She pointed to the findings on mercury as an example of how the work would help clarify where to focus public health efforts.

Speaking of which, a little mental health effort probably wouldn't hurt either.

This narrow approach leaves less publicized diseases with little or no funding for health efforts.

Law enforcement and public health efforts surely had some effect.

After a major public health effort, Uganda in 2011 was certified as having eliminated tetanus.

The health effort may be his strongest program.

That alone constitutes the most exhaustive public health effort in history.

Then, as the Communists took control in 1949, he helped organize the country's public health effort.

But the results do suggest, the researchers said, that without vigorous public health efforts, the prevalence of infection is likely to rise.

Researchers say that several factors outside their control have made such public health efforts harder than ever.