Sentences with phrase «poor health and environmental»

Revamp and restructure a high - volume manufacturing facility plagued by poor health and environmental safety standards that strained operations and stalled work productivity

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The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

Understanding Changes in Ontario's Electricity Markets and Their Effects finds that poor energy policy choices — including Ontario's Green Energy Act — has increased electricity prices for residents, cost tens of thousands of manufacturing workers their jobs and produced only minimal health and environmental benefits.

Professor Neal has a long - standing research interest in cardiovascular disease and diabetes, including the environmental determinants of high blood pressure and poor cardiovascular health.

*** These environmental stresses negatively influence a child's early experiences and often lead to an increase in mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, poor sleep habits, and behavioral issues.

The top contributors to poor sperm quality include health conditions, genetic abnormalities, environmental exposures and lifestyle behaviors that are known to impact sperm production.

Children in the District of Columbia are at risk of serious health problems stemming from hunger, poor nutrition, inadequate physical activity, and environmental degradation in our community.

Poor communities of color face an array of environmental health threats, including cancer, asthma, diabetes and heart disease.

In general we find that if the international community fails to reach the SDGs then world population growth will be higher, people will be poorer and in worse health, and this larger world population will be more vulnerable to environmental change.»

They point out that poor semen quality «is the leading cause of unsuccessful attempts to achieve pregnancy and one of the most common medical problems among young men... it has been suggested as an important marker of male health, predicting both morbidity and mortality... it is sensitive to environmental exposures, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, heat and life - style factors, such as diet... Therefore, it can provide a sensitive marker of the impacts of modern environment on human health.»

It happens naturally as we age, and younger women can have poor egg health due to inherited reproductive disorders, environmental factors or other medical conditions.

Given these grave health consequences (and the high social, environmental, and ethical costs of current food production systems), the logical step is to break free from processed foods and to replace these poor - quality products with a raw food diet.

Due to nutrient deficiencies, the generally poor quality of our diet, our exposure to environmental toxins, and a number of other factors, Dr. Hyman recommends everyone go on a basic regimen of vitamins and minerals that provide a foundation for long - term health.

Clearly, our current epidemics of mental health problems and developmental disorders like autism and ADD can be traced back to poor nutrition, environmental toxins, and stressful lifestyles, in many cases.

The imbalances that created your digestive health issues have been created over time by issues like stress, poor diet, antibiotics, lack of exercise, allergies, yeast, fatty acid deficiencies, environmental toxins, and more.

by DNAIndia It is well known that faulty diet and poor childhood nutrition are major factors contributing to the swelling number of diabetics in the world, but according to a study published in the German journal Environmental Health Prospect, pollution may also play a part in the spread of Type 2 diabetes.

Increased conversion to estrogen may be due to age, weight gain, poor diet, lack of exercise, high stress, and hypothyroidism, and increased SHBG may occur from increased estrogen exposure (e.g., weight gain, birth control, plastics / environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals), cigarette smoking, hyperthyroid (increased production) stress, and poor liver health (e.g. elevated liver enzymes).

If our immune system becomes overloaded or burdened by excessive stress, poor diet, environmental stressors and such, these organisms can spread throughout the body causing secondary infections and chronic inflammation, leading to any number of health problems.»

They are predominately in ill health due to a combination of: 1) Low physical activity (less than 30 min of vigorous exercise daily), 2) Polluted environmental influences and 3) Poor nutritional intake.

Environmental Injustice: Poor and Minorities Suffer Most from Sick Schools In the second part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines how poor and minority school populations are exposed to more environmental hazards and therefore suffer a disproportionate amount of adverse heEnvironmental Injustice: Poor and Minorities Suffer Most from Sick Schools In the second part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines how poor and minority school populations are exposed to more environmental hazards and therefore suffer a disproportionate amount of adverse health effePoor and Minorities Suffer Most from Sick Schools In the second part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines how poor and minority school populations are exposed to more environmental hazards and therefore suffer a disproportionate amount of adverse health effepoor and minority school populations are exposed to more environmental hazards and therefore suffer a disproportionate amount of adverse heenvironmental hazards and therefore suffer a disproportionate amount of adverse health effects.

The National Association of School Nurses wants to help alert officials and remedy problems associated with poor indoor air quality, noting that it is considered among the top public environmental health risks.

Given the poor quality of life that feral cats typically lead, as well as broader concerns such as environmental impact and public health, the goal of feral cat management programs should be to gradually eliminate feral cat colonies by a process of «aging out» their members.

These food ingredients and other environmental factors are prime sources for poor health.

The causes are generally genetic defects in the immune system, environmental stress and poor health associated with inadequate nutrition.

Curriculum will discuss how poor communities and communities of color have higher exposure to environmental health risk factors like pollution, and less access to the benefits provided by the environment such as clean air and open space.

This shows a very poor understanding of the propagation of sound, of the inverse square law of physics and the dose - response relationship between environmental hazards and health.

Between 2007 and 2014, Civitas points out, TEF also gave $ 4,476,000 to the Southern Environmental Law Center, a litigation factory that uses questionable climate and ecological claims to drive lawsuits against energy and other development projects, raising energy costs, killing jobs, and hammering the budgets, health and well - being of poor, minority, and working class families.

There is also ample scope for reforming tax systems to deal much more effectively with broader environmental and related problems that can be a significant drag on economic growth, such as the health and productivity impacts of poor air quality, and severe congestion of major urban centers.

Since 1996, together with her NGO networks, she has redirected her environmental engineering expertise to assist poor communities in designing safe and well - coordinated waste management initiatives, while prioritizing environmental health and economic benefits for local people.

This has led to pervasive environmental problems and health risks, especially for communities living adjacent to open waste dumps and for poor urban settlements without organized waste management systems.

Extreme weather, climate change, environmental degradation, related rising demand for food and water, poor policy responses, and inadequate critical infrastructure will probably exacerbate — and potentially spark — political instability, adverse health conditions, and humanitarian crises in 2016.

2040 is a long way away, but a UK government spokesperson said «poor air quality is the biggest environmental risk to public health in the UK and this government is determined to take strong action in the shortest time possible.»

Rates of diseases associated with poor environmental health (including water and food borne diseases, trachoma, tuberculosis and rheumatic heart disease)

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiHealth demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experihealth outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experihealth.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

Conclusion Adverse environmental exposures, including child abuse and other household dysfunction, are associated with poor child health even at an early age, although our data do not support a dose - response relationship.

As noted in the previous chapter, health inequalities can be fairly broadly defined to include differences in: specific health outcomes (such as low birthweight, obesity, long - term conditions, accidents); health related risk factors that impact directly on children (such as poor diet, low levels of physical activity, exposure to tobacco smoke); as well as exposure to wider risks from parental / familial behaviours and environmental circumstances (maternal depression and / or poor physical health, alcohol consumption, limited interaction, limited cognitive stimulation, poor housing, lack of access to greenspace).