Public health groups take a page from business to understand the developing world's weak demand for drugs and vaccines
Not exact matches
Others, such as consumer watchdog
Public Citizen and the preventive medicine advocacy group Trust for America's Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initia
Public Citizen and the preventive medicine advocacy
group Trust for America's
Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initia
Health (TFAH), had very different
takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important
public health initia
public health initia
health initiatives.
The
group took out radio and newspaper ads that often linked hom.ose.xuality to pedophilia, and claimed that LGBT people were seeking «special rights» and that hom.ose.xuality is a «
public health menace.»
We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a
group of agencies (Men's
Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and viol
Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure
public policies
take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across
health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and viol
health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).
This ongoing effort comes as an anti-pesticide push from environmental and
public health groups has
taken hold recently, targeting the negative side effects of synthetic chemicals.
A coalition of New York
public health, environment and healthy schools advocacy
groups have banded together as they push state government leaders to
take action.
At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York
public health, environment, and healthy schools advocacy
groups will call on state government leaders to
take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.
As you would expect from a government department seeking to effect
public health change through a voluntary deal with industry, a wide
group of officials have many different meetings with a vast range of stakeholders, and we utterly reject the allegation of anything untoward in the small proportion of those that
took place with the alcohol industry.
Given that
public health groups are just learning how to construct forecasts, convincing suppliers to
take such risks may be a slow process, remarks Zaffran.
Presented at the American
Public Health Association conference, they
took a bunch of meat - eaters, and split them up into three
groups.
A
group of 18 doctors, researchers and
public health experts jointly urged the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to
take action on energy drinks to protect adolescents and children from the possible risks of consuming high amounts of caffeine.
Many school districts are
taking the slow approach to better nutrition and may not be in compliance with the National School Lunch Program's new guidelines for several years, according to a report released last week by the advocacy
group Public Voice for Food and
Health Policy.
«Study
group» jamborees,
public pronouncements and do - nothing platitudes to the contrary, (ref)
groups like the AVMA and the AKC that should be
taking action for healthier pets never do — under pressure from cash - focused breeding lobbies and, perhaps, the perverse assumption that breed - related
health problems constitute an important veterinary revenue stream.
As a member of the large plaintiff
group in Massachusetts v. EPA, we celebrated the Supreme Court's April 2007 decision declaring CO2 a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to
take the next step toward regulation by making what's called the «endangerment finding» — an agency determination that a pollutant «endangers
public health and welfare,» leading directly to controls on that pollutant.
It is a threat because the number of historic buildings which are being declared redundant by
public sector owners — and this is not just local authorities, but also includes the Ministry of Defence, fire services,
health trusts and so on — exceeds the number of community
groups and commercial developers able to
take them on.»