Sentences with phrase «with health epidemics»

Not exact matches

American fast - food chains have also been wrestling with a wider range of health concerns at home, as many consumers are changing domestic eating habits in response to an ongoing obesity epidemic.

But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

When Sherry Turkle looks at how obsessed people have become with their personal devices, she sees the traces of another public health epidemic: obesity.

The obsessive interest in the history of the body has been fuelled by the AIDS epidemic; it also reflects the concerns of a secular and hedonistic age, preoccupied with physical health and instinctual gratification.

The replacement of saturated fats in the diet with trans fats and sugar resulted in epidemic rates of obesity and its related health complications (2).

While attending the Institute of Coaching's Fifth Annual Conference in Boston recently, along with 700 other health and leadership coaches, I had the opportunity to listen to public health guru Dr. David Katz spread his health message: that we, as a society, need to curb the obesity epidemic.

Childhood obesity is one of the most concerning health epidemics in our country today with serious implications for children and our health care system as a whole.

At the same time an epidemic of childhood obesity threatens to rob a generation of its health and bankrupt the nation with a $ 147 billion annual tab for weight - related illnesses, agribusiness and corporate food processors are making out like bandits.

The longer I blog on The Lunch Tray, the more I become convinced that the keys to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic and improving kids» health rest with kids themselves.

Meanwhile, a growing body of scientific evidence links sugar with an epidemic of childhood obesity as well as a host of related health problems: diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and even an unprecedented outbreak of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children.

The question is whether the dairy claims are true, and whether enticing kids to eat foods laced with added sugar is a good thing in the midst of an obesity epidemic that threatens to cut short the lives of a generation of children and send the nation's health care bill through the roof.

Cuomo fired back at Trump over criticism of New York's mental health care, and said that the commander - in - chief does not want to deal with the gun problem at the heart of the U.S.'s shooting epidemic.

«We can beat this epidemic with our existing tools,» City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett told reporters.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo fired back at President Trump over criticism of New York's mental health care, and said that the commander - in - chief does not want to deal with the gun problem at the heart of the U.S.'s shooting epidemic.

King said advocates have been having «good conversations» with both the state Health Department and the second floor about supervised injection sites, which he called «one important step» toward ending the opioid epidemic.

In addition, the changes to our diets that health experts recommend to fight the obesity epidemic, less meat and dairy, less processed foods, and more fruit and vegetables, are the same changes that will make feeding a growing population easier with farming systems that cause far less environmental damage.

In the face of roughly 11 deaths each week in Erie County due to opioid drug overdoses, the County Legislature is poised to approve a «crisis response plan» today that would better connect those suffering from addiction with services and expand Health Department programs aimed add addressing the epidemic.

Staten Island has been in the throes of a prescription pill and heroin epidemic, with the borough having the highest rate of accidental overdose deaths in the city between 2000 and 2014, according to the Department of Health.

Molinaro also wants to enhance the county's focus on addressing the opioid epidemic with additional addiction and mental health initiatives.

Officials say the statistics could have been even worse if not for a host of initiatives that the government, health officials and medical community have taken to address a drug epidemic that has swept through communities across the United States with devastating results.

The decline was highlighted by Cuomo last year when he announced plans for his End the Epidemic initiative, which included assisting undiagnosed HIV patients find health care, getting patients on anti-HIV therapy and providing high - risk people with HIV prevention drugs.

«With no ambiguity about opioid abuse being a public health crisis, New Yorkers hold many groups responsible for the current epidemic,» said Siena College Research Institute Director Don Levy.

Together with the German Chancellor and the Norwegian Prime Minister, President Mahama will on Saturday host a major side event on Strengthening a healthy future: Resilient Health Systems to fight epidemics and ensure healthy lives, a follow - up to the proposal made by the three world leaders to the UN Secretary General to set up a panel to review the world's response to health cHealth Systems to fight epidemics and ensure healthy lives, a follow - up to the proposal made by the three world leaders to the UN Secretary General to set up a panel to review the world's response to health chealth crisis.

To find out more about this epidemic and what's being done about it, «Take Care» spoke with emergency medicine physician and Baltimore Health Commissioner, Dr. Leana Wen.

Solidarity in the continued fight against the HIV epidemic was the consistent theme of the morning dedication, which was cohosted by the NYC AIDS Memorial Foundation and the End AIDS NY 2020 Coalition, uniting more than 50 advocacy and service organizations with the city and state health departments.

But the Yemeni government, with the help of a Saudi - led coalition, is battling Shiite Houthi rebels backed by Iran and there were concerns over whether the vaccine could be used effectively as battles raged in parts of the country, and whether administering it might distract health workers from treating patients, a cornerstone of epidemic response.

With the alarming regularity of dengue epidemics in Asia as well as Africa and even the Americas (there are as many as 60 million cases of dengue fever around the world each year), there is a growing international need for rapid diagnosis and proactive public health management for dengue fever.

The drugs themselves may not change the epidemic curve, but they may change the relationship the health care facilities and workers have with the community.

The World Health Organization did not declare the epidemic a public health emergency until February 2016, after babies of Zika - infected mothers began to be born with severe neurological proHealth Organization did not declare the epidemic a public health emergency until February 2016, after babies of Zika - infected mothers began to be born with severe neurological prohealth emergency until February 2016, after babies of Zika - infected mothers began to be born with severe neurological problems.

If you are concerned about the obesity epidemic, the global surge of chronic noninfectious diseases, rising costs of health care, or your family's health, then ask yourself if you agree with the following three statements:

The finding of chronic joint pain in one fourth of the patients infected with chikungunya, a mosquito - borne illness, approximately two years after initial infection has important implications for prediction of the magnitude of disability and health system costs after the Latin American epidemic.

Crowley and Canzater identify five critical actions that should be priorities for monitoring HCV: 1) expand and standardize reporting to the CDC, 2) utilize electronic medical records to collect data on HCV cases and the cure cascade, 3) fund epidemiologic research using clinical data sets, 4) integrate improved monitoring of HCV with responses to the opioid epidemic, and 5) establish and monitor HCV elimination plans across major US health systems.

«These findings are extremely encouraging and suggest that with sustained commitment to increase the number of people who use combination HIV prevention, it may be possible to achieve epidemic control and eventual elimination of HIV,» said David Serwadda, M.B.Ch.B., M.Med., M.P.H., co-founder of the Rakai Health Science Program and Professor at Makerere University School of Public Health in Kampala, Uganda.

Still, the epidemic, which has rapidly outpaced available health care resources, is also hard to track accurately and no one can predict with certainty how the outbreaks will evolve.

A World Health Organization official says scenes from the epidemic will stay with him for years to come

As with all these other health problems, however, addressing the HIV epidemic in the southern U.S. requires much more than just having effective and affordable medicine.

The epidemic of obesity is felt in prenatal clinics and delivery rooms around the world with a worrisome trend in high - risk pregnancies that could impact mother and child, according to Patrick M. Catalano, MD, the Dierker - Biscotti Women's Health and Wellness Professor and Director of the Center for Reproductive Health at MetroHealth and Director of the Clinical Research Unit of the Case Western Reserve University.

«I won't pass judgment on the long - term health effects of any diet,» he says, «but with the epidemic of obesity we are facing, I think it's premature to exclude low - carbohydrate diets from further consideration.»

With Clark Freifeld of the MIT Media Lab, Brownstein has developed HealthMap, a Google - based application designed to alert public - health officials to nascent epidemics.

The article concludes that «the challenges currently faced by the Brazilian health system from the Zika virus epidemic, as well as the solutions being implemented to overcome some of these challenges, highlight actions that other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, with active transmission of Zika virus, should be considering.

With a universal health care system, and a successful primary health care strategy, Brazil is in a better position than its neighboring countries to handle the chaotic situation that has emerged with the Zika virus epideWith a universal health care system, and a successful primary health care strategy, Brazil is in a better position than its neighboring countries to handle the chaotic situation that has emerged with the Zika virus epidewith the Zika virus epidemic.

Multidrug resistant H58 has spread across Asia and Africa over the last 30 years, and created a previously underappreciated and ongoing epidemic through countries in eastern and southern Africa with important public health consequences.

The deadly cholera epidemic that rocked earthquake - shattered Haiti in 2010, claiming 8,000 lives and counting, has rallied the public health community to seek water and sewer improvements that, combined with vaccination, could prevent some 89,000 future cholera infections.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that millions are infected with HIV worldwide and that it is the most devastating epidemic since the influenza pandemic of 1918.

The collapse of the Soviet health care system in the 1990s coupled with prisons releasing improperly treated inmates and endemic poverty escalated incidences of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis to epidemic proportions

Faced with the prospect of terrorists releasing a bioweapon that spawns a deadly nationwide epidemic, quickly overwhelming hospitals and other health services, surely this seems a reasonable outlay.

Thus, in the region with fragile and underfunded health systems, early diagnosis is particularly important for containing the epidemic.

With the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa reviving interest in the first outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever 40 years ago, scientists led by Dr. Joel Breman of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health have released a report highlighting lessons learned from the smaller, more quickly contained 1976 outbreak.

«These new findings allow disease early warning systems to provide warnings for upcoming epidemics with much longer lead time than before,» says Prasad Liyanage, doctoral student at Umeå University and Medical Officer for dengue control in Kalutara district at the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health.

Health authorities and pest control operators are regularly flooded with calls, and the epidemic may not have yet peaked.