Not exact matches
«The Administration's budget request stifles innovation,
future economic growth, and job creation,» said Dr. Robert Gropp, co — executive director of The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
in Washington, D.C. «These deep cuts to scientific research and education programs will negatively impact our ability to improve
public health and solve environmental
problems for years to come.»
The Census Bureau has estimated that the number of people over 65 will increase by 2050 to 88.5 million; thus, Alzheimer's disease presents an enormous
future public health problem which was recently recognized by Congress with the allocation of 300 million
in additional NIH research funding.
New Recommendations from the National Sleep Foundation - The Atlantic January 2015 - Poor Sleep
in Adolescence Predicts
Future Problems, Study Says - Los Angeles Times January 2015 - How Sleep Keeps You Healthy, Helps You Heal - Discovery News September 2014 - Lack of Sleep Increases Risk of Failure
in School Among Teens - Science World Report, from Sleep Medicine August 2014 - Sleep Woes
in Old Age May Be Linked to Brain Cell Loss -
Health magazine August 2014 — University of Chicago Study: Getting More Sleep Could Cut Junk Food Cravings
in Half — CBS News August 2014 — University of Montreal Study Shows Learning Is Best Enhanced During Sleep - Jewish Business News February 2014 - Link Found between Sleep Duration and Depression - Psych Central February 2014 - Less Sleep, More Time Online, Raises Risk for Teen Depression — National
Public Radio
• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid
public and occupational
health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability,
health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes
in food systems and water supplies to
health under different conditions • Prediction of
future risks
in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions
in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S.
health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related
health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population
Here I'll examine whether climate change is likely to be the most important global
public health problem if not today, at least
in the foreseeable
future.
In the next post in this series, I'll look at a couple of ecological indicators to determine whether climate change may over the «foreseeable future» be the most important problem from the ecological perspective, if not from the public health point of vie
In the next post
in this series, I'll look at a couple of ecological indicators to determine whether climate change may over the «foreseeable future» be the most important problem from the ecological perspective, if not from the public health point of vie
in this series, I'll look at a couple of ecological indicators to determine whether climate change may over the «foreseeable
future» be the most important
problem from the ecological perspective, if not from the
public health point of view.