Sentences with phrase «issues of mortality»

Evaluate issues of mortality, uncertainty, and transience and the experience of the Arrow of Time in support of temporal integration

Most recently, I became interested in issues of mortality, vulnerability and the power of the human spirit, I started working in glass because it allows one to look below the surface.

Robert Grant is a Fluxus inspired artist working with issues of mortality, whimsey and transcendence.

The social and cultural climate, heady as it was with issues of mortality, could be said to have created an international artistic climate preoccupied with death.

The resulting images amplify issues of mortality and isolation, defiance and compassion.

He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1991, and his work shifted from more formal and abstract paintings to issues of mortality and anonymous portraits, while still engaged in color and light.

Similarly, Martin Kippenberger's Baby Püppi uses dark humor to address issues of mortality and artistic legacy.

Often accompanied by classical music, van der Werve's videos are mesmerizing tableaux in which the artist touches upon issues of mortality, sublime beauty, and the impossible feat to defy the inexorable course of nature.

This is thanks to Morwenna Banks» spot - on screenplay, which mines the joyful highs and soul - searching lows of the situation, and Catherine Hardwicke's direction, which revels in the bliss of sisterhood and unflinchingly confronts issues of mortality and loss.

Not exact matches

If issues of survival, or even of mortality, intrude, one's leisure experience is aborted.

So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.

Their pagan dread of mortality issues in an equally pagan desire for earthly life to continue beyond death.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

The campaign event was ignited off the back of the public and political pressure created by the broadcast of video images on 60 Minutes supplied to the media outlet by Animals Australia showing issues with heat stress related mortalities for sheep, on a 2017 shipment to the Middle East.

It says, «despite this tremendous overall improvement, maternal mortality continues to be a significant public health issue and commands an enormous amount of attention.»

Still, the optimistic outlook for May - December marriages may be masking the mortality issue; who knows how many might have ended in divorce if hubby hadn't died first, notes a 2005 government study of United Kingdom marriages since 1963.

The new study, Perinatal mortality and severe morbidity in low and high risk term pregnancies in the Netherlands: prospective cohort study, appears in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal.

Communities around the world are taking the lead of Finland, where the Baby Box has been issued to all families on the birth of a baby for over 75 years, a practice that led to a dramatic decrease in infant mortality, and is now embedded in a societal support for parents and children that extends well beyond the newborn period.

The main issues in Australia regarding homebirth centre around the risks to the baby, with higher perinatal mortality rates reported in some studies of homebirth [14, 15] however these studies have included women with risk factors (e.g., twins, medical complications), so it is difficult to draw conclusions about low - risk women [14, 16].

To address this issue WHO is today launching two new tools to help countries improve their data on stillbirths and neonatal deaths as well as a report on the global status of implementation of maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR), a key strategy for reducing preventable maternal mortality.

* Issue 38, Aug - Oct 2005 Insert 1 - 1st International Training Course on Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Insert 2 - Anatomy of a Successful Campaign Insert 3 - Fighting an Old Battle in a New World Insert 4 - 2005 World Summit Outcome Insert 5 - High mortality & malnutrition affect Muslim children most says UN children's agency

The state of maternity care in the US is pretty shocking (c - section rates, unnecessary inductions, separating mom / baby, maternal mortality stats, etc.) compared to other developed countries and if we can make this a health issue that is discussed far before conception it would be amazing.

The rates fell short of the Healthy People 2010 targets of 75 percent, 50 percent, and 25 percent, respectively, the researchers reported in the March 26 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

In order to address the issue of child mortality and malnutrition, preparatory work is underway to earmark disbursements for pregnant women and mothers of children under the age of one.

«Though we can't yet explain the association between infertility and mortality, it is possible that the condition may be an early indicator of either endocrine or inflammatory disruption that over time, leads to long term health issues such as malignancy or diabetes.»

His juxtaposition of insights from his favorite professor — a witty and grounded Jesuit priest facing his own mortality — with magician David Copperfield's ruthless quest for the fountain of youth leaves little doubt where Gollner stands on the issue, but it may make some Immortalists rethink their priorities.

No sure mortality estimates exist for the practice, but a report (pdf) issued by the wildlife trade — monitoring organization TRAFFIC estimates that 30 to 55 percent of all birds that enter the wildlife trade do not survive.

The study, «Lipid lowering and mortality and cardiovascular outcomes,» was published in the April 3, 2018, issue of JAMA.

The issues addressed in this program include prevention and treatment of leading causes of maternal, neonatal and pediatric morbidity and mortality, maternal and child nutrition and the role of micronutrients in healthy child bearing, and reproductive health including socio - behavioral aspects, birth practices, and development and evaluation of newer contraceptives.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices last month issued recommendations on how to prioritize distribution of the vaccine if shortages exist, and those were published today in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

A team at the University of Oxford assessed 199 such programmes and found potential welfare issues in two - thirds of them, the most common being mortality, disease and conflict with humans.

«Obesity and infant mortality are among the most critical public health issues today,» said co-author Katherine Himes, M.D., assistant professor in Pitt's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Infections with the intestinal superbug C. difficile nearly doubled from 2001 to 2010 in U.S. hospitals without noticeable improvement in patient mortality rates or hospital lengths of stay, according to a study of 2.2 million C. difficile infection (CDI) cases published in the October issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

In a study appearing in the November 22/29 issue of JAMA, Heidi E. Brown, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona, Tucson, and colleagues investigated trends in infectious disease mortality in the United States from 1980 through 2014.

In a study in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers found that women working rotating night shifts for five or more years appeared to have a modest increase in all - cause and CVD mortality and those working 15 or more years of rotating night shift work appeared to have a modest increase in lung cancer mortality.

Writing in the September 15 issue of the journal Schizophrenia Research, a team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System analyzed all eight published longitudinal studies of mortality in schizophrenia that met their strict research criteria and found that the mean standardized mortality ratio — a measure of the mortality rate in schizophrenia — had increased 37 percent from pre-1970s studies to post-1970s studies.

«Systematic reviews of all available epidemiologic and immunologic evidence relevant to the issue of the nonspecific effects of vaccines on childhood mortality will be undertaken to decide whether current evidence is sufficient to lead to adjustments in policy recommendations or to warrant further scientific investigation.

«In light of these risks, the FDA has issued warnings of increased mortality regarding antipsychotics in elderly patients with dementia, particularly for «atypical» (or 2nd generation) antipsychotics» said Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D., senior advisor for mental health service, epidemiology and economics at NIMH and one of the co-authors of the report.

At issue is child mortality in developing nations with high rates of HIV infection.

However, this has been ineffective at improving swallowing issues and freezing of gait — symptoms which can lead to disability and mortality in Parkinson's.

Part two of this infant mortality podcast addresses some theories that explain this disparity, including the issues of poverty, education and racism in the African American community.

Liver fibrosis (including its manifestation in liver cirrhosis) is strongly associated with increased mortality, so the development of drugs to control fibrosis is a pressing issue.

An article and an editorial in The BMJ both address the issue of trans fats public health, with the article reporting that bans or labelling or food with trans fats would reduce deaths from coronary heart disease, inequality from mortality and save money.

Anette E Buyken, Victoria Flood, Marianne Empson, Elena Rochtchina, Alan W Barclay, Jennie Brand - Miller, Paul Mitchell; Carbohydrate nutrition and inflammatory disease mortality in older adults, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 92, Issue 3, 1 September 2010, Pages 634 — 643, https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2010.29390

While PD does not seem to attract the same amount of attention as Alzheimer's disease, as was mentioned in the beginning of this newsletter, it is still a significant mortality and quality of life issue for millions of Americans.

It's a warm, edgy comedy drama that grapples with issues of illness, mortality and sexuality in fresh, thoughtful ways.

«The Royal Tenenbaums» (2001)-- In some ways, Anderson's «Fantastic Mr. Fox» plays like a lighthearted re-visitation of many of the issues and themes broached in his familial magnum opus: from a deceitful, thrill - seeking father concerned about his mortality and legacy, to children living in the shadows of their relatives and each other and dealing with the jealousy and turmoil that results.

The rate of such births increased from 1 per 10,000 births in 1979 to 3.7 per 10,000 births in 1992, according to the report published in the May 7 issue of the C.D.C.'s «Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.»

Interestingly, at the time, abortion wasn't proscribed as a moral issue the same way it is today; it was criminalized primarily because it was a dangerous practice with very high mortality rates, before the advent of antiseptics and antibiotics.