Sentences with phrase «health factors directly»

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In interviews, the study participants relayed their perceptions of how emotional and physical abuse in childhood affected their lives, including physical health, school performance and ability to maintain employment — all factors directly linked to household income and ability to afford enough healthy food for their own children.

Although obesity is considered a risk factor for heart disease, the study results suggest that focusing directly or exclusively on weight loss can be counterproductive by discouraging women from keeping health appointments, further reducing the chances that they will receive appropriate monitoring and counseling.

The next step is to see how those factors play out at the level of the city, county and town, where many of the policy decisions that most directly affect people's health are often made.

«The combination of genetic susceptibility and individualized cumulative exposure — not just to other chemicals in consumer products, but from other sources such as air quality — empowers people to make informed decisions about changing the factors that directly influence their health outcomes.»

The first piece of Mildrexler and colleagues» effort was the creation of a forest vulnerability index that, in effect, relates climatic drivers of vulnerability, such as extreme temperature and low precipitation, directly to physiological stress factors, which reduce photosynthesis and deteriorate forest health.

It is actually a hepatotoxin and is metabolized directly into fat — factors that can cause a whole host of problems that can have far - reaching effects on your health.

During times of longer, high - intensity training, it is important to focus on the non-training factors that directly influence and improve health.

In fact, many of these absences, especially among our youngest students, are excused and tied directly to health factors: asthma and dental problems, learning disabilities, and mental health issues related to trauma and community violence.

Critically important will be factors that directly shape the health of populations such as education, health care, public health initiatives and infrastructure and economic development.

In the study, researchers ranked counties on two overall measures: health outcomes, which included information on mortality, self - reported health and low birth weight babies; and about 25 other factors that can impact health but don't directly measure it.

Consequently, little is known about not only whether resilience directly affects partners» psychological distress but also whether resilience can function in protecting partners» mental health even in adversity, such as encounters with risk factors shown in current evidences.

Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased stress directly related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.

This issue brief explores how home visiting programs — specifically, evidence - based programs funded by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program — address three key maternal risk factors that directly influence maternal and child health and disproportionately affect mothers who participate in home visiting: postpartum depression, domestic violence, and tobacco use.

IECMH can be positively affected through a continuum of strategies focused on promotion (e.g. supporting strong parent - child relationships), prevention (more intensive services aimed at identifying and mitigating risk factors that threaten healthy development, as well as supporting caregivers in better addressing children's needs), and treatment to directly address mental health disorders (e.g. Child Parent Psychotherapy and Attachment and Behavioral Catch - Up.)

Since our health and well - being is influenced in large measure by the family environment we reside in, family therapy seeks to understand and foster change in the relationship patterns that exist between individuals in the family system rather than focusing directly on issues or factors within a specific individual.

As noted in the previous chapter, health inequalities can be fairly broadly defined to include differences in: specific health outcomes (such as low birthweight, obesity, long - term conditions, accidents); health related risk factors that impact directly on children (such as poor diet, low levels of physical activity, exposure to tobacco smoke); as well as exposure to wider risks from parental / familial behaviours and environmental circumstances (maternal depression and / or poor physical health, alcohol consumption, limited interaction, limited cognitive stimulation, poor housing, lack of access to greenspace).

Whilst socio - economic and demographic characteristics had limited direct impact they may yet be influential but in an indirect manner affecting the parenting, health and development factors which are shown, in section 3.3, to be more directly associated with outcomes in these domains.

The health, well - being and development of children is jeopardised directly and indirectly by poverty (Marmot, 2005) but also, in complex ways, by poor parental health which, in turn, is affected by socio - economic factors.

Separated parents more often have psychological problems and poor economy than co-living parents and may have had relationship problems and conflicts also before the separation.4, 42 Such factors directly affect children's psychological health and symptom load1, 43 and could be important for how families arrange custody and children's housing after the split - up.1, 9 In this study, children living with only one parent reported the least satisfaction with their relationships to their parents, followed by those living mostly with one parent.

Therefore, the original Diabetes Group Therapy Project intervention has been augmented by Kichler and colleagues to even more directly enhance the process / methods of promoting optimal health outcomes among youth with T1D and their parents / caretakers by additional facilitation of promotive factors.

Home visiting programmes have also been examined in England; some focused directly on child mental well - being, others on avoiding post-natal depression, a risk factor for poor child mental health (Murray, 2009).