Sentences with phrase «public health person»

He has been a public health person for 25 + years — NCD prevention at population level, and has worked in many countries including India, Philippines, Pacific Island nations.

As a public health person said today on the radio, science doesn't convince people.

Then a public health person who advocates for more CPMs, a CNM who attends homebirths, a graduate student, another midwife, & a pediatric nurse.

That's the decision the commonwealth has made as one of the votes at that table, but we do want industry and public health people to work together to look at a form of interpretive front of pack labelling.

So I've met with public health people, I've met with nutritionists, I've met with academics who've been working on things like the glycaemic index, the National Heart Foundation, and of course I've met with industry as well.

«Back in 1992, New York State set a blood level at 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood as the action level — child tested at 10, the public health people would spring into action to ensure they were fully evaluated,» remarked Ryan.

«All politicians and public health people say we've got to do something about it,» says Graham MacGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and director of World Action on Salt and Health.

Public health people say, «Well, we don't have any problem; there's no emergency, so why would we spend $ 10 million on preparation for one thing or another?»

Yeah, a few public health people look and say, how can we consistently be so stupid for so long about problems that are so clearly understood?

Not exact matches

«We have this long history of using it in the southern US and it hasn't caused [anywhere] near the problems people are claiming,» said Dr. Grayson Brown, a public health entymology expert at the University of Kentucky.»

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

Public health experts are divided on the question, but a new study is the first of its kind to suggest that for some people, the devices could help more than they hurt.

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

For obvious ethical reasons, many public health studies can't be repeated — not if they'd entail intentionally exposing people to toxins — and raw data on individuals» health histories usually can't be disclosed.

The designation of a public health emergency would expand the ways that individuals can get treatment for opioid addiction, which could particularly benefit people in rural areas.

Either way, public health experts are worried about vaping's growing popularity among young people.

We need to realize what sitting around all the time is doing to us — and getting people to move more and exercise needs to become a public health priority.

«It will have serious consequences for the health of the public and our planet, and the American people deserves actual answers,» Carper added.

When Sherry Turkle looks at how obsessed people have become with their personal devices, she sees the traces of another public health epidemic: obesity.

California's department of public health suggested that people who want to reduce their risk of radiation exposure could take the following steps:

So it may seem scary that the California Department of Public Health has issued guidelines to help people «decrease their exposure to the radio frequency energy emitted from cell phones.»

In addition to the cases in the U.S., the Public Health Agency of Canada says seven people in five provinces were infected with the same outbreak strain of listeria.

«If public health and emergency management officials determine that taking potassium iodide is appropriate, the pills will be provided to people at no cost,» the document says, also noting that the pills should only be taken at the instruction of a doctor or safety officials.

I like the idea of going public mostly to get the word out for how special the experience is, to build awareness and improve people's health and fitness.

The three states have lists of pesticides that are OK to use on marijuana, but so far none is conducting regular tests for banned pesticides, which has raised public health worries even though there's little or no indication of people becoming ill because of pesticides in legal marijuana products.

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In doing so, they stepped into a long and complicated balancing act in the United States between public safety and the right to bear arms for people with mental health issues.

On Tuesday night, at least 200 people came out to a high school to listen to Dr. Tipirneni, who spoke of her support for a public health insurance option, «common - sense» gun control, and robust funding for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Some people have stopped trying to go to government health centers and begun using LG instead because purchasing from LG ends up being less expensive than traveling to the public clinic to get free treatments.

We have assembled a highly capable five - person team with deep experience across public health, business, partnerships, consulting, and communications (see appendix for bios).»

«They know that this is a public health crisis and action is required now, and so do people in Surrey whose neighbours, friends and family members could be at risk.

The Public Health Agency of Canada said 172 people reported getting sick in B.C., Alberta and Ontario in March and April after eating raw oysters.

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.

Aimed at improving the health standards of people at or below the poverty line, four of the public sector general insurers implemented UHIS in India.

Asked about mass shootings more broadly, the public says by a roughly 2 to 1 margin that they reflect problems identifying and treating people with mental health problems rather than inadequate gun control laws.

According to the Daily Mail, Jane Ellison, the public health minister, commented: «Trends in the drinking, smoking and teenage pregnancy rates for young people are very encouraging.

They don't have as many followers as you though, I doubt anybody would kill over them, try to impede science education, put public health at risk, or infringe on peoples happiness in their name.

My dental days had made me passionate about public health and in Asia you have many people whose health is being jeopardised through no fault of their own, but simply because they live near manufacturing centres.

He still wants to fight the opioid crisis, but now, he's entering into the ministry, where he can help communities and young people spiritually — while also addressing the public health crisis.

Ultimately, we are promoting a more sustainable fashion system to improve the environment and, crucially — which comes hand - inhand with this — protecting the public health of millions of people.

Under the free - exercise clause every person is entitled to respect for her or his religious commitments, and their free exercise should not be burdened by governmental interference except to secure «compelling state interests» (such as protection of public health and safety, not just public welfare or order) that can be served in no less burdensome way.

If religious people stay out of politics and other aspects of public interest then I would say they are free to do as they please, but when they want to push their beliefs on the rest us and completely disregard the facts at the expense of our health and our planet then they become dangerous and must be challenged.

When Obama invoked Jesus to support same - sex marriage, framed health care as a moral imperative to care for «the least of these,» and once urged people to read their Bible but just not literally, he was invoking another Christian tradition that once dominated American public life so much that it gave the nation its first megachurches, historians say.

Other matters that would be repugnant to most people, such as gross misrepresentation of facts important to health and safety, or public displays of vicious and immoral conduct, would also normally be prohibited by law.

FCC Smedes, justice involves the right for all persons to share in the; common goods.36 To be able to provide for your family, to live where you can afford a house, to have access to adequate health care and public accommodations, these are rights that all possess by reason of their God - appointed humanity.

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The group took out radio and newspaper ads that often linked hom.ose.xuality to pedophilia, and claimed that LGBT people were seeking «special rights» and that hom.ose.xuality is a «public health menace.»

Additionally, for the first time, it established as a matter of public policy the need to provide a wide range of mental health services to prevent mental illness and to improve the mental health of the American people.

If embryos have the same status as human persons, this is a horrible tragedy and public health crisis that requires immediate and sustained attention.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.