Sentences with phrase «major public health»

Exposure to community violence and HIV sexual risks are two major public health concerns among youth.

HIV and AIDS represent a major public health problem facing today's young people.

Context Intimate partner violence against women is a major public health concern.

Partner Abuse, a peer - reviewed journal, recognizes that physical and emotional abuse among dating, cohabitating and married partners is as a major public health and social problem in North America and around the world.

Given the potentially major public health implications of these findings, the emphasis placed by NICE on the need for better identification, diagnosis and treatment of depression in both the antenatal and postnatal periods appears well justified.2

Abstract: Bullying is a major public health problem.

As with other major public health problems, the burden of suffering associated with aggression, bullying and violence will not be significantly reduced by clinical services alone; effective prevention programs are also urgently needed (Craig and Pepler 2003; Offord et al. 1998; Waddell et al. 2005, 2007).

There are additional warning signs in these two papers, and in the wider evidence base used to show the effectiveness of parenting programmes, 8,9 that caution against a major public health initiative based on these programmes, at least until a more robust evidence base is established.

Facilitating women's screening assessment and treatment pathway is a major public health issue as untreated postnatal depression has long - term consequences, not only for women, but also for infants and partners.

The ACEs study, along with other major epidemiological studies, show that we have a Major Public Health Epidemic that is actually getting relatively little attention in public discourse and has yet to seriously impact policy.

The reviews, the Health Care Home trial, public hospital funding, mental health, Indigenous health, and major public health issues such as combating obesity - all these things need urgent attention.

The family planning services delivered by safety - net family planning centers confer major public health benefits.

Early sexual intercourse among American adolescents represents a major public health problem.

Late - life depression has become a major public health problem, leading to suffering among older people and burdening those who care for them.

Suicide and suicidal behaviour are major public health concerns in the Northern Territory and across Australia.

At the population level, however, with more than 9 million men in the United States in their early fifties, a 3 percentage point reduction in heart attacks would be seen as a major public health achievement, because it would mean a quarter of a million fewer heart attacks in this group over a decade.

Intervention strategies designed to promote lifetime physical activity represent a major public health challenge and priority.

The Hazelwood coal mine fire that has been burning in Victoria's Latrobe Valley since February 9 is raising major public health issues for those living in and near the town of Morwell....

The 80 % by 2018 initiative is a National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (NCCRT) campaign in which hundreds of organizations have committed to substantially reducing colorectal cancer as a major public health problem.

A 2016 Surgeon General's report on e-cigarettes concluded that e-cigarette use among youth and young adults «is now a major public health concern.»

It is a major public health issue that needs to be taken care of at the earliest.

MODEL DISCLOSURE As everyone by now is aware, dementias due to Alzheimer's disease have now become a major public health problem.

«Every major public health victory of the last century has had effective communication at its heart.»

It might be preferable to designate degraded lands for agricultural purposes, except perhaps degraded peatlands, because they represent a major public health issue because of the toxic smoke they release when burning,» Gaveau said.

Climate change is a major public health threat, already making existing problems like asthma, exposure to extreme heat, food poisoning, and infectious disease more severe, and posing new risks from climate change - related disasters, including death or injury.

This is not only so we can cut carbon emissions and reduce climate change, but also because urban air pollution is one of the world's biggest killers and a major public health emergency.

Diarrheal disease is a major public health issue in developing countries and, while not generally increasing in the United States, remains a persistent concern nonetheless.

This group represents a cohesive and important body of work that documents three decades in the life of the major public health crisis of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

Despite a federal ban enacted in 1975 because Salmonella from pet turtles had become a major public health concern, baby turtles (those with shells less than four inches long) continue to be sold throughout the country.

«The elimination of canine rabies in the United States represents one of the major public health success stories in the last 50 years,» said Charles Rupprecht, chief of the CDC Rabies Program.

Given the fatal nature of rabies and the number of increased incidences of rabies in cats, this has become a major public health concern.

The lack of a generally accepted method of diagnosis, treatment, and follow - up for those children is «a major public health problem,» a panel of medical experts convened by the NIH said in a statement released last week.

Over the past decade, though, drug - resistant infections have become a reality in the general population, and one of them has forced several school districts into the forefront of a battle against a major public health threat.

Dr. Hu recommended that the Dietary Guidelines should continue to be evaluated for their ability to reduce risk of chronic diseases that are of major public health concern.

All major public health agencies still advise using sunscreens, but they also stress the importance of shade, clothing and timing.

Pain is a major public health problem and is the most common reason why Americans use complementary and integrative health practices.

«The age - related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function is a major public health problem.

Diabetes is a major public health problem affecting 25.8 million Americans or as many as 8 % of the general population, but up to 30 % of those with Hashimoto's!

Sleep, nutrition, and exercise — these are the 3 «pillars» of good health in the Army's Performance Triad, a major public health campaign to support the well - being and readiness of soldiers.

A major public health issue, depression is estimated to become one of the top three contributors to the global burden of diseases within a few years.

Back problems are almost epidemic in our society; in fact, chronic back pain lies at the root of the escalating opioid crisis, which has turned into a major public health issue in the U.S. Not surprisingly, the American College of Physicians now recommends that doctors recommend self - care techniques like yoga and Tai Chi for back pain sufferers before prescribing addictive drugs.

Osteoporosis is a major public health concern, and as reported by the National Osteoporosis Foundation, in excess of 200 million people around the world are affected by osteoporosis.

Wendy Craig, PhD, a professor of psychology at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, says that bullying and obesity are both major public health concerns that teachers and schools — and not just parents — need to address.

«You put all of that together, and depression during pregnancy is a major public health issue.»

Heart disease is a major public health crisis in America.

«We believe that this knowledge may be important for the further understanding of complex interactions in some major public health issues, that modern science still hasn't been able to explain fully», says Antonio Barragan,

Osteoporosis already is a major public health problem affecting about 44 million Americans and costing billions annually.

Amid the complex system of American health care, where progress has lagged in the prevention and early detection of cancer, a major public health project is underway in San Francisco with one ambitious goal: reducing cancer in the city where the disease is the leading cause of death.

Type 2 diabetes is a major public health threat linked to the obesity epidemic.

A new network of 25 regional stroke centers and satellite facilities - the NIH Stroke Trials Network (NIH StrokeNet)-- is working to change the way stroke research is conducted in the U.S. Despite advances of the last two decades, stroke remains a major public health problem.