Sentences with phrase «of social diseases»

Injection of the vaccine will only hurt for a second, and it will help to cure a diversity of social diseases.

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The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

Founder and CEO Social Capital LP and Golden State Warriors Owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a mission which is, «To advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems including the advancement of human capital, the eradication of disease, solutions to global climate change, and other really difficult things that are non obvious.»

One patient in the trial, Alan Hoffman, a professor emeritus of social science education at Georgia State University, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1997.

«The top three weighted criteria are political and social environment, medical and health considerations, and public services and transport,» explains Griffiths, adding that criteria cover factors such as ease of entry and exit, air pollution, and risk of disease.

Though the Canadian Business of the 1930s covered many topics that wouldn't seem out of place in the 21st century — rising taxes, truth in advertising, the imminent death of the airline industry — it also ran many stories the editors of 2013 likely would never touch («The story of safety glass») or would at least think twice about («The «social» diseases and business: what is syphilis costing Canada?»).

AIDS is a contagious, fatal disease which has been associated with homosexuality — a highly potent combination of medical and social taboos.

Pregnancy, however, falls comfortably into none of the usual definitions of disease: it is not a state inimical to the way one is supposed to feel; it is not a condition in which body components and systems are acting inharmoniously (to the contrary, infertility would more likely fall within that definition); it is not a state of abnormality — for the pregnant woman functions satisfactorily within society, and the social and physical environment tolerates the pregnant woman perfectly.

One of - the most dreaded diseases in all societies has been leprosy, because of its social stigma.

The social dynamic of AA has helped me more then the spiritual side of it but I'm using all the ammo I can get to help me with this chronic disease I have.

There are many reasons to think ill of s.ex, regardless of virginity, e.g. disease, environmental impact, social disruption of promiscuity, etc., however, that was not my point.

since God made homosexuals, and all these heterosexuals keep producing gay kids and we have evidence of homosexuality occurring in another animals as well as neuroscience and social sciences since 1963 stating that being gay isn't a disease but a natural orientation and since the writers of the bible would have no clue that it could be an orientation (just as they could have no idea that the world isn't flat, not up on pillars, nor is it surrounded by water, nor was the earth created from a leviathan carcass) thus it is permissible and subject to the same statutes heterosexuals are.

However, most of the cases of undeserved suffering come mixed, with individual human choices, social forces, and physical factors all combined — as in war, poverty, premature or violent death, disease, mental breakdowns, and the like.

Do you think reclaiming a broader, more political understanding of Catholic social teaching is part of the cure for this disease?

Tocqueville employs this insight to describe the emotional detachment that comes from the modern, democratic erosion of the social ties that have aristocratically or traditionally bound people to each other: Individualism, Tocqueville explains, is the «heart disease» that causes apathetic, asocial immersion in the present.

He remarks that «Nietzschean morality perversely transposes all values and raises the disease of social life, conflict, to the eminence of the criterion of all values.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

Just as tracking physiological diseases back to parasites and microbes had begun to eliminate the sources of many medical ailments, so tracking social pathology — crime, pauperism, dipsomania, and «feeblemindedness,» a catch - all term for intellectual disabilities — back to defective genes would allow us to attack it at its source.

Best Reflection: Jenny Rae Armstrong at Red Letter Christians with «Liberia, The Nobel Peace Prize, and Me» «That's when I realized that violence against women isn't a social problem; it is a spiritual problem, a highly - contagious disease that eats away at the hearts, souls, minds and bodies of humanity.

To make such a distinction requires a carefully circumscribed definition of health, one quite different from the famous definition once given by the World Health Organization: «a state of complete physical, mental, and social well - being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.»

Escalating cycles of retaliation are the original social disease.

I am a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) in New York State and as an LMSW, and an individual with Celiac Disease, I'm determined to assist gluten free individuals understand and take a hold of their diet.

Nutrition and healthy life styles have always been an interest of mine, but it wasn't until I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in March 2010, and became a social work graduate student, that I truly realized the importance of both and my interest in advancing global health grew.

The Healthy Start product line is a result of Hendrickson's belief that his company has a social responsibility to help Jamaicans minimize heart and heart - related diseases.

The main task of the ECS is to improve the quality of life of coeliac patients with following activities: protecting the interests of coeliac patients, informing the public about coeliac disease and glutenfree food and it's regulations, cooperation with medical staff, cooperation with food manufacturers and HoReCa, Crossed - Grain Symbol trademark licensing in Estonia, finding new opportunities for glutenfree products, dissemination of coeliac information, organising training courses, cooperation with other social organisations.

Productivity: limited knowledge of farming techniques, limited access to planting materials, pests and disease Environmental: climate change, aging trees, unfertile soil Social: limited access to education, gender inequality, fewer leadership roles for women Financial: poverty, lack of access to finance

and a job aswel ye bum your mothers sick of cleaning up your shit after you ya big 45 year old social disease.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

If your loved one has both Alzheimer's disease and a financial need, Medicaid might pick up part of the cost of respite care and a senior with Social Security disability benefits may qualify for some home health care.

And do you really not grasp the fact that for a variety of reasons — many of which are linked to high levels of social and economic inequality, and none of which have anything to do with the skill of obstetricians — heart disease is more prevalent in the US than the Netherlands?

Finally, on September 30th, the New York Times reported on a telephone survey of over 1,000 former NFL players conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and commissioned by league which found, alarmingly, that former players were being diagnosed with Alzheimer's or similar memory - related diseases at a rate 19 times higher than the normal rate for men aged 30 through 49.

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

BMBFA's consultants have been outsourced by many agencies including; The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, The U.S. Office on Women's Health, The United States Breastfeeding Committee, Ramsey County W.I.C., All About Lactation, Delaware Department of Community Health and Social Services, Rush Medical Center, Louisville Department of Public Health and Wellness, Kentuckiana Lactation Improvement Coalition, Colorado WIC Program, Illinois Department of Health, United States Lactation Consultant Association, Saint Mary's Health Care, Michigan Department of Community Health and University of Minnesota.

A study released in the Archives of Disease in Childhood revealed that breastfeeding may be helpful in improving a child's chances of climbing the social ladder and effectively navigating other challenges that may occur as adults.

What I do advocate is hard thinking on the part of Muslims on how to come out of this social bind, or as some have alleged, this disease.

One example of how social media can affect parenting style and decision making is presented in an article describing the power of social media to influence parents» decisions to vaccinate their children against disease.

By working closely in a team of compassionate caregivers including Pediatric Cardiology, Child Life Specialists and Social Workers, we are able to provide you and your family the resources and expertise you need to understand this disease and what it means for your child.

The European Health Forum Gastein (2012) on behalf of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control discussing vaccination and the role of social media

Household income has been shown to interact with child growth in Brazil.21 A US study of diarrhoeal disease found no interaction between breast feeding and household income.8 Household income, like social class, may not be a good marker of transmission risk.

We work with those who are recovering from disability and disease, those who are working to overcome mental health challenges, those who need support with healthy living and lifestyle changes, and those who are experiencing barriers to being able to fully participate in the physical or social - emotional aspects of their workplace.

Oh yeah, how come wives get so ticked off about husbands seeing prostitutes, especially when they bring home social diseases or whatever as a result of their little adventures?

The Council Conclusions stress that harmful use of alcohol is recognised as an important risk factor in the need to reduce the burden of alcohol - related avoidable deaths, chronic diseases, injuries, violence, health inequalities and other social consequences to third parties.

The NSITF is a social insurance scheme designed to provide compensation to employees who suffer from occupational accidents or diseases in the line of duty.

The Donald J. Trump Foundation gave away $ 158,250 in 2014 to fight cancer and other diseases, many of which target children, and donated $ 141,000 to groups that promote conservative social policy he would espouse in his presidential campaign a year later, state and federal records show.

The move, which forms part of the corporate social responsibility of Zoomlion is also geared towards helping reduce communicable diseases and other diseases that are contracted through excessive filth in the cities.

President John Dramani Mahama has condemned the irresponsible use of social media to spread fear and panic on the Ebola disease in Ghana.

The move which forms part of the corporate social responsibility of the leading waste management company in the sub region is also geared toward helping reduce communicable diseases and other diseases that are contracted through excessive filth in the cities.

Apart from the obvious obstacle they pose to economic and social development, these diseases are the cause of enormous human suffering and high death counts.

Advances in neuroscience have enabled researchers to learn more about how the adolescent brain functions, from the everyday behavior of teenagers to how they cope with the challenges of disease, learning problems, and social cues.

And the size and representative nature of the study prompt the authors to conclude that their findings «indicate that social isolation, similarly to other risk factors such as depression, can be regarded as a risk factor for poor prognosis of individuals with cardiovascular disease.»