Sentences with phrase «public health decisions»

Strategies to curtail noxious emissions before and during the Games presented an opportunity to study emissions reduction physics and provide policy makers a basis of information to make future public health decisions.

An ethical tension would arise if we were to consider screening at - risk populations for such variants and using the genomic information to influence a range of clinical and public health decisions.

«A tool to support public health decisions on Zika virus predicts most planned interventions to be cost - effective.»

The sum of all those tools is really how we go about making sound public health decisions.»

Our hope is that using the more targeted whole - exome - sequencing process will provide the necessary data to guide public health decisions related to cancer prevention.»

We need strong campaign finance reform and sweeping corporate - directed pressure so that there is space for public health decisions to truly be about public health, not private profit.

The results of this study support comprehensive vaccination programs and inform public health decision related to implementation,» said Giuliano.

Stewart Ibarra says that mathematical models such as this one can be used as a tool to support public health decision makers anywhere where Zika, dengue and chikungunya viruses can occur.

Lowe says that the study also demonstrates the potential value of incorporating climate information in the public health decision - making process not only in Ecuador but also in any epidemic - prone region, impacted by El Nino events.

Our findings could offer valuable information to support time - sensitive public health decision - making at local, national, and international levels,» he adds.

To meet that challenge, Standley, along with a group of global health researchers based at Georgetown University Medical Center, have created a web - based tool easily accessible to public health decision - makers on the ground.

«It is one of many tools that are available to public health decision — makers and needs to be kept in the context of that paradigm.

A series of economic papers released in 2015 and 2016 estimating the burden of diseases and associated costs attributable to exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the U.S. and EU are as flawed and immaterial to public health decision - making as many experts first suspected, according to a thorough and rigorous critique of the underlying methodology used to generate the cost estimates published this month in the online version of the influential, peer - reviewed journal Archives of Toxicology.

Not exact matches

In the meantime, we would advise careful deliberation about future decisions about the industry to balance energy needs with environmental and public health considerations.

Her decision to explain her preemptive double mastectomy in a New York Times editorial, though controversial in some health circles, underscored her willingness to foster hard conversations by taking a public stand.

As public awareness of the health dangers of cigarettes grew, however, more consumers made the decision to quit smoking, leading to bans in workplaces and other areas across the country.

Policymakers should look for ways to feature Yelp reviews where consumers are likely to make important decisions, including on private or public health insurance exchanges.

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

The Province continues to make important decisions to control costs while supporting key public services to, for example, reduce health care wait times and improve student achievement.

«Your letter states that the Public Service Agency's review is directed solely at «the human resources and investigation processes and procedures» that led to the termination of the employment of a number of Ministry of Health employees in 2012, rather than being a review of the decisions themselves,» Adams wrote on Whitmarsh's behalf.

The trail of emails and letters going back to Oct. 5 include details of how the Public Service Agency, Tarras and others were heavily involved in the process that led to the decision to fire the health ministry employees in 2012.

Scott Pruitt's proposed new rule has the dangerous potential to deter the EPA from basing its decisions on scientifically validated data and public health research....

He previously served as Director of Aptina Imaging (acquired by ON Semiconductor), CCC Information Services (acquired by Advent International), Decision Insight Information Group (acquired by CoreLogic), IMS Health (public), Intergraph (acquired by Hexagon AB), and Symbility Solutions (public).

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ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics of Ageing, AGR Agricultural Economics, ARA Arab World, BAN Banking, BEC Business Economics, CBA Central Banking, CBE Cognitive & Behavioural Economics, CDM Collective Decision - Making, CFN Corporate Finance, CIS Confederation of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric Time Series, EUR Microeconomic European Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.

CNN: Health secretary addresses health care, religious freedom in protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious frHealth secretary addresses health care, religious freedom in protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious frhealth care, religious freedom in protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious frHealth and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious frhealth care and honoring religious freedom.

And if Eisenstadt, Roe, Casey, and Lawrence were the direct descendants of Griswold, it is not difficult to see how Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the 2003 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision mandating so - called «gay marriage,» was a collateral descendant of Justice Douglas» discovery of a constitutional «right to privacy.»

The negative effect on the mental health of those segregated was basic in the supreme court's milestone decision on public school desegregation in 1954.

FDA's alignment with NOP standards on the use of compost recognizes the reduced food safety risk that composting can provide to public health, and FDA's decision to defer final decision on its previously proposed 9 - month minimum application interval for manure shows the agency's recognition that manure plays its own unique role in providing organic crops with adequate fertility.

This decision did not come lightly as I obtained a Master's degree in Public Health in May 2012.

There was substantial interest from a new round of Asian trade buyers and financial buyers, buoyed by the soaring multiples of Blackmores and accelerating volume of health products being sold to China, and the decision was made to head down the public float route.

«With a public health challenge as serious and complex as obesity, we must ensure that policy decisions focused on public health are based on the best scientific evidence, which this recommendation is not,» said the Council's CEO Geoff Parker.

First, because a policyholder must act quickly to protect public health, it might not have the opportunity to confirm that actual contamination has occurred before making the decision to recall the product.

Additionally, although I don't at all doubt that nutrition policy makers are qualified to make decisions on the majority of guidelines regarding public health, I do question whether it is fair for them to decide what is and isn't achievable for the public in terms of food related behaviour, and to set the guidelines pertaining to this accordingly.

That's the decision the commonwealth has made as one of the votes at that table, but we do want industry and public health people to work together to look at a form of interpretive front of pack labelling.

And a midwife / doula is (in my opinion) more qualified to help YOU make the decisions about YOUR health and the health of YOUR baby, as they are more invested in PERSONAL care vs. PUBLIC HEATH.

The partner agencies on this project — Washington State Department of Agriculture, Washington State Department of Health, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Washington State University School of Food Science — came together to develop «SAFE Salad Bars in Schools - A Guide for School Food Service» in order to consolidate messages and present clear guidance to school district staff and decision makers, using state - level knowledge and expertise and consulting national sources.

I wondered if this was a swipe at direct entry midwives for trying to use the legislature to make decisions that are properly left to the Department of Public Health.

While there are a great many variable factors that should be considered in such a decision, a recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health does provide some information of interest.

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to see how this decision will not have an adverse effect on the health of the mothers and infants in the Greater Toronto Area, and thus violate the mandate of this public health facility.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

With Romney seeking the presidency, breast - feeding supporters in Massachusetts now find themselves rehashing what transpired in early 2006, when the then - Governor reversed DPH's decision to discontinue the free - formula practice; he replaced three Public Health Council members who expressed displeasure over the ban's reversal.

Decisions regarding all of our environments must be guided by sound evidence to support and improve the health of the public.

This decision is an immoral assault on the public health, safety and security of everyone on this planet.

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Last year, for example, he blasted a decision by the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health to invite controversial American leader Linda Sarsour to be a graduation speaker, charging her with anti-Semitism.

The two men have for months engaged in a bruising public rivalry that has had an effect on policy decisions ranging from education to managing two public health crises.

«It will both protect and involve the public in key NRC health and safety decisions.

A public health study with public participation and with transparency represents a higher level of scientific rigor and so should be supported by the Governor in his quest to make the decision on the basis of the best science available.