Sentences with phrase «pressing public health problems»

4) Much - travelled food «Among the most pressing public health problems in the U.S. today are obesity, environmental degradation and health disparities,» said Alice Ammerman, director of the U.N.C. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

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Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

Besser, who met with the president yesterday at Howard University's Health Sciences Simulation Lab, asked the president why people should care about the impact of climate change on public health when there are so many other pressing health proHealth Sciences Simulation Lab, asked the president why people should care about the impact of climate change on public health when there are so many other pressing health prohealth when there are so many other pressing health prohealth problems.