The Threat to Public Health

Poverty is the greatest threat to women's health.

According to the World Health Organization, hunger is the single gravest threat to the world's public health.

Illicit drug trafficking remained a threat to public health and national security.

The technology and knowledge exists in wealthy countries to address this health and economic threat.

Fear of radiation, it seems, poses a far more potent health threat than does radiation itself.

These are common causes of admissions to hospital and when facilities are lacking, health is under threat.

Unexploded mines and explosive devices in different areas are a specific threat to the health of children and the health of the country as a whole.

What is certain is that health officials risk mishandling how they explain this new and potentially alarming threat to the public.

Action is being taken to monitor the impact of air pollution where it remains a threat to forest health and productivity.

Continuing action is being taken to monitor the impact of air pollution where it remains a threat to forest health and productivity.

For this reason, the WHO considers pollution a risk factor a threat to human health similar to obesity, smoking, malnutrition or poor exercise.

It has been widely acknowledged that narcotics are a threat to national security, social stability and health, and could impact on governmental effectiveness.

Because FMD rarely infects humans but spreads rapidly among animals, it is a much greater threat to the agriculture industry than to human health.

A threat to kill, causing health damage or causing significant damage to or destroying property, if there is reason to fear the realisation of such a threat, is punishable by a pecuniary punishment or up to one year of imprisonment.

For any other infectious disease or global health threat, achieving this kind of reduction in incidence rate and mortality would be nothing short of miraculous.

Reaffirming that harmful traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation, constitute a serious threat to the health of women and girls, and may have fatal consequences,

Under the National AIDS Control Programme (NAP) the underlying approach is that HIV AIDS is not just a health issue but a major threat to human security.

The soil and coastal waters of the island polluted by substances such as lead, depleted uranium and arsenic, whose presence was a serious threat to public health needed urgent decontamination.

Threat assessment

Medical experts warn that because the birds are routinely fed antibiotics to keep them growing in such crowded, filthy, and stressful conditions, antibiotic resistant bacteria could cause a public health threat.

What is certain is that health officials risk mishandling how they explain this new and potentially alarming threat to the public. Although they know a lot about virology and public health, they often know next to nothing about how to talk (and listen!) to people about risks.

Recognizing that the abuse of a number of substances that are not controlled under the international drug control treaties and that may pose a public health threat comparable to the threat posed by the substances already controlled under those treaties has emerged in recent years in several regions of the world,

Europe s Triple Threat

The threat remains.

The Joblessness Threat

Yazadis under threat

An evolving threat

Any non Dane found within the country's borders may be expelled from Denmark if deemed a danger to national security or a serious threat to the public order, safety or health of Denmark.

Reproductive health (maternal and child health, family planning, adolescent health, men's health, women's health, safe motherhood).

Islam is a threat.

China s Threat to Russia

Turkey s Secular Fundamentalist Threat

The threat of militias

Aside from a rise in the incidence of thyroid cancer (which proved in almost all cases to be curable), the Forum found no profound negative health impacts on the exposed population as a whole and also no widespread contamination that would continue to pose a substantial threat to human health.

The Team's trips focussed on States which face a high level of threat, which have particular knowledge of the threat or which it deemed vulnerable to the threat.

Marine debris is a global transboundary pollution problem that constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies.

The solution is not to ignore the threat of terrorism, but to address the threat more intelligently.

Health, health care services

Terrorism is an existential threat.

Stagnation is the main threat.

The American Anti Intellectual Threat

The China Threat, Part Two?

The Threat of German Amnesia

A threat to the youth