Sentences with phrase «public health benefits»

This population - based approach is likely to maximize public health benefits and have a long - lasting influence on reducing suicide.

While modest and likely without immediate public health benefit, the results offer insight for future research.

It will also provide more public health benefits and create more jobs.

As an alternative to punitive restrictions with no clear public health benefit, the food and beverage industry supports nutrition education and purchasing incentives to encourage healthy choices.

«They're showing a large public health benefit of this intervention that could easily be adapted in other places,» he said.

The report also combined analyses of the nutrition, environmental, and public health benefits of grass - based farming techniques.

[2] More public health benefit is gained through interventions which aim to shift the population mean than by reducing the level of the problem in the most affected group.

Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson suggested yesterday imposing a 50p minimum price per unit would result in significant public health benefits for Britain.

Cutting transportation pollution will also help the regions» residents breathe easier — leading to billions of dollars in public health benefits from lives saved and asthma attacks and illnesses avoided — and continue the region's leadership on climate change.

A delay of cognitive decline for only a few years could yield a major public health benefit by letting patients hold on to vestiges of memory.

Although the amount of weight loss documented in this study was minimal, even a small reduction can have enormous public health benefits by reducing weight - related diseases such as Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.

NSABB also recommended that both manuscripts be revised to explain the potential public health benefits of the studies and the safety and security measures at the labs.

More squiggle, I'm afraid: «The net public health benefit is substantially less, and under some scenarios... harmful.»

We are not going to see this flowering of genetics that we all hoped would lead to public health benefit unless people understand what it's all about.

Legalized pot will also produce public health benefits, Forbes reports.

RGGI continues to exceed expectations and has provided more than $ 2 billion in regional economic benefits and $ 5.7 billion in public health benefits while reducing emissions in excess of the declining cap's requirements.

«Although smoke - free legislation has led to several public health benefits, the increasing popularity and presence of e-cigarettes may allow college students to circumvent these bans and more readily co-use alcohol and nicotine.

Exposure to pollution during the second trimester of pregnancy in particular raises the risk of harm to a child's lungs, underlining the multiple public health benefits of policies to reduce exposure to air pollution, say researchers.

Access to such products offers potentially profound public health benefits, he adds.

This was critically important, he explained, because «if you really want to have widespread public health benefits, you want to be able to put [phytosterols] in foods and beverages.»

«This study shows that pollution controls — even short - term ones — can have positive public health benefits.»

The creation of novel, transmissible, virulent influenza strains is exceptionally risky and has little public health benefit; such research should be stopped.

«Increased uptake of folic acid prior to pregnancy and throughout the first trimester could have significant public health benefits given the poor outcomes associated with SGA babies.

«This has major public health benefit implications — not only suggesting how to link infected individuals to care, but also encouraging testing in entire communities and therefore also reducing further HIV transmission.»

«It suggests that e-cigarettes could be used to displace use of much more deadly cigarettes among smokers and could generate an impressive public health benefit in terms of lives saved.

Measures taken to protect ecosystems and the environment could also deliver public health benefits, according to a study.

«Our findings show a strong public health benefit and should aid national organizations advocating for insurance providers to reimburse immediate postpartum insertion.»

«States must balance parental autonomy with the tremendous public health benefit of vaccines when considering the types of exemptions allowed and how policies are implemented.

2012 — MHRP Researchers awarded $ 5 million grant to fund research into a novel heroin / HIV vaccine — The innovative dual - vaccine model would concurrently address the entwined epidemics of heron abuse and HIV and could provide considerable public health benefits.

The researchers day that Bicing saves around 12.46 lives per year in the Barcelona population, and that this positive result is corroborated by two different studies - a Dutch study that showed the benefits of cycling «substantially» outweigh the risks in the Netherlands, and a 2009 study published in the Lancet that showed very real public health benefits in the UK and India by reducing emissions and encouraging active transportation.

The three measures in this category that were analyzed, taxi fleet renovation, metro expansion and hybrid buses, all have monetized public health benefits that are larger than their costs when the appropriate time horizon is considered.

Berkeley, CA — Solar power could deliver $ 400 billion in environmental and public health benefits throughout the United States by 2050, according to a study from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

In developing countries, improved waste and wastewater management using low - or medium - technology strategies are recommended to provide significant GHG mitigation and public health benefits at lower cost.

But advocates of the rules say they will bring huge public health benefits and spur jobs in plant retrofits and manufacture of pollution - control equipment.

Jamaican health officials said recent increased tobacco regulation has already shown public health benefits, and this Huffington Post article to mark World No Tobacco Day points out the tsunami of illness facing China as a a result of smoking.

Taken together with the results of other studies, they suggest that there could be significant and trans - generational public health benefit in health visitors delivering psychologically informed treatments to the more socially disadvantaged mothers with postnatal depression, whether these treatments are based on a cognitive behavioural approach or a person centred approach.

«Ensuring public health benefits are realized by communities neighboring coal plants, and that worker transition assistance reaches coal - dependent areas to help diversify their economies, is crucial.

But, despite what the headlines say, I know our research has the potential to provide significant public health benefits.»

These findings suggest that lowering the NAAQS for fine particulate matter will produce important public health benefits, especially among self - identified racial minorities and people with low incomes,» said Francesca Dominici, principal investigator of this study and professor of biostatistics at Harvard Chan School and co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative.

«Public policies to reduce exposure to traffic - related air pollution may avoid harmful effects on lung development and function with substantial public health benefits.»

«Public health benefits from vaccines hinge on very high levels of immunization in the population, so it's important to understand which groups hold reservations about the MMR vaccine,» Funk said.

HOWEVER... said the report summary: «Under the assumption that e-cigarette use increases the rate at which adults quit conventional smoking, modeling projects that use of e-cigarettes will generate a net public health benefit...»

Joachim Hombach, executive secretary of WHO's SAGE group, said: «For us, the primary consideration is to assure our recommendation makes public health sense in terms of ensuring the use of vaccine will maximize public health benefit and minimize risk.»

«E-cigarettes will likely cause more public health harm than public health benefit unless ways can be found to substantially decrease the number of adolescents and young adults who vape and increase the number of smokers who use e-cigarettes to successfully quit smoking,» says Soneji.