Sentences with phrase «other bad health outcomes»

That debate, in case you're wondering, continues still, with some contending that the practice has led to cancer and other bad health outcomes.

Not exact matches

He noted that the more a state spends, the worse its health outcomes are; the U.S, which spends 18 % of its GDP and more than any other nation, has similarly poor results.

Inequalities in health, education and other outcomes persist - and in some cases are getting worse.

The study confirmed that the U.S. has substantially higher spending, worse population health outcomes, and worse access to care than other wealthy countries.

For now, about all that researchers are certain of is that artificial light at night distorts our circadian rhythms and is associated with all sorts of bad health outcomes, perhaps for no other reason than that we're up and about, eating and drinking, at a time when we should be sleeping.

Although sleep apnea and other conditions can make for low - quality sleep, which can then also lead to heart disease, Mehra suggests that there is ample data that show people who began as normal weight and healthy but did not get enough sleep, over time developed worse health outcomes.

Poorer children have worse cognitive, social - behavioural and health outcomes because they are poor, and not just because poverty is correlated with other household and parental characteristics, according to a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

«But we are living in a time where we spend more money on health care than other developed countries and our outcomes are worse.

Reporting only aggregated adherence rates could create an incentive to avoid groups with worse outcomes rather than undertaking interventions to improve their care.41 Some health plans or clinicians may avoid enrolling minority patients, for whom performance rates are typically lower.42, 43 Stratifying performance rates by race, ethnicity, or other demographic characteristics may mitigate such undesired effects by not penalizing organizations that disproportionately treat minority patients.

For that, the U.S. health system generally delivers worse health outcomes than any other developed country, all of which spend on average about half what we do per person.

If I am foolish enough not to look at other relevant data that would affect the outcome of my assertion, then that is what I am, a fool, though Fred Singer would simply smile and say, no, «the world is flat»; «smoking is not bad for your health»; CFC's do not harm the ozone... you need to check the source and the history behind the source to get more perspective.

Even though the area had worse health outcomes and fewer transit options than many other parts of the City, a disproportionately lower number of Bedford Stuyvesant residents were taking advantage of the mobility and health benefits of bike share.

The indicators of childhood deprivation and development focused on indications of disadvantage since it is these groups who experience the worst adult health outcomes, whereas several other studies also distinguish particularly advantaged childhood circumstances which increase the gradients observed.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people already suffer worse outcomes from cancer than other Australians, and these are guaranteed to increase into the future if the health measures outlined in the government budget are implemented.

In almost all instances where mental health outcomes were explored, children of parents with BPD fared worse than control children, even when these control children had parents with significant mental health difficulties, for example, Weiss et al33 found that children of mothers with BPD (mean age around 11 years) had lower Child Global Assessment Schedule (CGAS) scores than children of mothers with other personality disorders, and that the mean of these scores was in the «non-functional» range.

Wilkinson and Pickett (2007) and others have shown that greater levels of inequity are associated with worse health and social outcomes.

Paying Later: The High Costs of Failing to Invest in Young Children (PDF - 220 KB) Pew Center on the States, Partnership for America's Economic Success (2011) Reports the findings of a study that explored the social costs caused by an array of bad outcomes, including child abuse and neglect, high school dropouts, criminal activity, teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, and other health problems, and how these costs could be reduced by investing in evidence - based early childhood programs.