Sentences with phrase «population health research»

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It would be useful if the identification of such a clearly contentious but important public health issue led to increased support for objective research and analysis in relation to agreed population outcomes.

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.

Physicians have a primary responsibility for translating research and evidence into guidance for parents and children, and they are credible and influential voices for advancing public education and policy concerning population health.

While Health Canada maintains that the general population does not have to be concerned with these recent findings, it remains committed to ongoing research into the safety of BPA and the health implications of its use in our food sHealth Canada maintains that the general population does not have to be concerned with these recent findings, it remains committed to ongoing research into the safety of BPA and the health implications of its use in our food shealth implications of its use in our food supply.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.

Milton Hernandez, director of the Office of Special Populations and Research Training at the National Institutes of Health, described his path into science administration in August.

Focus areas range from the molecular (genomics, proteomics) to individual (clinical research, health systems management) to populations (public health) and health care delivery.

Oregon State University researchers are using DNA from residual saliva on partially consumed salmon to identify bears from the genetic samples, a significant boost to research on the population and health of brown bears.

During her research, Austin found that the coffee growers she interviewed noticed patterns in mosquito populations that bring their most significant threat to health: malaria.

The discovery should provide a significant boost to research on the population and health of brown bears, which can grow to a size of 1,500 pounds.

As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.

Grilled or well - done beef, chicken or fish may raise the risk of developing high blood pressure among people who regularly eat those foods, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in population based cardiovascular science for researchers and clinicians.

«About four years ago, there was evidence of a decline in obesity in preschoolers,» said Asheley Cockrell Skinner, Ph.D., lead author and associate professor of population health sciences, who is also a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).

«Our findings support recommendations of increasing the intake of a variety of nuts, as part of healthy dietary patterns, to reduce the risk of chronic disease in the general populations,» said Marta Guasch - Ferre, PhD, lead author of the study and research fellow at the department of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

His research focuses on the upper limits to human longevity, the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, as well as the pursuit of the scientific means to slow aging in people.

In 2002, NIH put out a call for research applications to look at health disparities — differences in health and health care outcomes among diverse populations — from a transdisciplinary perspective.

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 populationsresearch 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 populationsResearch 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.»

«But by engaging a diverse participant population and accumulating rich datasets, the CPMC research study is pursuing the type of insights that will help us learn more about sleep duration and, ultimately, improve human health.»

Ram's co-author Pengetnze said the research represents a creative new approach to population health.

As a research partner of an $ 11.7 million Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) grant from the National Institutes of Health to the George Washington University Autism and Neurodevelopment Disorders Institute, the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National will continue investigations into sex differences, and aims to develop self - reporting measures for adolescents and adults that better capture additional populations — including females and non-cisgender males.

In the 1990s, research into bee population health began suggesting neonicotinoids — applied broadly to major crops like corn and soybeans — were harming these key pollinators.

«This points to an often unrecognized problem for the segment of Canada's homeless population that suffers from mental illness,» said Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos, chief of psychiatry at St. Michael's Hospital and a scientist in its Centre for Research on Inner City Health.

The research shows the growing importance of non-trauma cases in the emergency department (ED), the authors said, and it provides an opportunity to better understand the health of people as well as shifting patterns of care, especially among vulnerable populations.

From Brown's perspective, «Investments in research must go hand - in - hand with investment in public health activities to obtain the long - term improvements in population health that we all work toward.»

As well as providing fresh insights into historical events, the new research might have implications for how DNA impacts health and disease in different populations.

«I have already ensured that the issues surrounding CIHR and its reforms will be considered by the panel, and I look forward to their advice,» wrote Philpott, who also noted that «I expect CIHR to ensure that the very best health research across all pillars [biomedical; clinical; health systems and services; and social cultural, environmental factors that affect the health of populations] is funded according to the highest international standards of research excellence.»

Disparate Data The most interesting research «attracts new investigators,» says J. Taylor Harden, assistant to the director for special populations at the National Institute on Aging of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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

A research team investigating the mental health burden and treatment - seeking behaviors of student veterans attending rural community colleges in the southern United States has found that this population has difficulty integrating into the campus community and needs support to help it succeed.

In addition to his public service at NIH, he did his postdoctoral training within the NIH - NIEHS Superfund Research Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across KResearch Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kresearch innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kentucky.

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.

Janine Clayton, director of the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, agrees that populations of research mice won't necessarily have toResearch on Women's Health, agrees that populations of research mice won't necessarily have toresearch mice won't necessarily have to double.

Her research utilizes feminist methodologies to understand the sexual health of adolescent and young adult populations in the United States and globally.

«Our research team modelled how the HCV disease burden and associated health care costs in Australia will increase as the infected population ages.»

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.

We found that performing MRI before biopsy and using that information to alter biopsy pathways would be a strategy that would add health benefits to the patient population in a cost effective manner,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, study advisor and associate professor of radiology, urology, and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and member of both the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Center for Imaging Research.

More extensive research and new interventions are needed, he adds, if we are to reach the AHA's goal of increasing the proportion of the population in ideal cardiovascular health by 2020.

«Compared to Hamilton's general adult population, we found elevated emergency room use, multiple barriers to health care access and significant rates of chronic disease among urban Aboriginal adults,» said Dr. Michelle Firestone, an associate scientist with St. Michael's Hospital's Centre for Research on Inner City Hhealth care access and significant rates of chronic disease among urban Aboriginal adults,» said Dr. Michelle Firestone, an associate scientist with St. Michael's Hospital's Centre for Research on Inner City HealthHealth.

Our Health Counts fills this health information void by using respondent - driven sampling — a research method used to recruit hidden or stigmatized populations by relying on participants to identify the next wave of study recHealth Counts fills this health information void by using respondent - driven sampling — a research method used to recruit hidden or stigmatized populations by relying on participants to identify the next wave of study rechealth information void by using respondent - driven sampling — a research method used to recruit hidden or stigmatized populations by relying on participants to identify the next wave of study recruits.

Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in tResearch and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in tresearch focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in the past.

The Aging Brain Care Medical Home, a novel population health management program implemented in the homes of older adults achieves significant health improvement for individuals with depression and also substantial stress reduction in family caregivers of dementia patients, according to a new study by investigators from the Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University Center for Aging Research and Eskenazi Hhealth management program implemented in the homes of older adults achieves significant health improvement for individuals with depression and also substantial stress reduction in family caregivers of dementia patients, according to a new study by investigators from the Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University Center for Aging Research and Eskenazi Hhealth improvement for individuals with depression and also substantial stress reduction in family caregivers of dementia patients, according to a new study by investigators from the Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University Center for Aging Research and Eskenazi HealthHealth.

«Our findings also have important implications for mitochondrial diseases in humans, because this research significantly advances our understanding of how mitochondrial DNA mutations affect individuals and populations, and provides a potential mechanism to explain how different genetic variants may affect health,» Dr Rollins said.

«Our unique combination of great universities and first - class research hospitals, dovetailed with access to a critical mass of entrepreneurial talent and a diverse population, puts the capital at the heart of medical discovery and its application,» said Dermot Kelleher, vice president of health at Imperial College, in a press release.

Studies of infertility have tended to recruit research participants from medical settings such as general practice, so our population - based survey sample provides a rare insight into those people who, despite having failed to get pregnant after a year of trying, did not seek help from health services.

· further research is needed to shed more light on associations between lower levels of sodium (in the 1,500 to 2,300 mg / day range) and health outcomes, both in the general population and the subgroups.

Rates of diabetes are unusually high among Mexican - Americans who live near the U.S. Mexico border and new research from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) finds that those dealing with depression and anxiety in this population are less likely to properly manage their diabetes.

Despite ongoing research effort and improved knowledge about the disease, there is currently no effective preventive or curative treatment for AD, which could result in a public health crisis given the continuous aging of populations worldwide.

This research could have important implications for developing countries whose populations rely on rice as a staple of their diets and are in need of cheap, readily available material to improve soil quality and decrease arsenic levels that threaten human health.

Part of the problem is that trials involving vitamin D and calcium are inconsistent — they test different doses for varying lengths of time in diverse populations, which «makes it extra tricky when you try to put them all together and come up with a final analysis,» says Erin LeBlanc, an endocrinologist at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore..

The discovery could help scientists understand how social, cultural, and environmental factors interact with genetics to create differences in health outcomes between different ethnic populations, the authors say, and provides a counterpoint to long - standing efforts in the biomedical research community to replace imprecise racial and ethnic categorization with genetic tests to determine ancestry.