Sentences with phrase «public health diseases»

Dr. Cezar started her career at APHIS serving as a Veterinary Medical Officer, a role under Veterinary Services, where she worked firsthand in surveillance of critical public health diseases such as Chronic Wasting Disease and Scrapie.

To get to that point will require the development of public - domain software for public health disease detectives to use routinely, or even to automate the process.

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Political instability and dangerous conditions in Syria have made it difficult to wage a large - scale public health campaign against infectious diseases like polio.

In a year that saw a terrible Ebola pandemic in Africa and the resurgence of Legionnaire's disease in New York, it's small wonder that life sciences and health - care companies are also leading the way for initial public offerings.

The news comes just over a week after the World Health Organization declared Zika was no longer a «public health emergency,» indicating that the disease was now a threat it would be fighting long term, like malaria or yellow Health Organization declared Zika was no longer a «public health emergency,» indicating that the disease was now a threat it would be fighting long term, like malaria or yellow health emergency,» indicating that the disease was now a threat it would be fighting long term, like malaria or yellow fever.

John F. Kennedy had several health problems, most notably Addison's disease, an adrenal gland disorder, which was concealed from the public.

Tarun has worked in health for 30 years, focusing on public health research, policy and practice in the prevention of common chronic diseases and addressing Aboriginal health gaps.

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 head of the US Centres for Disease Control, Dr Tom Frieden, for example says «There is no public health reason to cancel or delay the Olympics.»

«The top three weighted criteria are political and social environment, medical and health considerations, and public services and transport,» explains Griffiths, adding that criteria cover factors such as ease of entry and exit, air pollution, and risk of disease.

The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) fihealth community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) fiHealth Organization (WHO) figures.

And while no specific numbers have yet been revealed in the Trump budget outline for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Republican replacement plan for Obamacare already has that agency in the cross hairs — by promising to eliminate a government prevention and public health fund that puts a billion dollars in the CDC's coffers, the Washington Post reports.

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21ST - CENTURY DETECTION AND PREVENTION Value Chain Track As the burden of chronic ailments increases along with our aging populations, public health experts are in near - universal agreement that we need to a far better job of preventing disease.

Orion Biotechnology Canada Ltd, an Ottawa - headquartered developer of medical treatments for chronic illness and life - threatening diseases, has announced a strategic partnership with the Center for Public Health Research (CPHR) and the State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry (SKLAC) of Nanjing University.

They are right to demand action: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public health database, when it comes to causes of deaths in US adolescents ages 15 to 19, firearms are an alarmingly common contributor.

«Se - xually transmitted diseases (ST - Ds) remain a major public health challenge in the United States.

«Se - xually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States.

Pregnancy is not an illness, a disease nor a public health concern.

I have instructed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to: Appoint an advisory committee on alcoholism; establish in the Public Health Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health prHealth, Education, and Welfare to: Appoint an advisory committee on alcoholism; establish in the Public Health Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health prPublic Health Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health prHealth Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health prpublic understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health prpublic and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health prhealth program.

«We need to bring back public discussion of AIDS as a «gay» disease, pederasty as [sic] major subculture of male hom.ose.xuality, mental health problems and domestic violence as major problems associated with lesbianism, the increasing recruitment of children into a hom.ose.xual ident.ity through experimentation with «gay» se.x, etc. — all the truths we stopped telling because the other side screamed so loudly about them.»

In a survey reported by the American Public Health Association, 78 percent of the gay respondents reported that they have been affected by a sexually transmitted disease at least one time.

for July - September 1990, in Advance Data, nos. 193, 195, and 198, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, p. 11 in all three documents.

«Se - xually transmitted diseases (S - TDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States.

Dr. Stephen Keener, Mecklenburg County medical director, said the quarantine is just a preventative measure: «Quarantine is a public health measure to protect the public that requires healthy people who were exposed to a disease to be prevented from contact with others until it is certain that they are not infected».

As a communicable disease, certain legislative measures are in place to protect public health and roommates will be screened and informed of the possible risk.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that food allergies are a growing food safety and public health concern that affect an estimated 4 — 6 percent of children in the United States.

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, found that eating red meat once a day gives you a 20 % greater chance of death by heart disease or cancer.

Many public health organizations — including the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society — recommend legumes as a key food group for preventing disease and optimizing health.

On one side of the argument we have public health associations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and consumer groups looking for effective solutions to address the growth of lifestyle diseases, including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Reducing our meat intake can also lower the risk of getting cancer and heart disease, and therefore benefit public health, according to the Danish Cancer Association (Kræftens Bekæmpelse).

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department's Public Health and Food Protection Program, with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, are investigating to determine the suppliers.

Multiple approaches are needed to combat VAD, including nutrition education and consuming a diverse and nutrient rich diet; promoting breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices; vitamin A capsule supplementation; food fortification; and other public health measures aimed at the control of infectious diseases.

The group with the highest sodium - to - potassium ratio had a mortality risk about 50 % higher during the study than the group with the lowest, according to the report by Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

The number of people who follow gluten - free diets is far larger than the number diagnosed with celiac disease, report researchers at Rutgers University, noting the public perception of the diet's health benefits may also be helping encourage its adoption.

«To single out sugar sweetened beverages as a primary factor of chronic disease oversimplifies a complex public health issue.

Public health emphasis on reducing saturated fat consumption without considering the replacement nutrient or, more importantly, the many other food - based risk factors for cardiometabolic disease is unlikely to produce substantial intended benefits.

HIV / AIDS is everyone's public health issue so if I can be even just a small part ending this disease, then it's my privilege to be actively involved with EAT (RED) DRINK (RED) SAVE LIVES.»

Nutrient profiling has been shown to be an appropriate tool to identify healthier foods (25) and shape public health nutrition policy in relation to chronic disease (26).

We believe that our target group can help Indian organizations such as the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and the Public Health Foundation of India to work towards plain packaging.

Public health experts developed the traffic light system in the UK in 2006 in an effort to help combat rising levels of obesity and diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

There is hope that the ministers will acknowledge the strong public health arguments and overwhelming public support in favour of traffic light labels and see this proposal for what it is: a highly cost - effective policy that is likely to reduce the health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

Sodium, Blood Pressure, and Cardiovascular Disease: A Compelling Scientific Case for Improving the Health of the Public

Though public health is not at issue now, government oversight is, and the latest developments have echoes of earlier European food safety crises, including mad cow disease in Britain and dioxin in eggs and poultry in Belgium.

Dietary sodium reduction is a cost - effective public health intervention to reduce chronic disease.

The United Nations recently recognised the threat of these non-communicable diseases as a global public health crisis, and called for decisive preventative action from government leaders.

Ali has a passion to create public awareness regarding the significant role diet plays in our overall health and believes everything we put in our body can contribute towards optimal health or dysfunction and disease.

With so much poor nutrition readily available to the public, it's no wonder that the west is reporting record levels of health disorders and diseases such as diabetes and obesity.

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.