Sentences with phrase «majority of public health»

You may not know this: the majority of public health education comes from the marketing departments of Fortune 500 companies.

«Most hookah smokers in the U.S. are not daily users, whereas many cigarette smokers smoke multiple times a day, so it may seem that the vast majority of public health and policy - related interventions should be directed at cigarette smoking,» said study author Dr. Brian Primack.

Not exact matches

Togbe's other current directorships include: • Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club Ltd (Chairman), Ghana's premier football club • Africa Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership, a partnership of African development organizations • Africa World Airlines Ltd (Co-chairman), a domestic and regional carrier • Aluworks Ghana Ltd, an aluminium rolling mill listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) • Ensign College of Public Health, a private university training public health practitioners • National Investment Bank Ltd (Chairman), a majority state - owned, publicly traded universal bank • Sunon Asogli Power (Ghana) Ltd, an independent power generating company Among Togbe's many awards and recognitions are the follPublic Health, a private university training public health practitioners • National Investment Bank Ltd (Chairman), a majority state - owned, publicly traded universal bank • Sunon Asogli Power (Ghana) Ltd, an independent power generating company Among Togbe's many awards and recognitions are the follHealth, a private university training public health practitioners • National Investment Bank Ltd (Chairman), a majority state - owned, publicly traded universal bank • Sunon Asogli Power (Ghana) Ltd, an independent power generating company Among Togbe's many awards and recognitions are the follpublic health practitioners • National Investment Bank Ltd (Chairman), a majority state - owned, publicly traded universal bank • Sunon Asogli Power (Ghana) Ltd, an independent power generating company Among Togbe's many awards and recognitions are the follhealth practitioners • National Investment Bank Ltd (Chairman), a majority state - owned, publicly traded universal bank • Sunon Asogli Power (Ghana) Ltd, an independent power generating company Among Togbe's many awards and recognitions are the following:

P.L. 89 - 749, Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Services Amendments of 1966, requires that a state health - planning council be established and that a majority of the membership shall consist of representatives of consumers of health serHealth Planning and Public Health Services Amendments of 1966, requires that a state health - planning council be established and that a majority of the membership shall consist of representatives of consumers of health serHealth Services Amendments of 1966, requires that a state health - planning council be established and that a majority of the membership shall consist of representatives of consumers of health serhealth - planning council be established and that a majority of the membership shall consist of representatives of consumers of health serhealth services.

Additionally, although I don't at all doubt that nutrition policy makers are qualified to make decisions on the majority of guidelines regarding public health, I do question whether it is fair for them to decide what is and isn't achievable for the public in terms of food related behaviour, and to set the guidelines pertaining to this accordingly.

While the vast majority of our consumers enjoy alcohol in moderation, harmful drinking is a serious global public health issue.

With a rapidly increasing majority of Americans using smartphones and / or tablets and consuming four to five meals a week in restaurants, finding healthy choices on - the - go has become an important driver of modern public health.

India led the near successful call from the majority of countries — that trade concerns must not take precedence over public health and child rights and that the WHO Guidance and its norms must not only have «weight» in trade terms but that Member States can take additional action to end inappropriate promotion.

Research by ICM for the Guardian newspaper saw both the Tories and Liberal Democrats suffer as an outright majority of public opinion turned against the government's controversial changes to the health service.

The majority of the literature has been researched from the perspective of public health, focusing on the mortality or morbidity brought about by smoking cigarettes.

The size of the NHS — almost # 1 in every # 5 of public spending, employing over a million people — makes problems in the health service hard to manage even for governments with a healthy majority.

Tough new EU rules could see the majority of e-cigarettes forced off the market, in a move which could have dramatic consequences for public health.

Klein called the proposal a «very exciting development» but added the new Democratic coalition majority would need to be able to pass a range of issues sought by the left, including bolstering abortion rights, single - payer health care and the public financing of campaigns.

Jon Stewart made a brief return to The Daily Show last night to continue his public shaming of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for stonewalling the extension of a bill that would guarantee health care for 9/11 first responders.

The ACMD report, «Cannabis: Classification and Public Health», published in May 2008, concluded that «after a most careful scrutiny of the totality of the available evidence, the majority of the Council's members consider - based on its harmfulness to individuals and society - that cannabis should remain a Class C substance.»

While the news media and public were distracted by the questions swirling around the future leadership of the Senate Republican majority, the Senate this week appeared to quietly fast - track a bill that would lock in tens of billions of dollars of unfunded lifetime health insurance coverage for police and firefighters.

But the majority of mental health professionals have refrained from making public statements, following a self - imposed principle known as the «Goldwater rule», adopted by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1973.

«It really exemplifies the fact that 80 percent of the public support medicinal cannabis and even a majority of people support a recreational law,» said Kyle Kingsley, the CEO of Vireo Health, whose company is one of five that operate in the state's medical marijuana program, in an interview on Capital Tonight.

Just after last Thursday's health care summit at Blair House, the folks at YouTube corralled three of Congress» top officials — Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader John Boehner, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — and had them answer, on video, the same five questions from the public that had been bubbled up to the top of the project using Google Moderator.

A senior aide tells CNN that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is likely to include an «opt out» version of the public insurance option in the Senate health care bill Reid is currently crafting.

The majority of reproductive - age and pregnant women who use opioids for non-medical purposes also use at least one other substance, ranging from nicotine or alcohol to cocaine, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health analysis.

As a result, Professor Wolke argues that public health strategies to prevent bullying overall should still mainly focus on combatting traditional, face - to - face bullying — as that is the root cause of the vast majority of cyberbullying.

The majority of the job opportunities at the intersection of social science and translational research are within academia — medical schools or schools of public health or social work — but job opportunities also exist at government agencies and private foundations and research institutes, Palinkas says.

And «the majority of these cases appeared to be health care — acquired,» says Elizabeth Bancroft, a medical epidemiologist with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and author of an editorial that accompanied the health care — acquired,» says Elizabeth Bancroft, a medical epidemiologist with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and author of an editorial that accompanied the Health and author of an editorial that accompanied the study.

The majority of resistant strains of pneumococcus are of types which are included in the vaccine, for this reason, vaccine introduction in South Africa, has led to a substantial decline in antibiotic resistant invasive pneumococcal disease,» said Dr Cheryl Cohen, co-author of the paper, Clinical Epidemiologist at the NICD and senior lecturer in the School of Public Health at Wits.

«Two years after the tragedy in Newtown, our study of public support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Hpublic support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HPublic Health.

A large majority of Americans — including gun owners — continue to support stronger policies to prevent gun violence than are present in current federal and most state law, according to a new national public opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public Hpublic opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public HPublic Health.

Drew Altman, Ph.D., of the Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, Calif., and William H. Frist, M.D., former U.S. Senate majority leader, analyzed the roles of Medicare and Medicaid in the health system using publicly available data and private surveys of the public and beneficiaries.

«Health officials in both Mississippi and West Virginia report that overwhelming majorities of the public support their policies and that opposition comes from a very small number of the population.

Research led at the Yale School of Public Health have found that the majority of published papers analyzing the cost - effectiveness of a widely used test for breast cancer used a study design that can increase bias.

In terms of human health, the report estimates $ 74.6 billion a year in public health burdens in Appalachian communities, with a majority of the impact resulting from increased healthcare costs, injury and death.

After all, «the majority of these infections are affecting young people — the demographic that is on their mobile phones all day long,» said Whitney Engeran Cordova, the senior director of the public health division for AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), in a press release applauding Tinder's new function.

But for the majority of us who don't work with chemicals, diet is the biggest source of exposure, says Jorge Chavarro, MD, assistant professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and senior author of a new study published in the journal Human Reproduction.

According to an informal survey of Friedman students, a majority (64 %) believe that handing out Halloween candy neither helps nor hurts public health nutrition policy, and only 55 % do not believe it is our responsibility as nutrition professionals to shift our current candy - centric Halloween culture.

Details are scarce, but in classic fashion, Malloy is targeting the majority of his new budget cuts on health care, human services, education and Connecticut's Public institutions of higher education.

I strongly support the community school model, as does the great majority of Americans — in the latest PDK poll, 74 % of respondents said they would approve of giving their schools additional public money to provide wrap - around services focusing on mental health, nutrition, college counseling, and other needs.

As my colleague Wendy Wagner and I have written in our book Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research, even though the vast majority of scientists would never consciously allow the potential for personal financial gain or loss to influence the outcome of their research, that potential should be disclosed to the reader so that the readers can decide for themselves whether to discount the reported results.

It is unlikely to be able to attribute any health effects in the future among the general public and the vast majority of workers.

APS, like the vast majority of fossil - fueled electric utilities, refuses to recognize the enormous costs of pollution to public health (17 - 27 cents / kWh for coal according to Dr. Paul Epstein from Harvard), the hidden costs of leaking coal ash ponds, and the looming costs of climate change, drought and extreme weather.

By growing the majority of fresh produce consumed by local and New York City residents, valley farms also play an important role in promoting public health for some 12 million people.

«In terms of human health, the report estimates $ 74.6 billion a year in public health burdens in Appalachian communities, with a majority of the impact resulting from increased healthcare costs, injury and death.

The poll reveals that a majority of Republicans actively oppose exactly what their leaders are trying to do in Congress right now — shutting down pollution rules that protect public health.

The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health of the legal marketplace (sure to be badly harmed by the cartelization of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel of real estate agencies who still control the vast majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four companies have upwards of 87 % of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.

Consequently, the majority upheld the disputed provisions of the Housing Regulation and the Standards as validly enacted public health measures.In a spirited dissent, Mr. Justice Berger agreed that the impugned provisions are validly enacted public health measures, but disagreed that they can be enforced in the context of a rented apartment unit.

The majority of Canadians support the public funding of health care and oppose attempts to shrink or compromise the system.

Fortunately, companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield are on board and recently began offering the telemedicine option to the majority of its customers, including those who purchase coverage on the public health insurance exchanges.

Majorities of Democrats, Clinton supporters, and individuals with a favorable view of the ACA say they favor both a government - administered public health insurance option and a public health insurance option.

This TPA will look into health claims, would handle majority of claims received by public general insurers

Yet still because of the lack of awareness by the public and health care professionals, the vast majority remain undiagnosed and therefore untreated, despite the fact that this serious disorder can have significant consequences.

«Planned Parenthood applauds the majority of members of Congress who stood up and voted in favor of children and families» health — and in favor of a commonsense prevention agenda,» said PPFA Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy Nancy Clack.