Sentences with phrase «other global health»

Are there lessons for other social campaigns, such as those addressing other global health challenges, human trafficking, and climate change?

«The women in the Network, like this consortium, understand that if we do not address the unmet need for family planning, the other global health goals of improving maternal, infant, and child deaths and combating infectious disease, will be difficult to achieve by 2015,» concluded Duff Gillespie, PhD, professor with the Bloomberg School's Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health.

«The Budget provides resources to support the Global Health Security Agenda, increases funding to eradicate polio and other global health challenges, and creates a new Impact Fund for targeted global HIV / AIDS efforts,» the fact sheet states.

Reducing ship sulphur emissions cuts these other global health related impacts, too, avoiding about one - third of the annual cardiovascular disease and lung cancer deaths from shipping air pollution.

In an effort to improve maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) outcomes and advance HBS activities worldwide, we are happy to share key MNCH resources and information developed by our partners and other global health organizations.

But the WHO and other global health responders can only follow rules No. 1, 2, and 3, if they have ample funding and active support from the rest of the world.

Not exact matches

Unlike many global health nonprofits, which focus their work in the poorest regions of the planet, Bush has always felt it was important for fellows to address problems in the US in addition to those in other countries.

«We wanted to make sure that our own country was part of the conversation about global health issues in two ways — one, making sure that we're not thinking of it as issues that affect other people that don't have anything to do with us, but also acknowledging that we can learn so much from what has gone well or new models that are effective in other countries,» Bush tells Business Insider.

The global WannaCry cyber attack in May highlighted the vulnerability of medical systems when it caused major disruption to X-ray machines and other computer equipment in Britain's National Health Service, forcing hospitals to turn away patients.

So the group committed to making that a reality — working with their Global Forum colleagues and others in the private and nonprofit sectors to fund a corps of 750,000 community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa and other underserved rural areas of the globe.

In addition, interest rates on U.S. Treasury bonds are used as barometers for determining global economic health [9], and as pegs for many other interest rates, including American mortgage and student loan rates [10, 11].

B22 includes a focus on FinTech (9 companies), Data (7 companies), and Digital Health (4 companies), with other startups ranging from facial recognition to supply chain management to the largest global community of motorcycle riders.

Junk bonds, bank loans, and other riskier types of debt have often been analogized to the canary in the coal mine when gauging the health of global markets.

Cultivating relationships with other nonprofit organizations, including those focused on environmental, global hunger, public health, free speech, and food safety issues, to build alliances and support for the policies that will be most effective at increasing plant - based options and readying the path to market for clean meat.

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Whereas many animal charities draw funds primarily from within the movement (e.g., from other animal advocates and animal charities), GFI is seeking to reach potential donors whose primary interests are in environmental protection, the sustainability of the global food system, and human health.

Growing sectors of the populations are denied access to education, basic health services, or jobs that would allow even a precarious subsistence, The poor, the marginalized and the excluded are not significant consumers, much less players in the global market; they have no access to information highways and hardly a chance to shape any of the other significant byways of the process of capitalist globalization.

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Boston, MA About Blog The MHTF seeks to generate and disseminate high quality scientific research; surface key issues for critical discussion, consensus building and policy advocacy; support emerging professionals in maternal newborn health; and connect researchers, policy makers, providers and other stakeholders in the global maternal newborn health field.

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BFHI has been shown to be very effective in increasing breastfeeding initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration in many countries, as well as improving mother's health care experiences and reducing rates of infant abandonment.12 Given the short and long - term benefits of breastfeeding to the infant, mother and society, implementing BFHI — alongside with the other objectives stated in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding - continues to have an important role to play in health services worldwide.

«The weight of scientific evidence, as assessed by Health Canada and other agencies around the world, provides reassurance that consumers can continue to safely use products made from bisphenol A,» said Steven G. Hentges of the American Chemistry Council's Polycarbonate / BPA Global Group.

These and other Nestlé practices violate UN World Health Assembly marketing requirements and the Convention on the Rights of Child (particularly, Article 24 (2)(e)-RRB-, and so the Global Compact Principles.

In addition to supporting breastfeeding, then, this week is geared towards the more global and social perspective of promoting health, respect, and care for each other as well as for the babies we feed and the mothers who are caring for them.

The vision of the Network for Global Monitoring and Support for Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes and subsequent relevant World Health Assembly Resolutions (NetCode) is a world in which all sectors of society are protected from the inappropriate and unethical marketing of breast - milk substitutes and other products covered by the scope of the International Code and relevant WHA resolutions.

Others were to reduce child mortality, to improve maternal health, to combat HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases, to ensure environmental sustainability, and to develop a global partnership for development.

Others were the President and CEO of Banyan Global, Meaghan Smith, and Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service representatives.

Recent work by Paul Farmer and others challenges bioethics to address urgent questions of global health equity not only on the level of method but in the form of strategic partnerships with the most vulnerable populations.

Emma Johnston, the president of Science & Technology Australia, said cooperation between Australia and other influential global partners was paramount for the future health and well - being of the country.

Dr Meleady, a lecturer in psychology, added: «If similar interventions were to be implemented in comparable situations in other cities and countries, the potential contribution to reducing air pollution, improving short and long term health, and reducing effects of global warming could be substantial.»

But $ 25 million would be set aside for other institutes to fund some of the center's global health research and training.

Critical factors to achieve a higher level of information sharing include: a) the development and adoption of global data interchange standards that are harmonized between health care and clinical trials; b) the use of technology that is more acceptable to users; c) clarification of and adherence to regulatory requirements for health care and clinical trials; d) implementation of new technologies that are being employed by other industries to facilitate data interchange, specifically the use of the eXtensible Markup Language or XML.

Since its inception in 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed nearly $ 8.5 billion to global health, with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) receiving $ 2.29 billion and other infectious diseases about $ 1.96 billion.

The health care debate typically hinges on the finding that the U.S. spends twice as much on medical care as other industrialized nations and yet its citizens are not as healthy as their global peers.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging challenges and makes 14 recommendations for the U.S. government and other stakeholders to address these challenges, while maintaining U.S. status as a world leader in global health.

The researchers then linked the healthcare - related emissions to specific environmental and health outcomes, including global warming; ozone depletion; respiratory disease from air pollutants; cancer from chemical exposure; and the environmental effects of acid rain, among others.

Unseen by the human eye, plants interact with many species of fungi and other microbes in the surrounding environment, and these exchanges can impact the plant's health and tolerance to stressors such as drought or disease, as well as the global carbon cycle.

Where other studies have linked weather phenomena to HABs, this study goes a step further to look at how environmental drivers impact each other, and «ranks» them by their relative importance in promoting HABs, said Song Liang, formerly of Ohio State and now an associate professor of environmental and global health at the University of Florida.

It energized Patel and others who were fighting to get mental illnesses recognized as a major global health challenge.

«Cross-national surveys such as the WHO Study on Global Aging and Adult Health (SAGE), the Gallup World Poll, and other longitudinal cohorts studies of aging in Brazil, China, India, and South Korea, are beginning to redress the balance and provide the evidence for policy, but much more remains to be done.»

According to the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, climate change over the coming decades is likely to increase rates of allergies, asthma, heart disease and cancer, among other illnesses.

But now, with the virus's rapid spread and its potential link to microcephaly and other neurological damage, the World Health Organization has declared a global emergency.

At one point during the Bush Administration, OGHA reached a level of power and clout that was unprecedented in its history and that literally meant no other agency representative in the entire U.S. government could speak to global players in health without clearing that through OGHA.

The three other themes are health care reform, including research comparing treatments, which he said NIH «should embrace»; global health; and «empower [ing] the biomedical research community,» which he said includes sustained funding, encouraging young investigators, and funding innovative research.

«While Beijing's pollution is particularly noteworthy, many of the world's other cities face similar air quality problems,» said Junfeng Zhang, Ph.D., with Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Kunshan University and a co-author of the study.

The global gag rule primarily affects the delivery of contraception and other reproductive health services, because it is forcing clinics that offer women access to contraception, counseling, and vital maternal health services to cut back their operations or to close.

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«The mission of Pathways is to make sense of it all,» observes Jeremy Abbate, Director of Global Media for Scientific American, and the Publishing Director of the project, «We are presenting health from the viewpoint of every stakeholder — reseachers, patients, providers, regulatory bodies, small and large companies, and others — and trying to understand what the landscape will look like in five years, in twenty - five years.»

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.