Dr. McFarlane is Associate Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii Office
of Public Health Studies.
Many
of these public health studies attracted a great deal of publicity because they seemed to settle the question of risk once and for all.
VICE News made numerous email and telephone queries over the past month to spokespeople for the Army, the Navy, and the Department of Defense seeking comment on the Army Institute
of Public Health study and the treatment of troops before and after their deployment to Guantanamo.
Between 2008 and 2011, the joint task force that operates the detention facility secretly evacuated at least 19 troops who had worked in detainee operations due to severe «behavioral health reasons,» according to an Army Institute
of Public health study obtained exclusively by VICE News.
Just 12.2 percent of women ages 50 and older are satisfied with their body size, according to a UNC's Gillings School
of Public Health study.
The Rudd study, when paired with similar findings from a previous Harvard School
of Public Health study, make a very strong case that we must stay the course on the new healthier school meal standards.
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School
of Public Health study published in the November 2007 issue of Obesity Research found that per capita total daily intake of liquid calories in the United States increased 94 percent from 1965 to 2002.
These findings are contradicted by an earlier Harvard School
of Public Health study, which found that fruit consumption was holding steady and vegetable consumption had increased due to the HHFKA.
For the first time, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School
of Public Health studied the effects of gestational weight gain on childhood obesity risk among a multi-ethnic urban population.
Late - and post-menopausal women have significantly greater volumes of fat around their hearts — a risk factor for heart disease — than their pre-menopausal counterparts, a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School
of Public Health study has shown for the first time.
A Harvard School
of Public Health study found that a diet which included brown rice reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes by 16 %.
Check out our online potatoes vs. nuts database specifically prepared for use with the Washington Post article about the Harvard School
of Public Health study.
American Journal
of Public Health Study: Effects of physical activity on cognitive functioning in middle age
I would also point readers to a Harvard School
of Public Health study linking extreme heat and mortality:
Not exact matches
To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives
of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School
of Public Health to rigorously measure and
study the initiative.
Take, for example, the recently published report entitled «
Public Health Consequences
of E-Cigarettes,» by the National Academies
of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — which the Academies helpfully point out is a «congressionally mandated»
study.
«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor
of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School
of Public Health and the lead
study author, said in a statement.
Public health experts are divided on the question, but a new
study is the first
of its kind to suggest that for some people, the devices could help more than they hurt.
In fact, a recent
study in the American Journal
of Public Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the p
Public Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the
public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the p
public interest and explicitly favored the interests
of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest
of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the
publicpublic.
«In the early days
of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication
of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and
public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the
study.
A report by Lloyd's and the University
of Cambridge, which
studied the insurance implications
of a cyber attack on the U.S. power grid, paints a financial, economic and
public health nightmare.
The
study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, was requested by the Brazilian
health ministry to investigate the causes of the microcephaly epidemic that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency earlier this
health ministry to investigate the causes
of the microcephaly epidemic that the World
Health Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency earlier this
Health Organization (WHO) declared an international
public health emergency earlier this
health emergency earlier this year.
The
study, by Yusuke Tsugawa and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School
of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and other institutions, examined the record
of a large random sample
of Medicare patients, 65 years or older, who were hospitalized from January 2011 to December 2014.
Marion Nestle, a professor
of nutrition, food
studies, and
public health at New York University, concurs.
Steven Blair, a professor
of public health at the University
of South Carolina, came to a similar conclusion in another research
study in May 2010.
Americans, on average, consume twice as much added sugar as is recommended, according to Marion Nestle, PhD., professor in the department
of Nutrition, Food
Studies, and
Public Health at New York University who posted a comment on the nutrition label proposals.
For a recent
study published in the Journal
of the American College
of Cardiology, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School
of Public Health analyzed the eating habits of more than 200,000 health care workers over the course of more than 20
Health analyzed the eating habits
of more than 200,000
health care workers over the course of more than 20
health care workers over the course
of more than 20 years.
Expanding community
health worker programs could save more than 3.6 million lives each year, according to a study by the Johns Hopkins School of Public H
health worker programs could save more than 3.6 million lives each year, according to a
study by the Johns Hopkins School
of Public HealthHealth.
It comes as a new
study shows nearly 80 per cent
of the British
public see no signs
of improvement for hundreds
of thousands
of vulnerable children who are at risk
of serious issues such as neglect, poverty, bad
health or homelessness.
Report
of a
study undertaken by the Committee on
Public Health Relations
of the New York Academy
of Medicine under a grant from the Research Council on Problems
of Alcohol, 1947.
A recent
study of tobacco ads concludes: «In the face
of increasing
public knowledge about the
health risks
of smoking and the shrinking population
of current smokers, the tobacco industry has portrayed smoking in advertisements in a misleading manner — as adventuresome, healthy, safe, and erotic, images in stark contrast to the voluminous data implicating smoking as a factor in ill
health.
In a recent article on FoxNews.com, Parents Television Council president Tim Winter comments on a 2004
study from the Harvard School
of Public Health showing evidence that today's movies contain significantly more violence, sex and profanity than movies
of the same rating a decade ago.
Scientists at the Harvard School
of Public Health followed 39,765 men and 157,463 women as part
of the
Health Professionals Follow - up
Study and the Nurses»
Health Study I and II.
Responding to the Mexican National Institute
of Public Health and the University
of North Carolina's
study of the impact
of Mexico's national tax on sugar - sweetened beverages, Australian Beverages Council CEO Geoff Parker said:
Marion Nestle, a professor
of nutrition, food
studies and
public health at New York University, called the move by the sugar industry «appalling.»
Dr. Sommer is an internationally acclaimed
public health scientist who has been at the forefront
of research into vitamin A deficiency, leading major
studies that were fundamental to the current understanding
of the effect
of vitamin A supplementation on mortality, malnutrition, and blindness.
The
study, which was published in the American Journal
of Public Health, discovered that children who consumed two cups full - fat milk everyday, compared to those who either drank two cups
of low - fat or skim milk, were less than half as likely to be overweight.
The group with the highest sodium - to - potassium ratio had a mortality risk about 50 % higher during the
study than the group with the lowest, according to the report by Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, and the Harvard School
of Public Health.
One
study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard School
of Public Health compared the cardiovascular health of 4,000 participants with their intake of
Health compared the cardiovascular
health of 4,000 participants with their intake of
health of 4,000 participants with their intake
of CLAs.
Marion Nestle, a professor
of nutrition, food
studies and
public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»
A non-profit
study center, the Institute offers a variety
of educational and outreach programs with the mission
of inspiring men and women to lives
of public service and preserving the
health and future
of our democracy.
• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution
of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining
public education regarding what are best practices
of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; •
Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as
public health (and
health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..
A
study conducted by the Harvard School
of Public Health, highlighted that women who ate 16 or more strawberries per week, were 14 % less likely to have elevated levels
of C - reactive protein, a blood biomarker that signals the presence
of inflammation in the body.
A 2014
study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement
of 6 national medical societies
of a single PPE form as part
of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous
public support for PPE screening by a qualified
health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware
of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 %
of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.
It has long been said that tobacco and alcohol use during pregnancy can cause severe physical and mental
health complications, but new studies out of Harvard School of Public Health suggest adding a few more common chemicals to your blac
health complications, but new
studies out
of Harvard School
of Public Health suggest adding a few more common chemicals to your blac
Health suggest adding a few more common chemicals to your blacklist.
«I have great respect for the researchers at Harborview and think this was a good
study, and was great to see somebody providing data on youth younger than high school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School
of Public Health who has
studied extensively sports injuries at the high school level.
The
study concluded that «youth sports practices are making a less - than - optimal contribution to the
public health goals
of increasing physical activity and preventing childhood obesity.»
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.
A
study of almost 1,300 East Coast hospitals published Tuesday in the September issue
of Archives
of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine found that 94 percent distributed free samples
of infant formula to new mothers, despite opposition from a number
of medical and
public health organizations.
The SNA has maintained that this change increases plate waste, while other
studies, such as this one from the Harvard School
of Public Health, found no such increase.