Sentences with phrase «affect health and development»

The researchers believe the results call for more studies on how birth methods affect health and development of babies and children.

«But the diets of 2 billion persons worldwide lack essential micronutrients — Vitamin A, iron, or zinc — and this especially affects the health and development of children under 5 years old.»

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Psychosocial stress, exposure to air pollution including truck traffic, sleep disruption and changes to socioeconomic status are all biologically plausible pathways for unconventional natural gas development to affect health.

It is not necessary here to stress the important role played by relationships in the family; these affect the mental health of every member of the family unit, and especially that of the children and adolescents in their development into adulthood.

They do not include, for example, Catholic Charities» extensive network of 1,400 charitable agencies serving 18 million people; the Catholic Health Association's 600 hospitals and 300 long term care facilities serving 20 million people; or the Campaign for Human Development's efforts to organize and empower the poor, with 200 local antipoverty groups working to improve policies, practices and laws affecting low - income people.

And while everything you do while you're pregnant affects the health of your unborn baby, his or her development doesn't stop after delivery.

Some babies simply have fitful tendencies when it comes to sleeping, whether it's being easily woken up through sound or being affected by various health and development issues.

Positive and negative childhood experiences dramatically affect health across the lifespan; therefore, we all play a role in supporting safe, healthy and resilient child development!

Health - care industry personnel routinely handle this chemical, which can affect chromosome development and in turn cause birth defects.

We are learning that trauma from high impact experiences during childbirth is not only stored as nonverbal memories within newborns, it impacts their life at a critical time in their development, affecting short and long term physical and mental health — their entire neurological system, from their learning capacity to mental orientation, emotional stability and stress management.

Colic is temporary, and it will not affect a baby's general health or future development.

Poor nutrition can affect his weight, health and normal development.

Most operate on the assumption, however, that parents» prenatal health behaviours, care of their children, and life - course affect their children's social and emotional development.10

«Each side was defended with such passionate conviction you would have thought we were discussing something that could potentially affect the child's health, development, and future.»

Everything we eat, breath, drink and put on our skin can affect our health and physical development.

On the contrary, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most comprehensive statement of children's rights ever produced, [27], [28] recognizes that every child has the right to enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, with the best interests of the child at the forefront of all actions and policies affecting their development, health, and survival.

Turns out that simple things like baby wearing, swaddling and car seats can affect baby's proper health development.

Research has shown this disruption has an affect that is vast and varied — including changing your choice of partner, your psychological state, your brain development and your overall physical health.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

It can contribute to a lifetime of good health for your child and can affect their gestational development.

The food you give him from birth and throughout all his growing years may affect his overall health, development, and of course his weight.

Caregivers need to be aware of how early feeding experiences, appetite regulation and dietary patterns affect the development of healthy eating habits and adult health, and the fact that these patterns can be passed down to the next generation.

Stunting in childhood has short - term and long - term consequences that affect health and human capital development.

Many times this can affect the mental health or social development of the child and may even leave lifelong psychological scars.

«In the Senate, I want to fight for public safety and criminal justice reform, education programs, affordable housing, increased access to mental health care, economic development and opportunities, and social service reforms, especially as they affect middle class families and the working poor,» he said in a statement.

Taking antibiotics when they are not needed creates additional health risks as it increases the chance a patient will experience an adverse drug reaction, and also leads to the development of antibiotic - resistant bacteria which affects everyone in the community.

Speaking to Citi News on the sidelines of an inaugural lecture at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences on the topic «the tyranny of foreign expertise: epistemic injustice in the global arena with impacts for Ghanaians» public health care, Dr. Badu Akosa said the development was greatly affecting scientific research on the continent.

Meanwhile, the researchers also are beginning a multidisciplinary study to follow pregnant women and their infants to see whether psychosocial stressors and adversity experienced during pregnancy and the first three years of a child's life also affect brain development and overall health.

Fuller said that because sleep is so critical to a child's development, she was interested in learning more about the connection between screen time right before bed and how well those children slept, as well as how it affected other aspects of their health.

«The development of a child inside the mother affects that child its entire life, and low birth weight has lifelong health implications for a child,» says Mark Steinhoff, MD, corresponding author on the study and director of the Global Health Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Chealth implications for a child,» says Mark Steinhoff, MD, corresponding author on the study and director of the Global Health Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CHealth Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Science policy is an area of public policy which is concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science, often in pursuance of other national policy goals such as technological innovation to promote commercial product development, weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring.

«Although the effects of light are well studied in adults, virtually nothing is known about how evening light exposure affects the physiology, health and development of preschool - aged children,» said lead author Lameese Akacem, a CU Boulder instructor and researcher in the Sleep and Develdevelopment of preschool - aged children,» said lead author Lameese Akacem, a CU Boulder instructor and researcher in the Sleep and DevelopmentDevelopment Lab.

«This underlines the glaring problem that many of the chemicals that are most widely used today, including pesticides, are simply not adequately tested and may have serious long - term impacts on health and development,» said Barrett, who studies how environmental chemicals affect human reproduction.

The project focused on the rights to health and to food, and the background research on the environmental factors affecting the realization of particular human rights became a resource for the human rights and environmental communities undertaking the development of standards, benchmarks, and indicators.

In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.

In addition to the dangers posed to fetal development, unregulated amounts of nanoparticles in the environment are now known to affect us at the cellular level, and the genetic consequences could be at the root of the greatest public health crises, including heart disease, hypertension, obesity and diabetes.

This group of anthropologists, paediatricians and child development researchers seeks to discover exactly how different styles of parenting across the globe affect the biology, growth, health and survival of infants.

But amid this governmental turmoil, another, longer - term development is under way that will affect the lives of everyone in the U.S. and take its toll on others around the world — the loss of critical expertise and capacity in the science agencies of the federal government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among many others.

Even clearer evidence that disruptions in gene imprinting can undermine mental health comes from studies of Prader - Willi syndrome, a disorder that affects growth, sexual development and cognitive ability.

Funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, researchers are following 200 infants with congenital Zika syndrome and their families to understand the ongoing health impact, why some babies affected by the virus develop more normally than others, and if more positive prognoses are linked with family or environmental characteriHealth and Human Development, researchers are following 200 infants with congenital Zika syndrome and their families to understand the ongoing health impact, why some babies affected by the virus develop more normally than others, and if more positive prognoses are linked with family or environmental characterihealth impact, why some babies affected by the virus develop more normally than others, and if more positive prognoses are linked with family or environmental characteristics.

RTI and the Altino Ventura Foundation are currently examining the health and development outcomes of infants most severely affected by the Zika virus in Recife, Brazil.

Among the interesting topics covered in Pathways are: the changing role of the patient in the total health equation and the ways in which decentralized information is affecting their expectations and demands; the dearth of pipeline products among international pharmaceutical companies against a backdrop of increased research and development spending; the dynamics of emerging markets and their rising demand for therapies in chronic disease; the value of drugs and biotechnology solutions within the context of global economic realities.

«Thus, exposure to EDCs may significantly increase the risk of breast cancer development and adversely affect human health,» the researchers state in the paper.

The report, Does Money Affect Children's Outcomes: An Update, shows that income itself is important for children's cognitive development, physical health, and social and behavioural development.

Parental stress and mental health issues affect how parents interact with their children and, subsequently, childhood development.

And in July 2015, the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X Prize was awarded to another U.S. team for its development of ocean sensors that improve scientific understanding of how carbon dioxide emissions are affecting ocean acidification.

This has profound implications for our understanding of life's origins, for our understanding of why so many embryos spontaneously abort in the first few days after fertilization, and for our understanding of why some IVF procedures may subtly affect early development, with potential long - term health consequences.

CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental illness and addiction.

Leprosy and podoconiosis (podo) are neglected tropical diseases that cause severe disfigurement and disability, and may lead to catastrophic health expenditure and hinder economic development of affected persons and households.

We will review recent data showing how fiber differences between GB diets and purified diets can significantly influence gut health and microbiota, which itself can affect metabolic disease development.