Sentences with phrase «public health practitioners»

For public health practitioners, the ability to quickly collect, analyze and take action on data is paramount to containing the spread of a deadly new virus or disease.

One of the key challenges faced by public health practitioners is ensuring that everyone who is infected knows their status.

This modeling approach, the paper notes, «may be applicable to urban planners, environmental regulators, and public health practitioners in other regions considering land - use and transportation policies as means to improve health outcomes.»

«For the first time, our analyses provide state - specific costs for COPD, which provide state public health practitioners with estimates of the economic burden of COPD within their borders and illustrates the potential medical and absenteeism costs savings to states through implementing state level programs that are designed to prevent the onset of COPD,» says Earl Ford, MD, researcher with the Division of Population Health, CDC.

The CDC Breastfeeding Report Card provides national - and state - level data to help public health practitioners, health professionals, community members, child care providers, and family members work together to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding.

Ahmad added that the results could also help policymakers or public health practitioners more accurately predict the future prevalence of heart failure in America's aging population.

These measures — including public health entities beginning to bill insurers for covered individuals» services such as immunisation, and hospitals and public health practitioners collaborating to identify community needs — are likely to lead to greater integration and better quality services, say the authors.

Perhaps public health practitioners are, unlike Hutchins, able to put reports of plague infection into perspective — seeing them for the rare event they are.

(Sometimes I wonder whether public health practitioners who are not actively working for climate change action are simply fiddling while Rome burns.)

Comments by the Chief Justice of Western Australia and associated media reports reveal a simplistic, unhelpful view of the complex factors contributing to the over-incarceration of Aboriginal people, according to public health practitioner Summer May Finlay.

Summer May Finlay, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Public Health practitioner and occasional writer

Summer May Finlay, a Yorta Yorta woman and public health practitioner said: «It's important that all governments take measures to address the over representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people incarcerated.

She has spent much of the past ten years as a practicing physician and public health practitioner in the field of STI prevention and treatment.

As a public health practitioner, it drives me crazy that these blanket statements that all co-sleeping is deadly.

We welcome behavioral, life, physical, and social scientists, as well as engineers, technicians, medical professionals, and public health practitioners.

Secondly, we need researchers and public health practitioners to develop effective solutions.

Public health practitioners and healthcare providers should be aware of the nature of authentic online conversations surrounding obesity, how it differs vastly throughout the various social media channels and how it shapes public discourse.

The journals serve all public health practitioners and researchers and those who manage public health services and systems.

Michael Roberson, Public health practitioner, advocate, activist and leader within the LGBTQ community

On October 24 2015, Senegalese NGO CONAF — the National Committee for Literacy and Training — convened civil society representatives, public health practitioners, village chiefs, civil registry officials, and religious leaders at the launch ceremony for its program to improve women and children's access to civil registry in the region of Diourbel.

Summer May Finlay, a Yorta Yorta woman, public health practitioner and Croakey contributor, launches the first episode of Health Matters, an occasional broadcast wrapping the latest health n...

Also many of the managers, public health practitioners and health policy experts are graduates.

In yet another chapter in the Nanny State Chronicles, an opinion piece in Canada's Globe and Mail concluded that public health practitioners should «stick to their needles» because they had no place having an opinion on taxes, free trade, economic policy or corporate control.

* Summer May Finlay is a Yorta Yorta woman, a public health practitioner, a PhD candidate and a Croakey contributor.

Educational offerings will be provided for home visitors, family support workers, parent educators, parent leaders, mental health specialists, medical professionals, school social workers, kinship and foster parents, child welfare and human services professionals, public health practitioners, early childhood development specialists and teachers, early interventionists, law enforcement, and community advocates.

ducational offerings will be provided for home visitors, family support workers, parent educators, parent leaders, mental health specialists, medical professionals, school social workers, kinship and foster parents, child welfare and human services professionals, public health practitioners, early childhood development specialists and teachers, early interventionists, law enforcement, and community advocates.

Last week, Summer May Finlay, a Yorta Yorta woman, Croakey contributor, public health practitioner and PhD candidate, spoke at the Annual dinner of the Australian Council of Deans of Education, on the topic of Decolonising Universities.

• Summer May Finlay is a Yorta Yorta woman, public health practitioner, a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia, and a Contributing Editor at Croakey.

• Summer May Finlay is a Yorta Yorta woman, a public health practitioner, a PhD candidate, and a member of the Croakey connective.

Public health practitioners are becoming increasingly distressed over the dismantling of preventative health in Queensland.

We are delighted that Summer May Finlay, a Yorta Yorta woman, public health practitioner and a member of the Croakey team, will be presenting tomorrow on the #JustJustice project, which is investigating ways to stop the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Public health practitioner and regular contributor Summer May Finlay reported for Croakey from ATSISPEP's inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference in May, and outlines the main recommendations, responses and her observations from the report in the post below.

Summer May Finlay, a Yorta Yorta woman, Croakey contributor, public health practitioner and PhD candidate, has made this short clip below to help address these concerns.

This year, #IHMayDay15 will be moderated by James Cook University Nursing, Midwifery and Research academic Dr Lynore Geia, a Bwgcolman woman woman from Palm Island; and by Summer May Finlay, Yorta Yorta woman, a public health practitioner and PhD candidate based in Canberra.

Summer May Finlay, a public health practitioner, Yorta Yorta woman and a Croakey contributor, shares these concerns and told me:

And please make a note in your diaries for Monday 27 March when there will be Two Hours of Twitter Power for #JustClimate from 12 - 2 pm AEST, moderated by Professor Kerry Arabena, President of the International Association for Ecology and Health, and Summer May Finlay, Croakey contributor and public health practitioner.

• Summer May Finlay is a Yorta Yorta woman, public health practitioner and PhD scholar at the University of South Australia.

In 2015, Summer May Finlay — @OnTopicAus — a Yorta Yorta woman, a public health practitioner and PhD candidate, who was then based in Canberra, also helped to moderate the event, which was also co-hosted IRL by Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition at James Cook University in Townsville.

#IHMayDay15 is moderated by James Cook University Nursing, Midwifery and Research academic Dr Lynore Geia — @LynoreGeia — a Bwgcolman woman woman from Palm Island; and by Summer May Finlay — @OnTopicAus — a Yorta Yorta woman, a public health practitioner and PhD candidate based in Canberra (more details are here).

Last week, Summer May Finlay, a Yorta Yorta woman, Croakey contributor, public health practitioner and PhD candidate, spoke at the Annual dinner of the Australian Council of Deans of Educati... Read more