Sentences with phrase «with public health priorities»

In the context of infectious disease management, individual rights and liberties such as autonomous decision making, freedom of choice and action, privacy, and the right to know or not to know information about oneself can come into conflict with public health priorities.

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The estimated percentage of US children aged 2 to 5 years and 6 to 11 years classified as overweight increased from 5.0 % and 6.5 % in 1980 to 10.4 % and 19.6 %, respectively, in 2007 -2008.1-3 The increase in childhood obesity was also observed among those aged 6 to 23 months, from 7.2 % in 1980 to 11.6 % in 2000.1 Given the numerous health risks related to childhood obesity,4 - 7 its prevention is becoming a public health priority.8 It has been reported that feeding practices affect growth and body composition in the first year of life, with breastfed infants gaining less rapidly than formula - fed infants.9 - 14 There is also evidence that breastfed infants continue to have a low risk for later childhood obesity.15 - 18

Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child, including higher maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks of infectious disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Hpublic for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public HPublic Health.

According to the researchers, given the high morbidity, mortality and health care costs associated with HF, prevention is a public health priority.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The dire public health consequences of mercury contamination, combined with decades of improper handling and disposal, made cleanup a national priority.

In contrast the privately funded non-profit HCZ, promise zones are high poverty urban, rural and tribal communities designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.»

«Despite health being a top priority for voters, it received scant attention in the Prime Minister's address, with no discussion of Coalition health policy and attacks on Labor policy on Medicare,» said Alison Verhoeven, chief executive of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, representing public health services.

We at the Public Health Agency regard this work as a key priority and look forward to further contact with you as we seek to progress this.

It sets out establishing collaborative approaches and partnerships to address housing, adequate safe water, food supplies and waste disposal as priorities.152 The National Environmental Health Strategy Implementation Plan sets out the «challenge» of «improv [ing] the health status of Indigenous Australian communities through the development of appropriate environmental health standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plHealth Strategy Implementation Plan sets out the «challenge» of «improv [ing] the health status of Indigenous Australian communities through the development of appropriate environmental health standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plhealth status of Indigenous Australian communities through the development of appropriate environmental health standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plhealth standards commensurate with the wider Australian population».153 The enHealth Council, responsible to the Natoinal Public Health Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plHealth Partnership, is responsible for providing national leadership and pursuing the partnerships necessary to implement the plan.154

Therefore, improving the efficacy of HIV prevention interventions for Hispanic adolescents, especially those that target specific risk processes associated with HIV contraction, is an important public health priority.