Sentences with phrase «public health interventions»

Schools play an important role in children's health and are often prime settings for public health interventions.

When we first promoted this intervention, it was considered controversial but now has become recognized as one of the most vital, cost - effective public health interventions in the world.

And what that means, dear Daily readers, is that any broad - based public health intervention that doesn't address that component isn't likely to succeed.

By the time the results are available, they might well be irrelevant for clinical diagnostics and guiding public health interventions.

Intervention research: This category included publications in which the aim was to test the effectiveness of a clinical or public health intervention among Indigenous people.

Parents may benefit from public health interventions that promote adult healthy eating habits as a means for developing and maintaining healthy eating behaviour in their children.

This is a study that is primarily of interest to those implementing public health interventions.

The implications of neighborhood effects for knowledge advancement and public health interventions remain unclear.

The findings add further weight to calls for food labels that do not require background knowledge or numerical skills and highlight the need for population - based public health interventions.

According to Malo, «public health interventions designed to increase HPV vaccine recommendation for males should focus on increasing recommendations by family practitioners and also identifying and supporting innovators and early adopters who may help diffuse HPV vaccination guidelines and encourage later adopters to support the recommendations.»

Introducing smokefree public places is recognised as possibly the single most effective public health intervention for a generation.

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.

Certainly the overwhelming majority of material that we found came from English - speaking countries, but this is consistent with previous reviews of economic evaluations of public health interventions where no language restrictions were applied (McDaid and Needle, 2009).

The popularity of such videos on YouTube could be an opportunity for public health interventions aimed at educating teenagers and young adults of the negative consequences of intoxication, the researchers suggest in an article published in today's issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

These findings indicate that exposures of pregnant women and children to thyroid - disrupting chemicals in the environment pose real risks for child development and health, and underline the need for a more targeted public health intervention strategy.

Sexual transmission of the Ebola virus could have a major impact on the dynamics of the disease, potentially reigniting an outbreak that has been contained by public health interventions, according to research by University of Georgia ecologists just published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

Accurate case definition of anemia is critical for clinical diagnosis, to enable patient care, and for understanding the epidemiology of this problem to plan public health interventions.

The effect of a behaviour change intervention on the diets and physical activity levels of women attending Sure Start Children's Centres: results from a complex public health intervention

If such micro-entrepreneurs can deliver on well - established public health interventions, the global impact could be profound.

Moreover, scientific evidence from nutrition research underlies the formulation of governmental dietary guidelines and food - related public health interventions.

Despite the evidence that investing in breastfeeding is one of the most cost effective public health interventions available, insufficient priority is being given to this, which put infants and children at risk of reaching their full potential...»

New York and New Jersey's departments of health will be empowered to make their own determinations «as to hospitalization, quarantine, and other public health interventions for up to 21 days,» Cuomo said.

«I find it completely ironic that Michael Grimm is lecturing people on criminality and frankly it's sad and Staten Island residents should be disappointed that their elected officials are actively resisting proven public health interventions that prevent overdose deaths,» she argued, noting that Staten Island has the highest rate of overdose deaths.

«Increased cigarette taxes have been one of the major successful public health interventions in the last decade in driving smoking rates to record lows in New York City and a lot of other parts of the country, too.»

Reich's findings suggest women with more time, education, and resources claim greater freedom to reject public health interventions, which potentially carries consequences for undervaccinated children from lower income backgrounds who may not have access to care.

«This type of data can inform public health interventions,» said Schwartz, who is also an assistant professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University.

Conventional measures of public health overlook these trade - offs, especially at a global level, so a planetary health approach is required to ensure that public health interventions like draining swamps to curb disease - carrying mosquitoes don't lead to water shortages that could claim lives.

«Our findings suggest that focused public health intervention strategies to prevent transmission from these «high risk» spreaders of the virus could have a major impact in slowing the spread of disease,» explains Professor Cameron Simmons, a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam.

The review describes how numerous, common chemicals can interfere with normal thyroid hormone actions, which are essential for normal brain development in foetuses and young children, and suggests a need for greater public health intervention.

In time, the researchers hope, the frequent religious gatherings in India could take on a secondary role as massive public health interventions.

Disease - fighting crusaders say they are on the cusp of eradicating Guinea worm disease, which can be checked with simple public health interventions

«The most important takeaway of our study is that we don't have the necessary data or surveillance to effectuate meaningful public health interventions or policy change,» Mackey said.

«As we build public health interventions for our aging population when it comes to quality of life, we need to take a more dyadic approach, looking at both partners,» said Sbarra, an associate professor in the UA Department of Psychology with joint appointments in Family Studies and Human Development (link sends e-mail) and the Evelyn F McKnight Brain Institute.

In order to put in place appropriate public health interventions in an ongoing disease outbreak, it is vital to estimate death risk accurately in real time and identify risk factors such as age, gender, occupation and health conditions.

A review paper published in the journal Vaccine in 2012 found that «the excellent trial results strongly support the potential of the vaccines as high value public health interventions.»

Our findings may help to identify targets for future public health interventions among women in the pre-conception and family planning stages, so they may improve their healthy aging long term.»

But with sugar in the spotlight of contemporary public health interventions, is it time to reconsider our chocolate - coated hallows «eve habit?

Step 3: Assess Public Health Interventions Identify the most suitable health interventions for the identified health impacts of greatest concern.

The Clean Air Act is a critical public health intervention that safeguards communities across the country from dangerous air pollutants and must be protected.»

While public health intervention should be aimed at eliminating maternal IPV, understanding factors that can buffer the effects of domestic violence in children may inform prevention strategies that can potentially benefit not only their psychological well - being, but also their physical health.