Sentences with phrase «public health impacts»
The potential health implications of this pipeline are enormous and far reaching — from spills poisoning our water and soil, to the public health impacts of a warming global climate — the impacts will likely be devastating.»
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Public health impacts include injuries and deaths from heat waves; more intense storms, floods, and wildfires; more severe and frequent bad - air days; and changes in disease pathways and allergen potency.
The University of Michigan Department of Environmental Health Sciences has just published a Science study, «Assessing The Direct Occupational And Public Health Impacts Of Solar Radiation Management With Stratospheric Aerosols» (excerpts from this study later in this article).
This study proposes a social - environmental economic model, based on Regional Sequential Interindustry Model (SIM) integrated with geoprocessing data, in order to identify economic, pollution and public health impacts in state and county levels for energy planning analysis.
Using available evidence, we describe the potential direct occupational and public health impacts of exposures to aerosols likely to be used for SRM, including environmental sulfates, black carbon, metallic aluminum, and aluminum oxide aerosols.
Stop any new leasing of federal oil, gas, and coal until potential environmental, climate, and public health impacts are fully considered, including:
Kinney, P., J. Rosenthal, C. Rosenzweig, C. Hogrefe, W. Solecki, K. Knowlton, C. Small, B. Lynn, K. Civerolo, J. Ku, R. Goldberg, and C. Oliveri, 2006: Assessing potential public health impacts of changing climate and land uses: The New York Climate and Health Project.
Because slowly increasing temperatures don't seem alarming, the «availability entrepreneurs» push extreme weather events and public health impacts as being caused by human - caused climate change, more of which is in store if we don't quickly act to cool the planet by reducing fossil fuel emissions.
... the «availability entrepreneurs» push extreme weather events and public health impacts as being caused by human - caused climate change...
She also quantifies the energy, economic, environmental, and public health impacts that the policies would have on society.
Not surprisingly, scientists featured in several media outlets immediately pointed out the error of his statement, and a report, released within days of Pruitt's announcement, highlights the environmental and public health impacts of the biomass industry.
She later testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the public health impacts of those chemicals and the need for the United States to implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
That if we end our addiction to fossil fuels, we might put a dent in public health impacts that lead to sicker and shorter lives in places like the Duwamish Valley and other disadvantaged communities across our state.
A new study found that «climate shocks» like hurricanes, along with wildfires, drought and increased public health impacts, will cost the US nearly $ 1 billion a day within a decade.
We continue to make this data freely available for research, and so far our decade - by - decade analysis has been cited in at least six peer - reviewed studies on the environmental and public health impacts of MTR.
The senators also took Shaw to task for his vote to renew permits for Asarco's copper smelter in El Paso and for one that denied citizens a hearing on the public health impacts of a cement kiln in Midlothian, near Fort Worth.
Green freight programs work with the freight industry to minimize the public health impacts of diesel emissions by promoting technologies that reduce emissions from the combustion of diesel, including particulate matter (PM) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx), which benefits the health of vulnerable populations.
Jackson, J. E., M. G. Yost, C. Karr, C. Fitzpatrick, B. K. Lamb, S. H. Chung, J. Chen, J. Avise, R. A. Rosenblatt, and R. A. Fenske, 2010: Public health impacts of climate change in Washington State: Projected mortality risks due to heat events and air pollution.
This is a critical set of directions that will advance the agenda of prevention science into the public policy arena and move the prevention field towards realizing widespread public health impacts.
In addition to including public health impacts and environmental effects — which the LCOE typically does not — the research team used data to calculate county - specific costs for each technology.
«There are a whole host of public health impacts that are going to hit home,» he said, before announcing a White House summit on climate change and public health, which Murthy will head later this spring.
The potential clinical significance of the bacteria needs to studied, and any public health impacts understood, he added.
Q: You also recommend that FDA go back and review all the existing opioids on the market for these kinds of public health impacts.
«It's a timely thing to do and imaginative, and I applaud them for that,» says Peter Thorne, an environmental health scientist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, who studies the public health impacts of traditional livestock.
«While it is welcome news that three highly regarded professionals have agreed to review the DEC's study on the public health impacts of fracking, the administration's intentionally obtuse approach to this entire process is unacceptable.
«It appears that Governor Cuomo has heard the public outcry about the need to fully assess and address public health impacts of fracking, but based on the administration's most recent statement, people remain in the dark about what is really happening.
The Ulster County executive has issued an executive order calling for a report on the public health impacts repealing the Affordable Care Act would have on the county's residents.
Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster asked state environmental regulators in November 2013 for a study to determine the public health impacts of air pollution in and around Niagara Falls.
«When you look at all the public health impacts and environmental conditions that were systematically ignored there is only one conclusion, that there were other motivations and incentives at play,» said Pramilla Malick of Protect Orange County, a local organization that has been opposing the project for several years.
Conclusive new evidence has emerged of the public health impact of plain cigarette packs, two years after they were introduced in Australia.
Her letter, posted on her Facebook page, says in part «In order for the public to have confidence in in New York State's «health impact analysis» of shale fracking, a comprehensive public health impact study should be undertaken openly and transparently to resolve all shale fracking concerns once and for all.»
Hang says a comprehensive public health impact study should be conducted before any more steps are taken.
«The public health impact of adopting intensive treatment in the right patients is enormous,» says Adam Bress, University of Utah assistant professor of population health sciences.
The work should begin «by identifying the most pressing research questions with the greatest potential public health impact, and by assessing existing public health interventions being implemented across the Nation to prevent gun violence,» the president's memo states.
In addition, the researchers calculated the public health impact of healthcare emissions.
In 1993, Lurie wrote a report for the US Centers for Disease Control assessing the public health impact of needle exchange programmes.
The researchers concluded that providing PrEP according to the CDC guidelines strikes a good balance between public health impact and intervention efficiency, given these results.
The issue revolves around high levels of lead in drinking water and a 2007 paper in Environmental Health Perspectives that claimed «no identifiable public health impact» had resulted.
Mexico's focal point considers outbreak to be a «potential public health event of international importance» because it meets IHR criteria: severe public health impact and an unusual event.
Other parasitic diseases with a huge public health impact include amoebiasis (which kills 100,000 per year), leishmaniasis (60,000), and schistosomiasis (20,000).
The researchers wanted to assess the public health impact of giving teens in London free bus travel.
Foodborne disease has an enormous public health impact even if you count only the initial, acute episodes of illness.
If we intervene with it, it could give individual HIV - infected persons a modest immune recovery bump that will likely translate to big public health impact.»
«Future studies are needed to further investigate new types of electronic activity monitors and to test their feasibility, acceptability and ultimately their public health impact.»
China is home to about one third of the world's smokers and reducing smoking in China could have an enormous public health impact, even on a global scale.
[C] onduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it.The Secretary shall begin by identifying the most pressing research questions with the greatest potential public health impact, and by assessing existing public health interventions being implemented across the nation to prevent gun violence.
Sixteen of the twenty EHSCCs funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) joined the working group to review the literature on the potential public health impact of UNGDO and to make recommendations for research.
However, significant concerns have arisen due to the lack of research on the public health impact of this type of energy extraction.
«Assisted dying for psychiatric disorders: Serious public health impact.»
The alliance will employ Illumina's platform for high - multiplex single - nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping to develop tests for gene variants deCODE has previously shown to have impact on the risk of a growing number of common diseases with major public health impact.