Sentences with phrase «public health priority for»

Please join us during the week by tweeting a selfie showing your Public Health priority for 2016.

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

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

Not exact matches

The priority review user fee required by this subsection shall be due upon the submission of a human drug application under section 505 (b)(1) or section 351 (a) of the Public Health Service Act for which the priority review voucher is used.

The sponsor of a material threat medical countermeasure application that receives a priority review voucher under this section may transfer (including by sale) the entitlement to such voucher to a sponsor of a human drug for which an application under section 505 (b)(1) or section 351 (a) of the Public Health Service Act will be submitted after the date of the approval of the material threat medical countermeasure application.

The Secretary approves a drug pursuant to an application submitted under section 505 (b) of this Act or section 351 (a) of the Public Health Service Act for which the sponsor of the application used a priority review voucher issued under this section.

Health care was the No. 1 policy priority for white evangelical voters (and the American public as a whole) in the recent election, the Pew Research Center found.

The peak industry group, which represents more than 60,000 businesses across manufacturing, engineering, telecommunications, mining, airlines and related sectors, will caution the Turnbull government against large cuts but call for careful spending reductions across aged care, health, the pension system and the public service to fund a company tax cut as a key priority.

The estimated percentage of US children aged 2 to 5 years and 6 to 11 years classified as overweight increased from 5.0 % and 6.5 % in 1980 to 10.4 % and 19.6 %, respectively, in 2007 -2008.1-3 The increase in childhood obesity was also observed among those aged 6 to 23 months, from 7.2 % in 1980 to 11.6 % in 2000.1 Given the numerous health risks related to childhood obesity,4 - 7 its prevention is becoming a public health priority.8 It has been reported that feeding practices affect growth and body composition in the first year of life, with breastfed infants gaining less rapidly than formula - fed infants.9 - 14 There is also evidence that breastfed infants continue to have a low risk for later childhood obesity.15 - 18

Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child, including higher maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks of infectious disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).

The United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) believes that breastfeeding is an «essential public health issue» and should be a high priority for the incoming administration.

- and how can we ensure preventative spending — early years spending, support for troubled families, public and mental health services, scientific research into new cures and treatments — areas where spending now saves billions in the future - is given a high priority.

Health literacy regarding antibiotic resistance, healthcare associated infections such as MRSA, should be a priority for global public hHealth literacy regarding antibiotic resistance, healthcare associated infections such as MRSA, should be a priority for global public healthhealth.

There is overwhelming public support for the NHS and people are most likely to say health services should be the top spending priority for government, a new poll finds.

Given the number of potential environmental problems in and around Gallagher Beach, Poloncarz said public health needs to be a priority in determining whether to open it for swimming.

«Protecting public health is not a priority for this administration.»

Research!America is the nation's largest not - for - profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national 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.

Redfield does not have much experience in policy or public health, two areas typically considered essential for overseeing the CDC and promoting its priorities on Capitol Hill.

It must also be a key priority at the G7 summit in June 2015... We call for one of their recommendations to be the establishment of a global biomedical R&D fund and mechanism for innovations of public health importance.»

The top priorities for urban water sustainability include the provision of safe drinking water, wastewater handling for public health, and protection against flooding.

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Hpublic for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public HPublic Health.

The regulations are meant to provide federal protection and to reassure the public that their health and research information are safe, but at the same time the proposal also calls for the exchange of data without patient consent for «national priority activities» — which include research.

In a letter to the Guardian, the scientists wrote that «the ACMD clearly recommended — for the third time in the last six years — that cannabis remains a class C drug, and did so after examining all the available and latest evidence on short - and long - term health risks, as well as social harms, public attitudes and policing priorities.»

«Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem and identifying new drug targets and candidate drugs is a major priority,» said David S. Perlin, Executive Director and Professor at the Public Health Research Institute and Rutgers Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the International Center for Public Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Nhealth problem and identifying new drug targets and candidate drugs is a major priority,» said David S. Perlin, Executive Director and Professor at the Public Health Research Institute and Rutgers Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the International Center for Public Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in NHealth Research Institute and Rutgers Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the International Center for Public Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in NHealth at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark.

«The Action Plan targets, including a 25 % relative reduction in the overall mortality of men and women aged between 30 and 70 years from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases, should be a priority for all public health and development partners,» Chestnov said.

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.

As both a public health and animal welfare issue, finding a way to control Campylobacter infection is a priority for the poultry industry.

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

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

This would contribute to the ongoing systematic effort to provide an evidence base for the utility and priority of genomic applications in public health [107], [108].

As the single most important cause of serious lower respiratory tract disease in infants and young children in the United States and globally, RSV is of considerable public health importance and a high priority for vaccine development.

«Reform should be a shared priority for all who support IARC's mission and rely on IARC for useful information about how to enhance public health.»

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.

For example, your elected officials should be focused on things like equal access to essential public services, fair governmental priorities and policies, city hall policies, school district choices, and public health measures.

Public - health researchers have learned to place a high priority on clear causal inferences, a priority reinforced by their funders (mostly the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundahealth researchers have learned to place a high priority on clear causal inferences, a priority reinforced by their funders (mostly the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Robert Wood Johnson FoundaHealth, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).

State Superintendent Tony Evers today (Nov. 15) submitted his 2017 - 19 budget request to Governor Walker which delineates the Department of Public Instruction's (DPI) top fiscal priorities for schools: fund schools, meet mental health needs, support rural schools, and expand summer learning.

The health insurance program for low - income people consumes 17.6 percent of Utah's budget, hurting the state's ability to fund other priorities such as public schools, said Herbert, sounding a theme popular among conservatives.

Building on existing programs and the Essential Public Health Services, CDC has identified the following priority health actions for climate cHealth Services, CDC has identified the following priority health actions for climate chealth actions for climate change:

Moreover, facing the problem squarely and honestly runs contrary to a shared value system — one that discounts the need for government regulation, favors industry growth and profit over public health and safety, and places a high priority on maximizing domestic fossil fuel extraction.

One other major challenge and priority for the committee in this Congress will be to address the proper and effective regulation of energy development to order to protect the public health and safety and the environment.

123 However, where the SCI concerned hosts a priority natural habitat type and / or a priority species, the only considerations which may be raised, under the second subparagraph of Article 6 (4) of Directive 92/43, are those relating to human health or public safety, to beneficial consequences of primary importance for the environment or, further to an opinion from the Commission, to other imperative reasons of overriding public interest.

Uses and disclosures that would have been permitted without individual authorization included uses and disclosures for national priority purposes such as public health, law enforcement, and research (see proposed § 164.510) and uses and disclosures of protected health information, other than psychotherapy notes and research information unrelated to treatment, for purposes of treatment, payment, and health care operations (see proposed § 164.506).

We require that exceptions for rules to ensure appropriate state regulation of insurance and health plans be stated in a statute or regulation, so that such exceptions will be clearly tied to statements of priorities made by publicly accountable bodies (e.g., through the public comment process for regulations, and by elected officials through statutes).

This decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in McNelis v. Pennsylvania Power & Light Company [1] reaffirms the priority placed on NRC requirements designed to protect public health and safety.

«Despite health being a top priority for voters, it received scant attention in the Prime Minister's address, with no discussion of Coalition health policy and attacks on Labor policy on Medicare,» said Alison Verhoeven, chief executive of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, representing public health services.

Suicide was the eighth leading cause of death in the United States in 1998.1 Particularly high rates have been reported among young persons and older adults.1 - 7 Each year, more than 30 000 people in the United States commit suicide, but recognition of persons who are at high risk for suicide is difficult, making efforts to prevent its occurrence problematic.1,8 - 10 The US surgeon general brought attention to this complex public health issue by recommending that the investigation and prevention of suicide be a national priority.11

Also for Croakey, Associate Professor Samantha Battams said while everyone was talking about healthcare and GST, they might like to think about healthcare priorities in terms of investing in public health to save dollars further down the track.

For instance, a recent analysis of state - published data by the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin found that, by 2016, 26 % Texas women who the state reported as enrolled in the program had in fact never received health care services from a participating provider, up from only 10 % in 2011, pointedly showing how access to care has declined drasticalFor instance, a recent analysis of state - published data by the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin found that, by 2016, 26 % Texas women who the state reported as enrolled in the program had in fact never received health care services from a participating provider, up from only 10 % in 2011, pointedly showing how access to care has declined drasticalfor Public Policy Priorities in Austin found that, by 2016, 26 % Texas women who the state reported as enrolled in the program had in fact never received health care services from a participating provider, up from only 10 % in 2011, pointedly showing how access to care has declined drastically.

FACT: A recent analysis from the Center for Public Policy Priorities found that the Affiliate Ban Rule has led nearly 100 health care providers, including Planned Parenthood health centers, to be excluded from or no longer participate in the Women's Health Prhealth care providers, including Planned Parenthood health centers, to be excluded from or no longer participate in the Women's Health Prhealth centers, to be excluded from or no longer participate in the Women's Health PrHealth Program.