Sentences with phrase «many public health impacts»
«When you look at all the public health impacts and environmental conditions that were systematically ignored there is only one conclusion, that there were other motivations and incentives at play,» said Pramilla Malick of Protect Orange County, a local organization that has been opposing the project for several years.
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Conclusive new evidence has emerged of the public health impact of plain cigarette packs, two years after they were introduced in Australia.
Her letter, posted on her Facebook page, says in part «In order for the public to have confidence in in New York State's «health impact analysis» of shale fracking, a comprehensive public health impact study should be undertaken openly and transparently to resolve all shale fracking concerns once and for all.»
Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster asked state environmental regulators in November 2013 for a study to determine the public health impacts of air pollution in and around Niagara Falls.
The Ulster County executive has issued an executive order calling for a report on the public health impacts repealing the Affordable Care Act would have on the county's residents.
Hang says a comprehensive public health impact study should be conducted before any more steps are taken.
«It appears that Governor Cuomo has heard the public outcry about the need to fully assess and address public health impacts of fracking, but based on the administration's most recent statement, people remain in the dark about what is really happening.
«While it is welcome news that three highly regarded professionals have agreed to review the DEC's study on the public health impacts of fracking, the administration's intentionally obtuse approach to this entire process is unacceptable.
«The public health impact of adopting intensive treatment in the right patients is enormous,» says Adam Bress, University of Utah assistant professor of population health sciences.
The work should begin «by identifying the most pressing research questions with the greatest potential public health impact, and by assessing existing public health interventions being implemented across the Nation to prevent gun violence,» the president's memo states.
In addition, the researchers calculated the public health impact of healthcare emissions.
In 1993, Lurie wrote a report for the US Centers for Disease Control assessing the public health impact of needle exchange programmes.
The researchers concluded that providing PrEP according to the CDC guidelines strikes a good balance between public health impact and intervention efficiency, given these results.
The issue revolves around high levels of lead in drinking water and a 2007 paper in Environmental Health Perspectives that claimed «no identifiable public health impact» had resulted.
Mexico's focal point considers outbreak to be a «potential public health event of international importance» because it meets IHR criteria: severe public health impact and an unusual event.
«It's a timely thing to do and imaginative, and I applaud them for that,» says Peter Thorne, an environmental health scientist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, who studies the public health impacts of traditional livestock.
Other parasitic diseases with a huge public health impact include amoebiasis (which kills 100,000 per year), leishmaniasis (60,000), and schistosomiasis (20,000).
The researchers wanted to assess the public health impact of giving teens in London free bus travel.
Q: You also recommend that FDA go back and review all the existing opioids on the market for these kinds of public health impacts.
Foodborne disease has an enormous public health impact even if you count only the initial, acute episodes of illness.
If we intervene with it, it could give individual HIV - infected persons a modest immune recovery bump that will likely translate to big public health impact.»
«Future studies are needed to further investigate new types of electronic activity monitors and to test their feasibility, acceptability and ultimately their public health impact.»
The potential clinical significance of the bacteria needs to studied, and any public health impacts understood, he added.
China is home to about one third of the world's smokers and reducing smoking in China could have an enormous public health impact, even on a global scale.
[C] onduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it.The Secretary shall begin by identifying the most pressing research questions with the greatest potential public health impact, and by assessing existing public health interventions being implemented across the nation to prevent gun violence.
«There are a whole host of public health impacts that are going to hit home,» he said, before announcing a White House summit on climate change and public health, which Murthy will head later this spring.
Sixteen of the twenty EHSCCs funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) joined the working group to review the literature on the potential public health impact of UNGDO and to make recommendations for research.
However, significant concerns have arisen due to the lack of research on the public health impact of this type of energy extraction.
In addition to including public health impacts and environmental effects — which the LCOE typically does not — the research team used data to calculate county - specific costs for each technology.
«Assisted dying for psychiatric disorders: Serious public health impact.»
The alliance will employ Illumina's platform for high - multiplex single - nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping to develop tests for gene variants deCODE has previously shown to have impact on the risk of a growing number of common diseases with major public health impact.
Thailand Clinical Trials Development Trial MHRP, in collaboration with the P5, is planning an efficacy trial in a high - risk population of men who have sex with men (MSM) to hopefully improve upon the RV144 result and extend its relevance to at - risk populations to achieve the greatest public health impact.
Large fires are becoming more common and severe, and the smoke from these fires has serious public health impact
NIH Clinical Center (CC)-- Est. in 1953 The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first - in - human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state - of - the - art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.
And, she added that, «because research indicates that Alzheimer's and other dementias develop over several decades, increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior beginning in early adulthood may have a significant public health impact.»
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As a participant, you agree to test your vitamin D levels twice a year during a five - year study, and share your health status to demonstrate the public health impact of this nutrient.
«While the shift in stage I cancers was modest, it translates into a potentially significant public health impact,» the authors wrote.
This is a critical set of directions that will advance the agenda of prevention science into the public policy arena and move the prevention field towards realizing widespread public health impacts.
This year's conference theme, Optimizing the Relevance of Prevention Science to Systems, recognizes the importance of enhancing the effectiveness of prevention science for public health impact at scale throughout the world.
World Rabies day is meant to spread public awareness of this disease and the public health impact of Rabies.
Public health impact: Most puppies and kittens are vaccinated for Rabies at approximately 4 months of age.
If environmental harm and public health impact aren't enough to help someone quit smoking, these high - definition images showing the effects of tobacco in the womb may do the trick.
The public health impact has been estimated several ways, including in «Impact of the Volkswagen emissions control defeat device on U.S. public health,» a paper in Environmental Research Letters, and by the Upshot unit at The Times.
Public health impact of global heating due to climate change: Potential effects on chronic non-communicable diseases
Jackson, J. E., M. G. Yost, C. Karr, C. Fitzpatrick, B. K. Lamb, S. H. Chung, J. Chen, J. Avise, R. A. Rosenblatt, and R. A. Fenske, 2010: Public health impacts of climate change in Washington State: Projected mortality risks due to heat events and air pollution.
Kjellstrom, T., A. J. Butler, R. M. lucas, and R. Bonita, 2010: Public health impact of global heating due to climate change: Potential effects on chronic non-communicable diseases.
Green freight programs work with the freight industry to minimize the public health impacts of diesel emissions by promoting technologies that reduce emissions from the combustion of diesel, including particulate matter (PM) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx), which benefits the health of vulnerable populations.
The senators also took Shaw to task for his vote to renew permits for Asarco's copper smelter in El Paso and for one that denied citizens a hearing on the public health impacts of a cement kiln in Midlothian, near Fort Worth.
We continue to make this data freely available for research, and so far our decade - by - decade analysis has been cited in at least six peer - reviewed studies on the environmental and public health impacts of MTR.