Sentences with phrase «public health improvements»

If I'm allowed a general comment on the chosen charity, much as I admire medical colleagues who devote their careers to helping a small number of individuals it is clear that the greatest benefit comes from public health improvements i.e. clean water, sanitation and nutrition.

The valuable benefits of public health improvements and growth in the clean technology industry would further offset costs.

These solutions deliver multiple benefits, from access to energy, public health improvements, reduced environmental impacts to driving a transition to low - carbon, greener growth.

Not a lot, at least according to the CDC, because 5 / 6th of the increased life expectancy in the US was due to public health improvements: http://cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056796.htm (Note that's just for the 20th century.

The $ 20 million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) is designed to accelerate scientific discoveries found in the laboratory into public health improvements.

The reason is they believe aging is the single biggest risk factor for diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's and Type 2 diabetes — conditions that were less of a concern before public health improvements such as clean water, vaccines and medication helped us live longer.

Seven years later, he's more optimistic: With the traps and the eave tube project, «I strongly feel that we have made contributions to public health improvement.»

Not exact matches

To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

«If smokers switch to electronic cigarettes or other products that can be shown to cut the risks to their health, this could lead to a big improvement in public health,» said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of U.K. health charity Action on Smoking and Hhealth, this could lead to a big improvement in public health,» said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of U.K. health charity Action on Smoking and Hhealth,» said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of U.K. health charity Action on Smoking and Hhealth charity Action on Smoking and HealthHealth.

And, who knows, it may even include things like improved labour laws, improvements to public health care and education that actually mean it about the public part, requiring the Workers Compensation Board to get serious about the compensation part of its mandate and, yeah, an effort to get off the energy price rollercoaster.

It comes as a new study shows nearly 80 per cent of the British public see no signs of improvement for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children who are at risk of serious issues such as neglect, poverty, bad health or homelessness.

Health care for the poor, education in the inner city, job training for welfare mothers, discipline for criminally offending youths, improvement of community infrastructure and housing, nutrition for infants, drug treatment for recovering addicts» all of these things and more require the provision of public funds and are essential to the progress we seek.

That phase, too, marked a big improvement in public health.

Britain's largest food retailers have huge potential to promote healthy eating and drive improvements in public health outcomes.

And when the millions of Americans struggling with poverty eat more fruits and vegetables, we see immediate improvements for families and farmers — and enormous long - term gains for public health, local economies and the environment.

A deeper understanding of the relative risks associated with the various failures associated with the management and control of allergens will permit manufacturers to appropriately devote food safety resources where they can result in the greatest reduction in food allergen risk and recalls, and hence the largest improvement in public health.

It says, «despite this tremendous overall improvement, maternal mortality continues to be a significant public health issue and commands an enormous amount of attention.»

Sheryl holds a B.I.S. in Women's Studies in Communication from George Mason University, and she has worked in Communications as a human resource specialist and quality improvement trainer, community health trainer and supervisor, technical editor and writer, publisher, and as a writing and public speaking teacher in home school cooperatives.

BMBFA's consultants have been outsourced by many agencies including; The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, The U.S. Office on Women's Health, The United States Breastfeeding Committee, Ramsey County W.I.C., All About Lactation, Delaware Department of Community Health and Social Services, Rush Medical Center, Louisville Department of Public Health and Wellness, Kentuckiana Lactation Improvement Coalition, Colorado WIC Program, Illinois Department of Health, United States Lactation Consultant Association, Saint Mary's Health Care, Michigan Department of Community Health and University of Minnesota.

«We think that's entirely too long,» said Tricia Obester, a spokeswoman for Public Voice, the Washington - based consumer health organization that long has campaigned for improvements in the nation's school lunch programs, which feed about 25 million children a day.

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Only two years into the new meal improvements, the Harvard School of Public Health has already found that the new school food standards have significantly increased kids» fruit and vegetable consumption.

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Reasons for this slow improvement among mothers in the United States include: (a) breastfeeding has not received sufficient national attention as a public health issue [5]; (b) inadequate attention to the importance of the duration of exclusive breastfeeding [3, 6]; and (c) inadequate research addressing exclusive breastfeeding in the United States [3, 7].

Pharmaceutical products and technological innovation play important roles in the advancement of medicine in the United States, leading to improvements in public health and extended lives for our citizens.

He is an epidemiologist by training and an acclaimed public health researcher, whose work has focused on driving improvements in data quality to support changes in health care.

Design - build will not be extended to counties or New York City, but it is specifically authorized for eight projects: the redevelopment of the Frontier Town property in the Adirondacks, new public health and forensics laboratories in the Capital Region, improvements at the state fairgrounds in Syracuse and upgrades at four state - run ski resorts: Belleayre, Whiteface, Gore and Mt. Van Hoevenberg.

«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.

«Vision to Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning Cited In Award» The Quality Improvement Coordinator for the Oneida County Health Department has been named to the 2010 New York State Public Health Works!

«Encouraging breastfeeding is one of the simplest things we can do to make big improvements in public health,» said Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat.

Bullwinkle Named to State Honor Roll «Vision to Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning Cited In Award» The Quality Improvement Coordinator for the Oneida County Health Department has been named to the 2010 New York State Public Health Works!

One category that the Pine Barrens law does not define as «development» is «public improvements undertaken for the health, safety and welfare of the public.»

At the same time, Erie County's credit rating has risen significantly under his watch while the county has continued to invest millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements, county parks, libraries, and arts organizations; made advances in public health; and supported innovative programs to reduce poverty, among many other achievements.

Myriad logistical and even cultural issues also hindered improvements in local public health.

This «Flynn effect» is thought to be the result of improvements in social conditions like public health, nutrition and education, and has been seen in many countries, from the Netherlands to Japan.

If the link is proven, she says, a new generation of sunscreens that block the longer UV - A wavelengths could «generate a real improvement in public health.»

«Science research has been the source of improvements in public health, in our energy, in our quality of life, in our agriculture and ability to feed ourselves and the world,» said Holt.

From Brown's perspective, «Investments in research must go hand - in - hand with investment in public health activities to obtain the long - term improvements in population health that we all work toward.»

He came to believe that a steady stream of technological improvements — advances in food production and distribution, sanitation, public health, and medicine — facilitated an era of rapid evolutionary advances.

The deadly cholera epidemic that rocked earthquake - shattered Haiti in 2010, claiming 8,000 lives and counting, has rallied the public health community to seek water and sewer improvements that, combined with vaccination, could prevent some 89,000 future cholera infections.

They write that EPA's regulations are key to improvements over the last 40 years in public health and disaster response.

Improvements in public services that benefit health, such as vaccinations or clean water, may also lag behind growth in incomes.

While an HPV vaccine became available over 10 years ago, a study led by the Yale School of Public Health finds that there is «substantial» room for improvement in the way it is recommended and discussed.

Metropolitan areas with the large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants, they wrote, would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.

«An important question is whether reducing the current limit further would be an improvement for public health that is economically sustainable,» he says, adding that reducing the limit to 2 ppb could cost trillions of dollars to enforce in the US.

«These old studies support the idea of a continuing «dementia epidemic», but are now out of date because of changes in life expectancy, living conditions, and improvements in health care and lifestyle,» says Carol Brayne, lead author and Professor of Public Health Medicine at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health (CIPH), University of Cambridge in thealth care and lifestyle,» says Carol Brayne, lead author and Professor of Public Health Medicine at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health (CIPH), University of Cambridge in tHealth Medicine at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health (CIPH), University of Cambridge in tHealth (CIPH), University of Cambridge in the UK.

The astounding improvements in public health between 1900 and 1950, aided by such factors as refrigeration, sewage treatment, and safer working environments, produced many of the increases in life expectancy in the last century.

It was established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University for public health surveillance and continuous quality improvement.

Lead report author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute and associate professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.»

Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA, principal investigator of the Guided Care study and director of the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, accepted the award at the STFM's annual Conference on Practice Improvement, held last week in Kansas City, Missouri.