... U.S. college students are smoking tobacco using waterpipes – or hookahs – and it’s becoming a growing public health issue, according to a new study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher ...
... the journal Environmental Research online ahead of publication on Aug. 4, 2009. The report comes on ... children is widely recognized as a major public health problem, too little attention is being given ...
Bullying should be considered a public health problem and governments should adopt national strategies against it, says a Canadian professor who led a study of bullying in 40 countries.
... health department directors believe their city or county will have serious public health problems as a result of climate change within the next 20 years, very few of them have planned ...
... creative in devising new inventions to tackle these problems, writes Sugarman.
He argues that while ... equal partners in finding solutions to public health problems, he says that many major companies now ...
... and are working to design community prevention strategies to address this emerging public health problem.
"The increasing prevalence of traumatic brain injury and substance use disorders along with ...
... U.S. participants (27 percent).
The study of public attitudes toward early detection of dementia ... Indianapolis.
Dementia is a growing global public health problem in both countries leading to a high ...
... mosquito-borne illness that is a rapidly growing public health problem in tropical and sub-tropical countries. ... coauthor Donald Shepard, Ph.D, a health economist at the Heller School for Social Policy ...
... time the multi-country economic costs of dengue fever, the mosquito-borne illness that is a rapidly growing public health problem in tropical and sub-tropical countries. The study ...
... nation moves to address this growing public health problem," said Jeffrey Levi, PhD, Executive ... organisms.
"Overall, we applaud the approach taken on public reporting," said Anne Gershon, MD, FIDSA ...
... lives, putting them at increased risk of health problems and even early death, a leading ... Americans' physical inactivity "the biggest public health problem of the 21st century."
Blair is a professor ...
... -acquired MRSA strains can spread outside the health care system."
Jean-Christophe Lucet, ... whether this transmission represents a serious public health problem, the authors note. However, to prevent ...
... 't nearly enough to adequately address the public health issues related to global warming ... expected to exacerbate a number of current public health problems in the United States and elsewhere, including ...
... said Sink. “The potential effects on physical function represent a significant public health problem.”
Many medications have anticholinergic properties including some for high blood pressure, some ...
... cause the disease survive in the environment. Leptospirosis is a major public health problem in South East Asia and South America, with over 500,000 severe cases every year. Between ...
