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Marco Springmann, post-doctoral researcher in population health at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at Oxford University, UK, and colleagues report in The Lancet that their study of the impact of climate change on diet and bodyweight is the first of its kind, and the first to estimate the possible number of deaths in 155 countries.

Summary: Maurice Elias, PhD, professor of psychology at Rutgers University, shares information on the role of schools in population health at the Atlantic Center for Population Health Sciences 2014 Empowering Adaptable Communities Summit held in Morristown, NJ, on November 4 and 5, 2014.

Dr. Jennifer E. Miller, an assistant professor of medical ethics and population health at New York University and president of...

«We've always known that electronic dance music party attendees are at high risk for use of club drugs such as ecstasy or Molly, but we wanted to know the extent of opioid use in this population,» said CDUHR researcher Joseph Palamar, PhD, MPH, the study's lead author and an associate professor of population health at NYU School of Medicine.

As Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population health at the University of Oxford, told New Scientist: «If we have learned anything from the low - fat era, it is surely that it is not as simple as one single nutrient.

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

I think it will be a problem eventually,» said Brian Carter, a director focused on personal and population health at Cerner, an electronic medical record vendor that is integrated with HealthKit.

Not exact matches

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

And the health system costs related to smoking and diabetes are not the only problems that will affect China's ability to maintain a healthy and productive population at an affordable cost.

In the U.S., an estimated 16.1 million adults, or nearly 7 % of the population, has experienced at least one major depressive episode in the last year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

«We know our solution works for the general U.S. population, but we want to make sure it is more culturally respectful, and can help the health outcomes of these population groups,» says Goodwin, whom I first met at IEEE's Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference last spring.

To cite just one example: Executives at Trinity Health, which operates 93 hospitals, have their pay tied to the system's overall effectiveness in keeping patients out of the hospital, lowering smoking and obesity rates, and other population health meHealth, which operates 93 hospitals, have their pay tied to the system's overall effectiveness in keeping patients out of the hospital, lowering smoking and obesity rates, and other population health mehealth metrics.

«But that's not the case with mental - health issues,» including depression, which he believes affects entrepreneurs at a higher rate than the general population.

As noted by senior executives at Rodale, just having an organic landscape can improve the health of the whole employee population, through reduced use of chemicals from lawn maintenance, while creating a space that is more engaging, educational, and productive.

«But if there's a 100 microgram per meter smoke day, we'd expect that to go to a 100 percent increase of inhaler refills for the population,» Katelyn O'Dell, who studies the health hazards of wildfire smoke at Colorado state university said.

At the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aginAt the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aginat 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aging.

Rapid population growth requires heavier investment in education, health and transport merely to maintain these services at their present levels.

They tend to withdraw into gated communities, with private security guards and «enclaves of good schools, excellent health care, and first - rate infrastructures — all the while scoffing at almost all functions of government, thus cutting off the supply of taxes for most public undertakings — leaving much of the rest of the population behind.»

And a community mental health center, given the same conditions, is capable of performing valuable functions largely for a different segment of the population and probably at less cost.

Swisse Wellness» head of government relations Justin Howden will deliver a keynote address at our upcoming Healthy Ageing APAC Summit, assessing how policymakers and industry can best work together to improve the health and well - being of the population.

Some of us have to consider health as well as taste (I use a low carb diet to maintain normal blood glucose instead of taking diabetes drugs, while at the same time I focus on foods that have a long tradition of supporting healthy populations, as well as limit processed «fake food» ingredients which are novel to the human diet).

For instance, the health claim «magnesium contributes to normal energy metabolism» is a pre-approved health claim but is only relevant for use in products containing at least 25 % of the recommended daily intake of magnesium for the target population.

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Diets that incorporate increased consumption of resistant starch from high - amylose corn can have a substantial positive health impact on the American population,» adds Lorraine Niba, PhD, global director, nutrition at Ingredion.

Europeans are increasingly paying close attention to labeling and seek information such as health benefits, ingredients, and product origin As of the first quarter of 2013, the overall rate of unemployment for the total population stands at 27.2 % in Spain, one of the highest rates across the Eurozone.

Alice Cadman, Director of Business Development and Marketing at Leatherhead Food Research discusses links between nutrition and cognitive health and performance, set against the context of rising cases of dementia and an ageing population.

This type of analysis allows for region - specific population health planning at the primary care level, and targeting of health messages.

When scientists looked at the health of indigenous populations who regularly drink cacao they found that these populations, like the Kuna Islanders, have a lower incident of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

In other words, obstetricians are faced with a population that suffers poorer health than other developed countries, yet manage to save the lives of the babies under their care at a comparatively higher rate.

At these institutions, she worked primarily with women populations conducting psychosocial assessments, connecting patients and their families with local and national resources, collaborating with the interdisciplinary health team, as well as providing clinical support.

«We found small but meaningful differences in developmental outcomes between late preterm infants and full term groups, which if applied to larger populations, may have potentially significant long term public health implications,» says lead author Prachi Shah, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

At the end of the day the goal is to have a camp that supports health, that is what we want, a healthy camp with healthy individuals and healthy population in it, so WHO and it's partners, should be looking at breastfeeding as one of the key services and health promoting interventions that should be ensured in a place which houses affected populationAt the end of the day the goal is to have a camp that supports health, that is what we want, a healthy camp with healthy individuals and healthy population in it, so WHO and it's partners, should be looking at breastfeeding as one of the key services and health promoting interventions that should be ensured in a place which houses affected populationat breastfeeding as one of the key services and health promoting interventions that should be ensured in a place which houses affected populations.

If we are experiencing a high rate of complication that creates an unsafe situation then we would be best off to address the overall health of our population rather than to assume that interventions at the end of pregnancy are the best course of action.

First of all, your last sentence was brilliant: «If we are experiencing a high rate of complication that creates an unsafe situation then we would be best off to address the overall health of our population rather than to assume that interventions at the end of pregnancy are the best course of action.»

The paper is Influence of definition based versus pragmatic birth registration on international comparisons of perinatal and infant mortality: population based retrospective study, written by multiple scientists at Fetal and Infant Health Study Group of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System.

But after Back - to - Sleep, the ORs shot up, probably because those babies already at greatest risk of SIDS were the ones that weren't getting the public health message, while prone sleep in the control population dropped dramatically.

Of course, you won't want to donate them to children's organizations, but there are some great options that will enable the products to be re-used by populations that won't be at risk for reproductive damage by phthalates — and where the health benefits of a shower or bath would far outweigh any other potential risk!

«Every animal we treat allows us to monitor the health of the species and most importantly, identify baseline indicators that can be used to better understand the wildlife population and environmental impacts,» said Tim Binder, executive vice president of animal care at Shedd Aquarium.

Other investigators have reported a significant increase in adverse perinatal outcomes related to planned home births, especially where skilled birth attendants are not universally integrated into regional health systems, or in population - based studies that include at - risk pregnancies [20 — 22].

If causal, the small reduction in blood pressure associated with breastfeeding could confer important benefits on cardiovascular health at a population level.

«We recognize the fact that not only do mothers often inadvertently fall asleep with the infant in their bed, but many mothers choose to bed share,» says Lori Feldman - Winter, a co-author of the new guidelines and a professor of pediatrics at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J. «We thought it was prudent to provide guidance on making the bed - sharing arrangement as safe as possible and provide guidance on what populations are most at risk when bed sharing»

Many fail to realise that the UK has driven multiple progressive policies aimed at improving the health of the population, whether plain packaging for cigarettes, minimum pricing units for alcohol, or the most recent sugar tax.

At the same time, that shrinking, aging population, facing higher tax rates and lower property values, must pay for all the needed services — police, fire, health, education, road maintenance — both in the hollowed out city and the inefficiently sprawled out countryside.

This is especially critical since Andrew Lansley has rightfully placed patient health outcomes at the heart of Government reforms; a pressing imperative given rising public health challenges and an aging population predisposed to long - term conditions (LTCs).

A new report from FPI looks at the importance of jobs in the nonprofit health care and social assistance sector in New York City, and examines how the hardships facing the city's low - income population — the main constituency served by the nonprofit human services sector — have grown in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009 and the weak recovery over the past three years.

The rolls of the state's Medicaid health plan for the poor and disabled stand at 6.1 million, or 31 percent of the population.

At the same time, McMahon said he wants the county health department to work on a master plan to manage the deer population and fight Lyme disease across all of Onondaga County.

Of course, quick changes in population can have an effect of queues in doctor's surgeries and at hospitals — but the fact is that our health service would be in dire straits if EU nationals weren't treating our sick and frail every day.

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in the country's working - age population and leading health charity Diabetes UK warns that blindness is just one complication that people with diabetes could be at risk of because they are missing out on a wide range of health checks and specialist services.

Report author James Gregory said by the ago of 30 public sector tenants born in 1970 are twice as likely as the population at large to suffer from mental health problems and 11 times more likely not to be in employment, education or training.