Sentences with phrase «major global health problem»

These diseases are quickly becoming a major global health problem.

Despite advances in the treatment and management of AIDS, there is no cure, and HIV infection remains a major global health problem.

«Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem and identifying new drug targets and candidate drugs is a major priority,» said David S. Perlin, Executive Director and Professor at the Public Health Research Institute and Rutgers Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the International Center for Public Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark.

«Acute malnutrition is still a major global health problem.

One prime example of this is GMO «Golden Rice», which was touted as a way to help solve a major global health problem by providing kids adequate amounts of Vitamin A.

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Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

When it comes to major environmental problems such as global warming, he believes that our ability to cope depends on a broad - based educational push for earth sciences, of the kind we already have for biology and public health.

Just one in 20 people worldwide (4 · 3 %) had no health problems in 2013, with a third of the world's population (2 · 3 billion individuals) experiencing more than five ailments, according to a major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2013, published in The Lancet.

Worm infections represent a major global public health problem, leading to a variety of debilitating diseases and conditions, such as anemia, elephantiasis, growth retardation and dysentery.

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.

That may soon be of bigger concern than global warming especially in underdeveloped countries, where germs in such wastes get spread haphazardly and may lead to major health problems.

They are an ever growing and never ending mess that is loaded with germs, toxics and drugs and are the major cause of global water pollution and attendant health problems.