Sentences with phrase «reduce health harms»

The Responsibility Deal brings these actors together to commit to a set of non-binding pledges to reduce health harms.

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«While San Francisco policymakers pursue common sense regulation of standup electronic scooters to enhance the public benefit of this new shared mobility technology and to reduce potential harm to the public, state legislators seek to eliminate elements of the Vehicle Code that exist to protect the health and safety of members of the public including users of standup electric scooters,» Peskin wrote in his resolution.

They have many health benefits such as preventing diabetes, reducing risk of cancer, protecting DNA from radiation harm, reducing signs of aging, facilitating digestion, boosting oral health, and lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease.

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Alcotox ™ is a health and wellness company specialising in dietary supplements aimed at reducing alcohol related biochemical harm.

I agree that reducing the harm untrained health workers tend to do is useful; that trained lactation management experts can play one important role; and that lay counselors can play an even larger one.

Harm reduction: An approach to reducing risky health behaviours in adolescents: http://www.cps.ca/english/statements/AM/AH08-01.pdf.

It is recommended as far as possible to fight off colds and flu during pregnancy by using natural remedies which reduce the symptoms yet do not harm to your own health or your baby's safety.

In the face of growing public concern about price promotions and underage drinking the government has taken steps to reduce alcohol - related harms on health and crime and disorder, which together cost over # 10 billion every year.

RCP comment on National Audit Office Report (Reducing Alcohol Harm: Health services in England for alcohol misuse)

The tobacco control plan is a testament to the campaigning of a huge range of organisations that care about the nation's health and want to reduce the harm from smoking.

Public Health England also recently identified raising duty as one of the most cost - effective ways to reduce alcohol - related harm.

The law broadened the definition of banned assault weapons, increased penalties for illegal gun possession, reduced public access to gun permit information and required mental health professionals to report concerns about a gun - owning patient who posed a risk of harming himself or others.

Exposure to pollution during the second trimester of pregnancy in particular raises the risk of harm to a child's lungs, underlining the multiple public health benefits of policies to reduce exposure to air pollution, say researchers.

«We could combat climate change, reduce harm to health and foster advances in automotive technology by offering a stimulus for auto makers to develop more economical and efficient cars fueled by ethanol.»

He said that instead of cutting coverage for all services, which could harm people who truly need them, policymakers should focus on reducing the health services of little health value to more safely reduce costs.

Such events can cause injuries and emergency room visits, but the changing climate also has oblique effects on health, such as reducing food security, altering the range of disease - spreading ticks and mosquitoes and harming mental health.

In this issue, experiments were conducted with sediment dwelling marine worms, showing that chemically inert microplastics of a size similar to sand grains from the beaches in which the worms lived caused physical harm (Wright et al.) whilst Browne et al. showed microplastic can move pollutants and additives to worms, reducing functions linked to health and biodiversity.

«Compact development reduces regional air pollution, may harm local health, risk study finds.»

The findings «highlight the urgency of educating the public, policymakers and health care professionals about high - risk drinking and alcohol use disorder, destigmatizing these conditions, and encouraging those who can not reduce their alcohol consumption on their own — despite substantial harm to themselves and others — to seek treatment,» Grant and her colleagues concluded.

Does not clearly call on people to eat less meat, both to protect their health and to reduce the harm that meat production does to the environment.

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In fact, reduced - fat milk can harm our health.

Although early intervention is key to building resiliency, better investments in mental health professionals can improve all students» school performance and reduce the risk of harm later in life.

In a 12 - month period, only 20 percent of children and adolescents 6 to 17 years old who were defined as needing mental health services received such services, most commonly in school.80 This is despite the fact that early intervention is key to building resiliency, improving school performance, and reducing the risk of harm later in life.81

RE # 37, GW actions have many many other immediate & future benefits: they prevent / reduce many other environmental harms (local air pollution, acid rain, ground & water pollution, etc.), they are good for the health (e.g., cycling & walking), they reduce crime (cycling, walking), they reduce our implication in foreign conflicts & tax money to protect oil supplies, they save money without lowering productivity (even increasing it), they save businesses from folding & households from going into hock.

For example, bicycling / walking to offset some ICE vehicle transportation — reduces environmental harm, helps health & spirits, reduces crime (according to studies) & taxes to repair roads, but of course takes time & involves risks & is not always feasible.

«Closing coal power plants is not just an important step towards reducing CO2 emissions, it's also crucial to reduce the health - harming air pollution that's suffocating our cities.

Peter directs the sustainable food and farming program, developing strategies to reduce health, environmental, and climate harms from production of our food and to promote a more environmentally sound agricultural system.

But combatting climate change produces real benefits — in the present — by reducing emissions from power plants that directly harm human health.

If a nation emitting high levels of ghgs refuses to reduce its emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions on the basis that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human - induced climate change actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends for tens of millions of others, should that nation be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?

California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 % from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80 % by 2050, as well as reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other health - harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.

Given that for over 20 years since international climate change negotiations began, the United States has refused to commit to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions based upon the justification that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human - induced climate change actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends of others, should the United States be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?

Spokesperson: Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) and the Climate and Health Alliance and Global Green and Healthly Hospitals and Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) A new global network of hospitals and healthcare organisations working together to reduce the environmental footprint of the healthcare sector internationally will be launched in Sydney today.

These standards, known as the Clean Power Plan, have been developed under the Clean Air Act, an act of Congress that requires the EPA to take steps to reduce air pollution that harms the public's health.

As established in the 2016 U.S. Climate and Health Assessment — The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment — the resulting changes in our climate are creating conditions that harm human health through extreme weather events, reduced air and water quality, increases in infectious and vector - borne diseases, and other mechaHealth Assessment — The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment — the resulting changes in our climate are creating conditions that harm human health through extreme weather events, reduced air and water quality, increases in infectious and vector - borne diseases, and other mechaHealth in the United States: A Scientific Assessment — the resulting changes in our climate are creating conditions that harm human health through extreme weather events, reduced air and water quality, increases in infectious and vector - borne diseases, and other mechahealth through extreme weather events, reduced air and water quality, increases in infectious and vector - borne diseases, and other mechanisms.

What we need is foresight and backbone by government so that it can reduce what it wastes on funding unneeded law and paralegal students, what it wastes on clogged courts hearing unprepared people squabbling over their kids, what it wastes on judges and staff involved in trials that could have been avoided, what it wastes on health care for stressed out litigants, what it loses in harmed productivity in the workplace by stressed out litigants, and so on.

We believe, however, that when protected health information is to be used or disclosed for research without an individual's authorization, the additional privacy protections in § 164.512 (i) are essential to reduce the risk of harm to the individual.

Under the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act, in order to market «safer» tobacco products manufacturers must demonstrate that they would (1) significantly reduce harm and the risk of tobacco - related disease to individual tobacco users, and (2) benefit the health of the population as a whole.

We have worked with more than 1,200 hospitals and health systems around the world to improve safety culture, reduce harm, and reduce costs.

The Alcohol.Think Again education campaign is part of a comprehensive approach in Western Australia that aims to reduce the level of alcohol - related harm and ill - health in Western Australia.

He tells Ornstein: «This is an urgent time to find ways to reduce health care costs without harming people at all — and it's clearly possible.

Harm reduction is a concept aiming to prevent or reduce negative health consequences associated with certain behaviours.

Public health expert Dr John Boffa has raised the potential for the media splash to do harm, by stereotyping Aboriginal people, encouraging people to experiment with Vegemite, and by undermining effective, community - led strategies to reduce alcohol - related harms.

Pathways to justice pass through health: six ways the health sector can help reduce the harms of over-incarceration.