Sentences with phrase «to public health»

To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

Often, economic and energy development trump environmental and health concerns, leaving public health playing «catch - up.»

Opponents say fracking poses a risk to public health and the environment but the industry says it is safe.

Tensions between economic development, energy policy and environmental and health concerns are common in public health's history.

Pinker warns that, social isolation is «the public health risk of our time.»

This category, defined by Employment and Social Development Canada as covering health, education, social and community services, can include high - level leadership in fields from parks and rec to employment support to public health.

He's now 76 years old and still focused on purging the parasite - driven illness from the two countries, Ethiopia and Chad, where transmission persists — a task to which he's bringing both a mastery of public health and a lifetime's worth of understanding political intransigence and apathy.

The most recent research, led by Joseph Allen, who teaches at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, analyzed the performance of knowledge workers, including engineers, programmers, creative marketing professionals and managers.

Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats have stalled even though the program enjoys broad bipartisan support over the all - important issue of funding, with Democrats balking at proposals cut an Obamacare public health fund to finance an extension of CHIP.

If you want to steer clear of the most dangerous types of supplements, you can start by avoiding three broad categories, says Austin, who spoke on a recent panel put on by The Forum, an event series organized by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Political instability and dangerous conditions in Syria have made it difficult to wage a large - scale public health campaign against infectious diseases like polio.

The most dangerous supplements are the ones that claim to increase performance in three broad categories, S. Bryn Austin said at an event organized by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Plus, they spend an additional $ 1.1 billion of their own money on emergency room visits and public health insurance programs that could be mitigated with paid leave policies.

In the meantime, we would advise careful deliberation about future decisions about the industry to balance energy needs with environmental and public health considerations.

Unlike Americans, however, residents of New Zealand enjoy the protection of a robust welfare state including a public health system, 18 weeks of subsidized parental leave and benefits for middle - and low - income families with young children.

That was the eye - opening opening of a keynote address given yesterday by the brilliant John Quackenbush, a professor of biostatistics and computational biology at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute who has a dual professorship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and ample other academic credits after his name.

«We have this long history of using it in the southern US and it hasn't caused [anywhere] near the problems people are claiming,» said Dr. Grayson Brown, a public health entymology expert at the University of Kentucky.»

The good doctor has spent much of the past 35 years reframing our national epidemic of gun violence as though it were any other epidemic — that is to say, as a public health problem.

While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has generally downplayed the seriousness of the public health crisis, Clinton yesterday toured a Miami neighborhood health clinic near ground zero of the Zika outbreak and admonished lawmakers for having adjourned until after Labor Day without resolving a partisan impasse over the urgently needed spending bill.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» wide - ranging new crackdown on drug offenders could exacerbate one of America's most persistent public health tragedies: the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic that's been ravaging the country and killed nearly 35,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

The news comes just over a week after the World Health Organization declared Zika was no longer a «public health emergency,» indicating that the disease was now a threat it would be fighting long term, like malaria or yellow fever.

Kapoor's arrest comes a day after President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency and nearly a year after former Insys CEO Michael Babich and five other onetime executives were arrested as part of an alleged «nationwide conspiracy.»

As higher costs are passed on to consumers, supporters aim to put a dent in sales, as was the case in Berkeley, where according to public health officials retail purchases of sugar - sweetened beverages dropped nearly 10 % during the first year of that city's soda tax.

Moreover, if their constituents are largely indifferent to the brewing public health crisis, there is little incentive for members of Congress to cut short their vacations and return to Washington to take long - overdue action.

«Guns and gun owners aren't inherently a public health problem, but the violence that results absolutely is,» he said.

Reversed or delayed rules would have addressed issues including public health, worker safety, consumer protection, and the environment.

The bottomline is that loneliness is becoming increasingly recognized as a threat to public health.

«This is an option that reflects our commitment to public health,» she said at the public board meeting.

By 2040, say data scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.

The yearly confab is the biggest cancer conference in the world, attracting more than 30,000 oncology researchers, biopharma executives, investors, and public health experts.

Surgeons General dating back to Ronald Reagan appointee C. Everett Koop have consistently cited the medical damage from gun violence as a major public health threat; Adams didn't reject that logic, but his wording underscores just how politically fraught the issue is.

The CDC, says Wintemute, has incorrectly «interpreted that as a mandate not to do research» on the public health dangers of guns and the epidemiology of gun violence.

«We know that enabling more generic competition, where Congress intended, helps reduce prices, enable more access, and improve public health.»

It's unclear if the vaccine, rVSV - ZEBOV, will actually be used in this particular instance — but public health officials are preparing for the need should the DRC request it.

Seattle's City Council voted on Monday to levy a special tax on sodas and other sugary beverages sold to consumers, becoming the latest of several local government bodies across the country to take such action for the sake of public health.

Brainstorm Health: Gun Violence and Public Health, Inversion Mergers, Breast Cancer Deaths Plunge

«With an increasing aging population, the effect on public health is only anticipated to increase,» Holt - Lunstad said in a statement.

Developing nations will share in that public health crisis as their populations live longer.

It's been a busy week for health care news between some high - profile setbacks for certain major cancer drug makers, high - profile victories for others, the confirmation of a new FDA chief, health care merger drama, and a slew of public health reports about the opioid epidemic, hepatitis C, and U.S. life expectancy.

Laurie Garrett, one of the globe's most gifted writers on global public health issues, has a timely and scary essay on foreignpolicy.com about the nasty norovirus plaguing athletes in the Olympic village — a bug one expert calls the «perfect human pathogen.»

What makes this book so radical — and thought - provoking — is its ingenious composition: fifty dart - like essays that shoot to the heart of an equal number of components of public health in the current age.

Public health - care models such as Canada's are particularly difficult to crack.

Surgeon General nominee cautious on gun violence / public health question.

While the human death toll is staggering itself, we know that wherever there is a public health crisis, economic crisis follows.

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.

Take, for example, the recently published report entitled «Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes,» by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — which the Academies helpfully point out is a «congressionally mandated» study.

Instead of sending an honest public health message — our game is dangerous, we're trying to make things safer, but play at your own peril — the NFL obfuscates its way around safety.

More squiggle, I'm afraid: «The net public health benefit is substantially less, and under some scenarios... harmful.»

«TFAH is deeply disappointed Congress will utilize [Obamacare's] Prevention and Public Health Fund as an offset for the legislative package known as 21st Century Cures,» the group wrote in a statement.

If the Ebola virus takes hold in a city in Europe or North America, it could quickly become a serious public health and economic issue.