Sentences with phrase «accepted at all levels of society»

Greed has been accepted at all levels of society and the portrayal of cruelty is considered an acceptable form of entertainment.

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«49 Although most of our society, at the popular level, is scientifically illiterate, we have accepted a scientific world - view as our paradigm.

Over the past 40 years, however, society has gradually begun to accept, if not embrace, the notion of the female biologist, mathematician or engineer, and the number of women in science at all levels has increased dramatically.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.