Sentences with phrase «public health priority»

Improving maternal mental health is a global public health priority [1 — 5].

These organizations are gaining national recognition as state models for engaging communities to make improving oral health an important public health priority.

Reducing this inequality gap is a key public health priority for the Mayor, and will be a major focus of the new taskforce.

Salt reduction remains a key public health priority globally, and is seen as an area of importance for many within the food industry.

«Our investment here signifies our commitment to discovering and developing new vaccines across a range of pressing public health priorities, including those important here in the U.S,» said Luc Debruyne, president of GSK Vaccines, in a statement.

Healthy People 2020 The United States Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2020 establishes breastfeeding as a national public health priority.

Emerging public health priorities for Aboriginal peoples are constantly changing and evolving.

This plan is proof that there is now a strong cross-party political consensus that tough action to tackle smoking is the primary public health priority and a strong signal to council health and wellbeing boards that tackling smoking needs to be top of their agenda.

«Sleep is a necessity, not a luxury, and the promotion of healthy sleep should be a fundamental public health priority.»

Prevention of stroke is a major public health priority, but the variation by region should influence the development of strategies for reducing stroke risk, say the authors of the study published in The Lancet.

«National strategy to reduce opioid epidemic, an urgent public health priority.»

«This is an interesting event from a scientific perspective, but I don't think it changes the current public health priorities at all.»

However, the high cost of DAA regimens and competing public health priorities may limit the potential impact of new HCV therapies.»

New public health priorities are urgently needed

In the context of infectious disease management, individual rights and liberties such as autonomous decision making, freedom of choice and action, privacy, and the right to know or not to know information about oneself can come into conflict with public health priorities.

The NCCs are located across Canada, and each focuses on a different public health priority.

A safe and effective Zika vaccine that prevents infection in those at risk is a global public health priority,» said Maj. Leyi Lin, principal investigator of the study.

The NCCAH acknowledges that there are diverse and emerging public health priorities for First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples living in urban, rural, remote and northern communities across Canada.

«Our investment here signifies our commitment to discovering and developing new vaccines across a range of pressing public health priorities, including those important here in the U.S,» Luc Debruyne, president, GSK Vaccines, said in a statement.

«Removing this profoundly unhealthy influence is, unsurprisingly, recognised as a key public health priority,» they added.

Funding for cardiac resuscitation research must be a national public health priority.»

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.

Risks of Not Breastfeeding: This document, published by ILCA in 2011, summarizes the evidence demonstrating breastfeeding as the biological norm and affirms it as a public health priority.

The plan increases EPA's budget while also providing funds for other environmental and public health priorities.

The rise of antibiotic resistance is a «top national security and public health priority,» says John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Annually, dogs bite more than 4.5 million Americans; understanding the roots of canine aggression is a public health priority.

In addition, preventing overdose deaths and other opioid - related harms should be substantially and immediately elevated as a public health priority.

While AIDS drugs have extended the lives of many sufferers, AIDS remains a major killer, particularly in developing countries, making the search for an effective HIV vaccine a public health priority.

Increasing utilization of preventive dental care by Medicaid - enrolled children has been a public health priority in Pennsylvania.

«We want to establish the true burden of disease because that is what policy makers use to decide what is a public health priority,» says Barbara Kowalcyk, the center's co-founder.

A special issue of American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association, offers an overview of the science and makes the case for psychological scientists to work together to make close relationships a public health priority.

It also hints at spending on public health priorities.

According to the researchers, given the high morbidity, mortality and health care costs associated with HF, prevention is a public health priority.

Helping women prevent and survive heart attacks through increased research and improving ethnic and racial disparities in prevention and treatment is a public health priority,» she said.

Identifying risk factors for breast cancer is a public health priority, say the authors.

Strategies that enhance adherence to medication are a public health priority.

Study lead author Katherine Mills said high blood pressure needs to be a public health priority in poorer countries «to prevent future cardiovascular and kidney disease, and associated costs to society.»

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The world's top nutrition scientists are calling on governments and regulators to place a public health priority on low GI diets based on the overwhelming evidence of their health benefits.

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The prevalence of obesity has reached epidemic proportions, making finding effective solutions to reduce obesity a public health priority.

Depression is a chronic and recurrent illness that affects twice as many women as men, 7 and approximately 20 % of US women will be affected during their lifetime.8 Identification of risk factors for depression among women and the development of new preventive strategies are, therefore, a public health priority.

Street and village dogs have always been part of the developing world's landscape, but exploding populations, increasing attacks on citizens, 1 and spiraling rabies epidemics have transformed this issue from a third world problem to a global public health priority.

So we made cutting down on smoking the city's number one public health priority.

Public health priorities should be based on the general public interest.