Sentences with phrase «public health efforts»

But the evidence suggests it is worth considering as a «win - win» for public health efforts and alcohol producers.

The president also called for more money to support large public health efforts and treatment programs for those who are already struggling with drug addictions.

Recent public health efforts have focused extensively on reducing the amount of formula babies are given in the hospital after birth.

Innovative methods using odor to make low - fat foods more palatable could someday aid public health efforts to reduce dietary fat intake.

Public health efforts rely mainly on the work of nurses for day - to - day implementation.

With proper treatment, mortality is low, but the deadly bacterium's ability to spread rapidly has kept it at the forefront of global public health efforts.

This trend of obesity has been steadily increasing in both children and adults despite many public health efforts to improve nutrition and physical activity.

Initially, Orelien hoped to create a nonprofit that would focus on public health efforts in Haiti and other countries.

New technologies for sequencing, aided by friction - free approaches to data sharing, could have an impact on public health efforts.

The findings, published online and scheduled for an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Public Health, indicate that public health efforts aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic should include interventions that address concurrent use of multiple substances among reproductive - age women.

«Overall, our results suggest a connection between opioid and heroin use and heroin - related adverse outcomes at the population level, implying that frequent nonmedical users of prescription opioids, regardless of race or ethnicity, should be the focus of public health efforts to prevent and mitigate the harms of heroin use.»

«Regardless of price increases, soda taxes can be a means of sustainably funding public health efforts,» said study senior author Dr. Kristine Madsen, an associate professor at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health.

«Our findings indicate that even a best - case scenario will lead to an increase in extreme heat exposure in the future, so from a planning perspective, identifying potential hotspots will help target public health efforts,» says Jones.

A study concludes that including actual statin drugs with high - fat restaurant meals is a justifiable public health effort.

The feared epidemic never materialized — but hundreds who received the vaccine fell seriously ill, leaving U.S. officials skittish about launching such an extensive public health effort in potential pandemics that came later.

It's also a far - reaching and revealing digital «petri dish» to study human behavior that may help predict disease outbreaks, like HIV, and inform public health efforts, as several studies and social media experts have shown over the last few years.

They are also working with the Mexican Ministry of Health to assist their international public health efforts.

Co-author Dr. Lynn Taylor, an associate professor of medicine at Brown and physician at the Miriam Hospital, said the clear overlap of opioid use and hepatitis C infection requires a tightly coupled public health effort.

Lead exposure has been decreasing since the 1970s, validating public health efforts to reduce childhood exposure, the report says.

«Our study findings highlight the need for more public health efforts to reduce maternal obesity, appropriate gestational weight gain and to promote breastfeeding.»

Heroic worldwide surveillance efforts have avoided a repeat of the 1918 flu pandemic, but as shown in the recent H1N1 outbreak, viruses can still outwit even the best public health efforts.

«Although public health efforts have made some progress in reducing risk of adolescent motor vehicle crashes over the last three decades, new technologies and evolving behavior patterns have focused attention on the risk of distracted driving,» observes Guest Editor C. Raymond Bingham, PhD, from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI.

«Despite substantial public health efforts, flu vaccine rates for U.S. children are well below national targets,» says lead author Sarah J. Clark, M.P.H., associate director of the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health and associate research scientist in the U-M Department of Pediatrics.

«These findings suggest that, even when taking into account exposure to corrosive Flint water, long term public health efforts to reduce lead exposure in the community have been largely effective.»

MONDAY, Feb. 5, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- It looks like public health efforts to warn younger Americans about the dangers of tanning beds and sun exposure are paying off.

But the team highlighted a number of positive factors that may have contributed, including increased public health efforts to raise awareness about the risks involved and a growing disapproval of binge drinking among youthful peers.

Philip Morris Corporate Affairs Department is the single department most responsible for implementing a vast number of strategies, tactics and programs over the decades to undermine public health efforts to reduce smoking.

Philip Morris hired APCO to organize the front group TASSC (The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition) in October, 1993 to help fight public health efforts to control Environmental Tobacco Smoke that occurred in the wake of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ruling that secondhand tobacco smoke was a Group A human carcinogen.

Moreover, in spite of notable public health efforts, we are no nearer to identifying the 0.001 % and preventing untimely death.

While Mustanski doesn't see a direct correlation between risky sexual behavior and online dating, he does believe the dating companies should support larger public health efforts in small ways.

Mustanski also believes dating companies should support larger public health efforts, though he doesn't see a direct correlation between online dating and risky sexual behavior.

«Public health efforts aimed at decreasing the prevalence of smoking must take depression into account, a common and modifiable barrier whose treatment may help to increase successful smoking cessation,» said Dr. Goodwin, adjunct associate professor of Epidemiology.

Despite preventive and surveillance measures are been considered for foods, due to the positive effects on health that are also linked to consuming fish, the researchers urge for public health efforts in order to reduce human mercury emissions.

As a case study, they consider recent public health efforts in Thailand, using everything from village - wide presentations to children's comics, to elaborate traditional song - and - dance routines to try to stamp out infections caused by the parasitic liver fluke.

We applaud the state's public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation.

E-cigarettes are not subject to the same regulations as traditional cigarettes, potentially renormalizing the act of smoking after decades of public health efforts to shift public norms around smoking.

Writing for politics.co.uk today, the Fabian Society's general secretary Andrew Harrop argued that Labour's public health efforts were «a heroic effort at running up a down escalator».

Schumer says a CDC team could help the state «break its fever» by assisting the public health efforts already underway in the state.

«Since the increase in opioid use among women has been accompanied by an increase in adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, including neonatal abstinence syndrome, reproductive - age women should be of particular concern in public health efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.»

«Public health efforts are needed to raise university administration and student population awareness of the harms that indoor tanning poses to young adults in order to increase demand for policy - related action.

«Public health efforts to combat cancer should focus on these things that people have some control over.»

Public health efforts to prevent epidemics of infectious diseases typically rely on herd immunity: The more people in a community are vaccinated or otherwise protected from a disease, the less likely it is to be transmitted throughout the population.

«This vaccine, the first live - attenuated vaccine for Zika, will improve the public health efforts to avoid the birth defects and diseases caused by Zika in countries where the virus is commonly found.

Fukuda emphasized that meeting participants widely agreed that the full information from these studies could aid both public health efforts and scientific research.

Public health efforts and effective cessation treatments including behavioral counseling and medication have resulted in a 14 percent decrease in smoking in the U.S. while the rates are markedly increasing in developing countries.

There is such a large (and appropriate) public health effort to educate citizens about healthy cardiovascular lifestyle choices that many seem to conclude that the condition must be completely avoidable and completely caused by our unhealthy modern diet and factors such as cigarette smoking, trans - fats, and inactivity.»