Sentences with phrase «reduce global burden»

«Mitigating risk factors provides us a powerful way to reduce the global burden of dementia.»

In fact, if we all do the right things, we can actually reduce the global burden of dementia dramatically.

The common goal of all scientists at the TB Centre is to reduce the global burden of TB, through high quality research, education and knowledge translation.

Non-compliance in teenagers and young adults is particularly high, with around 40 - 50 % of adolescents and young adults not adhering to the therapy regimen in Europe and the USA.xix Research into long - acting anti-retroviral therapy represents an exciting opportunity to tackle these issues and reduce the global burden of HIV related secondary immunodeficiency.

UICC selected the theme to explore «how everyone — as a collective or as individuals — can do their part to reduce the global burden of cancer.»

«New antiviral treatment could significantly reduce global burden of hepatitis C.» ScienceDaily.

«Mitigating risk factors provides us a powerful way to reduce the global burden of dementia.»

«Now is the time for governments, health organizations, and individuals to proactively reduce the global burden of stroke.

Towards reducing the global burden of malaria and other neglected diseases, millions of compounds were screened, prioritized and assembled by the WHO - supported Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) as the MMV «Malaria Box» collection of 400 chemically diverse small molecules.

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Given limited resources, officials and observers said, the Commission's competition directorate is likely to focus on a fairly small number in the expectation that success — still to be tested in court — can deter others from going to extremes in reducing their global tax burdens.

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 predicted that sugar sweetened drink consumption contributes a relatively small amount to UK population morbidity (28000 disability adjusted life years) compared with low fruit and vegetable consumption (1130000 disability adjusted life years).59 Using revenue from a sugar sweetened drink tax to reduce the prices of fruit and vegetables is a potential mechanism for further improving population health.60

The technology also reduces the global CO2 emission and the burdens on municipal and national governments in dynamically changing planetary and economic times.

They want to feed the growing world population, boost our reliance on renewable energy or reduce the burden of global disease.

«This is the first comprehensive study of its kind and shows the potential to not only reduce the global cancer burden, but also guide clinical decision - making with regard to childhood vaccinations,» said Marc T. Goodman, PhD, MPH, senior author of the study and director of Cancer Prevention and Genetics at the Cedars - Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.

The authors conclude, «Unvalidated guidelines to prevent neuroimaging in patients with headaches may reduce the perceived global economic burden at the expense of medical errors, delayed diagnoses, and inferior outcomes for patients with brain tumor.»

COPD is expected to be the third largest cause of death globally by 2030, and it is important that we identify its key causes so that this burden can be reduced,» says study author Professor Shyamali Dharmage, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

To reduce the burden of anemia, health officials need a better picture of the disease's global impact, an understanding made viable by a portable and affordable way to analyze blood.

In 2003, the Federation launched a collaboration with the World Health Organization to develop a global fruit and vegetable initiative as one strategy to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases and obesity.

In line with global initiatives to reduce the burden of preventable chronic diseases across the world, the AHPC and a national collaboration of Australian experts have set a national target of a 10 per cent increase in physical activity by 2025 to improve the nation's health.

China is standing firm at the Paris climate talks on its demand that rich countries should bear a greater burden than developing ones in reducing emissions and helping countries cope with global warming.

The future global burden of local earthquakes could be significantly reduced if minimal construction guidelines were mandated in all the world's cities, and especially in those with a history of previous earthquakes.

By incorporating geographical information into models for wind energy, researchers from KAUST have developed an innovative statistical tool that reduces the computational burden of locating global wind resources.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

Provided that the excess carbon emissions came from activities that accelerated the decline of global poverty (e.g., by enabling more of the global poor to electrify their homes and businesses more quickly), such overshooting could help reduce the injustices associated with global poverty without unjustly burdening future generations.

Reducing the overrepresentation of women who are depressed would contribute significantly to lessening the global burden of disability caused by psychological disorders.