Sentences with phrase «major public health threat»

Surgeons General dating back to Ronald Reagan appointee C. Everett Koop have consistently cited the medical damage from gun violence as a major public health threat; Adams didn't reject that logic, but his wording underscores just how politically fraught the issue is.

Obesity is a major public health threat, yet doctors assess it using a 200 - year - old comparison of weight and height called the Body Mass Index, or BMI.

To fight this major public health threat, scientists are working to figure out how resistance spreads among bacteria.

Huib Ovaa, Jacques Neefjes and colleagues explain that the problem of antibiotic - resistant bacteria poses a major public health threat.

«C. difficile poses a major public health threat and there is an urgent need for protective vaccines.

Diseases that jump from other vertebrate hosts to humans are a major public health threat, but the evolutionary mechanisms behind these jumps are poorly understood.

Peter Piot co-discovered the deadly virus nearly 40 years ago, but says it wasn't thought a major public health threat — until now

Our results reveal contrasting evolutionary patterns among the lineages, with growing genetic diversities observed in each, and suggest that CHIKV will continue to be a major public health threat with the potential for further emergence and spread.

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

The study authors say the ongoing Zika outbreak is «a major public health threat.»

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.

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.