Sentences with phrase «public health campaign»

Parenting interventions that are delivered during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who did not receive an intervention during early childhood; (ii) those who received an intervention in early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolescents.

And in Belfast, a new public health campaign is rolling out coughing bus shelters to alert people to the early warning signs of lung cancer.

Hearing Awareness Week 2016 is an Australian public health campaign to increase awareness of hearing as a health priority.

King didn't win, and the public health campaign reportedly never came to fruition.

A public health campaign in the Colombian capital included road safety as one of its goals.

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?

Over a five - year period from 1910 to 1914, a team of doctors, nurses, and health officials led a vigorous public health campaign — the first of its kind — to eliminate the disease.

Sleep, nutrition, and exercise — these are the 3 «pillars» of good health in the Army's Performance Triad, a major public health campaign to support the well - being and readiness of soldiers.

My Italian grandmother («La Nonna») remembers a time when, during World War II in rural Italy, she and her sister were given a daily supplement of cod liver oil, as part of a public health campaign under Mussolini's government.

Reversing the obesity trends reported in the study will likely require a concerted public health campaign similar to the one that has reduced smoking rates.

WCTC 1450 AM — «Jersey Central» with host Bert Baron — March 17, 2015 In recognition of the public health campaign «Kick Butts» that encourages young people to give up smoking, Dr. Michael Steinberg, director of the Rutgers Tobacco Dependence Program shared the benefits of quitting and how to get started.

While the successful public health campaign to improve infant sleep environments has long been associated with declines in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), an analysis of 30 years of data by researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Dana - Farber Cancer Institute suggests that Back - to - Sleep is one of several trends that explain the reduced rates of SIDS.

For example, when researchers developed a simple urine screening test for neuroblastoma — a childhood cancer that arises in immature nerve cells — officials in Japan launched a public health campaign to screen infants.

The hunter - gatherer is an important messenger in Lieberman's public health campaign, but his lifestyle isn't a panacea.

Correction: January 10, 2006, Tuesday A front - page article on Friday about the Bloomberg administration's public health campaign regarding a circumcision rite practiced by some Orthodox Jews gave incorrect names in some copies for the group of rabbis opposing the campaign.

He recommends a public health campaign similar to anti-smoking efforts.

«However, we welcome the government's commitment to a public health campaign, despite the lack of detail around funding.

A Bloomberg - era NYC public health campaign to improve the self - esteem of young girls susceptible to eating disorders, bullying and alcohol abuse may get a second life in D.C.

«This is a hate campaign, not a public health campaign,» said Audrey Silk, the founder of Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, who warned of conflicts if the law is enforced.

«Like most ED doctors I have seen a huge amount of alcohol - related admission [s]... I believe we need an enormous national public health campaign, and stronger minimum alcohol pricing.»

USDA spokeswoman Cortney Rowe says the department does not endorse the «Meatless Monday» initiative, which is part of a global public health campaign.

Thanks to another well - meaning, but not appropriately nuanced, public health campaign about safe sleeping conditions for babies, many people have become convinced that parents sleeping with their babies and young children is mortally dangerous to them.

As a result of the well - intentioned but occasionally problematic public health campaign in support of breastfeeding, our society's understanding of nursing has led to some really judgy behavior toward parents.

It was a public health campaign, not La Leche League, that proclaimed «Babies Were Born to be Breast - fed» and showed a pregnant woman getting tossed off a mechanical bull in a bar.

My husband has been enormously supportive with breastfeeding all 3 of our kids and with the 4th due to arrive in August, he's even asked me if it would be okay to take pictures of me nursing in various places as part of a public health campaign (he's a preventive medicine doc).

One solution is a widespread, well - funded public health campaign to inoculate kids against the forces that lead to unhealthful eating, akin to that used to discourage teen smoking.

Learn about their school food service program and help create a marketing and public health campaign around fresh, Washington grown fruits and vegetables in their school.

In the 45 years since he became a neurosurgeon in Boston, Cantu has become a fixture on the front lines of a public health campaign that is reshaping the way football in America is played.

Is Jamie Oliver's food revolution a marketing tool or a public health campaign?

But that is the unambiguous message of a controversial government public health campaign encouraging new mothers to breast - feed for six months to protect their babies from colds, flu, ear infections, diarrhea and even obesity...

«Exercise is medicine» is the slogan for ACSM's public health campaign to teach people the importance of living an active lifestyle «Exercise is better than medicine» would also be a good slogan!

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at school.

Three - day ride unites fresh produce industry to benefit nationwide «Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools» public health campaign

Political instability and dangerous conditions in Syria have made it difficult to wage a large - scale public health campaign against infectious diseases like polio.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, meanwhile, has been on the vanguard of no - holds - barred public health campaigns in malaria and HIV — efforts that, to some extent, have helped rewrite the rules of engagement.

More inter-sector collaboration is required to incorporate these schemes into public health campaigns to help consumers make healthier food choices.

One recent study demonstrated that avoiding autonomy threat, along with appealing to teens growing sense of social justice, could inspire them to make healthy food choices — something traditional public health campaigns have been unsuccessful at.

Public health campaigns would be best administered if they did their homework on the true science of mother - baby - sleep.

Desperately trying to raise money to fund research that drives public health campaigns that literally stops babies dying.

Or alternatively, just ensuring public health campaigns and antenatal clinics informing parents of the infection and advising on a private test.

Public health campaigns that focus on increasing the social acceptability of breast - feeding may prove effective in addressing this cultural barrier.

Areas requiring urgent attention include social support for breastfeeding mothers, public health campaigns to raise awareness, employer schemes to support mothers returning to work and breastfeeding welcome schemes to enable mothers to feel confident to breastfeed when not at home.

The finding that mother - infant co-sleeping on separate surfaces confers reduced risk of SIDS but some forms of same surface co-sleeping increase risk (under certain circumstances, see below), has given rise to recent public health campaigns against any and all bedsharing in the United States.29 However, when examined in detail, epidemiological studies reveal inconsistent findings as to whether or not, to what degree, or under what circumstances bedsharing represents a consistent risk factor for SIDS and / or SUID.

As well as looking at how young people obtain alcohol, the government will also attempt to deter them from binge drinking with renewed public health campaigns, as well as warnings targeted at teenage girls about what alcohol can do to their looks.

Alleged over-provision for rural health facilities and boreholes, already provisioned for; and alleged scrapping of funds to buy drugs for major public health campaigns, like HIV / AIDS and Polio.

The reduction is likely attributed to local outreach, public health campaigns and the passage of New York's I - STOP law, which helps monitor drug prescriptions statewide, according to the report.

Critics point to links between cannabis use and psychosis, which last week led to calls for global public health campaigns from experts who said young people were particularly vulnerable.

«All the public health campaigns in this country required concerted efforts over many years,» says pediatrician David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital.

Perhaps this is why, aside from public health campaigns, there is little evidence of product advertisers using disgust as part of their marketing strategies.

In an interview, Leventhal adds that restricting such advertising is an important target for public health campaigns and policies to limit youth use of tobacco products.