Sentences with phrase «of populations in developed countries»

Even more convincing is the increasing body of evidence suggesting that over the last generation, various factors have increased the propensity of populations in developed countries to save and reduced their propensity to invest.

Such an in - depth analysis of gene expression may help clarify the course and origin of common liver disorders, including liver cancer and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which affects about a fifth of the population in developed countries.

Even though much of the population in developing countries is involved in agriculture, food security is virtually out of reach.

While gluten provides no adverse affects for the average American, research shows that 1 % of the population in developed countries have a disorder called Celiac disease in which gluten becomes a enemy of the body.

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«I do think that a significant portion of the population of developed countries, and eventually all countries, will have AR experiences every day, almost like eating three meals a day, it will become that much a part of you,» Apple CEO Tim Cook said last month in Utah.

Rapid population growth is a pervasive fact of life in less - developed countries today — a form of social change so typical, and at the same time so profound, that it may spuriously be associated with almost any other social phenomenon of the present generation.

A rate of population increase of 4 percent is considered extremely rapid; a rate of price inflation of 4 percent a year is, in most developing countries today, considered to be fortuitously slow.

Today 75 per cent of the world's population live in developing countries; by the year 2000 some 79 per cent will be living in those countries.

Let's work through the ABCs of these classic controversies: Contraception: A. «The use of contraception in the West has led to a stabilising of the population... However, in less developed countries, the population is rising by as much as 3 \ % a year... This is placing great pressures on food supplies, health services and education».

Pushed incessantly by figures like the World Bank's McNamara, the idea that nations could become rich only if they moved to control their population rates became an article of faith among Western and Western - educated intellectuals in Asia — a faith backed up by aid dollars linked to the willingness of recipient countries to develop control measures.

Dr Alex Johnson from ACPFG said, «Rice is the primary source of food for roughly half of the world's population, particularly in developing countries, yet the polished grain, also known as white rice, contains insufficient concentrations of iron, zinc and pro-vitamin A to meet daily nutritional requirements.

As such, I've developed recipes from all over the world, highlighting the unique ancestral makeup of the US population (and giving similar consideration for readers living in countries with historically high immigration, like Canada and Australia).

Rapid growth in coffee production in South America during the second half of the 19th century was matched by growth in consumption in developed countries, though nowhere has this growth been as pronounced as in the United States, where high rate of population growth was compounded by doubling of per capita consumption between 1860 and 1920.

Increasing appetite for meat and population growth in developing countries mean global meat consumption is on track to increase 75 % by 2050, which would make it virtually impossible to keep global warming below the internationally - agreed limit of 2C.

In other words, obstetricians are faced with a population that suffers poorer health than other developed countries, yet manage to save the lives of the babies under their care at a comparatively higher rate.

The combined population of more - developed countries other than the U.S. is projected to decline beginning in 2016, raising the prospect of prolonged budget crises as the number of working - age citizens diminish, pension costs rise and tax revenues fall.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

This is one explanation for why developed countries, whose mothers breastfeed for shorter durations (or not at all) and have fewer children in their lifetimes, have higher rates of breast cancer among their populations.

The guidelines contain an overview of international policy, goals and guidelines; background on HIV and infant feeding; current recommendations for HIV - positive women and considerations relating to different feeding options; an overview of the process of developing or revising a national policy on infant and young child feeding incorporating HIV concerns; considerations for countries considering the provision of free or low - cost infant formula; suggestions for protecting, promoting and supporting appropriate infant feeding in the general population; key issues in supporting HIV - positive women in their infant feeding decisions; and considerations on monitoring and evaluation.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

Moyo was thus uncriticically regurgitating the old Malthusian argument about «tragedies of the commons» occurring, mostly in developing countries, with population growth and environmental factors as the cause of growing poverty and civil strife.

The population of patients overwhelms the population of available doctors, hence, the available doctors are overworked while some patients die or face critical conditions while waiting in long hospital queues to meet with a doctor.The World Economic Forum has suggested that it would take economically developing countries 300 years with the existing infrastructure to achieve the same doctor to patient ratio that exist in many western countries.

«One in five people in the country will be over the age of 65 by 2030, but in many respects, the communities we've developed over the past 40 years do not accommodate the housing, neighborhood and mobility needs of an aging population.

By the end of the 20th century, «many countries, especially in the more developed regions, had already achieved population structures older than any ever seen in human history,» says a report, World Population Ageing: 1950 - 2050, from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

A portable detector would greatly aid efforts to fight the infection in developing countries, particularly parts of Asia and Africa where as much as 40 percent of the population carries the microbe, says Robert Belknap, a physician and TB expert at the Denver Health Medical Center in Colorado.

The report also finds what appear to be consistent differences between the gut microbial population — also called the microbiota — of individuals in developed countries like the U.S. and those the developing world and provides some of the most complete evidence that the gut microbiota usually return to normal after cholera infection.

The population study findings, including those from the JACC study, suggest that even the partial inactivation of ANGPTL3 — carriers typically have one mutant copy of the gene and one working copy — may be powerfully protective against coronary artery disease, which has long been one of the leading causes of death in developed countries.

Clearly, the best strategy to curb future population growth is to speed up the «demographic transition» in developing countries — and this transition towards women having fewer babies is inextricably linked both with increasing levels of prosperity and with urbanisation.

In addition, all five participating Latin American countries are interested in getting NCI's help to develop molecular profiles of breast cancer in their patients, which could elucidate how breast cancer varies from population to population, and how best to treat iIn addition, all five participating Latin American countries are interested in getting NCI's help to develop molecular profiles of breast cancer in their patients, which could elucidate how breast cancer varies from population to population, and how best to treat iin getting NCI's help to develop molecular profiles of breast cancer in their patients, which could elucidate how breast cancer varies from population to population, and how best to treat iin their patients, which could elucidate how breast cancer varies from population to population, and how best to treat it.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

Providing access to contraception for 215 million women, mainly in developing countries, would help to stabilize population growth and significantly reduce the effects of climate change, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says in a report today.

Although the change is most pronounced in the developing world, the US remains the fattest country with 71 per cent of its population obese or overweight.

While most cases of TB occur in developing countries, it is also reemerging as a threat in major urban populations in Europe, due to the increase in global travel.

That's why Ehrlich and Pringle call for educating women, which has slowed or stopped population growth in the developed countries of Europe.

Although poor countries have some of the world's highest fertility rates, growth in consumption exceeds growth in population in developing and developed countries.

The report also recommends efforts to develop systematics expertise in poorer tropical countries, which contain three - quarters of the world's human population and 80 per cent of its species, but only 6 per cent of its scientists.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Rich countries now contribute 16 per cent of funding for population measures in developing countries.

As at previous population conferences in 1974 and 1984, national delegates will spend the best part of ten days trying to reach consensus on a programme of action to improve access to contraception for women in developing countries and Eastern Europe.

When implemented with other social and economic improvements, family planning is one of the most effective ways of managing increases in population growth and for delivering extensive health benefits, in both developed and poor countries.

The finding is good news for the gloomy field of human population projection, but growth will have to slow substantially in developing countries if global numbers are to peak at an estimated 9 billion people.

Shrinking populations in developed countries can maintain comfortable standards of living.

Yet newly released population data from the U.N. show that developed countries, from the U.S. to Spain, have been experiencing (at least up through the beginnings of the economic crisis in 2008), if not baby booms, at least reproductive «rat - a-tat-tats.»

For the first time since the 1970s, the average number of children born to U.S. women has topped 2.1 — the number at which parents replace themselves in the populations of developed and many developing countries.

Those 65 and older will account for 17 percent of the U.S. population by 2030, and those age 85 and older represent the fastest growing group in developed countries.1, 2

It is the most common liver disorder in developed countries — affecting approximately 20 % of the United States population and 25 - 30 % of people in the UK.

As the global population increases and demand for fish protein rises — particularly in developing countries — more fisheries are chasing smaller fish populations in hopes of recouping higher prices for their efforts.

According to project co-director Fisk, 80 % of the world's population will be living in cities by 2030, many in developing countries.

Although the statement concentrates on developing nations, Norman Myers of Green College, Oxford, stresses the implications of population growth in developed countries.