Sentences with phrase «public health campaigns»

Nowadays, with concerted public health campaigns, breastfeeding is once again on the rise.
Such policy needs to include national public health campaigns, policies for mothers returning to work and legislation to protect the public from aggressive commercial interests.
The findings suggest that public health campaigns need more testing, according to the researchers.
Hearing Awareness Week 2016 is an Australian public health campaign to increase awareness of hearing as a health priority.
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.
Political instability and dangerous conditions in Syria have made it difficult to wage a large - scale public health campaign against infectious diseases like polio.
Meningitis B vaccination - after committee enquiry government agreed to provide a new public health campaign on meningitis symptoms, and to review how funding for vaccines is allocated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And while he highlighted a number of programs that had been shown to impact on child maltreatment statistics, he said the Triple P — Positive Parenting Program was the only one that could be delivered to an entire community, in the way successful public health campaigns had been.
Despite public health campaigns aimed at reducing unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics, the drugs continue to be prescribed at startlingly high rates in outpatient settings such as clinics and physician offices, according to a new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
These new findings cast a dim light on the many public health campaigns that have used a fear approach to convince us to eat better, such as telling us: don't eat candy or drink chocolate milk, or eat red meat because of harmful consequences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unlikely — given the highly effective public health campaign initiated by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1990 when evidence first came to light of the dramatic reduction in the incidence in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome when babies sleep on their back.
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.
The gutsy two - year public health campaign reminded women of this by focusing for the first time on the negative effects of not breast - feeding.
Similarly, public health campaigns warning of the dangers of tobacco smoke occasionally outline the health risks associated with chewing tobacco.
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.
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.
Rethink: Cannabis - decision to reclassify is wrong (but public health campaign partly compensates)
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.
Since the «Back to Sleep» public health campaign began in the mid-1990s, the number of annual SIDS deaths in the United States has dropped by 40 percent.
They acknowledge some study limitations, but say their paper is the first to combine results across many studies covering both coronary heart disease and stroke, «making it a valuable reference that can be used to strengthen public health campaigns, and provide a strong health incentive for smokers to stop completely (particularly women).»
Despite massive public health campaigns, the rise in worldwide obesity rates continues to hurtle along like a freight train on greased tracks.
According to Jennifer Hay, who is a behavioral scientist and clinical health psychologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, public health campaigns concerning skin cancer are mostly linked to skin tone.
Public health campaigns tend to mainly focus on the recommended quantity of fruit and vegetables to be consumed — with a standard recommendation of «five... Read More»
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.
And a piece by London Loves Business editor Sophie Hobson has critiqued Public Health England's new emphasis on commercial partnerships, saying it may give corporations too much influence over public health campaigns.
Drinks such as POM have become increasingly popular with consumers in recent years, thanks in part to public health campaigns against soda that have been prompted by the obesity epidemic.
USDA spokeswoman Cortney Rowe says the department does not endorse the «Meatless Monday» initiative, which is part of a global public health campaign.
«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.»
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.
The greatest lesson for other public health campaigns, he says, is that «top - down policy alone is not sustainable.
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