Sentences with phrase «public health risks because»

In addition to the cruelty, this event is a public health risk because the commercial trade in dogs for meat involves the large - scale transport of dogs across international borders in Asia, and incidence of rabies has been linked to dogs in the trade.

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According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.&Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.&health and / or the environment.»

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).

But after Back - to - Sleep, the ORs shot up, probably because those babies already at greatest risk of SIDS were the ones that weren't getting the public health message, while prone sleep in the control population dropped dramatically.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

Dan Shapley, Riverkeeper's water quality program manager, said the city's residents deserve to know if their health is at risk because the public water supply was polluted.

«Overweight / obesity are just one of several modifiable risk factors in the workplace — but ones that are most problematic right now because they're getting worse by the minute,» commented Ron Goetzel, Ph.D. of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Truven Health Analytics.

«These findings are important because, while both obesity and heart failure are major public health problems in the U.S., little has been known about whether substantial weight loss would decrease the risk of heart - failure - related adverse events.»

Binge drinking is a major public health issue because it is an important risk factor for alcohol - related injuries, accidental death, unsafe sexual behaviour, and long - term substance abuse problems.

«The emergence of A H7N9 influenza in March 2013 posed a public health threat both locally and internationally because of the risk for airborne transmission,» said K.Y. Yuen, MD, FRCPath, a lead author of the study.

At first, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the contaminant posed little risk to public health, because concentrations of crude MCHM were measured at less than 1 part per million.

So if, for example, public health officials are in a community handing out bed nets, it could make sense to also treat for schistosomiasis because of the down - the - road benefit of reducing the risk of malaria.»

«This research is important because previous studies have shown that a reduction in blood supply to the heart (ischemia) during mental stress doubles the risk of heart attack or death from heart disease,» said Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study and professor of epidemiology and medicine at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.

Many of these public health studies attracted a great deal of publicity because they seemed to settle the question of risk once and for all.

Host genomic factors could be important in determining: (1) which individuals should be vaccinated in the case of a public health emergency - those who are at highest risk for severe disease; (2) which individuals should not be vaccinated - those who are at high risk of adverse events following vaccination; or (3) which individuals should be quarantined, because of increased risk to themselves or to others.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

According to study co-authors T.J. Mathews and Brady Hamilton, «Childbearing by very young mothers is a matter of public concern because of the elevated health risks for these mothers and their infants and the socioeconomic consequences.»

Because such individuals have associated «corn sugar» to be an acceptable ingredient to their health when «high fructose corn syrup» is not, changing the name for HFCS to «corn sugar» could put these individuals at risk and pose a public health concern.»

Those most at risk for infection include zoo handlers and caretakers (because they work closely with the birds), pregnant women, and people with compromised immune systems, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) release.

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that cats are rarely a source of disease, and that it is unlikely for anyone to get sick from touching or owning a cat.3 «Feral cats pose even less risk to public health than pet cats because they have minimal human contact, and any contact that does occur is almost always initiated by the person,» says Ackerman.

Opposition: Community cats should be killed because they are a public health risk.

Neither commercial nor raw diet manufacturers were contacted during development of this policy because it was based on public health risk, and not on nutritional comparisons, health benefits, or economic factors.

Because of this, and the risk to public health, the American Association of Equine Practitioners recommends rabies vaccinations for horses.

Because smart public health activists have focused private - sector attention on the risk of consumer backlash against products that might harm children, and because cost - effective alternatives to BPA alreadyBecause smart public health activists have focused private - sector attention on the risk of consumer backlash against products that might harm children, and because cost - effective alternatives to BPA alreadybecause cost - effective alternatives to BPA already exist.

Because of their unique characteristics, renewable energy and energy efficiency help alleviate the risks of fossil fuel dependence while spurring economic development and improving public health and the environment.

Per the WTD website: «2.5 billion people worldwide are without access to proper sanitation, which risks their health, strips their dignity, and kills 1.8 million people, mostly children, a year;» and, «Because even the world's wealthiest people still have toilet problems - from unhygienic public toilets to sewage disposal that destroys our waterways.»

«Fertility tourism» is the somewhat derisive term for cross-border travel to access artificial reproductive services that are restricted or unavailable in the traveler's home country.123 Such tourism can be a two - way street.124 Canada, for example, imposes severe penalties on anyone who provides compensation to a gestational surrogate.125 The risk of a serious fine and even jail time acts as a deterrent to Canadians who have no access to altruistic surrogates within Canada.126 The restrictions encourage Canadians to access ART services in the United States or other countries.127 On the other hand, Canada can be an attractive destination for intending parents who are not Canadian but who have access to an altruistic Canadian surrogate because the public health system greatly reduces the medical costs for the pregnancy and birth of the baby.128 India has a growing reputation for providing low - cost gestational surrogacy as it allows women to be compensated for providing such services.129 All of these scenarios present potential LRW problems addressing contract interpretation and enforceability.

It states that the practice is «dangerous to public health» because «ghostwritten articles on rofecoxib [Vioxx] probably contributed to»... lasting injury and even deaths as a result of prescribers and patients being misinformed about risks.»»

From a public health perspective, early interventions in childhood might change or moderate the cycle of homelessness across generations because early risk factors are often longstanding and drive a trajectory of cumulative risk, potentially leading to severe psychopathology and social exclusion.

Farmers are running out of options because the ozone - depleting chemical methyl bromide, long used to fumigate berry fields before planting to fight pests, weeds and soil - borne pathogens, is being phased out under international treaty and the manufacturer of a proposed replacement, methyl iodide, pulled its product from the United States last year amidst controversy about potential risks to the environment and public health.