Sentences with phrase «many public health campaigns»

Political instability and dangerous conditions in Syria have made it difficult to wage a large - scale public health campaign against infectious diseases like polio.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, meanwhile, has been on the vanguard of no - holds - barred public health campaigns in malaria and HIV — efforts that, to some extent, have helped rewrite the rules of engagement.

More inter-sector collaboration is required to incorporate these schemes into public health campaigns to help consumers make healthier food choices.

Three - day ride unites fresh produce industry to benefit nationwide «Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools» public health campaign

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at school.

«Exercise is medicine» is the slogan for ACSM's public health campaign to teach people the importance of living an active lifestyle «Exercise is better than medicine» would also be a good slogan!

One recent study demonstrated that avoiding autonomy threat, along with appealing to teens growing sense of social justice, could inspire them to make healthy food choices — something traditional public health campaigns have been unsuccessful at.

But that is the unambiguous message of a controversial government public health campaign encouraging new mothers to breast - feed for six months to protect their babies from colds, flu, ear infections, diarrhea and even obesity...

Is Jamie Oliver's food revolution a marketing tool or a public health campaign?

Public health campaigns would be best administered if they did their homework on the true science of mother - baby - sleep.

In the 45 years since he became a neurosurgeon in Boston, Cantu has become a fixture on the front lines of a public health campaign that is reshaping the way football in America is played.

Learn about their school food service program and help create a marketing and public health campaign around fresh, Washington grown fruits and vegetables in their school.

Desperately trying to raise money to fund research that drives public health campaigns that literally stops babies dying.

Or alternatively, just ensuring public health campaigns and antenatal clinics informing parents of the infection and advising on a private test.

Public health campaigns that focus on increasing the social acceptability of breast - feeding may prove effective in addressing this cultural barrier.

Areas requiring urgent attention include social support for breastfeeding mothers, public health campaigns to raise awareness, employer schemes to support mothers returning to work and breastfeeding welcome schemes to enable mothers to feel confident to breastfeed when not at home.

One solution is a widespread, well - funded public health campaign to inoculate kids against the forces that lead to unhealthful eating, akin to that used to discourage teen smoking.

My husband has been enormously supportive with breastfeeding all 3 of our kids and with the 4th due to arrive in August, he's even asked me if it would be okay to take pictures of me nursing in various places as part of a public health campaign (he's a preventive medicine doc).

It was a public health campaign, not La Leche League, that proclaimed «Babies Were Born to be Breast - fed» and showed a pregnant woman getting tossed off a mechanical bull in a bar.

As a result of the well - intentioned but occasionally problematic public health campaign in support of breastfeeding, our society's understanding of nursing has led to some really judgy behavior toward parents.

Thanks to another well - meaning, but not appropriately nuanced, public health campaign about safe sleeping conditions for babies, many people have become convinced that parents sleeping with their babies and young children is mortally dangerous to them.

USDA spokeswoman Cortney Rowe says the department does not endorse the «Meatless Monday» initiative, which is part of a global public health campaign.

The finding that mother - infant co-sleeping on separate surfaces confers reduced risk of SIDS but some forms of same surface co-sleeping increase risk (under certain circumstances, see below), has given rise to recent public health campaigns against any and all bedsharing in the United States.29 However, when examined in detail, epidemiological studies reveal inconsistent findings as to whether or not, to what degree, or under what circumstances bedsharing represents a consistent risk factor for SIDS and / or SUID.

As well as looking at how young people obtain alcohol, the government will also attempt to deter them from binge drinking with renewed public health campaigns, as well as warnings targeted at teenage girls about what alcohol can do to their looks.

«Like most ED doctors I have seen a huge amount of alcohol - related admission [s]... I believe we need an enormous national public health campaign, and stronger minimum alcohol pricing.»

Alleged over-provision for rural health facilities and boreholes, already provisioned for; and alleged scrapping of funds to buy drugs for major public health campaigns, like HIV / AIDS and Polio.

The reduction is likely attributed to local outreach, public health campaigns and the passage of New York's I - STOP law, which helps monitor drug prescriptions statewide, according to the report.

«This is a hate campaign, not a public health campaign,» said Audrey Silk, the founder of Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, who warned of conflicts if the law is enforced.

A Bloomberg - era NYC public health campaign to improve the self - esteem of young girls susceptible to eating disorders, bullying and alcohol abuse may get a second life in D.C.

«However, we welcome the government's commitment to a public health campaign, despite the lack of detail around funding.

He recommends a public health campaign similar to anti-smoking efforts.

Critics point to links between cannabis use and psychosis, which last week led to calls for global public health campaigns from experts who said young people were particularly vulnerable.

Correction: January 10, 2006, Tuesday A front - page article on Friday about the Bloomberg administration's public health campaign regarding a circumcision rite practiced by some Orthodox Jews gave incorrect names in some copies for the group of rabbis opposing the campaign.

«All the public health campaigns in this country required concerted efforts over many years,» says pediatrician David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital.

Perhaps this is why, aside from public health campaigns, there is little evidence of product advertisers using disgust as part of their marketing strategies.

In an interview, Leventhal adds that restricting such advertising is an important target for public health campaigns and policies to limit youth use of tobacco products.

The hunter - gatherer is an important messenger in Lieberman's public health campaign, but his lifestyle isn't a panacea.

If found in patients living in places not widely known to have birthwort exposure, such a fingerprint could be a sign that public health campaigns are needed.

The findings suggest that public health campaigns need more testing, according to the researchers.

Our experiences with anti-tobacco and other public health campaigns provide insight into viable strategies for diminishing the contribution of poor nutrition to cancer.

They acknowledge some study limitations, but say their paper is the first to combine results across many studies covering both coronary heart disease and stroke, «making it a valuable reference that can be used to strengthen public health campaigns, and provide a strong health incentive for smokers to stop completely (particularly women).»

The greatest lesson for other public health campaigns, he says, is that «top - down policy alone is not sustainable.

For example, when researchers developed a simple urine screening test for neuroblastoma — a childhood cancer that arises in immature nerve cells — officials in Japan launched a public health campaign to screen infants.

«We've been targeting traditional risk factors in public health campaigns for many years,» said Susan Cheng, M.D., M.P.H., study lead author and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass. «We wanted to take a look at how well we've been doing over time at keeping these risk factors from causing heart and vascular disease — both by preventing the risks from occurring and by minimizing their effects when they do occur.»

«People need to be aware of these fake social media accounts, and public health campaigns should be implemented to counteract the most dangerous unhealthy behaviors these bots are encouraging.»

He continues, «Cultural attitudes and values and the public's tolerance for distracted driving need to be targeted by informative and persuasive public health campaigns that make evident the need and create a public demand for individual behavior change.»

While the successful public health campaign to improve infant sleep environments has long been associated with declines in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), an analysis of 30 years of data by researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Dana - Farber Cancer Institute suggests that Back - to - Sleep is one of several trends that explain the reduced rates of SIDS.

According to Jennifer Hay, who is a behavioral scientist and clinical health psychologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, public health campaigns concerning skin cancer are mostly linked to skin tone.

WCTC 1450 AM — «Jersey Central» with host Bert Baron — March 17, 2015 In recognition of the public health campaign «Kick Butts» that encourages young people to give up smoking, Dr. Michael Steinberg, director of the Rutgers Tobacco Dependence Program shared the benefits of quitting and how to get started.

Reversing the obesity trends reported in the study will likely require a concerted public health campaign similar to the one that has reduced smoking rates.