Sentences with phrase «terms of the public health»

«I don't think that we've really seen a lot in terms of public health and safety damage.

«So, this is good news relative to the... biological integrity of our waterways in Buffalo and Western New York, but also in terms of our public health.»

In terms of public health, lead author Neil Mehta, assistant professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan, calls those extra years a «massive benefit.»

(In terms of public health, we're better off focusing on frequent hand washing, sneezing into our sleeves, and, in the case of hookworms on the beach, wearing flip - flops — as opposed to, say, exterminating this country's most popular companion animal by the millions.)

Improving air and water quality would pay dividends in terms of public health and economic productivity.

It would be a vast improvement both environmentally and in terms of public health.

Although in terms of a clinical intervention this uptake rate is low, in terms of a public health intervention it is very good, and the fact that it particularly attracted those whose children had problem behaviour means that this universal approach does reach those in need.

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In fact, a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the pPublic Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the ppublic interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the publicpublic.

«Health overwhelmed what I thought would have been financial problems» in terms of causes of stress, said Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health in a livestreamed discussion forum about stress at Harvard on JHealth overwhelmed what I thought would have been financial problems» in terms of causes of stress, said Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health in a livestreamed discussion forum about stress at Harvard on Jhealth policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health in a livestreamed discussion forum about stress at Harvard on JHealth in a livestreamed discussion forum about stress at Harvard on July 9.

This area covers the impact of policies affecting Canadians» health and long - term care choices and outcomes, for example regarding access to and quality of care, funding arrangements and incentives, pharmaceuticals policies, intergenerational equity considerations, and the impact of these choices on the public purse.

While terms like «patent protection» and «public domain» were clearly part of the IPR debate, it also stretched to the cost of drugs and the availability of medicines, encompassing terms like «health advocates» and «pharmaceutical companies.»

There were librarians and archivists focused on copyright term extension and digital locks; several doctors spoke to the impact of the TPP on public health and access to medicines, food experts highlighted the dangers associated with food security, environmental activists focused on the TPP and climate change, and speakers of all ages (including a 92 year old woman) expressed concern with the investor - state dispute resolution provisions.

It shows that assertions questioning the capacity of the FEDERAL government to pay for programs, usually prefaced with the call for â $ ˜â $ ˜adult conversationsâ $ ™ â $ ™, and couched in terms such as fiscal sustainability, solvency, and unfunded liabilities, are red - herrings that will lead to needless reductions and privatizations of public programs in health care, elder care, pensions and so on.»

He was willing to make short - term compromises and mislead the public (if you like your health insurance you can keep it) in order to move policy in the direction of his long - term goals.

Other CIA initiatives have further enhanced the college's position of leadership on these vital issues, including Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives ®, a continuing medical education (CME) conference co-presented by the CIA and the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bPublic Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bHealth; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bpublic health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bhealth, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and beyond.

Additionally, although I don't at all doubt that nutrition policy makers are qualified to make decisions on the majority of guidelines regarding public health, I do question whether it is fair for them to decide what is and isn't achievable for the public in terms of food related behaviour, and to set the guidelines pertaining to this accordingly.

And when the millions of Americans struggling with poverty eat more fruits and vegetables, we see immediate improvements for families and farmers — and enormous long - term gains for public health, local economies and the environment.

But as a natural skeptic, I also decided to read all of the research indicating that some of these purported long - term benefits, such as higher IQs and immunity against various health issues, were inflated by well - meaning public health experts.

To top it off, Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, noted the combined educational and long - term health benefits of farm to sHealth, noted the combined educational and long - term health benefits of farm to shealth benefits of farm to school.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

On the other hand we want a public health policy that supports optimal health for newborns, and formula feeding in the early days increases the risk of illness in the short and long term.

Given the documented short - and long - term medical and neurodevelopmental advantages of breastfeeding, infant nutrition should be considered a public health issue and not only a lifestyle choice.»

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)- Part III - Chapter 11 - Breastfeeding Nutrient adequacy of exclusive breastfeeding for the term infant during the first six months of life (2002) Geneva, World Health Organization Full text [pdf 278kb] The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review Geneva, World Health Organization, 2001 Full text [pdf 1.06 Mb] Report of the expert consultation of the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding Report of an expert consultation Geneva, World Health Organization, 28 - 30 March 2001 Full text [pdf 122kb] The WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Feeding Your Baby From Six Months To One Year Your guide to help you introduce food to your baby Adapted and reproduced with permission of Peel Public Health, Region of Peel A Practical Workbook to Protect, Promote and Support Breastfeeding in Community Based Projects Health Canada, Ottawa, 2002 This workbook is intended to assist the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) or similar community based prenatal projects to identify strategies and specific actions to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in a population health coHealth Organization Full text [pdf 278kb] The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review Geneva, World Health Organization, 2001 Full text [pdf 1.06 Mb] Report of the expert consultation of the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding Report of an expert consultation Geneva, World Health Organization, 28 - 30 March 2001 Full text [pdf 122kb] The WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Feeding Your Baby From Six Months To One Year Your guide to help you introduce food to your baby Adapted and reproduced with permission of Peel Public Health, Region of Peel A Practical Workbook to Protect, Promote and Support Breastfeeding in Community Based Projects Health Canada, Ottawa, 2002 This workbook is intended to assist the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) or similar community based prenatal projects to identify strategies and specific actions to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in a population health coHealth Organization, 2001 Full text [pdf 1.06 Mb] Report of the expert consultation of the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding Report of an expert consultation Geneva, World Health Organization, 28 - 30 March 2001 Full text [pdf 122kb] The WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Feeding Your Baby From Six Months To One Year Your guide to help you introduce food to your baby Adapted and reproduced with permission of Peel Public Health, Region of Peel A Practical Workbook to Protect, Promote and Support Breastfeeding in Community Based Projects Health Canada, Ottawa, 2002 This workbook is intended to assist the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) or similar community based prenatal projects to identify strategies and specific actions to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in a population health coHealth Organization, 28 - 30 March 2001 Full text [pdf 122kb] The WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Feeding Your Baby From Six Months To One Year Your guide to help you introduce food to your baby Adapted and reproduced with permission of Peel Public Health, Region of Peel A Practical Workbook to Protect, Promote and Support Breastfeeding in Community Based Projects Health Canada, Ottawa, 2002 This workbook is intended to assist the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) or similar community based prenatal projects to identify strategies and specific actions to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in a population health coHealth, Region of Peel A Practical Workbook to Protect, Promote and Support Breastfeeding in Community Based Projects Health Canada, Ottawa, 2002 This workbook is intended to assist the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) or similar community based prenatal projects to identify strategies and specific actions to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in a population health coHealth Canada, Ottawa, 2002 This workbook is intended to assist the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) or similar community based prenatal projects to identify strategies and specific actions to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in a population health cohealth context.

In their current state of development, home visitation programs do not appear to represent the low - cost solution to child health and developmental problems that policymakers and the public have hoped for.5 However, information that is accumulating about long - term outcomes and effective practices may lead to the development of replicable programs that are capable of producing modest but consistent and positive results for participating target families.

The nation's leading organization for pediatricians says, «Given the documented short - and long - term medical and neurodevelopmental advantages of breastfeeding, infant nutrition should be considered a public health issue and not only a lifestyle choice.»

The latest policy statement, «Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk,» published in 2012, reinforces the idea that «Given the documented short - and long - term medical and neurodevelopmental advantages of breastfeeding, infant nutrition should be considered a public health issue and not only a lifestyle choice.»

With youth sports concussion safety laws in place in all 50 states, increased public awareness about concussions, and growing concernabout the long - term effect of repetitive head impacts, the demand for concussion education, not just for parents, coaches, and athletes, but for health care professionals as well is at an all - time high, and promises to go even higher in the coming years.

India led the near successful call from the majority of countries — that trade concerns must not take precedence over public health and child rights and that the WHO Guidance and its norms must not only have «weight» in trade terms but that Member States can take additional action to end inappropriate promotion.

Concussions in sport are a recognized public health problem because of their frequency of occurrence and their potential short - and long - term consequences.

Baby - led weaning (a term coined my Gill Rapley, a former public health nurse and midwife) essentially means that you skip pureed foods all together and your baby self feeds right from the start of weaning (around 6 months of age) with breast milk or formula «on tap.»

This is especially critical since Andrew Lansley has rightfully placed patient health outcomes at the heart of Government reforms; a pressing imperative given rising public health challenges and an aging population predisposed to long - term conditions (LTCs).

In public health and political terms, «drugs» usually refers to recreational drugs, specifically those which are illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

WHEREAS, New York is committed to implementing new policies to promote the efficient use of energy and natural resources in the interest of the long - term protection and enhancement of the State's environment, economy and public health;

Long - term preventative work right from early years, mental health, prison reform, job guarantees, adult social care, based again around radical public service reform and devolution of services.

The teenage pregnancy strategy is an example of the sort of long - term, integrated public health approach which we so desperately need to tackle knife crime.

Indeed, many scientists would argue that recent research results tend to suggest that the public are right to be sceptical, both in terms of risks to human health, and increasing problems for farmers growing GM crops.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Erie County and each Mall partner are teaming up with the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health to conduct long - term studies of the health outcomes and health care utilization of patients who visit the HealthHealth to conduct long - term studies of the health outcomes and health care utilization of patients who visit the Healthhealth outcomes and health care utilization of patients who visit the Healthhealth care utilization of patients who visit the HealthHealth Mall.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

ALBANY, NY (04/26/2012)(readMedia)-- Health care workers from the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF), and the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) will rally in Utica, Friday, April 27 to protest plans to eliminate long term adult inpatient services for the mentally ill in Oneida County as the state moves forward with the closure of the adult inpatient wards at Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center.

Cayuga County Legislature Chairman Keith Batman said at the OWLA meeting that there is the short - term public health concern regarding the treated water, and the longer - term issue regarding the overall health of Owasco Lake.

Weathers and Kendall note «here is one starting point for examining, tracking, and critically assessing the story of climate change in public health terms — a project that deserves further attention from communication, environment, and public health scholars.»

They were following up on the results of a long - term study from the Harvard School of Public Health that had suggested yogurt, more than any other food, helped to prevent age - related weight gain.

«It's concerning that we saw a higher rate of diagnosis of schizophrenia and seemingly an undertreatment in terms of pharmacotherapy for that group,» said Ashli A. Owen - Smith, co-author of the study and assistant professor of health management and policy in the School of Public Health at Georgia State Univehealth management and policy in the School of Public Health at Georgia State UniveHealth at Georgia State University.

As a public - health intervention, immunisation is already widely seen as one of public health's «best buys», but by measuring the effectiveness in terms of lives saved, it seems likely that we are undervaluing the benefits and the return on investment they offer.

«It is too early to make specific recommendations to clinicians in terms of care for pregnant women with PCOS, though increased awareness of this relationship might facilitate earlier detection of ASD in children whose mothers have been diagnosed with PCOS,» says Renee Gardner, senior investigator on the study, also at the Department of Public Health Sciences.

A new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health suggests that long - term use of paracetamol during pregnancy may increase the risk of adverse effects on child development.

Ricciardi now heads the Department of Public Health in Rome and is completing a 4 - year term as president of the European Public Health Association.

As Canada's animal health regulatory agency, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has been playing a supporting role to the Public Health Agency in terms of both technical expertise and collaboration throughout the H1N1 influenza health regulatory agency, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has been playing a supporting role to the Public Health Agency in terms of both technical expertise and collaboration throughout the H1N1 influenza Health Agency in terms of both technical expertise and collaboration throughout the H1N1 influenza issue.

The public could greatly benefit from this, in terms of health and simply from a consumer right - to - know perspective.»