Sentences with phrase «health inequalities without»

The authors warn that Australia will not address Indigenous health inequalities without a specific focus on adolescents, who make up one - third of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.

First, we can no longer accept the making of commitments to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality without putting into place processes and programs to match the stated commitments.

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Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

Specifically, key parameters of the Human System, such as fertility, health, migration, economic inequality, unemployment, GDP per capita, resource use per capita, and emissions per capita, must depend on the dynamic variables of the Human — Earth coupled system.26 Not including these feedbacks would be like trying to make El Niño predictions using dynamic atmospheric models but with sea surface temperatures as an external input based on future projections independently produced (e.g., by the UN) without feedbacks.

Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,136].

Without effectively addressing these underlying causes of health inequality, disease or condition - focused programs are not likely to result in sustainable changes.

The report noted that Australian governments had made commitments to address Indigenous health inequality but always without a specified time frame and accordingly, without any deadlines or sense of urgency.