Sentences with phrase «other public health measures»

Under PM's Vice President of Corporate Affairs Ellen Merlo, the department was responsible for the formation of the smokers rights front group the National Smokers Alliance, a fake «grassroots» group set up to protest public smoking laws, cigarette tax increases and other public health measures.

Multiple approaches are needed to combat VAD, including nutrition education and consuming a diverse and nutrient rich diet; promoting breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices; vitamin A capsule supplementation; food fortification; and other public health measures aimed at the control of infectious diseases.

Not exact matches

The exclusion of health services, as well as a number of other services provided by the public sector, largely explains the relatively modest increase in the market goods and services excluding volatile items measure of underlying inflation over the past year.

Gay men have vigorously fought off the only public health measures that could significantly contain the spread of AIDS — contact tracing and testing of partners — methods long used for syphilis and other sexually transmitted afflictions.

Dr. Stephen Keener, Mecklenburg County medical director, said the quarantine is just a preventative measure: «Quarantine is a public health measure to protect the public that requires healthy people who were exposed to a disease to be prevented from contact with others until it is certain that they are not infected».

But like other measures taken for public health, food labelling also has its critics.

Christie said last year that parents should have a «measure of choice,» as «not every vaccine is created equal and not every disease type is as great a public health threat as others.»

Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., pushing for affordable health care for all Americans, calls the measure «a step in the right direction,» but notes that ultimately the feds need «to extend public programs or provide subsidies, such as refundable tax credits or some other means» to have truly universal health coverage.

He fears an accidental breach could damage malaria eradication and other much - needed public health measures.

Together, the measures were designed to decrease carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and other compounds in the air that are considered major public health concerns, playing a role in an estimated 1.4 percent of deaths worldwide, and 2 percent of all cardio - pulmonary deaths worldwide.

Below, we translate the measured impacts of the Chicago CPC program into estimates of how public investment in a universal, high - quality, prekindergarten program would affect future government finances, the economy, earnings, and crime and health, using the attenuations described above for children from middle - and upper - income families, and for children who in its absence would have attended some other preschool.

Notably, in providing recommendations for reducing the zoonotic risk associated with pet bites and other exposure to pet saliva, urine and feces, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Public Health Service suggest simple measures such as sanitation, hygiene, careful selection of pets and changes in animal contact.

The third way that lead was exempted from the normal public health measures and regulatory apparatus that had largely controlled phosphorus poisoning, poor quality food and meats and other potential public health hazards was more insidious and involved directly influencing the scientific integrity of the clinical observations and research.

We support educating the public and policymakers in government and industry about the harmful human health effects of global climate change, and about the immediate and long - term health benefits associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., heat - trapping pollution) and taking other preventive and protective measures that contribute to sustainability.

The topics approached included, among others, governmental strategy in the medical sector as well as measures aimed to develop the public health sector, financial solutions for the current year, financial constraints and public needs in the health sector, being discussed on a parallel between public and private health sectors.

Follow public health advice regarding school closures, avoiding crowds and other social distancing measures.

This position will provide services to patients and providers, room patients, identify and document chief complaint, allergies and medications, measure and record vital signs, weight and measurement, summarize assessment data, document and share with the provider, provide immunizations, assist with prescription refills, perform preventative health screenings and nursing treatments, assist with patient examinations, perform detailed documentation, patient and family education, obtain consents for procedures, exhibit cooperation and positive attitude toward co-workers, providers, patients and visitors, adhere to the KHC Standards of Behavior at all times with internal and external customers, promotes good public relations for the Clinic and Hospital, assure patients are seen in an orderly and fair manner and explain delays and waiting times, ensure that acutely ill or injured patients are triaged and seen first, completes required competencies annually, all other duties as assigned.

Given the positive effects of this programme on at least 1 other measure of public health concern, childhood obesity, 3 delivery could be shared by public health services, family physicians, parent training programmes, or paradoxically, the media itself.

The bill includes measures to fully fund the nation's family planning program (Title X), expand access to reproductive health care services through Medicaid, require insurance companies to cover birth control if they cover other prescription drugs, protect the ability of rape survivors to access emergency contraception (EC) in the emergency room, improve public awareness about EC, and provide teens with medically accurate, age appropriate sex education.

Increasingly, in complex public health evaluation research, there are questions about whether all relevant benefits can be captured in a single summary outcome measure such as QALY or unit of «effectiveness» or net benefit approach17 which is why the use of a cost - consequence analysis (CCA) framework is being recommended for such economic evaluations.18 Other outcomes from the trial such as the Parent — Infant Relationship Global Assessment Scale (an observational measure that is independently rated blind to group allocation) will be included in the CCA so that all costs and outcomes from the trial can be displayed transparently for decision - makers to consider trade - offs themselves.