Sentences with phrase «serious public health problem»

The huge population growth causes serious public health problems and led to a shortage of water and disregard for the law.

In many developing countries, in addition to GHG emissions, open sewers and uncontrolled solid waste disposal sites result in serious public health problems resulting from pathogenic microorganisms, toxic odours and disease vectors.

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.

Many people in the developing world do not get enough vitamin A or beta - carotene from the food they eat, contributing to the serious public health problem of vitamin A deficiency.

VAD is a serious public health problem affecting millions of children and pregnant women globally.

Summary: Endosperm, the remaining edible part of rice grains after it is milled, lacks several essential nutrients such as provitamin A. Thus, predominant rice consumption promotes vitamin A deficiency — a serious public health problem in at least 26 countries including highly populated areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Consequently, millions are still suffering from VAD, and Golden Rice can be an additional tool in the toolbox for addressing this serious public health problem.

Many people in the Philippines do not get enough vitamin A or beta carotene from the food they eat, contributing to the serious public health problem of vitamin A deficiency.

Vitamin A deficiency is a serious public health problem affecting millions of children and pregnant women globally.

«While recent studies showed no benefit from allergen avoidance, the LEAP study is the first to show that early introduction of dietary peanut is actually beneficial and identifies an effective approach to manage a serious public health problem.»

Low breast - feeding rates among minorities, especially black women, are a serious public health problem in America, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher said Monday at La Leche League International's 17th annual conference in Chicago.

Launching the initiative at the Sunyani Jubilee Park today, the First Lady noted that «Anaemia is a serious public health problem that affects women, adolescent girls and children and current data indicates that over four in ten women have Anaemia in Ghana and about half of all adolescent girls and pregnant women in Ghana are also Anaemic.»

«They are a serious public health problem, but the burden of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and poor mental health is so much greater, and all have the potential to be improved by being active in the great outdoors.»

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects 9 to11 percent of the U.S. adult population and is a serious public health problem worldwide.

It has become a serious public health problem because the earliest deployed antibiotics are often useless against the new strain, and its prevalence has only increased since it was first observed.

Both obesity and asthma are serious public health problems at historically high levels in the U.S., the authors note, and many researchers have associated obesity with the development of asthma and with an increased risk for asthma exacerbations.

MDR and XDR - TB are associated with high mortality, are a threat to health - care workers, prohibitively expensive to treat, and are therefore a serious public health problem.

Dengue and chikungunya are a serious public health problem, with tens of thousands of deaths, mainly in children, each year.

Dr. Pope's research on the adverse effects of anabolic - androgenic steroids (AAS) and other performance - enhancing drugs addresses psychiatric effects of AAS use and ASS withdrawal, the cardiac toxicity of AAS (which is emerging as a serious public health problem), and cognitive deficits in AAS users.

Diabetes is a serious public health problem which is increasing.

Animal rabies continues to be a serious public health problem in New York State.

Diesel emissions from the freight sector contribute to serious public health problems, including cardiovascular diseases that send people to hospitals, cause school and work absences, and restrict activity.

The San Diego car accident lawyers at Gomez Trial Attorneys will continue to work to raise awareness with regards to this serious public health problem.

Mental illness is a serious public health problem.

Children and obesity: With nearly one in three children ages 10 to 17 considered overweight or obese, childhood obesity continues to be a serious public health problem.