolates using whole - genome sequencing.

Professor Neil Ferguson, lead author of the research from the School of Public Health at Imperial, explained: «This study uses all available data to provide an understanding of how the disease will unfold - and allows us to gauge the threat in the imminent future.

And one in eight inspections led to immediate closure because of a «serious threat to public health.»