Sentences with phrase «public health consequences»

The dire public health consequences of mercury contamination, combined with decades of improper handling and disposal, made cleanup a national priority.

«There are definitely negative public health consequences, including increased crime,» she said.

He notes that this new insight into how the brain processes social standing may have important public health consequences, possibly even paving the way to new stress - reduction therapies.

The American focus on the sexual purpose of breasts, rather than the physiological function of breasts, has serious public health consequences.

Little coverage has raised public health consequences of climate change such as higher incidence of asthma, allergies, disease and heat stroke amongst many.

That means they have the potential for «substantial public health consequences» — international ones.

These are exciting findings that, along with implications for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of memory disorders, may in the future have significant public health consequences.

This widespread lack of awareness of the impact of sleep problems can have serious and costly public health consequences.

It's clear that the environmental and public health consequences of our meat consumption demand more scrutiny and, according to some governments, taxation.

In this Opinion, we consider the potential application of pathogen and host genomic information to particular viral infections that have large - scale public health consequences but differ in ELSI - relevant characteristics such as ease of transmission, chronicity, severity, preventability and treatability.

Infectious diseases also spread more easily after these kinds of weather events, and general infrastructure damage (such as to the water supply) carry unpredictable public health consequences.

The three - day international conference on the Critical Public Health Consequences of the Double Burden of Malnutrition and the Changing Food Environment in South and South East Asia is underway at India International Centre, New Delhi.

«Ending DACA could have dire public health consequences: Penn Medicine researcher predicts reduced mental health for 800,000 DACA beneficiaries plus their families if legislation fails to save the program.»

It remains an extremely common health burden in all societies, with enormous public health consequences due to the morbidity and mortality of the resulting fractures.

However, he added, «anything that raises the blood pressure of an entire population, even a small amount, can have large public health consequences.»

Transmissions of influenza from avian and swine hosts to humans have the potential to result in pandemics with severe public health consequences, Soh said.

In addition to the MTR project, I created a story map illustrating the development of Marcellus Shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in Pennsylvania, and discussing the environmental and public health consequences fracking is having on some rural Pennsylvania communities.

States like Texas have suffered serious public health consequences after communities lost access to Planned Parenthood.

Moreover, it has had important public health consequences for women and families, and has advanced women's self - sufficiency and their educational, social and economic opportunities and outcomes.

What do you worry will be the negative public health consequences of an unqualified recommendation against bedsharing?

Take, for example, the recently published report entitled «Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes,» by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — which the Academies helpfully point out is a «congressionally mandated» study.

Multidrug resistant H58 has spread across Asia and Africa over the last 30 years, and created a previously underappreciated and ongoing epidemic through countries in eastern and southern Africa with important public health consequences.

But in 2013 the FDA announced that it was concerned about «the public health consequences of inaccurate results» from these mail - in spit tests and banned them.

Restricting mothers» access to information about infant formula may have negative public health consequences, trade group Specialised Nutrition Europe (SNE) has said following a draft Romanian law banning the marketing of formula for under - 2s.

As one of the stated aims of the policy is to reduce binge drinking, there is an assumption behind this policy that binge drinking is a malaise of the poor, that the better - off do not engage in such behaviour, or if they do, there are no negative social or public health consequences.

«The public health consequences are likely to be even greater than what we identified in our study because there are roughly 12 times as many non-fatal accidental firearm injuries among children as there are deaths,» explained McKnight.

Adams also has had to face the public health consequences of opioid addiction head - on as health commissioner, most notably when an HIV outbreak erupted in Scott County.

«Unjustified homicide by police should be added to the long list of the public health consequences of societal racism.»

Wintemute was increasingly convinced that gun manufacturing was a pressure point that could be turned to advantage, by tying the industry to the public health consequences of its products.

«Measuring Paternal Discrepancy and Its Public Health Consequences.»

In addition to the implications for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of memory disorders, these results have public health consequences,» said Dr. Kandel, who is University Professor & Kavli Professor of Brain Science, co-director of Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and senior investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, at CUMC.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally approved into the market a direct - to - consumer genetic screening service after initially banning the device back in 2013 following concerns about the public health consequences of inaccurate results.

Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer and narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman, Eating Animals is an urgent, eye - opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming.

Scientific evidence shows that the world's climate is changing and that the results have public health consequences.

We are working to refine our mapping processes and enable new types of analysis to help understand the environmental and public health consequences of mountaintop removal mining.

But as we move into this new bioinformation - filled future, it's important to keep the skeptic's voices in mind because gene sequencing doesn't just have personal implications but public health consequences.