Sentences with phrase «public health matters»

Obesity is one of the most pressing public health matters in the world for both children and adults.

In calling for a carbon tax, Mr. Bloomberg was again speaking out on national issues, as he has on gun control and public health matters like smoking and obesity.

Every week, a different person — including community members and public health professionals — is asked to tweet - report and investigate public health matters.

A representative for substance abuse treatment providers said he hoped lawmakers would not return to a former philosophy of addressing drug addiction by locking people up, after a shift in recent years toward treating the problem as a public health matter more than a criminal one.

According to Democratic Conference Deputy Press Secretary Gary Ginsburg, the law would remove abortion from the penal code and regulate it as a public health matter, bringing state law into complete agreement with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade and revising criminal statutes which criminalized medically - necessary procedures.

That the ASAI is arbitrating on the matter of cancer nutrition indicates a worrying use of a private regulatory body to adjudicate on a public health matter.

The remarks put Perry at odds with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House chief political strategist Steve Bannon but in the same camp as Trump son - in - law Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, along with a group of 15 state attorneys general who say fighting pollution is a public health matter.

Now a hard hitting report by Mikko Paunio, a specialist in public health matters has destroyed both the credibility and integrity of two of the Lancet's recent papers on pollution.