Sentence examples for Health scourges from inspiring English sources
Most public health scourges have a brutal way of holding down the associated medical cost: they kill people.
Tackling one of the top health scourges in the world, officials from 191 governments are gathering next week to begin negotiating a new global treaty aimed at controlling the use of tobacco and curbing smoking, especially among adolescents.
Nevertheless, noticeable protection against the disease – which kills around 500,000 children under five every year – was achieved in recent trials, raising hopes that one of the planet's greatest health scourges could soon be tackled.
Over the past decade, governments and institutions the world over have spent roughly $9 billion annually to combat public health scourges such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and waterborne illnesses.
3 23 p.m. | Updated The number of obese New York City schoolchildren fell by 5.5 percent over five years, federal and city officials said Thursday, offering a glimmer of optimism about one of the country's intractable health scourges.
At N.Y.U. last week, new students were introduced to the "four pillars" of the new curriculum: diabetes, colon cancer, tuberculosis and heart disease, emblematic public health scourges of the 21st century.
Now it wants to protect people from another health scourge: salt.
Introduction: The trauma of traffic accidents and particularly cranial trauma are, due to their frequency and severe consequences in both the short and long term, a real public health scourge on a global scale.
Syphilis has become a major public health scourge in many regions of southern China.
We must seize this opportunity to make added and continued progress against this global health scourge.
One hundred and twenty nine years after Koch's discovery of the etiologic agent of TB, this health scourge continues to account for 9.4 million cases and 1.7 million deaths annually worldwide.
