Sentences with phrase «public health movement»

«Our growth is a testament to our passionate employees and dedicated franchisees, as well as the changing tide of nutrition in America — we're seeing a steady shift to more healthful eating across the entire country and we couldn't be happier to be a part of this impactful public health movement.»

Public health movements providing better care for cows improved the quality of milk, while milk clinics for infants were set up.

Grassroots public health movements often suffer the most, as these laws essentially extinguish the motivation to organize and take action locally.

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The federal government has assisted the movement through a grant of the National Institute of Health for more than $ 20,000, to educate public school teachers in TM.

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.

The movement to protect public breast - feeding, which began in the mid-1980s in New York, has gathered steam as research has shown the value of breast milk to a baby's mental and physical health.

So when a group of health - care workers and advocates from the Mississippi Breastfeeding Coalition asked her in January to join their movement to lobby the Legislature to allow women to breast - feed at work and in public, she jumped at the opportunity.

The movement toward increased breast - feeding seemed to arise from the general public rather than from health professionals.»

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Created as part of «Healthy Places,» a partnership between the city's public health department and the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, the challenge reinvigorates and extends what has been a consistent movement toward healthy vending.

The EEA agreement already contains clauses (28 (3) and 33) allowing for limitations to be placed on the free movement of workers and self - employed persons «on grounds of public policy, public security or public health».

The NHS strike provides a tentative glimpse of the movement required to defend and rebuild a comprehensive, universal, free health service, owned and run within the public sector.

National Public Health Week helps educate and engage Americans in the movement to create a healthier America today and for generations to come.»

They discuss the limits to embedding human rights in law and argue that a more effective strategy might be to organize public health social movements.

We need a 21st - century international public - health movement.

For example, progressive activists have championed the anti-vaccine movement, confusing parents and causing a public health disaster.

Time for public health to get on - side and support this consumer - based health movement.

While Trump's casual remarks on vaccines have alarmed public health advocates, they have energized the anti-vaccination movement.

«It's extremely difficult for a member state to [restrict the free movement of goods in the European Union] if it is not allowed to use public health and environmental motivations» to do so, Contiero says.

Gregg Gonsalves, an audience member who had been part of the ACT UP movement in the 1980s and 1990s and is now co-director of Yale's Global Health Justice Partnership, earned a round of applause when he argued that the safety of medical products was a public policy issue that should not be dominated by lobbying from the pharmaceutical industry.

In 2010, when Gem County found itself ranked last in Idaho for healthy behaviors in the County Health Rankings report, members of the community started a grass - roots movement to improve public hHealth Rankings report, members of the community started a grass - roots movement to improve public healthhealth.

The study, co-authored by Brian Kiessling, associate instructor and Ph.D. student within the Recreation, Parks and Tourism Department at the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington, focused on how people regard activity trackers, how the trackers affect behavior, and how they can be effectively integrated into programs that help people increase movement in their lives.

What surprises many scientists is that their findings against a vaccine connection keep failing to quell the debate, giving the antivaccine movement the potential to become a genuine public - health problem.

Existing literature on infectious disease policy, ethics, and law, outside the context of genomics, describes the potential for stigmatization of individuals or subpopulations, the challenge of balancing individual interests and protections (for example, privacy, autonomy, freedom of movement) against risks of harm to others and to public health, issues of justice, and employer or health professional obligations [27], [28].

In this segment, Dr. House and Dr. Barrett talk about why the brain «fools us» into thinking our functional vision and movement is normal in the presence of neurological disease, and what this means for professional caregivers, families, and our medical culture and society, since patient self - reporting is now a major source of information about public health needs and treatment efficacy.

I am truly concerned about the significant threat that the anti-vaccination movement poses to public health.

Food combining did not catch on with the general public in Shelton's day, but it made a big impact on the natural health movement.

Washington, D.C. Today, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools released the latest report evaluating the health of the charter public school movement in key states across the coPublic Charter Schools released the latest report evaluating the health of the charter public school movement in key states across the copublic school movement in key states across the country.

The Fordham Institute and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) hosted a discussion on the health of the charter school movement.

That advocacy reaches beyond her community, as she's led the statewide narrative (including being featured in a Department of Public Instruction video) that has resulted in movement from Wisconsin's Legislature around mental health supports.

The health of the public charter school movement: A state - by - state analysis.

By including a snapshot of each school's finances, USC's report also provides a useful temperature check on the fiscal health of the movement, and demonstrates quite dramatically how charters are uniquely poised to weather the economic storm gripping the nation and public education in California, and how charters are prioritizing and protecting the classroom from the worst cuts.»

Shortly after he was elected with CEA's first endorsement in 2010, the governor of this state disrespected every teacher with his «tenure» comment, then promoted Common Core, supported the corporate education movement through charter schools, advocated for more and more standardized testing, hired an education commissioner who had absolutely no public school experience (in fact had ties to charter schools), chipped away at teacher security through negative tenure reform, and championed the complete elimination of the state contribution to the retired teacher's health insurance fund.

- David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU and author of Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed «Extensively researched and exquisitely written, Insane is a must read for policymakers, mental health professionals, mental health consumers and their families, and the general public.»

In her book, Servon says, «it's time to launch a movement that will pressure the public and private sectors to reform the consumer financial services industry in ways that make financial health attainable and sustainable for all Americans.»

L214 understands animal issues as connected to other issues, such as public health and the environment, and they do some multi-issue advocacy that emphasizes the intersections between animal advocacy and the interests of other advocacy movements.

Steven A. Osofsky, a professor of wildlife health and health policy at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and a pioneer of the One Health movement, says the costs to public health are extraordhealth and health policy at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and a pioneer of the One Health movement, says the costs to public health are extraordhealth policy at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and a pioneer of the One Health movement, says the costs to public health are extraordHealth movement, says the costs to public health are extraordhealth are extraordinary.

The Institute's new Food for the Parks initiative complements its recent Park Prescriptions campaign, a growing national movement to increase the connection between parks and public lands and health care.

In response, the Institute is facilitating a the partnership between Golden Gate National Recreation Area, East Bay Regional Parks District, Bay Area Open Space Council, SF Rec & Park, the SF Department of Public Health, and 20 other reps from 6 Bay Area counties committed to leading a Healthy Parks, Healthy People movement in our region.

In the context of 2016, (Re) Public celebrates the self - determination and agency of the country while tackling contemporary issues in Ireland which have broader resonance globally, these include: — hidden histories of state institutional abuse (Nolan) community identity in post conflict rural border regions (North 55), issues relating to natural cycles in time, climate change and its global effects (Softday), the individual's struggle for autonomy within the field of mental health (Tighe), the importance of creative autonomy and independence for the right to self - expression in movement and dance (Donnellan) and strategies of resistance that include artistic intervention, self - organization, and collectivism (Morley).

New York officials crafting policy to regulate shale gas drilling amid unanswered health concerns will likely re-open the process to public hearings, essentially guaranteeing more momentum for the movement that has effectively stalled the industry's advancement into the Empire State for more than four years.

«Public health professionals need to be aware that the «sound science» movement is not an indigenous effort from within the profession to improve the quality of scientific discourse, but reflects sophisticated public relations campaigns controlled by industry executives and lawyers whose aim is to manipulate the standards of scientific proof to serve the corporate interests of their clients.&Public health professionals need to be aware that the «sound science» movement is not an indigenous effort from within the profession to improve the quality of scientific discourse, but reflects sophisticated public relations campaigns controlled by industry executives and lawyers whose aim is to manipulate the standards of scientific proof to serve the corporate interests of their clients.&public relations campaigns controlled by industry executives and lawyers whose aim is to manipulate the standards of scientific proof to serve the corporate interests of their clients.»

In my future research, I plan to build on my PhD study to further investigate how economic interests use think tanks, the news media, social media and social movements to engage in the social production of scientific ignorance in order to manipulate policy debates in the areas of environment, energy and public health.

Health, biking, walking and public transport advocates can be grouped into one movement with one unified voice.

This is a dangerous proposition which threatens the integrity of public health by turning it into a purely ideological movement, rather than a scientific one.

The wide range of inter-connected topics will include: local food, public policy, democracy, local business, the commons, cooperatives, local finance, spirituality, connecting to nature, economic indicators, health, education, bridging the North - South divide, the new economy movement, climate justice, cultural diversity, biodiversity, environmental justice, income inequality, and the impact of the economy on our psychological well - being.

I've also been inspired by working with communities and organizations that are addressing the sustainability movement through various approaches, including community organizing, education, social justice, public health, the legal system, and ecopsychology.

To which extent do you think the analysis of the ECJ in Case C - 43 / 10 Nomarchiaki on irrigation (environment) and supply of drinking water (human health) as imperative reasons of overriding public interest is transposalbe as a rule - of - reason - justification to the free movement provisions?

• Provided journeyman - level daily care of the Zoo animals • Maintained and observed health, feeding and care of a variety of zoo animals • Assisted in the movement of animals as directed • Assisted in public presentations and interacted with zoo docents • Drove zoo vehicles to pick up supplies and materials as assigned

The Communications Manager will utilize traditional media relationships to enhance the visibility of Planned Parenthood in reproductive health politics and public policy, define the role of reproductive health care in electoral politics, promote positive movement for reproductive health politics and public policy through media narratives, and brand the organization as the statewide advocacy, public policy and electoral arm of the Planned Parenthood affiliates of Texas.