Sentences with phrase «health indicators because»

We advocate including extreme events in the global planetary health indicators because extreme events have a particularly large impact on human and natural ecosystems — and that's what, ultimately, people care about most.

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That's because, as a new study notes, meeting patients» basic social needs — including for heating, electricity, food access, and medicines — can actually have a significant effect on basic health indicators like blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

We do this because we assume there is no more important indicator of an economy's health than jobs; and even though StatsCan's poll of households is a less - than - perfect form of measurement, it's the best we've got.

Although the Dow Jones is a very narrow - based index comprised of only 30 blue - chip stocks, it is nevertheless an important psychological indicator of the market's health because it is the index the talking heads of the financial media typically focus on in their daily chatter:

For example, clade D Symbiodinium are more abundant in acroporid corals from back - reef lagoons in American Samoa, where the SSTs reach higher maximum temperatures than the fore - reef environments, where Acropora primarily hosts clade C. ref Because they are often found in increased abundance on reefs that are exposed to environmental stressors, the presence of clade D symbionts can be a biological indicator of negative changes in coral health.

This is because menstrual health characteristics can be an indicator of normal overall health or point to possible health conditions.

In a release, he explained that they investigated facial adiposity (the amount of fatness in your face) because it is a «robust indicator of one's health.»

So that first claim is pretty easily dismissed, and the second claim, which is that urine pH is an accurate indicator of health or that our urine pH is a good reflection of our serum pH, you will actually find some studies that make that claim, but they're also easily dismissed, and there are many more studies that have found that the pH of our urine does not in any way reflect the pH of our blood and, therefore, it's not a reliable indicator of anything other than how well our kidneys are functioning because one of their main jobs is to buffer the blood and remove any excess acid that might accumulate from protein digestion.

Because it is so fundamental to daily function and it has been shown to be a clear indicator of cardiovascular health and mortality.

Broadly speaking, it means that you should be mindful of what your feces are saying, because they're one of the most consistent indicators of health.

It's also important because some Americans like to point to our supposedly high poverty rate as an excuse for our lackluster international performance on a variety of social indicators, from health - care outcomes to test scores and beyond.

Kronick, among many who called for use of existing data - driven indicators, also said health and fitness results should be used because only when schools take a whole - child approach to education will they reach all students.

In fact, because of copper's generally accepted importance as an economic indicator in predicting and reflecting over-all economic health, it is ascribed to be the only commodity with a doctorate degree in the field of economics, hence the title, «Dr. Copper».

Any time your kitty stops eating or shows the above changes in litter box habits, contact your veterinarian because such such behavior changes can be early warning indicators of a range of health concerns, including hairballs.

Dog grooming and health are so closely associated also because the skin is the first indicator of the state of the dog's health.

Any time your kitty stops eating or shows the above changes in litter box habits, contact your veterinarian because such such behavior changes can be early warning indicators of a range of health concerns — including hairballs.

Because each kitten will vary in health and size, physical traits such as weight or appearance are not always a precise indicator of age.

Goklany said, «The academies say that sustainability and resilience are being destroyed by over-consumption and that fossil fuels are to blame, yet almost every indicator of human well - being from life - expectancy to health to standard of living has improved beyond measure largely because of our use of fossil fuels.»

It is intellectually dishonest to devote several pages to cherry - picking studies that disagree with the IPCC consensus on net health effects because you don't like its scientific conclusion, while then devoting several pages to hiding behind [a misstatement of] the U.N. consensus on sea level rise because you know a lot reasonable people think the U.N. wildly underestimated the upper end of the range and you want to attack Al Gore for worrying about 20 - foot sea level rise.On this blog, I have tried to be clear what I believe with my earlier three - part series: Since sea level, arctic ice, and most other climate change indicators have been changing faster than most IPCC models projected and since the IPCC neglects key amplifying carbon cycle feedbacks, the IPCC reports almost certainly underestimate future climate impacts.

«Penguins are excellent indicators of changes to the biological and environmental health of the broader ecosystem because they are easily accessible while breeding on land, yet they depend entirely on food resources from the sea.

Among forest wildlife, birds are especially important because they serve as early indicators of forest health, water quality, air quality, and climate change.

sought to edit an EPA report to, one, to «add balance»... secondly... delete a discussion of human health,... third strike any discussion of atmospheric levels of carbon because «carbon levels are not a good indicator of climate change»....

That part seems like a no - brainer, but because weight is such a reliable indicator of future health, it factors heavily into how the insurance company estimates your mortality risk.

Because weight is such a reliable indicator of future health, it factors heavily into how the insurance company estimates your mortality risk.

She stated, not unkindly but as a matter of fact, that she did not read our overview anymore because it was just too hard to repeatedly endure details of the disparity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians on almost all health indicators.

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).

In examining how the use of communication channels in LDR is associated with relationship outcomes, we focus on relationship satisfaction because it is a central construct studied in literature on relationships (Fincham, Rogge, & Beach, 2006), and has been highly linked to other indicators of relationship quality such as commitment, love, and relationship maintenance (e.g., Anderson & Emmers - Sommer, 2006; Hendrick, 1988) and to individual health outcomes (Proulx, Helms, & Buehler, 2007).

Because of these rapid health gains in the general population, and despite some significant health gains being made by Indigenous peoples in the 1970s and 1980s, the relative health status of the two population groups is marked by a significant equality gap that has remained static or even grown wider across a number of indicators as set out below in the text under various sub-headings.

V is an indicator of the health of the rental market because it actually represents the difference between the demand and supply in the market.