Sentences with phrase «serious public health crisis»

Physical Education, recess and free play have been reduced or eliminated in an era where childhood obesity is a serious public health crisis.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Erie County continues to take a proactive stance to address the serious public health crisis of fatal opioid drug overdoses in our community.

HOOSICK FALLS — Gov. Andrew Cuomo made his first visit to Hoosick Falls on Sunday, about 100 days after the polluted town water supply blew up into one of the most serious public health crises his administration has experienced.

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Nevertheless, the public health crisis caused by tobacco remains quite serious.

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

Republicans on the committee focused their questions on how Pruitt will work to prevent pollution from causing serious public health problems like the lead contamination crisis affecting Flint, Michigan, and criticized the Obama administration's climate regulations.

An American update of the 2013 Australian documentary «Jabbed — Love, Fear and Vaccines,» «Calling the Shots» strips away the drama, misinformation and name - calling that mire serious discussion of what has become a public health crisis in the developing world.

Still, researchers didn't pay serious attention to the problem for decades, after a massive public health crisis came to light in Bangladesh.

«Given both the extreme and chronic stressors Yemenis are continuing to face, there is serious cause for concern of a nationwide mental health crisis,» said Dr. Lindsay Stark, associate professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning Nehealth crisis,» said Dr. Lindsay Stark, associate professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning NeHealth at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning NeHealth and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning Network.

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan highlights a number of serious problems: a public health outbreak, inadequate urban infrastructure, environmental injustice and political failures.

The Ebola crisis has serious impacts on public health, economies, and societies, but crucially, it's not an isolated incident.

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Corporate Real Estate Community Addresses Air Quality Issues in China April 18, 2017 China is grappling with a serious air pollution crisis that not only poses a threat to public health, but also could very well be an impediment to China's economic growth.