Sentences with phrase «between health and environment»

And The Guardian reminded us about the interplay between health and environment with a report about new evidence in Occupational and Environmental Medicine suggesting a link between fat deposits and raised cortisol levels caused by exposure to traffic noise.

By inputting a postcode to the online version of the atlas, users can zoom into a neighborhood (around 6,000 people) and toggle between the health and environment maps for that local area.

In this episode, we'll hear parts of three talks from the recent symposium, Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between Health and the Environment, organized by the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

Not exact matches

There is a difference between «eat less meat» (as it is better for your health and a better environment — fact) and «the population of Alberta is declining with the NDP government — a lie)-- the population of Alberta has not declined since 1946 — fact.

We need first to recognize the tremendous tension between technological progress and the health of the environment, including all organisms in it.

If their outlook produces better relations between whites and Native Americans, leads people to care more for the environment, promotes good health or encourages political reform and Christian unity, it is hard to wish away the primitivist impulse even while relativizing it with historical perspectives.

«Fifty gigalitres of water over five years will help sustain the river and environments that lie between the larger iconic wetlands and floodplains, contributing to the health of the Murray - Darling river system as a whole,» he said.

The report focused on survey data that included Millennials, born between 1978 and 1992, and explored how their perspective on health and the environment affected their purchasing decisions, recycling actions and other related habits.

Sustainable diets: The interaction between food industry, nutrition, health and the environment.

An evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start program found no differences between experimental and control groups in maternal life course (attainment of educational and life goals), substance abuse, partner violence, depressive symptoms, the home as a learning environment, parent - child interaction, parental stress, and child developmental and health measures.25 However, program participation was associated with a reduction in the number of child abuse cases.

I don't think this is just a trend because we are becoming so educated about the relationship between the environment and human health.

Michigan: Custody is awarded based on the best interests of the child, based on the following factors: moral character and prudence of the parents; physical, emotional, mental, religious and social needs of the child; capability and desire of each parent to meet the child's emotional, educational, and other needs; preference of the child, if the child is of sufficient age and maturity; the love and affection and other emotional ties existing between the child and each parent; the length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment and the desirability of maintaining continuity; the desire and ability of each parent to allow an open and loving frequent relationship between the child and other parent; the child's adjustment to his / her home, school, and community; the mental and physical health of all parties; permanence of the family unit of the proposed custodial home; any evidence of domestic violence; and other factors.

This is consistent with other studies demonstrating a link between breastfeeding and maternal sensitivity.25, 26,27 For example, in a longitudinal study of more than 1300 families in the USA, mothers who breast fed were observed to be more sensitive to their babies at 6, 15, 24 and 36 months.27 Importantly, this difference persisted after statistical control for the effects of maternal mental health, the quality of the home environment in terms of infant health and stimulation and socioeconomic status.

In addition she studies the relationship between nursing practice and parent and infant outcomes; nurse - patient interaction; the health care work environment and provider and patient outcomes; and system and culture change in health care.

He added: «Anyone who proposes a direct conflict between the health of business and the health of the planet and environment in a great country like the United Kingdom is seriously misinformed.

Alex Bielak, a senior research fellow and knowledge broker at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU - INWEH) in Hamilton, Canada, says that although these differences in terminology indicate slightly different types of roles, the people occupying all of these roles create a two - way interaction between knowledge producers and knowledge users.

The Cooperation money is split between nine themes — including health, energy, environment, transport, and space and security — and will be used to fund large collaborations, often involving dozens of labs.

325 women who completed a diet questionnaire and subsequently underwent cycles of assisted reproductive technologies as part of the Environment and Reproductive Health (EARTH) study at a fertility center at a teaching hospital in Boston between 2007 and 2016 by Jorge E. Chavarro, M.D., Sc.D., of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues.

Neither the children nor their parents made the connection between the environment — in this case, the one inside their schools — and the preschoolers» health problems, she says.

«Regardless of whether you're in a closed or open environment, there's always a constant exchange of microbes between a host and their environment, and that constant exposure has impacts on health; for example it can lead to changes in a host's immune system that help the host stave off pathogens,» said Argonne's Jack Gilbert, an author of the study and the director of The Microbiome Center, a joint Argonne, University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory program.

The GoMRI is a 10 - year, $ 500 million independent research program established by an agreement between BP and the Gulf of Mexico Alliance to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon incident and the potential associated impact of this and similar incidents on the environment and public health.

«Given the reciprocal relationship between child and parental health and well - being, supporting the parents in coping with chronic caregiving stress might not only improve the child's outcome, but also may help maintain an optimal family environment for a longer period of time.

Sánchez - Quiles said the question regulators and scientists will have to answer is what the trade - offs are between the economic benefits of tourism and personal health benefits of these chemicals and the harmful effects on the environment as a whole.

The researchers suggest a need for collaboration between businesses and rural health agencies to create ACA friendly environments that remove barriers to breastfeeding in the workplace.

Understanding the interactions between the social and physical environment will help to explain health disparities and create interventions to prevent health and developmental problems in children.

Speaking about the research, Professor Mireia Jofre - Bonet from the Department of Economics at City, University of London and lead author of the study, said: «Our study confirms the close relationship between health and the economic environment as we found that the 2008 Great Recession led to a decrease in risky behaviour, such as smoking and drinking, but also an increase in the likelihood of obesity, diabetes and mental health problems.

The study, performed in Garfield County, Colo., between July 2010 and October 2011, was done by researchers at The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, a non-profit organization that examines the impact of low - level exposure to chemicals on the environment and human health.

«Like cancer, autism is a very complex disease,» says Craig Newschaffer, chairman of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University School of Public Health, «and it's exciting to start asking questions about the interaction between genes and environment.

Since the chemicals were discovered, researchers have found a relationship between PCB concentrations in blood and decreased cognitive and thyroid function, and elevated risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension among the Mohawk Nation, said David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany.

«We wanted to model the health impacts because this would help us to understand the trade - offs between benefits for public health, benefits for the environment, and the likely public acceptability of the modeled diets as we progressively reduced the emissions,» Milner said.

Specifically, the data may be skewed as a result of predominantly attracting respondents with personal experiences of mental health issues, and they don't investigate the causality between perception of a nonsupportive academic environment and mental health.

There is always a trade - off between energy availability and the environment just as there is a relationship between environmental health and population levels.

With little data on how much excreted and dumped medicines are in the environment, and even less showing a cause - effect relationship between an active ingredient and an adverse effect, researchers, health and environmental agencies, and water - quality regulators have been playing hot potato with the question for decades.

This spring, the U.S. National Institutes of Health will hit the launch button on its most ambitious project ever: a long - term study of at least 1 million Americans that will explore the interplay between genes, lifestyle, the environment, and hHealth will hit the launch button on its most ambitious project ever: a long - term study of at least 1 million Americans that will explore the interplay between genes, lifestyle, the environment, and healthhealth.

Prof Chavarro, his student Dr Yu - Han Chiu and colleagues analysed 338 semen samples from 155 men attending a fertility centre between 2007 - 2012 as part of the ongoing, prospective «Environment and Reproductive Health» (EARTH) Study.

«The social environment really conditions the way that these children are living, and their health,» says Notterman, who warns the link between shorter telomeres and health outcomes is not fully established.

The astounding improvements in public health between 1900 and 1950, aided by such factors as refrigeration, sewage treatment, and safer working environments, produced many of the increases in life expectancy in the last century.

Tiffany Yap, Wildlife Corridor Advocate, works with the Urban Wildlands program to protect biodiversity and environmental health at the interface between humans and the natural environment.

We are investigating the relationship between microbial diversity and ecosystem health in marine environments.

With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the project mission is for students to gain an intuitive understanding of the crucial interdependence between humans and the natural environment.

The Science for Life Laboratory is a joint effort between four Swedish universities, Karolinska Institute, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm University and Uppsala University, to build an infrastructure for high - throughput research in the areas of health and environment.

In her essay, she described how the interactions between genes and the environment affect human health and disease, concluding that these environmental influences on gene activity allow people to protect their own well - being by cultivating healthy habits.

«We try to encourage people to see the correlation between being social, exercising, health and the environment.»

There's an inextricable link between your health and that of the environment.

And since the skin is the body's largest organ, providing a barrier between our internal environment and the outside world, it seems reasonable to assume that the skin microbiome plays a pretty big role in our health, tAnd since the skin is the body's largest organ, providing a barrier between our internal environment and the outside world, it seems reasonable to assume that the skin microbiome plays a pretty big role in our health, tand the outside world, it seems reasonable to assume that the skin microbiome plays a pretty big role in our health, too.

I've always been interested in the connection between health and the natural environment in my professional life, but becoming parent made self care urgent and meaningful in a deeply personal way.

Biology, chemistry, and physics shape the foundation of our understanding of the human body, physiological processes, health and disease, and the complex interactions between humans and their environment.

The skin is our largest organ, and our internal health or disease easily manifests on this gateway between our internal and external environment.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) involves a range of traditional medical practices which originated in China several thousand years ago; TCM views health as a harmonious balance between the body and the outer world / environment; disease occurs when our biochemical and biophysical factors become out of balance.

In contrast, for the past many decades, many health concerns developed due to a complex interplay between nature (our genetics) and nurture (our environment and lifestyle).