Sentences with phrase «public health of the children»

The board of the California chapter declared, «there is a clear and present danger to the public health of the children of this State based on our society's failure to adequately address the impact of child custody proceedings upon children as a chronic, system - wide, statewide, public health crisis which impacts the previous, current and future generations of California's most precious resource — its children.»

The board of the California chapter declared, «There is a clear and present danger to the public health of the children of this State based on our society's failure to adequately address the impact of child custody proceedings upon children as a chronic, system - wide, statewide, public health crisis which impacts the previous, current and future generations of California's most precious resource — its children.»

Not exact matches

Unlike Americans, however, residents of New Zealand enjoy the protection of a robust welfare state including a public health system, 18 weeks of subsidized parental leave and benefits for middle - and low - income families with young children.

-- Michele Simon, public health lawyer, president of Eat Drink Politics, and author of Clowning Around with Charity: How McDonald's Exploits Philanthropy and Targets Children

2014.11.26 RBC and the Public Health Agency of Canada in partnership with ParticipACTION commit $ 8.2 - million to the RBC Learn to Play Project Knowing how to make that perfect throw, kick a soccer ball or hop over a speedy skip rope is just as important to a child...

Total federal government expenses consist of four major components: major transfers to persons (old age security, employment insurance benefits and children's benefits); major transfers to other levels of government (Canada Health Transfer, Canada Social Transfer, Fiscal arrangements, Alternative payments for standing programs, and Gas Tax Fund), direct program expenses (other transfers, Crown corporation expenses, and departmental and agency operating and capital expenses) and public debt charges.

November 26, 2013 Toronto — An expert in child health and wellbeing and public policy has been appointed as a fellow at the University of Toronto's Martin Prosperity Institute.

It comes as a new study shows nearly 80 per cent of the British public see no signs of improvement for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children who are at risk of serious issues such as neglect, poverty, bad health or homelessness.

They are much more likely to leave of school; receive inadequate prenatal care; rely on public assistance to raise a child; develop health problems; or end up divorced.

For the most part, the same thing is true of the health and welfare services that operate mostly through «offices» such as family and child - care agencies, public or private.

First of all, the government has responded to justifiable public concern over the years with the enactment of legislation governing child labor, minimum wage, health and safety conditions, overtime pay, and other labor practices.

Instead of committing to helping families and individuals improve their social and economic conditions (by pushing policy makers to strengthen access to affordable housing, health care, child care, public transportation, job training, etc.), we blame them.

«We need to bring back public discussion of AIDS as a «gay» disease, pederasty as [sic] major subculture of male hom.ose.xuality, mental health problems and domestic violence as major problems associated with lesbianism, the increasing recruitment of children into a hom.ose.xual ident.ity through experimentation with «gay» se.x, etc. — all the truths we stopped telling because the other side screamed so loudly about them.»

With the right funding commitments in place, the Global Fund can help ensure that no child is born with HIV by 2015, that we end the public health threat of malaria as we know it, and emerging drug resistant strains of TB are brought under control.»

The purpose of all these interventions is almost always noble - sounding - to protect the public health, to assist children, the old, or the handicapped or some other underprivileged group, to safeguard entitlements, to watch over the expenditure of taxpayers» money, and so on and so forth.

John Dickie, the director of Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, and Sir Harry Burns, the former chief medical officer for Scotland who is now Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde, will also be at the campaign launch.

In Mozambique, for example, where a fourth of all children die before their fifth birthday, government expenditures for debt repayment are four times more than for public health.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that food allergies are a growing food safety and public health concern that affect an estimated 4 — 6 percent of children in the United States.

As CEO of the Royal Children's and Royal Women's Hospitals Melbourne from 2000 to 2004, Alexander's passion lies in providing good public health services.

The Australian Beverages Council, representing the local energy drinks industry, has responded to research published in the journal Academic Pediatrics from the Yale School of Public Health which links the consumption of energy drinks to a more likely risk of hyperactivity and inattention symptoms in middle - school children.

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

My life before Bhumi was in International Public Health and it was here that I saw first hand the disastrous health and environmental impacts of traditional cotton growing with farmer suicides, child labour, pesticide poisoning, birth defects, harmful dyes and toxic waterHealth and it was here that I saw first hand the disastrous health and environmental impacts of traditional cotton growing with farmer suicides, child labour, pesticide poisoning, birth defects, harmful dyes and toxic waterhealth and environmental impacts of traditional cotton growing with farmer suicides, child labour, pesticide poisoning, birth defects, harmful dyes and toxic water ways.

VAD remains a serious global public health problem where an estimated 250 000 to 500 000 vitamin A-deficient children become blind every year, half of them dying within 12 months of losing their sight.

The study, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health, discovered that children who consumed two cups full - fat milk everyday, compared to those who either drank two cups of low - fat or skim milk, were less than half as likely to be overweight.

We often tell people that about a cup of Golden Rice can provide half of an adult's vitamin A needs, but for them to actually see the simple rice grains that could help nations overcome a public health problem affecting 190 million children has an impact all its own.

Vitamin A deficiency is a serious public health problem affecting millions of children and pregnant women globally.

Given that global incidence rates of overweight and obesity are on the rise, particularly among children and adolescents, it is imperative that current public health strategies include education about beverage intake.

Public Health England has today published new guidelines setting out the approaches the food industry should take to reduce the net amount of sugar children consume through everyday food.

It is a major public health problem with adverse consequences particularly for women of reproductive age and for young children.

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at school.

«Maria's energy and dedication to health and wellness complements LAUP's desire to help the families of Los Angeles County improve their children's nutritional health, by educating the public and raising awareness about the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle.»

He is triple board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Adult, Child and Adolescent, and Forensic Psychiatry and has extensive experience in the public health arena.

Brooke and more than 30 leaders from the realms of medicine, education, academia, media, the military, and the football industry, will look at when children should begin playing tackle football, public health concerns, and the role of the National Football League and its players» association.

If you look at the anti-obesity policy recommendations of almost every leading public health organization, the list invariably includes a ban on junk food advertising directed at children.

Founded in 1990, the Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition, COBFC is a volunteer organization comprised of physicians, nurses, public health officials, dietitians, lactation consultants, counselors, and members of the business community who have led the way for Colorado children to be breastfeeding at the highest rates in the nation.

Prior to her position at Region 4, Jill worked for the University of Texas Houston School of Public Health from 2000 - 2002 as the Nutrition Coordinator for the Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) project.

A few months ago I told you all about FoodCorps, a promising new public service organization (part of AmeriCorps) dedicated to improving the health of children in low - income communities.

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

Ms. Glenn earned a Master's of Nursing degree from OHSU, a Master's of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, a Certificate of Nurse - Midwifery from the University of Mississippi, School of Nursing, and a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing with a Minor in Psychology from Central Missouri State College, Department of Nursing.

The National WIC Association is the education arm and advocacy voice of the nation's 12,200 WIC public health service provider agencies and the 8 million WIC mothers and young children.

In September, 2012, Laura will start her Master's in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, with a Maternal - Child Health concentration.

One sobering quote I just couldn't get out of my head was from Dr. Mariana Chilton, Ph.D., an associate professor of public health at Drexel University and director of Witnesses to Hunger, who said: This recession will be permanently inscribed in the bodies and the brains of children growing up today.

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

Speakers include: Laura Abbott, University of Hertfordshire — Having a baby in prison: women's need to love, care and breastfeed their baby Dr Amy Brown, Associate Professor Child Public Health, Swansea University - Examining psychological, social and cultural barriers to responsive breastfeeding Helen Crawley, First Steps Nutrition Trust - The constituents of formula milk: busting the myths.

It has been a matter of great concern among public health activists who work on child health and nutrition that the issue of malnutrition was being converted into a marketing opportunity to be addressed through products that big corporations could sell as the answer, instead of being seen as a basic lack of access to food caused by structural inequities in food distribution.

In the women breastfeeding in public debate, it is the health of children everywhere that should take priority, not the «sensitivities» of adults who are perfectly capable of looking the other direction.

In a city where 22 percent of children between ages 3 and 7 are obese, double the national rate for similarly aged children, we would like to commend the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for meeting and exceeding health and wellness standards in the schools.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

We're facing a dual public health crisis — on the one hand, the childhood obesity epidemic is threatening the health and security of our children and our nation.

GCC» I'm also a certified childbirth educator, certified Doula, and a Master of Public health candidate in a maternal Child health program.