Sentences with phrase «says population health»
«As the same children survive to slightly older ages they start getting hit by chronic disease,» says population health researcher Majid Ezzati of Harvard University.
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Clarke has been almost entirely silent on the matter until recently, when he said the jail populations are «filled with sick people who have made a lot of bad decisions that have compromised their health.»
«With an increasing aging population, the effect on public health is only anticipated to increase,» Holt - Lunstad said in a statement.
With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.
«For anyone receiving the diagnosis, or supporting a loved one through it, cancer can be overwhelming,» Kyu Rhee, MD, chief health officer, IBM Watson Health, said in the release, adding, «With this first - ever U.S. rollout of the technology, the full breadth and depth of Watson's services can benefit an entire population of individuals who need them.&health officer, IBM Watson Health, said in the release, adding, «With this first - ever U.S. rollout of the technology, the full breadth and depth of Watson's services can benefit an entire population of individuals who need them.&Health, said in the release, adding, «With this first - ever U.S. rollout of the technology, the full breadth and depth of Watson's services can benefit an entire population of individuals who need them.»
Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of endemic poverty, has 11 % of the world's population, 24 % of the world's burden of disease, and less than 5 % of its health workforce, said Gottlieb.
«We know our solution works for the general U.S. population, but we want to make sure it is more culturally respectful, and can help the health outcomes of these population groups,» says Goodwin, whom I first met at IEEE's Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference last spring.
I think it will be a problem eventually,» said Brian Carter, a director focused on personal and population health at Cerner, an electronic medical record vendor that is integrated with HealthKit.
«Melinda and I are pleased to make this investment in the University of Washington to help dramatically accelerate their 25 - year vision to achieve positive health outcomes for populations around the world,» Gates said in a statement.
«But if there's a 100 microgram per meter smoke day, we'd expect that to go to a 100 percent increase of inhaler refills for the population,» Katelyn O'Dell, who studies the health hazards of wildfire smoke at Colorado state university said.
Since the region has an aging population yet is stretched thin on health care funding, he says Atlantic Canada needs to do something different.
«This study represents a major milestone for the UC - II ® brand, and it validates our efforts to develop new paradigms for joint health products for the aging population, while also addressing the needs of an expanding group of younger, active, health - conscious consumers,» said Dr. James Lugo, Chief Scientific Officer of the Consumer Health & Nutrition Business Unit of health products for the aging population, while also addressing the needs of an expanding group of younger, active, health - conscious consumers,» said Dr. James Lugo, Chief Scientific Officer of the Consumer Health & Nutrition Business Unit of health - conscious consumers,» said Dr. James Lugo, Chief Scientific Officer of the Consumer Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Lonza.
That's the inference of a new report that says our growing global population will send greenhouse gases into overdrive unless something is done to curb the world's appetite for meat — and links the environmental, health and economic cases for doing so.
«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
I think The Pediatric Insider said it best here: http://pediatricinsider.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/does-breastfeeding-improve-the-intelligence-of-babies/#comments Promoting breastfeeding on a wide - scale is beneficial and can improve the overall health of the population.
«Although the latest trends show that we haven't figured out what works as a population, we do know individual changes can support families» health,» Armstrong said.
«We found small but meaningful differences in developmental outcomes between late preterm infants and full term groups, which if applied to larger populations, may have potentially significant long term public health implications,» says lead author Prachi Shah, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.
So they're not saying that the existing guideline is too low — just that pushing it further (such as to the 1500 mg recommended for some groups and that some organizations have recommended population - wide) is not well - supported by the evidence for health outcomes.
«Every animal we treat allows us to monitor the health of the species and most importantly, identify baseline indicators that can be used to better understand the wildlife population and environmental impacts,» said Tim Binder, executive vice president of animal care at Shedd Aquarium.
Although breastfeeding is one of the most effective preventive health measures for children and mothers regardless of where they live, it has been overlooked as a critical need for the health of the population, say the authors.
«We recognize the fact that not only do mothers often inadvertently fall asleep with the infant in their bed, but many mothers choose to bed share,» says Lori Feldman - Winter, a co-author of the new guidelines and a professor of pediatrics at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J. «We thought it was prudent to provide guidance on making the bed - sharing arrangement as safe as possible and provide guidance on what populations are most at risk when bed sharing»
«Health and care services need to rise to the challenge of responding to the increasingly complex conditions suffered by our ageing population,» said Dave Behan, CQC chief executive.
At the same time, McMahon said he wants the county health department to work on a master plan to manage the deer population and fight Lyme disease across all of Onondaga County.
«The legislation that authorizes the $ 300 million for a new health care facility is very clear that this facility has to be built within the largest population center within the county, which is the city of Utica,» Brindisi said.
Report author James Gregory said by the ago of 30 public sector tenants born in 1970 are twice as likely as the population at large to suffer from mental health problems and 11 times more likely not to be in employment, education or training.
«Our street homeless population is largely people who have mental health challenges and we need to approach that differently than we have in the past,» Bratton said.
Ulrich said he proposed the legislation out of the need for increased funding for the Mayor's Office of Veterans» Affairs (MOVA), which relied heavily on coordinating with other city agencies to address issues of homelessness, mental health and unemployment in the city's veteran population.
The award - winning actress, who is the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) Maternal Health Ambassador for West and Central Africa said African governments must take the leading steps in reversing the negative trends of...
Democratic strategist Jim Manley, a former spokesman Senate Democratic Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason ReidMcConnell not yet ready to change rules for Trump nominees The Hill's Morning Report — Sponsored by CVS Health — Trump's love - hate relationship with the Senate Trump to press GOP on changing Senate rules MORE (Nev.), said he believes Clinton will ultimately eke out a victory in Nevada because the state is «tailor - made for her» with its large population of minority voters.
Bobbie Sackman, director of public policy at LiveON NY, a senior citizen advocacy organization, said the Cuomo proposal would lead to a cut in the number of meals served to the city's aging population as well as a reduction in services, including social activities, eviction assistance and help with health care.
Dr. Jacqueline Moline, Chair of the FASNY Health & Wellness Committee said, «Firefighters are exposed to an enormous variety of toxins and carcinogens in the line of duty and consequently are more likely to develop cancer than the general population.
Having its own IT has been the crucial difference, said David Cohen, a senior executive responsible for population health, because it liberates Maimonides from having to rely on claims data from an insurance company or the state.
The State Ministry of Health and humanitarian partners are working around the clock to treat patients and prevent the further spread of the disease, the UN population agency said.
I don't know why the governor's not using that same logic in a mental health capacity to help our most vulnerable population,» Kearns said.
Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker says as he examined numerous completed and still on going studies on fracking's effects on drinking water, air quality and other health issues, several «red flags» were raised, and he says he has «identified significant health risks in the current data» that have not been answered by conclusive long term studies with «large population pools».
In a letter to state Mental Health Commissioner Ann Marie Sullivan, the delegation said they fear transferring the children's population from West Seneca to the adult facility on Forest Avenue in Buffalo, as the state has announced, would be too dangerous for the kids.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said «painful and difficult reforms» of the NHS are necessary because of increasing demand on the service and an aging population.
New York state, he said, should be a bulwark against what he said was damaging federal policy and must counter efforts to roll back cuts to health care, environmental protections and safeguards of marginalized populations.
Improving health care delivery is crucial for Puerto Rico, New York officials have said, because two - thirds of the island's population rely on some form of government - run health care.
«Of all racial groups, American Indian adolescents had the highest rates for using many substances of abuse, and for depression, suicidal thoughts, and attempted suicide,» said Subica, an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine.
The study is one of the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of yoga specifically in military veterans, a population that faces more health challenges and may be harder to treat than non-VA populations, say the researchers.
«This study provides evidence from a human population that magnetic field non-ionizing radiation could have adverse biological impacts on human health,» he said.
«The reason why [the current influenza outbreak] getting so much attention is that it started really early, which really speaks to the susceptibility in the population,» said Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University who studies influenza and climate.
«As the aging population seeking health care grows, so does the need for community pharmacists who can offer counseling and care,» says Rudolph.
Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.
«Despite some reductions in air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts from ozone are still a cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts of East Asia, with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?
Using it in a real outbreak would be «taking a huge uneducated guess with the health of an entire country's population,» he says.
«The mainstream media — in print and online — did little to report on health risks to the general population or to challenge the narratives of public officials and their experts,» Pascale said.
A portable detector would greatly aid efforts to fight the infection in developing countries, particularly parts of Asia and Africa where as much as 40 percent of the population carries the microbe, says Robert Belknap, a physician and TB expert at the Denver Health Medical Center in Colorado.
«The public health impact of adopting intensive treatment in the right patients is enormous,» says Adam Bress, University of Utah assistant professor of population health sciences.