Sentences with phrase «leads public health efforts»

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation.

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«New York proudly leads the fight against this public health crisis and this campaign will further our efforts to provide support, aid recovery, and take one more step toward a stronger, healthier Empire State.»

«Our findings indicate that even a best - case scenario will lead to an increase in extreme heat exposure in the future, so from a planning perspective, identifying potential hotspots will help target public health efforts,» says Jones.

Efforts to undermine the Clean Water Act and other federal initiatives must be strongly opposed, and I have led the charge against legislative proposals to roll back important clean water protections that may benefit some special interests, but risk public health and will damage the broader U.S. economy.

«Our study suggests that if we had looked at whether or not Zika would be a problem using previous epidemiological evidence, we would not have wasted energy or effort worrying about tourists getting Zika,» said Robert Snyder, the study's lead author and program manager for the Center for Global Public Health.

«You could imagine that, before even synthesizing [a chemical], a chemist puts the structure into the [tool] to ask if it's safe,» says toxicologist Thomas Hartung of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, who led the effort.

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

Lead exposure has been decreasing since the 1970s, validating public health efforts to reduce childhood exposure, the report says.

«Despite substantial public health efforts, flu vaccine rates for U.S. children are well below national targets,» says lead author Sarah J. Clark, M.P.H., associate director of the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health and associate research scientist in the U-M Department of Pediahealth efforts, flu vaccine rates for U.S. children are well below national targets,» says lead author Sarah J. Clark, M.P.H., associate director of the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health and associate research scientist in the U-M Department of PediaHealth and associate research scientist in the U-M Department of Pediatrics.

«Public health officials, legislators and clinicians should continue efforts and allocate resources to further decrease environmental lead exposure to children in all communities at risk.»

«Given all that is known about preventing heart disease, it is critical that public health communities work with local communities to support efforts to improve heart health,» said public health researcher Mark Ommerborn, lead author of the study.

According to one of the study's lead authors, Professor Maigeng Zhou, from the National Centre for Noncommunicable and Chronic Disease Control and Prevention in the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, China, «There is an ongoing effort by the Chinese Government to reform the health - care system, especially in terms of ensuring equal access for all to basic public health services.

«If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it's worse than either one on its own,» said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt... «Potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt,» said Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the study's authors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The research found people who eat a lot of salt and very little potassium were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those who ate about equal amounts of both nutrients.

He proposes that vitamin D's toxic effect is primarily the result of higher levels leading to a deficiency of vitamin K and postulates that patients can be given higher doses of vitamin D, potentially offering greater therapeutic value, by administering vitamins A, D and K simultaneously.41 It is hoped that future studies will evaluate their interactions, in order to better treat patients, and support public health efforts, as recently proposed by the Weston A. Price Foundation to the National Institutes of Health43 as the agency considers the Strategic Nutrition Research Agenda.

Informational: NHTSA has taken the lead with a national effort to educate parents, caretakers, public health professionals and the general public about the risks associated with heatstroke, and will continue to need the support of partners to push out messages and host events to keep the issue in front of the public.

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Like the founder, Dr. Glover, these individuals will lead future efforts in public health, disease control, veterinary care, food safety, biotechnology, higher education, and research.

He has led the effort to expose how tobacco interests hid the detrimental effects of their product on human health from the public and has advocated staunchly for policies to reduce smoking.

The finding of this research, which were subsequently published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, led us to extend the partnership into broader efforts to organize the medical community to respond to climate change.

California has led the nation in efforts to protect public health from diesel emissions, but the most impacted communities near ports, rail yards, and freeways still suffer from elevated risks.

Determining the effectiveness of public health efforts to reduce the exposure of the U.S. population to specific environmental chemicals (e.g., pesticides, lead, tobacco smoke)

«Governments and policy makers need to know what the health effects from climate change are and who is most at risk,» said John Balbus, M.D., NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) senior advisor for public health and lead for NIEHS» efforts on climate chealth effects from climate change are and who is most at risk,» said John Balbus, M.D., NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) senior advisor for public health and lead for NIEHS» efforts on climate cHealth Sciences (NIEHS) senior advisor for public health and lead for NIEHS» efforts on climate chealth and lead for NIEHS» efforts on climate change.

Since 2014 — in collaboration with leading medical and nursing societies and related organizations — we have been assessing clinicians» knowledge of and experiences with the health impacts of climate change, and supporting interested clinicians in their efforts to educate the public and policy makers about the health effects of climate change, and the health benefits of climate solutions.

While our attorneys have the expertise, experience and relationships to lead lobbying efforts on life sciences and health care regulation on both the executive and legislative levels, we have found that our strategic approach to legal matters — which is based in a long Foley Hoag tradition of public sector representation and administrative law — has been well suited for collaboration with our clients» internal and external lobbyists.

But it is the unrelenting efforts of government ministers and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) stoking the myth of the compensation culture which is damaging the standing of health and safety in the eyes of the public and leading to measures making it more difficult for injured workers to claim compensation such as the Jackson reforms.

Suicide was the eighth leading cause of death in the United States in 1998.1 Particularly high rates have been reported among young persons and older adults.1 - 7 Each year, more than 30 000 people in the United States commit suicide, but recognition of persons who are at high risk for suicide is difficult, making efforts to prevent its occurrence problematic.1,8 - 10 The US surgeon general brought attention to this complex public health issue by recommending that the investigation and prevention of suicide be a national priority.11

The Obama administration established the federal Responsible Fatherhood Working Group to coordinate federal efforts to support responsible fatherhood programs and father engagement.15 Led by the Office of Faith - based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the Office of Public Engagement, and the Domestic Policy Council, the group consists of members from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Justices, Labor, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Its members, who are dedicated clergy and faith leaders from different denominations and communities throughout the U.S., lead a national effort to increase public awareness of the theological and moral basis for advocating reproductive health.

The Iowa Department of Public Health is leading a significant cooperative effort to professionalize the workforce for home visitors and others providing family support services through the developmen...