Sentences with phrase «public health perspective»

The PLOS blog Public Health Perspectives posted an interesting piece examining the balance of fear and apathy in the case of Ebola: just how afraid should we be?

Not a new argument to be sure, but the lovely response on the PLOS Public Health Perspectives blog from Dr Travis Saunders puts some beautiful counter arguments.

The weekly seminar program (accredited as a Program of Excellence by the RACP) complements the clinical experiences by providing a practical and theoretical background in community child health, including a broad public health perspective.

Copperman thinks Apple and Facebook are ahead of the game in offering to cover the procedure, both as a recruitment and retention tool and from a public health perspective.

So when a Haywood County food services director declares in the news report that the federal government's new nutrition standards are «backfiring,» I can't help but ask: from a public health perspective, isn't it actually the status quo in this county that's backfiring?

These are not considered major drivers of HIV transmission from a public health perspective.

There are so many variables involved when it comes to bedsharing that makes studying it and having safe bedsharing guidelines difficult from a public health perspective.

«From a public health perspective, improving the detection and treatment of BPD is as imperative as diagnosing and treating bipolar disorders.»

This, claims Dr Cederroth, not only has considerable clinical relevance but is also important from a public health perspective:

These results are consistent with previous observational studies and relevant from a public health perspective,» the authors write.

«From a public health perspective — as we have shown with this latest study — there is enormous potential for tapping this data for research, surveillance and influencing policy.»

But from an institutional and public health perspective, he says, the jury is still out on whether the high dose truly does a better job of preventing major flu impacts like hospitalization and death for older people.

But there is a public health perspective as well that is important.

«From a public health perspective, even a weak effect of temperature on health constitutes an important problem due to ubiquity of exposure,» Manuela De Sario and Paola Michelozzi, both of the Lazio Region Department of Epidemiology in Rome and co-authors of an editorial that appears in the same issue of the BMJ, explained in an e-mail to Scientific American.

«From a public health perspective, the caution to the public is to avoid contact with contaminated floodwaters,» says Mark Salley, communications director with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

From a public health perspective, that advice would be impractical for many and dangerous for some.

«From a public health perspective, this is deeply troubling, because drug overdoses are a leading cause of death in the U.S. and prescribing benzodiazepines to patients taking opioids for pain is quite common.

«From the public health perspective, manufacturers of tablets, smartphones and PCs could investigate the possibility of time - modulated color - adjustment of screens, to prevent unwanted exposure to blue light in the evening.»

However, from a public health perspective, eating soil is questionable — at least in large quantities.

«It is time to bring a public health perspective to this longstanding and terrible problem, from a standpoint that emphasizes prevention and health equity, as opposed to treating these data as if they solely belong to the police and are a matter of criminal justice only,» said Nancy Krieger, professor of social epidemiology and lead author of the study.

«Dr. Armand Frappier,» she continues, «led the fight against tuberculosis in Québec and saw things from a public health perspective.

And this public health perspective spurred renewed interest in studies that test to what degree the presence of guns increases the likelihood of death to their owners.

«Aedes mosquitoes have become increasingly important as vectors of disease from a public health perspective,» said George Dimopoulos, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at John Hopkins University who was not involved in the study.

From a public health perspective, aging is also the critical risk factor for a variety of human pathologies, including neurodegenerative diseases, many forms of cancer and metabolic disease.

In our environment, we have some challenges doing the raw meat in terms of finding safe sources from a public health perspective.

From a public health perspective, that advice would be impractical for many and dangerous for some.

Whiplash injuries also can be expensive to treat, so reducing them would be welcome from a financial as well as a public health perspective.»

«When we think of canine aggression from a public health perspective, aggression toward humans is typically what gets discussed.

«Whether viewed from a climate perspective, a public health perspective, or a financial perspective, the implication is clear: rather than building still more coal plants, the time has come to shift resources toward cleaner, safer, and ever cheaper alternatives.»

Communication and marketing as climate change intervention assets: A public health perspective.

Mercedes aspires to be a doctor and addresses environmental problems from the public health perspective.

And anybody in the environmental world would want to do so, because delivering reliable energy is extraordinarily important from a public health perspective.

Developing and developed nations alike will move toward new forms of advanced energy technologies that reduce dependence on foreign nations, insulate their economies from volatile energy markets, and are cleaner and thus less costly from a public health perspective.

The Task Force agrees with the public health perspective that, to reduce youth access to cannabis, strict limits should be placed on its promotion.

From a public health perspective, there is the possibility that IQ can be increased, with some mixed results from trials of early learning and school readiness programs.

The federal budget for low - income housing assistance has been targeted for reduction.25, 26 From a public health perspective, the findings of the current study raise concerns about the impact on child well - being of these proposed reductions.