Sentences with phrase «public health community»

Environmental health in public health community practice: An integrative review of the literature

I have written before about how the infant sleep recommendations of the AAP and the US public health community in general are unrealistic and even potentially dangerous in their effects, regardless of their intentions.

Three recent global infectious disease outbreaks — H1N1 influenza, Ebola and Zika have had specific implications for pregnant women and their unborn children, yet the global public health community lacks the best tools for dealing with this special group.

«Overall, I think there is a strong national consensus in the lead public health community that distributing swabs as an outreach or community giveaway is a very dangerous idea unless done in close partnership with appropriately - educated health, housing or community staff to provide interpretation of the results,» Katrina Korfmacher, associate professor for the Department of Environmental Medicine at University of Rochester Medical Center, wrote in a March 4 email.

The participants also agreed to try to better explain their work to each other and to the wider public health community by, for instance, sharing data sets and specialized software as much as possible.

«Given all that is known about preventing heart disease, it is critical that public health communities work with local communities to support efforts to improve heart health,» said public health researcher Mark Ommerborn, lead author of the study.

The global public health community has become increasingly sensitive to the problem of forecasting the developing world's actual demand for medicines, as opposed to the raw need.

While they're used in milieus ranging from Major League Baseball to aerospace manufacturing, Tableau's visualization and pattern - recognition capabilities have had a particularly big impact in the medical and public health communities.

«Without the looming prospect of regulation in cities and states around the country, McDonald's would not have taken as seriously the concerns that the public health community and parents have been sharing with them about this issue,» said Samantha Graff, director of legal research at Public Health Law & Policy, which drafted the models for the ordinances eventually adopted in Santa Clara County and San Francisco.

They have a high bar to reach considering the Senate plan was passed unanimously out of Committee and is supported by such a broad range of stakeholders — everyone ranging from retired military leaders to the public health community to anti-hunger groups to school food service directors.

These kinds of studies pile on the guilt for a mother who desperately needs sleep and whose only option might be to sleep with her child, but the public health community refuses to do evidence - based studies into best practices to give her practical advice she can actually use.

The guidelines are not clear because the public health community refuses to put forward clear guidelines, preferring instead to say parents should not cosleep at all, period, end of story.

By denying parents information on best practices about ways they can reduce risks while bedsharing in addition to encouraging them not to bedshare, the public health community potentially shares responsibility for the continued SIDS cases in bedsharing.

For the rest of us, the public health community is neglecting its duty in teaching safe, effective ways to cosleep / bedshare while reducing the risk of SIDS or suffocation.

I don't know, and there's probably no way of knowing, but I would argue that it's small precisely BECAUSE the public health community refuses to speak openly about the safest possible ways to cosleep.

Perhaps they are nonsensical questions to researchers who, along with the public health community at large, have such a blind spot related to bedsharing that they refuse to acknowledge that there is ANY way to reduce SIDS risk in a baby who sleeps with their parents.

As a nursing mom and a member of multiple breastfeeding support groups, I used to feel confused that while the public health community and many parent groups proudly proclaim that «breast is best» for babies, so many breastfeeding moms would report being shamed, harassed, and even discriminated against for actually choosing to nurse their kids.

«The drinks industry continues to have high - level access to Government ministers and officials while no forum currently exists for the public health community to put forward its case in an environment free from vested interests.

The authors urge increased coverage of climate change in a public health context to bridge the knowledge gap between the public health community and the general public to encourage mitigating steps.

Some other reactions from the public health community were generally more favorable.

«The tobacco industry spent a lot of time in the bunker not listening to its critics, denying that there was any legitimate concern about smoking and health, and effectively trying to parse hairs and debate science,» Reavey said in an interview, «instead of trying to get to where they finally got to, which was that recognition that regulation was a legitimate goal of the public health community and something that the industry could live with.»

Despite concerns expressed by many in the public health community, e-cigarette makers have for the first time been allowed to show them being used in television adverts in the UK.

«Once menu labeling is implemented, the fast - food industry and public health community must work together to make it easier for consumers from all income and education backgrounds to understand and use this information.

«The public health community should take time to recognize and defend its champions - and Mayor Bloomberg undoubtedly is among our most courageous and creative advocates for a healthier and safer population.»

Levy says the findings might help the Surgeon General and the public health community find a solution to their call to end cigarette smoking.

The deadly cholera epidemic that rocked earthquake - shattered Haiti in 2010, claiming 8,000 lives and counting, has rallied the public health community to seek water and sewer improvements that, combined with vaccination, could prevent some 89,000 future cholera infections.

For many in the public health community, the notion that the head of the CDC held shares of a company in an industry that has been so anathema to the agency's mission was shocking.

An international consortium of researchers has reported that an Ebola vaccine appears to provide volunteers protection against the virus two years after they were injected — encouraging findings both for the public health community and the vaccine's manufacturer.

The news from Thailand may also bring relief of another kind — ending an emotional debate that has been raging in the public health community.

As they gained familiarity with the insurance industry, the public health community became «better prepared to conceptualize new models for linking population health with reimbursable clinical care.»

The public health community is sounding the alarm about the global epidemic of chronic diseases, but there are no easy fixes.

The emergence of e-cigarettes continues to evoke a fierce debate in the public health community, both domestically and abroad.

«But there's been very little written about how it works or what it means for the metrics that the public health community uses.

«The public health community needs to give greater attention to targeted environmental and behavioral treatments rather than medications.»

«Lots of people are extremely interested in climate, but somehow the public health community has been a little bit slow on the uptake,» said Peter Byass, director of the Umeå Centre for Global Health Research in Sweden.

Members of the UGAP will participate in Northrop Grumman contract work, coordinate research projects, share information and best practices, develop curricula, author joint case studies / white papers and benefit from learning opportunities within the public health community.

The newly constructed 37,000 square foot facility, funded primarily by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, provides a valuable national resource and asset to the University of Louisville, our region, and the greater scientific and public health communities.

The public health community plays a critical role in developing strong climate change strategies and interventions that protect human health.

The strengths of satellite remote sensing information can help overcome traditional field limitations and spatiotemporal data gaps to provide the public health community valuable exposure data.

There is, in fact, tremendous debate among the public health community about whether vitamin A supplements should be given to pregnant women and children in third world countries.

«This major public health victory comes after nearly 25 years of scientific research and advocacy on behalf of the public health community,» Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said.

When you go through the science, yeah, it's a perfectly natural response to get absolutely angry at the terrible science that had been done and how the public health community took it and converted it into these messages that could do so much harm.