Sentences with phrase «on public health challenges»

«This was a timely symposium for Cuban and U.S. scientists to exchange and share experiences on public health challenges facing both countries, the world and the region of the Americas in particular,» said Marga Gual Soler, senior project director at the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy.

Not exact matches

Passed amidst bitter partisan division and an ambivalent public... the right depends on private actors, private health insurance companies, and willing states to administer and participate in a newly transparent, competitive, and streamlined private health insurance market, while these same actors hesitate to invest in the infrastructure of this market due to uncertainty from legal and political challenges to the ACA.

If religious people stay out of politics and other aspects of public interest then I would say they are free to do as they please, but when they want to push their beliefs on the rest us and completely disregard the facts at the expense of our health and our planet then they become dangerous and must be challenged.

The minimum 50p per unit price, delayed for six years by a legal challenge led by the Scotch Whisky Association, has been welcomed by the medical professional and health campaigners as the biggest breakthrough in public health since the ban on smoking in public.

«With a public health challenge as serious and complex as obesity, we must ensure that policy decisions focused on public health are based on the best scientific evidence, which this recommendation is not,» said the Council's CEO Geoff Parker.

However, there is a need for progress to meet tomorrow's agricultural, environmental and societal challenges, to be vital for public health and wellbeing and to have a major impact on global food systems.

• 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..

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease preveHealth Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevehealth care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevehealth and disease prevention.

At the 3:28 - minute mark in the video that appears below, Gillibrand expressed disappointment that today's oral arguments on challenges to the health care reform law — Day One of what will be a three - day marathon — are not widely viewable by the general public.

The latter have long been on the public health agenda, but we are arguing that in order to make the most effective challenge to health inequalities, in addition a much wider range of intervention needs to be brought into play.

Ulster County has great opportunities and challenges facing it on sometimes overlapping issues like public health, infrastructure, economic development, job creation and environmental conservation.

To control the spread of cholera during an outbreak, rapid care for infected people is vital, including providing ready access to rehydration therapy — a huge challenge in a country where civil war has wreaked havoc on public health and other infrastructure.

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

«The mainstream media — in print and online — did little to report on health risks to the general population or to challenge the narratives of public officials and their experts,» Pascale said.

On July 12 a coalition filed suit against the EPA for its recently announced delay in the implementation of new public health — based standards for ozone pollution, on grounds similar to the methane challengOn July 12 a coalition filed suit against the EPA for its recently announced delay in the implementation of new public health — based standards for ozone pollution, on grounds similar to the methane challengon grounds similar to the methane challenge.

«Today is World Sight Day and Brien Holden Vision Institute is calling on the world — from governments and health agencies, to civil society, parents and schools — to protect the eye health of every child and adult and meet this major public health challenge of our time,» said Professor Kovin Naidoo, Acting CEO, Brien Holden Vision Institute.

To meet that challenge, Standley, along with a group of global health researchers based at Georgetown University Medical Center, have created a web - based tool easily accessible to public health decision - makers on the ground.

On the bigger picture, I think we're learning the lesson — and this is always the challenge in public health.

«It is challenging to lose weight, but if women commit to losing 10 percent of their body weight and sustain that over time, it can have a large impact on overall risk factors associated with heart disease and diabetes,» said Cynthia A. Thomson, Ph.D., R.D., co-author and Professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Director of the University of Arizona Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention & Health Promotion in Tucson.

Existing literature on infectious disease policy, ethics, and law, outside the context of genomics, describes the potential for stigmatization of individuals or subpopulations, the challenge of balancing individual interests and protections (for example, privacy, autonomy, freedom of movement) against risks of harm to others and to public health, issues of justice, and employer or health professional obligations [27], [28].

They were challenged on it, and one of the authors of the report, a nutritional epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health, responded: «We can't tell people to stop eating all meat and all dairy products.

But the public overwhelmingly supports curbs on power plant carbon pollution to protect public health and our climate, and that's true even in the states challenging the Plan.

«The report found that the Russian - sponsored news agency RT (formerly Russia Today) «r [an] anti-fracking programing, highlighting environmental issues and the impacts on public health,» which «is likely reflective of the Russian Government's concern about the impact of fracking and the U.S. natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to [Russian energy companies»] profitability.

An appeal can mean that publication of the notice on the Health and Safety Executive's public database is postponed pending the outcome of the challenge.

R (British Medical Association) v Secretary of State for Health (2016) The BMA sought to challenge the Health Secretary's decision to approve a new contract for junior doctors, on the grounds that he had failed to comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty.

To give one particularly controversial example of this increasingly common form of dispute, tobacco companies have challenged regulations on cigarette marketing in a few different countries as violating their rights as foreign investors, even though the regulations are clearly designed to promote public health and not to extract value from them.

The Congress addressed the opportunities and challenges presented by the rapid evolution of health information systems in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104 - 191, which was enacted on August 21,health information systems in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104 - 191, which was enacted on August 21,Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Public Law 104 - 191, which was enacted on August 21, 1996.

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While the case is perhaps most notable for a sustained blast by Sedley LJ against the injustice he sees as having been done to her by the previous health secretary who stepped in to stop the trust making the severance payment it had agreed, the principal judgment on the substance of the case was by Laws LJ who accepted that payments by public authorities to their employees can be challenged under administrative law principles, but obviously found it in general invidious if an authority is using such principles to try to avoid a contractual agreement made by itself.

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As convenor of the 3rd International Workshop on Participatory Surveillance in Newcastle 22 - 24th March, he will be tweeting about innovations and challenges in tech leveraged participatory public health surveillance.

The increasing market power of tobacco companies is identified as an important public health challenge in a major new report on the economics of tobacco control, from the US National Cancer... Read more

Meanwhile, Gordon will host a free public webinar, «The making of Australia's rural and remote health sector — and its challenges for the future», from 2.30 pm on 9 June 2016.

Mothers in Prison: Maintaining Connections With Children Mignon & Ransford (2012) Social Work in Public Health: Special Issue: The Impact of Parental Incarceration on Children and Families, 27 (1 - 2) View Abstract Identifies challenges to the development and maintenance of contact between incarcerated mothers and their children.

The report is intended to shine light on the strengths and challenges faced by the nation and offer state - level data for community leaders, public health officials and policymakers to use as a roadmap to improve the health of women and children within their states.

Under the Exceed initiative, funded through the federal Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge grant, RIDE and partner agencies - the Departments of Health, Human Services, and Children, Youth and Families; the Office of Health and Human Services; and Rhode Island KIDS COUNT - are involved in an on - going initiative to increase access to early - learning programs and to improve program quality in public preschools, child - care centers, and family home - care centers.

Using a public health frame, we will examine how three evidence - based home visiting models form a continuum of interventions directly addressing this challenge: (1) Family Connects provides nearly universal assessment of needs for families of newborns, with connection to community services (Karen O'Donnell, Duke University); (2) Healthy Families America focuses on prevention through facilitating nurturing relationships and connection to services (Kathleen Strader, Healthy Families America); and (3) Child First targets the most vulnerable young children and families, who have experienced high levels of trauma and adversity, through a team approach providing comprehensive care coordination and mental health intervention for both parent and child (Darcy Lowell, Child First).