Sentences with phrase «mortality experienced by»

This difference in treatment explains a large part of the 15 percent higher mortality experienced by African - American patients than non-Hispanic white patients.

In general the life insurance underwriter wants to know if you are actively increasing your mortality experience by having a good time.

Not exact matches

Takeaway for me is that the pain / suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own...

But because the society of our fellowmen, intimate or remote, is marked by the same mortality which is ours as persons, while the whole sweep of history as we experience and know it is also a mortal history — under the sign of death — any appraisal made in this way is also limited and partial.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

«If governments spent one cent more on social services per dollar spent on health by rearranging money between the two portfolios, life expectancy could have experienced an additional 5 % increase and potentially avoidable mortality could have experienced an additional 3 % decrease in one year.»

Possibly as a result of these societal barriers, since 1980 the Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe have both experienced increases in maternal mortality rates — in Zimbabwe deaths have jumped by 5.5 percent each year in the past two decades, in part because of low female social status and ongoing political conflict.

Furthermore, disruption of the body's natural sleeping and waking cycle (circadian desynchrony) often experienced by shift workers and others who work outside daylight hours, also appears to have a clear association with poor metabolic health, accompanied by increased rates of chronic illness and early mortality.

The researchers identified high - quality hospitals by using two common measures of surgical quality: 30 - day surgical mortality rates and patient reported experience with care.

Since 1995, Dr. Maharaj has been applying his academic experience and performing evidence - based chemotherapy treatment and bone marrow stem cell transplant procedures on a completely outpatient setting, with the main purpose of improving patients» safety by minimizing the risks of mortality associated with hospital - acquired infections and, ultimately, improving quality of life.

I was mesmerized by the seemingly cheap valuation and actuarial studies that indicated that mortality experience was a little better than expected.

Moreover, the cash value may be affected by your insurance company's financial results or experience, which can be influenced by mortality rates, expenses, and investment earnings.

Millions of women in the U.S. experience physical violence by an intimate partner every year, according to a study cited in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in September 2014.

She wishes to create links through her work to elements of human experience, particularly by engaging with emotional experience and familiar physical objects which are related to themes of nostalgia, hope, pleasure, despair and mortality.

As a series, its starting point is one directly informed by the artist's highly personal experience of childbirth from which relational questions pertaining to transience, permanence, and mortality are explored.

Expanding upon the ideas he laid out in The United States of Jasper Johns, published in 1996 by Zoland Books, Yau traces the ways that the artist's work conveys a connection to the common experience — a «sense of life» that encompasses thoughts, memory, consumption, excretion, life, death, time and mortality.

Talking to Hambling surrounded by the paintings of the recently deceased Hodgkin was a profoundly moving experience as I had just come hot foot from Hambling's latest exhibition, Edge at Marlborough Fine Arts, which deals face on with motifs of mortality.

The death of originality in art that Fabo criticizes is certainly connected with our loss of faith in progress, which we experience as a kind of personal death, now that we recognize that individual mortality is not redeemed by the belief in a society constantly moving to a better state.

In a 2013 paper in Science, Brian Tucker, the founder of GeoHazards International, illustrated the problem by noting that the mortality rate of Haitians in areas severely shaken by the 2010 Port - au - Prince earthquake was 100 times higher than the rate in areas experiencing similar shaking in Chile's great earthquake the same year.

The most vulnerable nations in the assessment undertaken by Brooks et al. (2005)(using mortality from climate - related disasters as an indication of climate outcomes) were those situated in sub-Saharan Africa and those that have recently experienced conflict.

Although heat stress in 2004 was lower at Butaritari than at Abaiang and North Tarawa, massive Porites sp. corals at Butaritari experienced more severe bleaching as indicated by skeletal extension rate reductions and the occurrence of partial mortality scars.

According to the proposed rule, climate change is the most important threat to these key ocean species, with more than 97 percent of reefs predicted to experience severe thermal stress, which can cause massive bleaching and mortality, by 2050.

The fragile population experiences a high mortality rate for both adult and juvenile birds, the Center for Biological Diversity reports, and is threatened in several ways — most notably by the efforts of nearby Prescott, Arizona, to remove water from the Upper Verde River.

Moreover, the cash value may be affected by your insurance company's financial results or experience, which can be influenced by mortality rates, expenses, and investment earnings.

And with older life insurance policies (issued before the 1941 CSO table), the situation was / is even worse; those policies rely on the original mortality tables first widely adopted by U.S. life insurance companies in the 1860s — the American Experience mortality table — which had a maximum age of 96 (which means those policies will mature at age 96).

Typically, insurers calculate the revised premium by accounting for the actual mortality, interest and expenses experienced.

An agent thinks they need to present the lowest price to win the business of a client and the only way they can lower the price and keep the same face amount is by putting all of the weight of the policy on assumptions about interest, mortality experience and company performance as opposed to putting the health of the policy all in the guaranteed column.

While many life insurance policies provide that the insurance carrier may increase policy charges under specified circumstances (generally defined broadly by reference to the company's expectations regarding future mortality, investment, expense and persistency experience), this discretion is very rarely exercised.

The federal Healthy Start initiative, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) addresses racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes by supporting projects in communities that experience high infant mortality rates.

Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal children and adolescents experience higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide rates that are several times higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the high rates of premature mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.

Her fellow Co-Chair, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda said it is heartening to see rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child mortality are decreasing at over three times the rate experienced by other Australians.

Furthermore, the Committee, despite recent studies suggesting that Indigenous infant mortality has declined in the past years, remains concerned at the disparity in the health status between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and at unequal access to health care experienced by children living in rural and remote areas.