Sentences with phrase «public health workers»

A detailed picture of invisible differences helps public health workers target limited funds more effectively.

By discovering trends in real time, social media could be the game - changing solution public health workers have been looking for.

Some of this information can be and was obtained the old - fashioned way, by public health workers going door - to - door, tracing contacts of those infected.

As senseless as the Newtown massacre, as the murder of public health workers in Pakistan, as the rape of a 23 year old student who should have a whole exciting world ahead of her.

By the time the World Health Organization and others mobilized to confront the crisis in the middle of the year, public health workers in the field had already started to fall far behind Ebola's spread.

«You don't slash the ranks of public health workers on the front lines of an epidemic,» Stringer said in a statement.

We have a lot of public health workers who have completed training and are sitting at home,» he lamented.

«An accurate, rapid, point - of - care test would help public health workers better focus resources quickly on the individuals who need it — including providing directly observed therapy — and avoid unnecessary medications and isolation in those who don't,» Belknap says.

More than 100 public health workers signed a letter of support for the program, and The New York Times gave the idea its strong endorsement.

The Honor Roll was established to highlight the key roll public health workers play in promoting and protecting the health of all New Yorkers and to encourage others to join the ranks.

Long delays, in some cases up to six weeks, between test and result often force public health workers to waste time and resources on people suspected of having the infection but who, in fact, do not.

It took Olivia Hallisey, now 17, just one year to develop a possible solution to an intractable issue facing public health workers: the lack of a rapid, portable, early diagnostic test for the Ebola virus.

Public health workers claim to have a head start in defusing antivaccine propaganda, should any arise.

«It's a very important question and something we've had lots of discussion about,» says Lurie, who said she spoke with a Liberian public health worker who is putting together a registry of survivors.

The genomic analysis will provide public health workers with better information about resistant infections, says de Man.

We could go on about Dr. Gentiles many accomplishments and efforts as a scientist, clinician and veterinary public health worker.

extending the relevance of the competencies to public health workers such as community health representatives, outreach workers and home visitors who often work with remote and rural Aboriginal communities;

Ten to 12 new centers may be selected this year to share in the $ 5 million that is expected to be available, and interested institutions will need to reach out to geographical areas where there is little access to education for public health workers.

'' By the end of the training across the country, we hope to have build the capacity of frontline clinical, laboratory and public health workers on case management, laboratory diagnosis, prevention and control of Lassa fever.

Public health workers have traced outbreaks in E.coli and Shigellosis to childcare diapering practices.

«What you have done is prove to the world that when people stand up and form a grassroots movement of environmentalists, public health workers, farmers, families, and religious leaders, there is nothing that we can not accomplish,» said Sanders.

He further disclosed that out of the 200,000 unemployed Nigerians that have been selected, 150,000 would teach and serve in their communities; 30,000 would serve as Agric Extension Workers and 20,000 would serve as public health workers.

West Africa needs doctors to run treatment and holding centers; virologists to do laboratory diagnostics; epidemiologists to dissect the major factors affecting the outbreak, which would lead to effective public health measures; public health workers to help implement these measures; and educators to work with the public and improve communications.

Going forward, the development of a reliable diagnostic kit is much needed to enable hospital, clinic, and public health workers to confirm that patients seeking care are either infected or free of the virus; and while an effective vaccine is being tested, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should screen existing antiviral medicines to determine if any can protect people from contracting the virus, Song said.

Public health workers can be alerted, and in some instances patients can be advised where to find vaccines.

In the future, public health workers could monitor trends on social media to quickly identify a rise of influenza, depression or other health issues in a specific area, thanks to research at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

If this method works in real time, public health workers could look into the future by asking «How are your tweets feeling?»

More recently, a Texas Ebola case illustrated a public health worker as unprepared to act on access to a hospital's electronic health records containing information about the patient's travels that could have resulted in immediate action, Agarwal says.

«We uncovered a host of barriers and obstacles to effective use of information, including the complexity and usability of the software, the inability of the software to support certain unique public health reporting needs, the learning curve for public health workers, and the lack of standards for effective data exchange,» Agarwal says.

Public health workers can use standardized bioassays to coat a bottle with an insecticide in a specific dose.

Pediatricians, public health workers, adoption agencies, and other organizations may also distribute these materials or reinforce their messages, which may be complemented by a public education campaign.

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