Sentences with phrase «public health methods»

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In the public sector, accounting methods used by governments in education, health and social services impact on how these services are provided, who receives the services and the costs of these services.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

Gay men have vigorously fought off the only public health measures that could significantly contain the spread of AIDS — contact tracing and testing of partners — methods long used for syphilis and other sexually transmitted afflictions.

Developers of public health guidelines have been adopting systematic review methods and more structured methods for grading recommendations; assessing bias in the reviews is a critical step in the process [7, 38, 39].

We feel that it is important for public health workers, teachers and others concerned for the emotional and physical health of children and youth to support the adoption of alternative methods for the achievement of self - control and responsible behavior in children and adolescents.»

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrestles with whether or not to allow hydraulic fracturing in the state, a Queens councilman has lauded him for refusing to buckle to pressure and allowing a critical deadline to pass rather than speed up a review of the controversial drilling method's potential impact on public health.

Meat processing methods such as curing, smoking or cooking can result in the formation of potentially cancer - causing (carcinogenic) chemicals that can have a negative effect on an individual's health, according to Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Hhealth, according to Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public HealthHealth.

However, the animal welfare and public health implications of these methods have been a growing cause of concern for the public.

Seminar Will Address Mold Issues in the Home The Oneida County Health Department, in conjunction with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), will hold a seminar to educate the public on the nature and causes of mold in the home, its impact on health, and the proper methods of remediation, Phyllis D. Ellis, Oneida County Director of Health, announced Health Department, in conjunction with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), will hold a seminar to educate the public on the nature and causes of mold in the home, its impact on health, and the proper methods of remediation, Phyllis D. Ellis, Oneida County Director of Health, announced Health (NYSDOH), will hold a seminar to educate the public on the nature and causes of mold in the home, its impact on health, and the proper methods of remediation, Phyllis D. Ellis, Oneida County Director of Health, announced health, and the proper methods of remediation, Phyllis D. Ellis, Oneida County Director of Health, announced Health, announced today.

Yesterday it was widely reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has agreed to ban fracking after a state environmental review found that the gas drilling method can not be employed without unacceptable risk to public health and the environment.

It's a cutting - edge initiative that will utilize proven, creative and innovative methods of street - level, residential, commercial and public mental health crisis response, while entering into mission - oriented, problem - solving partnerships with first responders, mental health and social service provider agencies.

More robust approaches for identifying the causal effects of factors influencing health, such as the methods applied in this study, are required if we are to make recommendations for public health based on reliable evidence.»

In an analysis published on December 7 in Clinical Infectious Diseases, scientists from Rutgers University, Harvard University, Yale University, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the NIH and other academic centers, industry and public health agencies say new diagnostic methods offer a better chance for more accurate detection of the infection from the Lyme bacteria.

In the first external revision proposed to GFT, Ayers and co-researchers David Zhang, Maurcio Santiliana (both with Harvard University), and Benjamin Althouse (with the Santa Fe institute) explored new methods for using open - sourced, publicly available Google search archives to forecast influenza, an approach that can serve as a blueprint to fix broader shortcomings in public health surveillance.

This Childhood Stress study, led by Chilton with several Drexel graduates in the School of Public Health, used both quantitative and qualitative methods to gather information about 31 Philadelphia mothers» experience with deprivation, abuse, violence and neglect, as well as their experiences with hunger, education and employment and more.

For example, at the 10 - year - old University of North Carolina Center of Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology and Public Health, initiated through a grant from GlaxoSmithKline, the company's researchers serve as guest lecturers, advise graduate students, and receive training themselves in new research methods.

Innovative methods using odor to make low - fat foods more palatable could someday aid public health efforts to reduce dietary fat intake.

The tool itself, which projects a worse - case scenario of 14,176 Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by October 26, is currently built on a model developed by a Toronto - based team of medical and public health researchers, although HealthMap may try other methods down the road, says John Brownstein, HealthMap co-founder and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

«The whole world has been in urgent need of a serological method to distinguish dengue virus from Zika virus infections, and this the first to have such high sensitivity and specificity in dengue - endemic regions,» said Eva Harris, study co-author and UC Berkeley professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at the School of Public Health.

Precisely this connect - the - dots method led to one of the most significant public - health breakthroughs of the past quarter century: In the early 1980s, epidemiologists studied the sexual and social connections among a group of gay men on both U.S. coasts who were developing fatal cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma.

Offering a thorough introduction to the major theories, methods, models, and findings of research on social networks, Valente explores their current and potential applications to medicine and public health.

There are some methods out there to determine population size, but this new model can provide a more detailed picture,» said Xiaoming Liu, Ph.D., lead author and assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences at UTHealth School of Public Health.

The bacterial genomes come from species that challenge the technical performance of sequencing methods and have been determined by the Food and Drug Administration (link is external)(FDA) to have significant relevance to the research of public health issues such as food contamination, antibiotic resistance and hospital - acquired infections.

This is aimed at public health professionals, policy - makers and researchers who want to learn about the basic principles and practical applications of mathematical modelling and modern quantitative methods.

The grip of opioid addiction is so strong that public health officials have struggled to find effective methods for preventing deadly relapses.

The workshop also explored various modeling and analysis methods for their potential applications in public health strategies and in diagnosis, suppression, and prevention of Toxoplasmosis.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Statistical methods and automated software tool for stress - testing adaptive clinical trial designs

This approach serves as a basis for the development of future sequencing - based methods for predicting resistance profiles of bacterial strains in hospital microbiology and public health settings.

«Even in a low - carb diet, it would be wise to choose healthy meat and healthy cooking methods in the prevention of insulin resistance and NAFLD,» said Ivancovsky - Wajcman, a clinical dietitian and a Ph.D. student at the University of Haifa School of Public Health, in Israel.

Similarly, from a public health perspective, there is no need for the general population to spend time learning the technical aspects of Olympic weightlifting when they can attain similar health and fitness benefits from far less difficult resistance training methods that are more widely available.

In the last twenty years, public desire for greater control in the health care process and a growing dissatisfaction with high tech solutions to health problems has renewed interest in the natural methods of preventive health care.

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There are posts about new research studies occurring there, different methods for combating the rampant disease and campaigns that companies are using to improve public health in this area.

The researchers summarized studies that related particular art forms to specific types of academic achievement through the powerful statistical technique of meta - analysis, a method common in such fields as medicine and public health.

The superiority of random assignment for drawing conclusions about cause and effect in nonlaboratory settings is routinely recognized in both the philosophy of science literature and in methods texts in health, public health, agriculture, statistics, microeconomics, psychology, and those parts of political science and sociology that deal with improving the assessment of public opinion.

The lack of a generally accepted method of diagnosis, treatment, and follow - up for those children is «a major public health problem,» a panel of medical experts convened by the NIH said in a statement released last week.

In addition, this notice addresses the general question of whether carriers may require health documentation for carriage of service animals on flights from the U.S. into countries other than the U.K.. On February 26, 2007, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Aviation Enforcement Office issued a guidance document to assist carriers and passengers with disabilities in complying with both U.S. and U.K. regulations concerning the transport of service animals on flights from the U.S. to the U.K. by: 1) explaining the procedures passengers must follow to comply with the U.K.'s Pet Travel Scheme (PETS); 2) explaining the procedures U.S. and foreign carriers must follow to obtain an approved Required Method of Operation (RMOP) from the U.K.'s Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); and 3) notifying both U.S. and U.K. carriers operating flights between the U.S. and the U.K. that failure to obtain an approved RMOP from DEFRA will be considered a violation of the ACAA by the Department's Aviation Enforcement Office and may subject such carriers to enforcement action.1 The purpose of this notice is to respond to inquiries from airlines and the traveling public since issuance of the February notice regarding foreign requirements for health 1 72

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Internationally, large populations of feral cats constitute an important and controversial issue due to their impact on cat overpopulation, animal welfare, public health, and the environment, and to disagreement about what are the best methods for their control.

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Those same studies also found that public health departments, together with animal control agencies, are seeking innovative and cost - effective long - term solutions that respond to the public's increasing desire to see community cats treated with humane, nonlethal methods.

A TNR program in Maricopa County, Arizona, called the «Maddie's Pet Rescue Project» was so successful the County Board of Supervisors issued a resolution stating: «Maricopa County Board of Supervisors does hereby endorse non - lethal trap - neuter - return, when accompanied by ongoing feral cat management, as the most effective, humane method of controlling feral cat populations in Maricopa County and in so doing better provides for the welfare of these animals while better serving our communities» public health and safety concerns.»

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Many microbiologists and medical researchers say the basic methods used in this work are already established, and that the research details will help public health researchers get out ahead of the next human flu epidemic more than they might help aspiring terrorists.

The core Public Lab program is focused on «civic science» in which we research open source hardware and software tools and methods to generate knowledge and share data about community environmental health....

My experiences have all been associated with models, methods and software that is used to supply information that will be part of policy that affects the health and safety of the public.

• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population

CFS has four stated goals, which promote organic agriculture by restricting traditional farming methods: «Ensuring the testing, labeling and regulation of genetically engineered (GE) foods; Preserving strict national organic food standards; Preventing potential animal and human health crises caused by food borne illness — including «mad cow» disease; Educating the public on the hazards of industrial agriculture.»

We need more data we must show how these methods affect climate change, reduce the carbon footprint, and improve public health.