Sentences with phrase «making global burden»

But Murray is committed to making global burden datasets a constantly updated, freely available public resource rather than a once - every - other - decade publication.

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«This is the first comprehensive study of its kind and shows the potential to not only reduce the global cancer burden, but also guide clinical decision - making with regard to childhood vaccinations,» said Marc T. Goodman, PhD, MPH, senior author of the study and director of Cancer Prevention and Genetics at the Cedars - Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.

To reduce the burden of anemia, health officials need a better picture of the disease's global impact, an understanding made viable by a portable and affordable way to analyze blood.

The authors say «We have provided the first evidence that two brief psychological therapies targeting the two leading mental health related causes of the global burden of disease, delivered by the same lay counsellor in routine primary care, to patients who had never received such therapies before, can lead to sustained improvements in health over one year, and that the investments made in providing this intervention is excellent value for money.

The ENCODE project that tries to make sense of the flood of human genetic information and the CERN high - energy physics lab are examples, he told the meeting, «and the global burden of disease is in that category.

Growing global trade is critically important for providing food when and where it's needed — but it makes it harder to link the benefits of food and the environmental burden of its production.

China will make the decision not only with the understanding of its own situation... but also the overall design of the global responsibility system, including looking at the share of burden or benefits in the process from other countries — for example the United States, Europe, Japan.

A forceful statement of leadership would be made if the EU were to simply and unilaterally commit to carrying its proper share of the global 2ºC burden.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

However, a counter argument can be made that a regime is just if total emissions from the area within the jurisdiction of the government are below the government's fair share of safe global emission regardless of whether some emitters are not covered by the government's ghg allocation because governments have the right to make decisions distributing the burdens and benefits of government policies within their jurisdiction.

The aim of the meeting was to review evidence related to the implications of global climate and ecological change on the communicable disease burden of Europe, assess the preparedness of health systems, develop scientific advice, identify research needs, and make recommendations to Member States.

Despite the coming low - carbon energy revolution, we can't expect to make that escape without systems of global cooperation, burden sharing and accountability to help us along, systems that can only be rooted in a fair multilateral accord.

It wasan interesting exercise, because, with this proposal, Vattenfallstepped beyond generalities and (a first for the business sector, as far as we know) and made a specific, quantitative proposal for a global burden sharing framework that it quite explicitly claimed to be fair.

This has already begun to make a measureable difference to global sea levels, and were the entire island to shed its burden of ice — a process that would take a considerable time − then sea levels would rise by seven metres or more.