Sentences with phrase «public health emergencies also»

In addition to conflict, natural disasters and public health emergencies also negatively impact children's learning opportunities.

Not exact matches

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevehealth emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and preveHealth and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

«If public health and emergency management officials determine that taking potassium iodide is appropriate, the pills will be provided to people at no cost,» the document says, also noting that the pills should only be taken at the instruction of a doctor or safety officials.

Local leaders, including Broward County Commissioner Dale Holness, and experts in emergency management, fire - rescue services, public health and aging were also present.

Routine spraying for nuisance mosquito control also may lead to pesticide - resistant mosquitoes, which would be more difficult to control in the event of a public health emergency.

The emergency manager will have discretion over the full $ 550 million, but also over any city funds used to abate public health hazards.

The flu clinic also allowed ECDOH to test its public health emergency preparedness plans to provide mass vaccinations to the public.

«NCATS is all about getting more treatments to more patients more quickly, and this is never more urgent than in the case of a public health emergency like Ebola,» said Christopher P. Austin, MD, Director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the NIH, which also led the study.

Liu also criticized the fact that WHO didn't declare the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) until 8 August.

With cases rapidly mounting in four West African countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) today declared the Ebola outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), a designation that allows the agency to issue recommendations for travel restrictions but also sends a strong message that more resources need to be mobilized to bring the viral disease under control.

WHO also has convened a committee to determine whether the Ebola outbreak constitutes a so - called Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a designation that, among other things, would allow WHO to issue travel recommendations to avoid spread of the disease.

In 2009, Project ASSERT, with support from Boston Public Health Commission and Massachusetts Department of Public Health, also began offering overdose prevention education and naloxone rescue kits to emergency department patients at risk for opioid overdose.

If the panel had said yes to an emergency declaration, however, it also faced the risk of losing public trust if MERS failed to become a serious global health problem, he notes.

Wilkinson would also like to see more community awareness regarding the availability emergency contraception, such as advertising from a variety of sources, like drug companies, sex educators, community health workers and public health departments.

We deliver First Aid at Work (FAW) and Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) courses for the workplace and also run Basic Life support / CPR and A.E.D (Defibrillator) courses to both the public and Health Care Professionals.

Some non-profit agencies that deliver certain public services such as emergency management, law enforcement, public education, library services, service for elderly or disabled or public health services, would also qualify.

Traditional responders, including emergency managers, law enforcement, firefighters, public health, will also benefit and learn about roles they may have during a response.

We predict we still need shelters for around 10,000 cattle,» Volcano Emergency Readiness Team head Syamsul Ma'arif, who is also the ministry's Veterinary Public Health director, said on Monday.

This is not only so we can cut carbon emissions and reduce climate change, but also because urban air pollution is one of the world's biggest killers and a major public health emergency.

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It also received some international attention, with comments from Canadian public health physician Janet Smylie that racism towards Aboriginal people seeking emergency department treatment is still an uncomfortable issue in Canada.

In 1999, the FDA approved Plan B emergency contraception, and Planned Parenthood began work to make emergency contraception widely available at its health centers and educate the public about emergency contraception, also known as the «morning - after pill.»