Sentences with phrase «major public health emergency»

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.

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EAST NEW YORK — The six major mayoral candidates accused Mayor Michael Bloomberg of turning his back on the victims of Superstorm Sandy Thursday night, and warned the mold epidemic that has emerged in its wake is now a public health emergency.

In a major speech this afternoon President Donald Trump will direct his Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emerHealth and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emerhealth emergency.

The most crowded emergency departments in the U.S. have not adopted proven interventions to address crowding, a major public health concern.

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The study is the culmination of a rapid collaboration between academic researchers at several universities — including Monash in Australia as well as many institutions in the U.S. and Canada — and a major public health agency, the CDC, in the face of a truly international public health emergency.