Sentences with phrase «public health strategies»

The economic value of breastfeeding to the society at large is under researched and its importance as a preventive public health strategy is underestimated.

Given that global incidence rates of overweight and obesity are on the rise, particularly among children and adolescents, it is imperative that current public health strategies include education about beverage intake.

When lactation leaders are able to align values and beliefs with actions and strategies to promote breastfeeding as part of whole community, change can happen from the inside out through public health strategy.

«This resolution calls for support for critical, effective public health strategies ensuring access to affordable family planning and providing medically accurate information about the use of contraception to promote correct use.»

CDC nutrition efforts support public health strategies and programs that improve dietary quality, support healthy child development, and reduce chronic disease.

But the council advised that public health strategies developed under the auspices of the UK's chief medical officers, which were designed to minimise cannabis use, would be far more effective than reclassification or criminal justice measures.

Breast - feeding is an important public health strategy for improving infant and child morbidity and mortality and improving maternal morbidity and helping to control health care costs,» the ADA said in a news release.

Developed as a global public health strategy, The Code works to encourage exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, and continued breastfeeding for 24 months or as long as the mother and baby desire.

The authors of the article hope the findings will help to inform public health strategy, service planning and commissioning.

They also accord with the conclusions of previous expert reports that aggressively targeting alcohol harms is a valid and necessary public health strategy.»

Ongoing epidemiological and genomic surveillance is imperative to identify viral determinants of transmission dynamics, monitor viral changes and adaptation, ensure accurate diagnosis, guide research on therapeutic targets, and refine public health strategies.

Mayor Bloomberg's public health strategy evaluated.»

The study focused specifically on lessons for other cities interested in enacting similar public health strategies.

«This is an important finding, because it could provide us clues about how to tackle the disease and plan public health strategies,» especially for Maya - speaking people, says María Guadalupe García, a geneticist at the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY) in Mérida, who was not involved in the research.

He notes that the findings underscore the importance of avoiding irregular exercise patterns and suggests that future public health strategies focus on «getting people to exercise before they think they need it, and to stick with it,» adding that this study proves that an «ounce of prevention is indeed worth a pound of cure.»

One Philip Morris document titled «International Public Health Strategy» describes how ESEF's name could be used to attract scientists who would advocate industry positions.

The steps announced today are also a sound economic and public health strategy because reducing methane emissions means capturing valuable fuel that is otherwise wasted and reducing other harmful pollutants — a win for public health and the economy.

Professor Prinz said that while it was still an open question whether public health strategies could make a dent in child - maltreatment related indicators at a population level, several years ago, his group conducted a controlled study to test the proposition using the Triple P — Positive Parenting Program system.

Parenting and Family Support within a Broad Child Abuse Prevention Strategy: Child Maltreatment Prevention can Benefit From Public Health Strategies Prinz (2016) Child Abuse & Neglect, 51 Examines child abuse and neglect prevention from a community perspective, with special attention paid to parenting - focused intervention.

A brief parenting psychoeducation intervention conducted by lay community counselors is a promising public health strategy in dealing with widespread conduct problems in boys living in violence - affected settings and not so for social and emotional indicators and for girls.

Immunization is generally considered one of the safest and most effective public health strategies.

Our findings suggest that losing weight at any age can result in long - term cardiovascular health benefits, and support public health strategies and lifestyle modifications that help individuals who are overweight or obese to lose weight at all ages.»

New antibiotics need to be developed and tested and new prevention and public health strategies developed, including for the rational use of antibiotics.

Framing community breastfeeding education as a public health strategy can allow us to look for opportunities in childhood initiatives, mental health programs, social interventions, and more!

The authors argue that public health strategy should therefore focus on making parents aware of specific hazardous co-sleeping environments to avoid: sofa - sharing, alcohol, drugs, smoking, or co-sleeping if the infant is pre-term.

BMA's head of science and ethics Dr Vivienne Nathanson said the fluoridation of water was an «effective public health strategy» for reducing tooth decay.

The findings shed light on the effectiveness of whooping cough vaccines in the U.S. — a subject of intense scientific debate — and may help guide future vaccination campaigns and public health strategies.

As a result, Professor Wolke argues that public health strategies to prevent bullying overall should still mainly focus on combatting traditional, face - to - face bullying — as that is the root cause of the vast majority of cyberbullying.

«Our findings are important for health professionals and might be used as a simple message for lifestyle - based interventions and public health strategies, as well as informing dietary recommendations and guidelines.»

«Although there is a high risk of progression to decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer among patients with advanced fibrosis, limiting access to people who have already progressed to late - stage disease as compared to treating earlier to prevent these liver - related complications seems counter-intuitive as a public health strategy.»

Public Health Strategy has Deep Roots The notion that government officials can use public health statistics to improve policy decisions is not new.

Because rates of HPV vaccination in girls have been low, it's important to vaccinate boys as part of the public health strategy to prevent cervical cancer, Schaffner said.

The workshop also explored various modeling and analysis methods for their potential applications in public health strategies and in diagnosis, suppression, and prevention of Toxoplasmosis.

Better planning — through investments in infrastructure and public health strategies — can help communities become more resilient in a warming world.

We need a public health strategy beyond finger wagging, and the solution just might be design.

The University of Queensland's Triple P — Positive Parenting Program significantly reduces the number of serious cases of emotional and behavioural problems in children when used as a public health strategy, interim findings of a major independent evaluation have found.

The Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) has combined its behavioral health care and intellectual disability services into one complete system as part of its public health strategy and approach.

Smoking prevention during adolescence, therefore, is an effective public health strategy.