Sentences with phrase «range of public health»

She is involved in a range of public health issues but this week will be tweeting from the International Gambling Conference being held at the Auckland University of Technology — follow #IGC2016 and @IGCnz.

Complaining of the impacts of free - roaming cats on wildlife and the environment, along with a range of public health threats, dozens of veterinarians in Hillsborough County, Florida, have banded together to fight TNR.

This program offers a wide range of public health services for pregnant women, new mothers, babies, children and families.

Meanwhile, there was almost unanimous support for traffic lights from a wide range of public health, medical and consumer organisations, as well as state government agencies.

Not exact matches

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» wide - ranging new crackdown on drug offenders could exacerbate one of America's most persistent public health tragedies: the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic that's been ravaging the country and killed nearly 35,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

«Our investment here signifies our commitment to discovering and developing new vaccines across a range of pressing public health priorities, including those important here in the U.S,» Luc Debruyne, president, GSK Vaccines, said in a statement.

As each market is vastly different — ranging from a complex mix of public and private health insurance to single - payer systems — entering the health technology space can seem daunting.

Additionally, for the first time, it established as a matter of public policy the need to provide a wide range of mental health services to prevent mental illness and to improve the mental health of the American people.

«Our industry is acutely aware of its responsibilities,» she comments in the Food and Drink Federation report Delivering Healthy Growth, «whether tackling public health issues such as malnutrition or deficiency of certain nutrients in vulnerable groups or the growing challenge of obesity, or enabling consumers to make informed choices from a range of products than match modern lifestyles.

The range of modelled taxation scenarios were selected on the basis that they are under consideration by the Australian Government, or being proposed by parts of the alcohol beverage industry or public health groups in Australia.

They have a high bar to reach considering the Senate plan was passed unanimously out of Committee and is supported by such a broad range of stakeholders — everyone ranging from retired military leaders to the public health community to anti-hunger groups to school food service directors.

Among the range of outcomes which will be improved by an effective 0 - 5 years» public health nursing service are improving breastfeeding initiation and increasing breastfeeding prevalence at 6 - 8 weeks.

A broad range of education and health groups, including KSHF, then urged the USDA to refine the standards and helped generate nearly 250,000 comments from the public on the proposal.

Amid calls for passing the progressive agenda that ranges from protections for health care, abortion rights and the public financing of campaigns, Klein and company reiterated on Monday votes should be indeed be held.

To deliver a thriving animal medicines sector, post-Brexit, NOAH has set out a series of priorities that will: - Support trade and innovation - Safeguard animal health and welfare and public health and food safety; ensuring that UK veterinarians and animal keepers continue to have access to a wide range of appropriate veterinary medicines.

The public comments range from complaints from environmental groups that the impact statement does not fully address public health effects or the impacts of industrialization on the state's rural areas, to concerns from the Independent Oil and Gas Association, which worries the new rules may be too strict.

Klein called the proposal a «very exciting development» but added the new Democratic coalition majority would need to be able to pass a range of issues sought by the left, including bolstering abortion rights, single - payer health care and the public financing of campaigns.

Public Health England and the Department of Health have a range of toolkits to help hospitals and other care facilities, but these are only as good as the training that goes with them.

The latter have long been on the public health agenda, but we are arguing that in order to make the most effective challenge to health inequalities, in addition a much wider range of intervention needs to be brought into play.

ESRC Research Centre, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, is holding a conference to look at the aim of all major political parties in arguing for greater involvement of non-profit organisations in the delivery of public services ranging from employment services through to healthPublic Organisation, is holding a conference to look at the aim of all major political parties in arguing for greater involvement of non-profit organisations in the delivery of public services ranging from employment services through to healthpublic services ranging from employment services through to health care.

To deliver a thriving animal medicines sector, post-Brexit, NOAH has set out a series of priorities that will: Support trade and innovation Safeguard animal health and welfare and public health and food safety; ensuring that UK veterinarians and animal keepers continue to have access to a wide range of appropriate veterinary medicines.

Aaron Woolf spoke with North Country Public Radio's David Sommerstein on a range of issues, from gun control and health care to why a political rookie wants to represent the region.

«With or without Peralta, we will assemble on June 26th to discuss the range of issues at stake on the state level, including public school funding, health care, women's health care, immigrants» rights, sanctuary state, Dream Act, LGBT rights, voter reform, criminal justice reform, and climate change reforms,» organizers wrote in a press release.

A review of Dr. Shah's writings and work in a wide - ranging number of public health and medical issues challenging America today, illustrate his preparedness for being the Commissioner of Health for New York State.&health and medical issues challenging America today, illustrate his preparedness for being the Commissioner of Health for New York State.&Health for New York State.»

Sen. Jose Peralta today will announce a bill that would require a range of applications, including for public colleges, professional licenses, state - funded health insurance programs, and state income tax returns, to include a registration line for the «donate life registry» for organ, eye, and tissue donations

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly floated a special session of the Legislature over the last several weeks to consider several issues ranging from health care funding issues for public welfare hospitals, children's health insurance and a package of flood relief aid for Lake Ontario property owners.

As you would expect from a government department seeking to effect public health change through a voluntary deal with industry, a wide group of officials have many different meetings with a vast range of stakeholders, and we utterly reject the allegation of anything untoward in the small proportion of those that took place with the alcohol industry.

«He has written numerous books on economic theory and practice and he remains a prolific writer in national magazines and newspapers on a broad range of subjects including health policy, economic management, taxation and public spending, transport, pensions, and e-government.

The party has built its success on occupying a range of formerly popular Labour policies such as free university tuition, free NHS prescription charges and maintaining a public sector health service.

He introduced and enacted legislation on a wide range of issues including expanding job opportunities for public housing residents; protecting the City's affordable housing stock; improving mental health resources for the LGBT community, and establishing work standards for industrial laundromats.

We are open to fellows with a broad range of interests that include, but are not limited to: medical research issues, food and drug safety, health care quality and costs, coverage of the uninsured, health information technology, and public health.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes sleep deprivation as a «public health epidemic» linked to a wide range of medical issues, including hypertension, diabetes, depression, obesity and cancer.

But a Public Health England spokesperson told New Scientist that a range of other factors could have caused the fall in new HIV diagnoses.

The majority of reproductive - age and pregnant women who use opioids for non-medical purposes also use at least one other substance, ranging from nicotine or alcohol to cocaine, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health analysis.

The AAAS training also helped Ernst start a Twitter account (@ernstkc)(«I used to think it was a forum to just share trivial personal details about your day, but I have been impressed by the level of scientific discourse that goes on in the Twittersphere»), publish an op - ed on public health in the border region, and embrace the wide range of ways scientists can engage with the public.

His own research — analyzing data on public health issues — has covered a wide range of topics.

A special receptor on cells that line the sinuses, throat and lungs evolved to protect mammals from developing a range of allergies and asthma, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

As I tell my students, a career spanning science and public health requires a wide range of skills.

They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.

Such moves would delight the research community, which for years has joined with a wide range of groups — including military and public health advocates — in calling for Congress to break the caps.

Even the U.S. Public Health Service, which maintains that dental amalgams cause no harm, notes in a consumer update that ongoing studies «will require several years of follow - up in order to detect any subtle and long - range health effects.&Health Service, which maintains that dental amalgams cause no harm, notes in a consumer update that ongoing studies «will require several years of follow - up in order to detect any subtle and long - range health effects.&health effects.»

As the particles break down and disperse, they have a wide range of adverse environmental, public health and economic consequences with the potential to kill wildlife, destroy natural resources and disrupt the food chain.

The authors propose that all law enforcement - related deaths — including people killed by police as well as police killed in the line of duty — be treated not just as criminal data but as a «notifiable condition,» and that they be reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) by public health and medical professionals and published on a weekly basis, as are a host of other conditions ranging from poisonings to pertussis to polio.

This «is exacerbating climate change and having a whole range of effects on the environment and public health,» says Sutton.

This special issue of Science focuses on diverse areas where public health can be improved by making better use of the resources we have in our grasp, ranging from tailoring engineering projects to meet the needs of material - and infrastructure - limited regions, to building a surveillance network for the detection of drug resistance, to empowering women.

«U.S. public sees ill health as resulting from a broad range of causes, poll suggests.»

Executives from a broad range of health care - focused organizations — including hospitals, health centers, medical schools and public health departments — across the U.S. and from other countries participate in a two - day training session in Boston that focuses on defining disparities and their causes, developing strategies to identify and address disparities and fostering the leadership and change - management skills to implement those strategies.

On topics ranging from astrophysics to public health, rejections of scientific consensus can prove quite inflexible when bolstered by religious doctrine.

Chartered scientists work in industry, academia, and public health, in a range of fields from veterinary practice to school teaching.

«Two years after the tragedy in Newtown, our study of public support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Hpublic support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HPublic Health.