Sentences with phrase «health as major factors»

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Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

My stating that a decision made on Dotson will have his health as a major determining factor doesn't mean that I'm dismissing poor play by other players.

Mental health doesn't sound that important, compared with the physical safety of mother and child, but when you consider the affects of post natal depression, psychosis and PTSD, as well as bonding issues, you start to see that the effects of poor psychological / mental health support in traditional maternal hospitals is a major factor pushing women towards less safe birthing options.

To truly address the reasons why women choose potentially unsafe home birth situations and attendants, we need to look as their — usually unconscious — drive to protect their mental health, when faced with disrespectful, intrusive and abusive medical environments (I'm not saying that all hospitals are like that at all, mine isn't, but it can be a major factor).

This is largely due to physical health disorders such as heart attack or stroke, for which type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor.

Critics also claim that factors such as anxiety, boredom, weariness or ill - health can lead people to give different answers on different occasions, but in fact this is not a major weakness of psychological tests.

The Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI II) focuses on the assessment of environmental and lifestyle risk factors which jointly affect major chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and mental health.

The researchers concluded their study by noting that estimated fitness level — in consideration with other risk factors such as smoking status, alcohol consumption, and other health conditions — could have a major impact on identifying people at risk for future cardiovascular disease.

Try to normalize your insulin sensitivity, which is key for optimal health and wellness as insulin resistance (which is what you get whenever your insulin sensitivity plummets) is a major instrumental factor to almost all chronic disease, from diabetes to cardiovascular disease and even cancer malignancy.

This has a negative impact on health, as studies show that low aerobic capacity is a major risk factor for premature death.

The other major factor involved in ridding your fibromyalgia symptoms and taking back control of your health and your life is through your body's unique biochemistry, which we will be doing throughout, and using food and holistically balanced nutrition as our main weapons that will start winning back your confidence and your equilibrium starting from day one.

Stress is known to have damaging effects on health and is widely recognized as a major risk factor in the development of heart disease and in heart disease -LSB-...]

Researchers believe that the high levels of vitamin K in green leafy vegetables such as arugula and kale is a major factor in preserving brain health.

On the other hand, health is a major factor behind purchasing insurance as an adult.

Researchers will use information from the 3,000 enrolled dogs to investigate associations between risk factors — such as genetics, nutrition, environment and lifestyle — and major health outcomes, especially cancer.

A recent World Health Organization report suggests that globally climate change could cause an additional 250 000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, not taking into account factors such as the effects of economic damage, major heat wave events, river flooding, water scarcity, or human conflict.

According to EHS Today, the leading US occupational safety and health magazine, the main reason for over half of slip and fall and trip and fall accidents in this country are issues related to the floor itself (the other major factors include the footwear the victim was wearing at the time of the accident as well as delays in cleaning up spills).

As most people are aware of, one major factor in getting life insurance is your health.

Insurance Companies presume and consider Age as one of the major factors for health insurance.

Convenience in the buying and availability of alternative options are considered as the major factors that have made health insurance to grow in popularity in India.

Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.

This course addresses mental health and aging as major psychosocial phenomena integrating biological, psychological, social, and environmental perspectives and factors.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is emerging as a major success factor in improving Indigenous primary health and health care in Australia — but sector leaders say there must be consistent national support as the benefits are not being spread evenly.

Marriage is the central relationship for the majority of adults, and morbidity and mortality are reliably lower for married individuals than unmarried individuals across such diverse health threats as cancer, heart attacks, and surgery.1 - 4 Although loss of a spouse through death or divorce can provoke adverse mental and physical health changes,1,5 - 7 the simple presence of a spouse is not necessarily protective; a troubled marriage is itself a prime source of stress, while simultaneously limiting the partner's ability to seek support in other relationships.8 The impact of a turbulent marriage is substantial; for example, epidemiological data demonstrated that unhappy marriages were a potent risk factor for major depressive disorder, associated with a 25-fold increase relative to untroubled marriages.9 Similarly, other researchers found a 10-fold increase in risk for depressive symptoms associated with marital discord.10

Among these environmental risk factors, socioeconomic disadvantage (SED) has been described as one of the major contributors for the development and persistence of mental health problems [9 — 13].