Sentences with phrase «recent public health research»

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The most recent research, led by Joseph Allen, who teaches at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, analyzed the performance of knowledge workers, including engineers, programmers, creative marketing professionals and managers.

Health care was the No. 1 policy priority for white evangelical voters (and the American public as a whole) in the recent election, the Pew Research Center found.

Carol Williams Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion & Public Health, a nutritionist and infant feeding specialist, will be discussing recent research on fathers and breastfeeding (UK)

Indeed, many scientists would argue that recent research results tend to suggest that the public are right to be sceptical, both in terms of risks to human health, and increasing problems for farmers growing GM crops.

Recent Activity RCP Assesses Mississippi Program's Novel Public Health and Community Engagement Partnership In March 2017, RCP conducted an assessment of the Mississippi IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (Mississippi INBRE) program, a five - year cycle - competitive $ 20 million NIH - funded program designed to enhance biomedical research capacity throughout thResearch Excellence (Mississippi INBRE) program, a five - year cycle - competitive $ 20 million NIH - funded program designed to enhance biomedical research capacity throughout thresearch capacity throughout the state.

In their paper published online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Yale School of Public Health describes how a 33 percent cutback in funds earmarked for HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and research in recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoire.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

Dr David Carslake, the study's lead author and Senior Research Associate from the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) at the University of Bristol, said: «An alarming increase in obesity levels across the world which have risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014, according to a recent Lancet study, create concern about the implications for public health.

Leshner agreed, as Obama noted in a recent executive action, that «critical public health research» is needed to better understand and potentially help reduce gun violence.

For example, Van Blerkom and Albertini have a gentlemanly disagreement about recent research that may spill out into the public discourse soon because it raises the possibility that some popular IVF techniques might have subtle but long - term health implications for children conceived in a dish.

In a collaborative research effort between Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Qi and colleagues analyzed the impact of tooth loss in large studies of adults, aged 45 to 69 years, in which participants had reported on the numbers of natural teeth they had, then in a follow - up questionnaire, reported recent tooth loss.

News 12 New Jersey, NewJersey.News12.com — June 15, 2017 Researcher Dr. Adana Llanos of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers School of Public Health discusses results from recent research that finds an association between breast cancer risk and use of some hair products.

WPIX TV Channel 11, PIX11.com — June 15, 2017 Researcher Dr. Adana Llanos of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers School of Public Health discusses results from recent research that finds an association between breast cancer risk and use of some hair products.

«While more research is needed, accumulating evidence exists to suggest that energy drink consumption is linked to adverse cardiovascular events, sleep disturbances, and other substance use among adolescents,» says Amelia Arria, director of the University of Maryland School of Public Health's Center for Young Adult Health and Development and co-author of the recent energy drink and alcohol study.

The latest changes are based on updated scientific information, new nutrition and public health research, more recent dietary recommendations from expert groups, and input from the public.

Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescentResearch on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescentresearch has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.

Plenty of Mr Barnes» advice mirrors that given by former Health Minister, and Labor Party MP, Nicola Roxon in a recent interview for the Sax Institute's journal Public Health Research & Practice.

Speaking at the 2014 Congress Lowitja, the biennial conference of the Lowitja Institute — Australia's national Indigenous health research body — Mundine won applause from the audience for his recent public stand against the proposed repeal of Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.

In the emerging field of child maltreatment prevention, public health approaches to prevent child abuse are novel but necessary, the director of the University of South Carolina's Parenting and Family Research Center, Professor Ron Prinz, writes in a recent edition of the journal, Child Abuse & Neglect.

Safecare ®: Towards Wide - scale Implementation of a Child Maltreatment Prevention Program Lutzker & Edwards - Gaura (2012) In Applied Public Health: Examining Multifaceted Social or Ecological Problems and Child Maltreatment View Abstract Describes the history of the SafeCare model, past and current SafeCare model programs and factors associated with SafeCare implementation and recent development of the National SafeCare Training and Research Center and upcoming NSTRC activities.