Sentences with phrase «population health effect»

This study can't say why expansion in the pharmaceutical industry is leading to negative population health effects, Zheng said.

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«With an increasing aging population, the effect on public health is only anticipated to increase,» Holt - Lunstad said in a statement.

It concluded improving health goes a long way in offsetting the effects of an aging population.

This is a mixed bag from a public policy standpoint: Increased marijuana use can have ill effects on the health of the population but the increased sales bring in more revenue for the government.

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 aging.

This team also discovered 3,200 genes that had fewer loss - of - function or missense mutations than would be expected suggesting that these are likely disease - causing variants that are rare or absent in the population because of their detrimental effect on human health.

Abstinence from Kona, tobacco, and alcohol by many Adventists has afforded a near - unique opportunity for studies to be conducted within that population group on the health effects of Kona drinking, free from confounding factors.

But this doesn't make sense for everything we do in health care, and we know the information we get from randomized controlled trials doesn't always translate well to real life because 1) the restrictions we put on eligibility for studies rarely allows the results to be generalized to the population as a whole and 2) Adherence to the intervention tends to be higher in a randomized controlled trial than in real life which makes the effect seem «better» than it is.

Long - term mother and child mental health effects of a population - based infant sleep intervention: Cluster - randomized, controlled trial.

Our study illustrates that a randomized intervention trial with good socioeconomic information can help assess interventions designed to improve population health not only by examining the intervention effects on primary outcomes but also by evaluating the intervention's impact on socioeconomic inequalities.

To understand all the positive and negative effects on feeding practices and infant health among HIV - positive mothers and in the general population, it is important that these efforts are adequately monitored and evaluated.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

There are certain segments of the population who need to consider all the possible health effects that using electric blankets can have.

Long - term mother and child mental health effects of a population - based infant sleep intervention: cluster - randomized, controlled trial.

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.

Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker says as he examined numerous completed and still on going studies on fracking's effects on drinking water, air quality and other health issues, several «red flags» were raised, and he says he has «identified significant health risks in the current data» that have not been answered by conclusive long term studies with «large population pools».

The paper states: «Even though the ambient air in the city of Jena is comparably clean, the significant association between rapid changes in nitrogen oxides and onset of myocardial infarction (MI) suggests that the current EU statutory limits do not sufficiently protect against effects relating to the cardiovascular health of the population.

The latest edition of this edited volume includes an overview of social justice principles and public health; chapters on social injustice and its effects on the health of specific population groups; and the intersection of social justice and key aspects of public health, such as health care delivery; and a call to action that promotes human rights and social justice advocacy for improving public health.

Topics include the rights of persons with disabilities; the rights and responsibilities of drug users and ethical considerations for dignified addiction treatment; improving maternal and child health through advancements in women's rights; the effects of violence; access to affordable and appropriate health care and treatment; health disparities between different population groups; health during war and conflict; the health of internally displaced persons and refugees; and recognition of social and structural forces that impact the health of individuals and groups.

Dozens of studies show that elevated mercury in the body is associated with adverse health effects, especially in vulnerable populations such as children.

«Despite some reductions in air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts from ozone are still a cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts of East Asia, with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?

«Except for inhalation exposures that may have occurred on 9/11 and a few days afterwards, the ambient air concentration data suggest that persons in the general population were unlikely to suffer short - term or long - term adverse health effects caused by inhalation exposures,» EPA scientists wrote in their analysis published in 2007 [pdf].

Dr. Iwona Rudkowska, a research scientist at the Endocrinology and Nephrology Department, at the CHU de Québec Research Center and assistant professor at Laval University, says «additional well - designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populations.»

Sewage pumped into a shared waterway can have health effects on a downstream population, and air quality is affected by all players in the region.

Temperature extremes have been known to have an ill effect on populations» health and mortality rates.

Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.

A number of interventions at the individual, family, health care provider and community levels that could be useful in helping to ameliorate the negative effects of stress on low - income and minority populations and potentially address some of the health disparities are identified in the report.

The review, «Population, development, and climate change, links and effects on human health», examines the interconnections between population growth and climate change, from the perspective of global health.

The poor state of Vietnamese health services means that there is little systematic data on the lingering effects of these chemicals on the population.

But implementation of policies is not enough; countries, and the global health community, need to collect timely, reliable, and detailed information on the effect of those policies, particularly among vulnerable populations and those being directly targeted by the tobacco industry.

But a facility in Windhoek, Namibia, has processed domestic sewage into potable water for human consumption since the late 1960s «with no obvious adverse health effects among the population of several hundred thousand,» the authors state.

Stenchikov and Lioy say that future research is needed to determine the health effects on populations at these different levels of exposure.

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.

But the preliminary conclusions are worrisome, she says, because they show possible health effects at the levels of exposure found in the general population.

Severe health effects have been observed in populations drinking arsenic - contaminated water over long periods, and research has established that drinking water contaminated with arsenic causes skin cancer and several internal cancers such as lung, bladder, and kidney cancer, as well as cardiovascular disease and other adverse outcomes.

Yet, mental health services in Yemen are few, and there is little research on the effects of the war on the mental health of the population.

At the same time, the agency said, adverse health effects from climate change «will be distributed unequally within and between populations,» with wealthier countries and regions generally being better able to adapt to and mitigate against the harshest effects.

The health effects of air pollution are a major concern for urban populations all over the world.

Plant workers are being exposed to much higher levels of radiation than the general population, and will be monitored for long - term health effects.

Certain segments of the population, such as children, the elderly, and those with cardiopulmonary diseases are at higher risk of the health effects of pollution.

«Aging of the population is probably the most important trend, since older adults are more vulnerable to heat - related health effects,» said co-author Patrick Kinney, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, in an email.

Understanding updated prevalence trends may be important given the potential effect of the metabolic syndrome and its associated health complications on the aging U.S. population, according to background information in the article.

In a study to be published in the July issue of the journal Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, Dr. Rourke noted that aging for people with HIV may be more challenging than for the general population because of HIV - related stigma, loss of friends and social networks, and the detrimental health effects of the virus and medications taken to combat the virus.

As a scientific standard, future studies evaluating possible population - level health effects of this intervention (which, to be clear, was not the purpose of the study by Kypri et al) should assess outcomes at the population level, ideally using instruments external to the study.

«At present, there is little direct evidence demonstrating that electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling intervention has a meaningful population - level effect on excessive alcohol consumption or related harms in any group, and therefore its utility as a stand - alone public health approach is in doubt.

Looking to China, Cohen said, «it's hard to argue that economic development there, in which coal has certainly played a role, hasn't had significant beneficial effects on poverty reduction and population health.

But, as Tapia points out, «people who have studied the effect of health care on population health are in general not inclined to think that health care has a big impact.»

The authors note that experiences of other countries that have overcome financial crises, such as Iceland and Finland, suggest that by ring - fencing health and social budgets, governments can avoid some of the harmful effects of crisis taking their toll on the health of their populations.

«This is the first project that goes in such depths into the effects of the Mediterranean diet on health of elderly population.

«The key factors are the effects of increasing female education on lowering birth rates in developing countries, and the health target that includes universal access to reproductive health services,» says IIASA population researcher Samir KC, who also worked on the study.