Sentences with phrase «public health catastrophe»

Modus operandi: WHO estimates that 60 percent of individuals infected with the virus will die, a rate on par with the Black Death and other public health catastrophes.

Scientists also want Chile's government to establish a hospital specializing in public health catastrophes, carrying out research, and establishing a countrywide system for triage and treating the wounded.

It's overstating things to say this is a public health catastrophe, but it's certainly a public health problem, and it's caused by the fact that the government has entirely dropped the ball.

«If we don't do something about this very quickly, we have a public health catastrophe on our hands,» Hemingway says.

That is a public health catastrophe that we have got to address and I don't feel that I did that fully.

The outcome would most assuredly be a public health catastrophe.

The average American consumes 55 pounds of wheat flour every year, making refined flour the # 1 source of calories in the American Diet — a situation that nutrition expert Chris Kresser describes as, «a public health catastrophe.»

This represents a public health catastrophe of the first magnitude.

Some opponents may also exaggerate the potential for a public health catastrophe resulting from a spill in Vancouver harbour, as well as the effect of increased tanker traffic on the health of struggling Salish Sea orca populations.

The need for effective solutions to the «public health catastrophe» of the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peo... Read more

Regular Croakey readers will be aware of our efforts to crowdfund the #JustJustice campaign in order to put the spotlight on the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, which has been described as a «public health catastrophe».

The need for effective solutions to the «public health catastrophe» of the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was highlighted at a conference held... Read more

The over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples is a «public health catastrophe», and Mick Gooda, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, plans to make it a priority issue for the remainder of his term.

The need for effective solutions to the «public health catastrophe» of the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was highlighted at a conference held this week in Geraldton, WA.

The over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples is a «public health catastrophe», and Mick Gooda, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice... Read more

Over-incarceration is not only a public health catastrophe; it is also a terrible waste of taxpayers» money — imprisonment is not only ineffective, it's terribly expensive.

As Mick Gooda has said, this issue is a public health catastrophe.