Sentences with phrase «of mortality experience»

Record linkage provides a mechanism to help reduce the under - reporting of deaths among indigenous peoples in official statistics, and allows adjustment of historical data to obtain improved estimates of the mortality experience of indigenous peoples.

It provides a mechanism to help reduce the under - reporting of deaths among indigenous peoples in official statistics, and allows adjustment of historical data to obtain improved estimates of the mortality experience of indigenous peoples.

Also, insurers who have launched term insurance products in recent years have the benefit of a few years of mortality experience in the Indian market as well as updated mortality tables.

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...

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

He is the author of Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality and The Authenticity of Faith: The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience.

His books include Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality and The Authenticity of Faith: The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience.

Instead of understanding, as James le Fanu writes, that «the implications of mortality are intrinsic to a proper grasp of the human experience», we choose to sanitise the things of death, including the language we use to describe it (in Last Things, Tablet, 29 November 2014, p. 28).

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.

At a time when our primordial trust has been weakened due to our experience of suffering, mortality, guilt and the threat of meaninglessness, an encounter with this picture is capable of allowing us to trust once again that we are cared for and that reality is not indifferent to our deepest longings.

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.

That experience left Petty with a cut on the forehead and a dislocated shoulder, but with no intimations of mortality.

This may in part stem from misleading reporting of research (21) results but in fact, formula - fed babies experience higher rates of morbidity and mortality than their breastfed counterparts, even in industrialized countries.

Not surprisingly, since the women who experienced complications during attempted VBAC were included in the C - section group instead of the VBAC group, the risk of maternal mortality was elevated in the C - section group.

Other benefits of this early breastfeeding experience include helping the infant feel more secure, reducing infant mortality through the numerous immunological properties of human milk, and encouraging a longer period of breastfeeding.

• 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

But sometimes it's a good exercise to have them state clearly in their own words that they oppose improving the conditions of home birth and feel that experience is better than decreased mortality.

On the other hand, John Bonacic is 72 and certainly has had ample opportunity to develop the understanding of mortality and illness which only age and experience brings to you.

A grandfather's access to a plentiful food supply affected the mortality rates of his grandsons only, not those of his granddaughters, and a paternal grandmother's experience of feast affected the mortality rates of her granddaughters, not her grandsons.

In addition, Luthar and Cicolla cite other studies showing moms of early adolescents are likely experiencing their own developmental challenges as they begin to recognize declines in physical abilities, cognitive functioning and increased awareness of mortality.

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.

Participants who experienced the decline in VA of one letter on an acuity chart were expected to have a 16 percent increase in mortality risk during the 8 - year study because of associated declines in IADL levels.

«We expect to see a renewed focus on these as surgical techniques and surgical experience with living donor transplants continues to increase, mortality rates improve and greater evidence exists showing the benefit of living donor liver transplant surgeries.»

«With a scarcity of organs and an ever growing need, living donor transplants are underused and can alleviate long transplant wait lists while decreasing waiting list mortality, with outcomes that can be as good, and when performed at an experienced center, potentially better for living donor recipients,» says Goldberg.

However, afterlife beliefs helped to preserve hope, even among those with low esteem who experience hopelessness when faced with the prospect of their own mortality.

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.

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

Nests that didn't experience one of those conditions had a mortality rate of only 29.6 percent.

«This is one of the first studies to provide evidence suggesting that experiences long after exposure to abuse can mitigate the mortality risks associated with early abuse,» said Jessica Chiang, lead author of the study.

Residents also experience high rates of adult and childhood obesity, diabetes, HIV / AIDS, and mortality from diabetes, coronary disease, and cerebrovascular disease.

«Combined impact of smoking, early menopause on mortality: Current smokers who experienced early menopause expected to die 2.6 years earlier.»

Crouch and his colleagues found that those in the low PVR group had lower mortality (0 vs. 1.1 %) and fewer complications, including delirium (7.8 % vs. 14.9 %), pneumonia / tracheobronchitis (6.3 % vs. 15.5 %), and a statistically significant lower rate of reperfusion lung injury (7.8 % vs. 25.9 %), The low PVR group also experienced statistically significant recoveries, with less time spent on the ventilator (1.7 vs. 3.2 days), in the ICU (4 vs. 5.8 days) and in the hospital (13 vs. 16.3 days).

Promoting positive birth experiences for women and their families, and providing clinics with adequate resources and trained staff are essential factors to improve the quality of care for mothers and newborns and is critical to further reduce the burden of morbidity and mortality and to reach the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Human beings — who, like hamsters, are also mammals and vertebrates — are remarkably seasonal, Prendergast added, citing a long, astonishing list of universal human experiences that have a seasonal component, including birth, death, suicide, viral infections, mortality from bacterial infections, sleep patterns and sudden infant death syndrome, even though industrial societies buffer humans from contributory factors.

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.

«No comprehensive information has been published on the mortality experience of U.S. Gulf War era veterans after the year 2000,» according to the report.

At least 30 % of those with chronic HBV infection experience significant morbidity or mortality, including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.

«We have shown that species with larger brains relative to their body size experience lower mortality than species with smaller brains, supporting the general importance of the cognitive buffer hypothesis in the evolution of large brains.»

They also required more transfusions, experienced more infections requiring antibiotics (P =.03), and experienced a higher rate of 60 - day postoperative mortality (3.1 % vs 0.9 %; P =.049).

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.

Whitehead Institute scientists report that patients whose estrogen receptor (ER)- positive breast cancers have high levels of an ancient cellular survival factor experience poor outcomes — including increased mortality.

Researchers note an 87 % 8 - year survival rate for those who were nonsmokers compared with smokers who experienced an 83 % 8 - year survival rate with a mortality hazard ratio of 2.08 (95 % CI, 1.4 — 3.1; P <.001); however, the effects of smoking were also based on advancing age and other comorbidities.

What it found was that between the ages of 50 and 65, risk was increased in people who ate a protein - rich diet, whereas in people over 65 years old experienced a decrease in mortality.

Individuals undergoing dialysis can experience toxic build - up of these protein - bound compounds (namely indoxyl sulfate and p - cresol), which are linked to increased infections, cardiovascular disease and mortality of dialysis patients.

Male smokers supplementing with beta - carotene have been shown experience increased risk of lung cancer and mortality.

«Shorter people experience lower BMI, lower levels of various risk factors for CHD, diabetes, and all - cause mortality, such as glucose, insulin, IGF - 1, CRP, homocysteine, Apo B, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and LDL; however, they experience higher levels of desirable HDL, Apo A and SHBG.»

They did and highlighted the experience in Finland where «a successful nationwide health project to lower the very high rate of CHD mortality, started in 1972, had as a major goal the reduction in the high intake of saturated fat.

People experiencing sleep insufficiency are also more likely to suffer from chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, depression, and obesity, as well as from cancer, increased mortality, and reduced quality of life and productivity.

The life - altering experience of going to war often focuses the romantic mind... When you are reminded of your own mortality, the theory kind of boils down to, you remember what's most important to you, which is relationships.

He experiences the highs and lows of life on the road, eventually facing up to his own mortality.