But when the seeds of the current childhood obesity
public health crisis come to fruition — when we all watch as an entire generation of adults» lives are cut short by diabetes and heart disease, when our nation finally has to pay the looming $ 344 billion obesity - related health care bill — maybe, just maybe, we will be.
Still, researchers didn't pay serious attention to the problem for decades, after a massive
public health crisis came to light in Bangladesh.
Not exact matches
Kapoor's arrest
comes a day after President Donald Trump declared the opioid
crisis a nationwide
public health emergency and nearly a year after former Insys CEO Michael Babich and five other onetime executives were arrested as part of an alleged «nationwide conspiracy.»
The state
health department has
come under intense criticism for its handling of the unfolding Hoosick Falls
crisis, including the distribution late last year that also downplayed risks of PFOA exposure after federal regulators pushed for a wider
public alarm about the situation.
When it
comes to addressing a
public health crisis killing Erie County residents at a rate of more than one a day, decision makers holding the purse strings have been torn between the need for speed and the need for thoughtful deliberation.
Experts have questioned how officials will be able to measure the effectiveness of an emergency for the opioid
crisis and how they will know when to declare it over, given that the opioid epidemic is expected to remain a
public health crisis for years to
come.