Sentences with phrase «other key areas contributing»

There have also been improvements in other key areas contributing to Aboriginal health, such as a decrease in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women smoking during pregnancy, fewer low birth weight babies, and a 26 % decline in age - standardised death rates for respiratory disease in NSW, Queensland, WA, SA and NT between 1998 and 2012.

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John Smart, CIHT's Director of Professional & Business Development who chaired the event said: «The transport sector is an area that stimulates economic recovery whilst contributing to other key agendas such as carbon reduction and developing a healthier nation.

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].