Sentences with phrase «public health debate»

«That is the huge public health debate,» she said.

The risks of e-cigarettes has been a public health debate for some time and the FDA initially announced its proposal to increase its jurisdiction in 2014.

«The works also highlights how damaging brain injury can be — and fuels the public health debate about what we can do to protect ourselves against head injuries.»

Early strips seem to predict the extremes of the current public health debate, with judges treating sugar as seriously as cocaine or herding citizens into «smokatoriums» for their cigarettes.

«Smoking» in public health debates is usually used as a by - word for tobacco consumption, with cannabis treated separately as part of the drugs debate.

Not exact matches

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

Theoretically, these are meant to be local policy experiments, and the data gleaned from them should ostensibly inform public debate on health policy.

The lack of funding combined with the toxic environment that surrounds the debate over gun rights has made most public - health researchers wary of touching the topic.

While terms like «patent protection» and «public domain» were clearly part of the IPR debate, it also stretched to the cost of drugs and the availability of medicines, encompassing terms like «health advocates» and «pharmaceutical companies.»

Public action to prevent the birth of genetically handicapped offspring by mandatory means — a potential public threat revealed in the current debate over community rating of health care insurance — is unjustPublic action to prevent the birth of genetically handicapped offspring by mandatory means — a potential public threat revealed in the current debate over community rating of health care insurance — is unjustpublic threat revealed in the current debate over community rating of health care insurance — is unjustified.

The effectiveness of the Health Star rating system, which was developed by food and beverage industry bodies, public health and consumer experts, has been the subject of an ongoing dHealth Star rating system, which was developed by food and beverage industry bodies, public health and consumer experts, has been the subject of an ongoing dhealth and consumer experts, has been the subject of an ongoing debate.

Secondary reductions in consumption may occur from the negative publicity surrounding sugar sweetened drinks, resulting from either the continuing debate about legislation or the stigma attached to public awareness of a special tax on health grounds.

Further Information The effectiveness of Food and Drink industry's endeavours to improve the nutritional value of many products continues to be debated, along with the value of the voluntary Public Health Responsibility Deal and the need for government regulation.

Ahead of the debate on Ending Childhood Obesity at Food Matters Live 2016, Alison Tedstone, Chief Nutritionist & Director of the Diet & Obesity Team at Public Health England, outlines how Public Health England will lead the reformulation programme set out in the Childhood Obesity Strategy.

In the women breastfeeding in public debate, it is the health of children everywhere that should take priority, not the «sensitivities» of adults who are perfectly capable of looking the other direction.

Legislators, business owners and family members are debating how to reconcile the health benefits of nursing with the prevailing cultural squeamishness toward nursing in public.

The draft Motion will be debated in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety on Thursday 7th September 2017.

As the cosleeping debate rages on, the public health community has neglected its duty in providing guidelines on best practices for parents who will cosleep / bedshare, regardless of what the «official» recommendations are.

The Procon agency in the state of Sao Paulo fined the fast - food company 3.2 million reais ($ 1.6 million), adding fuel to a global debate about fast food and public health.

The action against the Happy Meal adds fuel to a global debate about fast food and public health.

The guilt issue is most pronounced with the formulabreastfeeding debate, where health professionals and public health bodies hesitate to give mothers accurate information about formula risks (with a lot of «support» from formula companies), so they won't feel «guilty» if they decide to formula feed.

Last week, April published another story, «To Screen or Not to Screen - Doctors Debate Postpartum Depression Testing» which is scheduled to publish to Kaiser Health News and National Public Radio this week.

«I have told my compatriots that we don't run on the health of our opponents and so we don't make that an issue but it has come up for public debate,» he said on Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV Tuesday night.

Citing health issues, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, who recently spent several days in the hospital due to a significant allergic react, says there will be just one public forum and no debates prior to the September primary.

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt had trouble getting a word in edgeways yesterday when MPs debated the controversial ban on smoking in public places.

An important fact always get lost amidst all the visceral anti-statism of the US healthcare debate: that it is the PRIVATE provision of health services that creates the most administrative waste, not the public.

Criticism of Labour's record of running public services, namely health and education, is a regular feature of Prime Minister's Question time and other parliamentary debates.

, who was a key backer of the public insurance option during the health - care debate, said he thinks the P Street Project can help provide resources and political cover for other liberal lawmakers.

Dave should use the Leaders» Debate on Thursday to step up the attack, leveling with the public and pointing out that the painful decisions necessary to restore the nation's finances to health will not be taken by a weak coalition government.

«Local MP, Andrew George, has confirmed that everything is ready and prepared for a big public debate this evening on the future of the Government's Health and Social Care Bill which will commence its final debate in the House of Commons this time next week.

Perhaps reflecting the debate's complex politics, the WHO asked a separate expert panel (AGIES), made up largely of public - health experts from developing countries, to review the scientific report and recommend whether further research was warranted.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Afpublic and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Afpublic health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Afhealth,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfPublic Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfHealth at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfPublic Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfHealth and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfHealth Affairs.

The announcement comes amid a debate over the use of experimental drugs in the outbreak: a leading epidemiologist hopes the announcement will shift international focus toward relying on basic public health measures to control the disease.

In the growing debate about research that has done precisely that, a key question is whether the public - health benefits of the work outweigh the risks of a potential pandemic if the virus escaped from the lab.

The findings shed light on the effectiveness of whooping cough vaccines in the U.S. — a subject of intense scientific debate — and may help guide future vaccination campaigns and public health strategies.

The AAAS Dialogue Group offers this Statement as a contribution to the on - going public debate in the hope of protecting Americans from discriminatory practices in health insurance based on the use of genetic information produced by predictive testing.

Writing in a linked Comment, Christopher Colvin from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Abigail Harrison from Brown University School of Public Health in the USA say, «Currently, the increasingly narrow and fierce debates over the HIV and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate link have focused on whether a large randomised controlled trial should be done to better understand this link.

With the national health care debate continuing to rage and the growing public concern about rising health insurance premiums, the actual impact of sedentary workplaces on medical insurance markets should be closely examined, according to the authors.

While these types of messages are commonly used in political, public health and commercial advertising campaigns (e.g., smoking will kill you, Candidate A will destroy the economy), their use is controversial as academics continue to debate their effectiveness.

The debate has rumbled on for decades, but recent findings about the role circumcision can play in preventing transmission of HIV have placed the foreskin — or its absence — firmly back on the public - health agenda.

«The public health sector has been absent from this debate,» said Nadia Steinzor, a researcher on the Oil and Gas Accountability Project at the environmental nonprofit, Earthworks.

The back - and - forth debate on health is critical to the Clean Power Plan because the provision of the Clean Air Act the Obama administration is invoking, Section 111 (d), according to EPA's website, «requires EPA to develop regulations for categories of sources which cause or significantly contribute to air pollution which may endanger public health or welfare» (ClimateWire, Apr. 10).

That's why another debate is brewing among some scientists and public health officials: What about trying existing drugs that have been approved for other diseases but that might benefit Ebola patients as well?

A group of public health researchers announced at a workshop held here last week that the virus's DNA sequence shows conclusively that it is the West Nile virus — an identification that was under debate until recently.

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

While critics have debated the effectiveness of activity trackers, a recent study by faculty in the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington found activity trackers can work, if paired with wellness coaching.

These exemption laws have provoked debate over the rights of parents versus the responsibility of government to protect public health.

What surprises many scientists is that their findings against a vaccine connection keep failing to quell the debate, giving the antivaccine movement the potential to become a genuine public - health problem.

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.

The evidence against it is strong, and banning BPA is now being furiously debated in both the media and public health bodies.