Sentences with phrase «traditional public health»

It is worth noting though that the science behind planetary health is still being established, meaning that devising and testing ecosystems - based solutions at the local level, as a complement to traditional public health measures, will be critical to building the field.

Defending Traditional Public Health, When Appropriate — In some cases, public health officials needed to make a stand in defense of traditional public health services.

The surveillance system has expanded the reach of traditional public health monitoring systems.

One recent study demonstrated that avoiding autonomy threat, along with appealing to teens growing sense of social justice, could inspire them to make healthy food choices — something traditional public health campaigns have been unsuccessful at.

Not exact matches

Now, we're getting some more details on exactly what happened: The performer reported thought he was taking traditional prescription Vicodin but was actually taking a counterfeit treatment laced with the far more powerful (and deadly) opioid fentanyl, which has become an increasing source of alarm for public health officials.

Yet their consumption of alcohol does not affect their families, jobs, finances, health and public behavior as it does in traditional diagnoses of alcoholics.

Landmarking a building for its historic or cultural value stretches the police power beyond its traditional limits of protecting public health and safety, and then stretches it still further.

Many incidents similar to this underscored for Dr. Latham the value of the preventive, public - health approach to medical problems, rather than the traditional curative approach.

My life before Bhumi was in International Public Health and it was here that I saw first hand the disastrous health and environmental impacts of traditional cotton growing with farmer suicides, child labour, pesticide poisoning, birth defects, harmful dyes and toxic waterHealth and it was here that I saw first hand the disastrous health and environmental impacts of traditional cotton growing with farmer suicides, child labour, pesticide poisoning, birth defects, harmful dyes and toxic waterhealth and environmental impacts of traditional cotton growing with farmer suicides, child labour, pesticide poisoning, birth defects, harmful dyes and toxic water ways.

The positioning will be used to promote DuPont Nutrition & Health across all communications platforms, including advertising, public relations, collateral materials, at trade shows, and in traditional and online media.

The folks over at the Harvard School of Public Health — led by Walter Willett — don't think the traditional USDA food pyramid (officially known as MyPyramid) doles out the best advice.

I have ordered effective immediately, that the ADE Health and Nutrition Services division grant exemptions for all fund - raisers for both traditional public schools and charter public schools.»

Pensions and health costs for teachers and other staff are substantially higher for the traditional, unionized public schools compared to charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined benefit plans.

An analyst's job goes beyond traditional law enforcement intelligence sharing to public health issues.

As the Lib Dems seek to woo traditional Labour voters and win back public trust, after being reduced to just nine MPs, Lamb will urge his party's spring forum this weekend to back higher taxes to pay for health and social care.

«Traditional medicine doesn't consider mechanistic drug response,» said Rongling Wu, director of the Center for Statistical Genetics and professor of public health sciences within the division of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Penn State College of Medicine.

In January, the California Department of Public Health asked physicians to urge e-cigarette users to quit, and released a report warning that without more regulation, «it is likely that California's more than two decades of progress to prevent and reduce traditional tobacco use will erode.»

Now seeking work «outside the traditional academic sector,» preferably in public health policy, Srinivasan finds that some potential employers «don't believe» all that she accomplished as a postdoc.

Young children in six low - and middle - income countries prefer junk food and sugar sweetened beverages over traditional and home cooked meals, according to a new study from the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

As a result, Professor Wolke argues that public health strategies to prevent bullying overall should still mainly focus on combatting traditional, face - to - face bullying — as that is the root cause of the vast majority of cyberbullying.

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group proHealth analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group prohealth sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group projects.

This walking meeting pilot study provides early evidence that white - collar workers find it feasible and acceptable to convert a traditional seated meeting into a walking meeting,» said the study's principal investigator, Alberto J. Caban - Martinez, D.O., Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of public health sciences.

«It's a timely thing to do and imaginative, and I applaud them for that,» says Peter Thorne, an environmental health scientist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, who studies the public health impacts of traditional livestock.

Traditional chemical - by - chemical and facility - by - facility regulation does not sufficiently protect public health, because people come into contact with numerous pollutants where they live, work and play, and the interactions among those pollutants can be significant.

As a case study, they consider recent public health efforts in Thailand, using everything from village - wide presentations to children's comics, to elaborate traditional song - and - dance routines to try to stamp out infections caused by the parasitic liver fluke.

Professor Yajun Chen, from the School of Public Health at Sun Yat - Sen University, in Guangzhou said: «The prevalence of obesity in China is alarming as the country undergoes rapid economic transition, leading to changes to traditional diet, increased sedentary lifestyles and reduced physical activity.

The FDA needs to move beyond its traditional focus on clinical studies about drug effectiveness and side effects, and to seek public health data on potential abuse, the Academies advises in its 400 - page proposal for targeting the deadly issue.

«We've been targeting traditional risk factors in public health campaigns for many years,» said Susan Cheng, M.D., M.P.H., study lead author and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass. «We wanted to take a look at how well we've been doing over time at keeping these risk factors from causing heart and vascular disease — both by preventing the risks from occurring and by minimizing their effects when they do occur.»

«For tobacco, give up on moving toward a prohibition of traditional cigarettes — an endgame — and use public health tools to minimize the use of the most dangerous tobacco products, cigarettes.»

Instead of listening to those who knew something about endocrine disruption, EPA tried to use traditional toxicology protocols, forgetting that these had failed miserably and allowed endocrine disruptors to get through the government's programs to protect public health.

E-cigarettes are not subject to the same regulations as traditional cigarettes, potentially renormalizing the act of smoking after decades of public health efforts to shift public norms around smoking.

Continued progress will require new research that bridges traditional disciplines of neuroscience, psychology, sociology, economics, public policy, health, and education.

Policy discussions have gone beyond traditional first responders and public health professionals to scientists, veterinarians, and community leaders.

Matthew Hickman, Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine and lead author of the study, said: «Scaling up HCV treatment is critical to the prevention of HCV in the population to support and enhance traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange.

High - risk municipalities have been given financial support to improve their public health and traditional first response systems as well as disease surveillance capabilities.

The authors argue that this developing field faces not only the traditional ethical issues of both big data and public health, considered separately, but also new ethical issues created by their merger.

Other contributors include Benjamin A. Goldstein and Alan Hubbard from the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley and Waijiao Cai, from the Institute of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai.

The strengths of satellite remote sensing information can help overcome traditional field limitations and spatiotemporal data gaps to provide the public health community valuable exposure data.

Nutrition is a weird thing, driven by our traditional cultural foods, the desire for health, weight loss and muscle growth, but obscured by the desire to belong to a group, and the ever changing public perception of the «right way to eat».

The public track, «Healing with Traditional Foods,» offers practical tips for optimizing health and creating delicious meals.

Abstract: The Indian HIV program has put in place a public health program that has gone beyond the traditional health care and has moved towards developing an enabling environment from a multi-dimensional perspective.

Similarly, several groups are working on public health systems that empower communities to deal with most of their health issues, through combining traditional and modern systems, and through strengthening the links between safe food and water, nutrition, preventive health measures, and curative care.

Anita Rego Independent Consultant Social Development e-mail: [email protected] Abstract: The Indian HIV program has put in place a public health program that has gone beyond the traditional health care and has moved towards developing an enabling environment from a multi-dimensional perspective.

Sen. David Simmons, an Altamonte Springs Republican who chairs the upper chamber's education budget committee, has proposed a bill that would give traditional public schools access to additional funding for «wraparound» social services like health care.

«We're increasingly recognizing the importance of physical activity for children even as the academic demands placed on them are cutting into the traditional programs of recess and physical education,» said Gerd Bobe, an assistant professor in the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, an expert in public health nutrition and behavior, and principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute.

Developed by ASCD and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with key leaders from education, public health, and school health fields, the new model combines and builds on elements of the traditional coordinated school health approach and the whole child framework to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach to learning and health.

Traditional responders, including emergency managers, law enforcement, firefighters, public health, will also benefit and learn about roles they may have during a response.

Blending a public health outlook with traditional animal welfare science opens us up to a wide array of new frameworks and tools for thinking about the work we do.

In one of the most creative scams ever perpetrated on the American public, many of these largely unregulated, retail - style rescues and shelters have managed to gain a competitive market advantage over well - bred and socialized dogs and regulated breeders as well as many traditional shelters and animal control agencies by trading in dogs whose health, temperament and origin are often unknown and whose prior treatment and ultimate sale are neither regulated nor warranted.

But in recent years, these products have come under scrutiny as public awareness about the potential impact that some ingredients commonly found in traditional flea and tick treatments have on the health of both people and pets.