Sentences with phrase «public health agenda in»

Media titan and former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has donated $ 300 million to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to fund a public health agenda in line with causes he has long supported: fighting drug addiction, obesity, gun violence, and environmental threats, and promoting adolescent health.

The report also said directors of public health in each locality should be a chief officer of the local authority, who has a statutory duty to address the local public health agenda in full.

Not exact matches

New York must finish the job, by fully implementing DERA to protect public health — particularly children in highly - impacted communities — and advance the state's climate change agenda.

With Andrew Lansley having being sacked as health secretary in mid-term and Michael Gove just shunted out of education, sacking Duncan Smith would have reflected too badly on this government's public service reform agenda.

Mr. Cuomo will also meet with Democrats in New York's delegation, where the agenda includes «taxes, health care and infrastructure,» according to the person with knowledge of the meeting, who requested anonymity because the trip was not yet public.

The latest push comes from an unusual coalition of progressive labor interests, political (Democratic Party, that is) and environmental groups, health care interests and good government advocates who are urging Cuomo to enact a «voluntary» public campaign finance system early in the 2011 legislative session — one of the many camapign promises outlined in his «New New York Agenda» books.

The latter have long been on the public health agenda, but we are arguing that in order to make the most effective challenge to health inequalities, in addition a much wider range of intervention needs to be brought into play.

But we also believe that our governments at all levels should be stepping up to issues like ensuring health care for all Americans rather than letting the public policy agenda be dictated by those who are not acting in the broader public interest.»

He advances an agenda for research and action grounded in the struggle for social and economic rights, an agenda suited to public health and medicine.

How did former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg succeed in achieving so much of his «comprehensive and far - reaching» public health agenda?

The debate has rumbled on for decades, but recent findings about the role circumcision can play in preventing transmission of HIV have placed the foreskin — or its absence — firmly back on the public - health agenda.

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

He proposes that vitamin D's toxic effect is primarily the result of higher levels leading to a deficiency of vitamin K and postulates that patients can be given higher doses of vitamin D, potentially offering greater therapeutic value, by administering vitamins A, D and K simultaneously.41 It is hoped that future studies will evaluate their interactions, in order to better treat patients, and support public health efforts, as recently proposed by the Weston A. Price Foundation to the National Institutes of Health43 as the agency considers the Strategic Nutrition Research Agenda.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

Instead, Martha Rudolph, who is one of the leading health and environmental regulators in the state as director of environmental programs for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental ahealth and environmental regulators in the state as director of environmental programs for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental aHealth and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental agenda.

This week, several news stories depict the increase in agenda status for climate change among major medical associations and health professionals, coinciding with the release of a new book by on climate change and health by Paul Epstein, a professor in the School of Public Health at Harvard Univehealth professionals, coinciding with the release of a new book by on climate change and health by Paul Epstein, a professor in the School of Public Health at Harvard Univehealth by Paul Epstein, a professor in the School of Public Health at Harvard UniveHealth at Harvard University.

Moreover, the paper gets its history wrong when it notes that «Total cancer mortality rates did not decline until 1990, 25 years after the identification of the effect of smoking on lung and other cancers...» Well, actually, it was more like 50 years, because the earliest studies to connect smoking and lung cancer were conducted not by NIH - funded scientists but by Nazi scientists in the run - up to World War II.4 By the logic of the PNAS paper, then, ought we to be crediting the Nazi health science agenda with whatever progress has been made on reducing lung cancer, rather than the incredibly protracted and difficult public health campaign (that, for the most part, NIH had nothing to do with) aimed at getting people to cut down on smoking?

If the government were to use the criminal law as a means of enforcing its public health agenda, we could potentially face the prosecution of parents for all manner of actual or perceived failures in respect of their children's health, including those who refuse or fail to vaccinate their children, because that exposes them to potentially life - threatening diseases and threatens the health of others by diminishing the «herd immunity» in the population.

The health sector agenda will include pooling of resources, primary care, promoting economy hospitals in public and PPP sectors, health information sources, health laws and regulation, promoting AYUSH, control of important diseases, Health Human Resources (HHR), rational use of drugs and technology, healthy demographic change and a better role for states and local governhealth sector agenda will include pooling of resources, primary care, promoting economy hospitals in public and PPP sectors, health information sources, health laws and regulation, promoting AYUSH, control of important diseases, Health Human Resources (HHR), rational use of drugs and technology, healthy demographic change and a better role for states and local governhealth information sources, health laws and regulation, promoting AYUSH, control of important diseases, Health Human Resources (HHR), rational use of drugs and technology, healthy demographic change and a better role for states and local governhealth laws and regulation, promoting AYUSH, control of important diseases, Health Human Resources (HHR), rational use of drugs and technology, healthy demographic change and a better role for states and local governHealth Human Resources (HHR), rational use of drugs and technology, healthy demographic change and a better role for states and local governments.

«Planned Parenthood applauds the majority of members of Congress who stood up and voted in favor of children and families» health — and in favor of a commonsense prevention agenda,» said PPFA Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy Nancy Clack.

Age Scotland is committed to addressing the needs of kinship carers, and in its five - year public policy agenda identified the need to reduce carer poverty, increase breaks and leisure opportunities and improve carers» physical and mental health and well - being.

Public health concerns like white privilege and racism were on the agenda at the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education Network conference in Townsville last week (see more details in this... Read more

Politicians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous health sector, and human rights organisations, made a public stand in committing to this agenda.

Addressing the «silent crisis» of men's health will require a greater focus on the gendered nature of health attitudes and behaviours in current models of health psychology and behaviour change, and within the public health agenda and health services.