Sentences with phrase «public health messages»

Probably because of stigma, we don't hear the same public health messages about marijuana use as we do with substances such as alcohol and nicotine.

In each country, women were also assessed for their comprehension of public health messages.

In conclusion, the researchers recommend: when designing public health messaging campaigns, focus on positive consequences of target healthy behaviors rather than focusing on the negative consequences.

This could in turn help inform public health messages to prevent outbreaks spreading more widely.

«Our findings highlight a potentially important public health message on the benefits of a diet rich in fruit and vegetables for the prevention of diabetes,» wrote the authors.

As a member of NABCA, you have access to a variety of information related to the regulation and sale of beverage alcohol, related public health messages and beverage alcohol policy.

Despite public health messages about the importance of sun protection, many people, including some with a previous melanoma, are not protecting themselves effectively resulting in severe sunburn.

Instead of sending an honest public health message — our game is dangerous, we're trying to make things safer, but play at your own peril — the NFL obfuscates its way around safety.

Some of my fellow liberal sisters would rather censor a pro-breast-feeding public health message — and deny moms who do breast - feed a tax incentive — simply because those initiatives make them feel uncomfortable because for whatever reason, they can't or choose not to breast - feed?

Public health messages promote breastfeeding as an unequalled way to provide babies with the ideal food.

Oneida County's diverse demographics call for public health messages that are accessible to its multi-cultural residents.

How this and other studies are interpreted could have a large impact on public health messages going forward, determining whether campaigns focus on changing attitudes surrounding healthy body size, zeroing in on directly changing what people eat, or a combination of these.

And pinpointing an area as relevant conditions emerge — before an outbreak starts — buys precious time to spread public health messages.

We need to explore how to improve targeted public health messaging to promote this vaccine among sociodemographic groups who are least likely to receive it.»

This undermines years of research to the contrary and directly challenges public health messages that urge pregnant women to abstain from alcohol.

«We think that this study sends a powerful public health message: that a complete lack of exercise is associated with the greater likelihood of developing a serious disease.

HIV - positive men as well as those who had not tested positive held increased beliefs reflecting public health messages that ART prevents HIV and therefore make condomless anal sex safe.

Also consistent with public health messaging, they believed their risk of contracting HIV to be much lower when their partner had an undetectable blood plasma viral load.

This includes working with Pakistani local governments to craft public health messages reassuring the public of vaccine safety and the importance of immunization (18 July, fortuitously, is National Immunization Day).

The proportion of American adults who perceive e-cigarettes to be equally or more harmful than traditional cigarettes has tripled over the last few years, highlighting the need for more accurate public health messaging, according to a study led by tobacco researchers in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

At a time when public health messages emphasize just how important it is to carefully balance diets and fitness regimes in order to live long lives, Calment is a reminder of that no matter what we do there may always be a part of our health that is beyond our control.

«One of the biggest public health messages has been to get people to take action when they have chest pain,» says Dr. Hayes.

In fact, a new report from researchers of the University of Minnesota suggests that the flu vaccine is not as effective as public health messaging suggests.

As a result of misguided public health messaging that has wrongly demonised fat, and more specifically saturated fat, the food industry produced a market of «low fat» foods that were loaded with sugar.

As a member of NABCA, you have access to a wide variety of information related to the regulation and sale of beverage alcohol, related public health messages and beverage alcohol policy.

«Understanding the specific beliefs that predict subsequent e-cigarette experimentation allows us to focus on these beliefs when designing public health messages,» concludes Dr. Choi.

«By modelling potential outbreaks more accurately, we can help inform public health messages,» explains Professor James Wood, Head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, and senior author.

Despite public health messages, babies are still suffocating on bumpers or getting trapped between bumpers and their mattress.

A current campaign is hijacking the public health message about the importance of nutrition during the 1000 days from conception and branding it with SMA.

And yes, certainly any public health message should be cognizant of all the stripes of people in the population.

It makes me wonder how we can make our public health message stronger and more relevant.

I think the difficulty is that the public health message has to be clear and unambiguous so that all parents can understand it.

I think we've all read the public health messages, and we all know the drill.

It allows lawmakers to make cannabis safer, by making it harder for children to buy, incentivising the production and sale of less dangerous strains, and allowing for education and public health messages to be issued beyond the idiotically simple and ineffective «just say no» approach.

«These young women are unlikely to respond to public health messaging and we will need to develop a more intensive resource to motivate behavior change.

Public health messages and even research literature often fail to mention male vaccination prominently or at all.

Public health messages have long relied on the notion that by changing attitudes, you can shift behavior.

«The public health message about the link between cannabis and psychosis has been a difficult one to communicate, but the evidence still points to the benefits of regulations that seek to advise on the greatest potential health risks, which currently arise due to tobacco use.»

«The public health message is not that obesity is good.

Public health messaging about the safety of e-cigarettes needs to account for the worldviews of the target audience, with different groups displaying varying levels of trust depending on the source of the message, according to a recent study by the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

Religious leaders provide a much needed complement to public health messages when they inspire congregations to adopt healthy behaviours.

«Our public health messages should accurately convey to cigarette smokers that switching completely to e-cigarettes would reduce their risks even if e-cigarettes are addictive and not risk - free,» said one of the study's authors, Dr. Michael Eriksen, dean of Georgia State's School of Public Health and a globally recognized expert in tobacco control.

ATLANTA — Public health messaging about the safety of e-cigarettes needs to account for the worldviews of the target audience, with different groups displaying varying levels of trust depending on the source of the message, according to a recent study by the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.