Sentences with phrase «population of children suffering»

Josh previously worked at Outreach Concern as a school counselor, working with a diverse population of children suffering from behavioral, emotional and academic stressors.

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As many as 120,000 senior residents — 12 percent of the city's elderly population — suffer abuse annually, according to 2011 data from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services cited by Crain's.

Over two billion people, or 30 per cent of the world's population, suffer from iron deficiency with symptoms ranging from poor mental development in children to depressed immune function and anemia.

Today more that 40 % of children under 10 years of age as well as more than 85 % of the adult population in the United States still suffer from the disease.

Although it is estimated that 6 to 8 % of children suffer from food allergies, food allergies in adulthood are relatively rare, affecting less than 3 % of the population.

Those with celiac disease, the most well - known gluten - sensitivity condition, suffer with inflammation and damage to the lining of the small intestine resulting in diarrhea, malabsorption and nutritional deficiencies.28, 29 Gluten troubles have been linked to failure to thrive in infants and delayed growth in older children.30 Research reveals that non-celiac gluten sensitivity, or immune reactions to gluten, may affect as many as 90 million Americans.28 Kenneth Fine, MD, director of the Intestinal Health Institute in Dallas, Texas believes 60 - 70 percent of the population possesses the genes that make a person susceptible to developing gluten sensitivity.31

The suffering of the nation's young trans and gender - diverse populations must be acknowledged and addressed sooner rather than later, and through his knowledgeable and empathetic prose, Nealy powerfully makes the case for what can be done to ease the pain of these children.

While a host of dangerous climate change impacts have already begun to cause death and destruction and to exact a toll on human populations across the globe — a fact that Mr. Tillerson has been unwilling to acknowledge — there is no doubt that it is our children, their children, and future generations that will bear the brunt of suffering as a result of our increasingly climate - disrupted world.

In regard to long - term effects of infertility and its treatment, Gameiro et al16 showed that women who had undergone infertility treatment 11 — 17 years previously suffered more mental health problems, when compared to the general population, and that a sustained child's wish negatively affected mental health.

Broad demographic studies of the flexible and ill - defined «fatherless homes» populations, which indicate complex and multi-causated reasons for the (actually small) negative outcomes suffered by a minority of children in these «single mother home» groups are twisted, baselessly, into the political rhetoric that children «need» or «benefit» from having two parents.

Even when abused children are brought to the attention of health or child welfare professionals, the abuse may be unrecognized or ignored by those in a position to protect the child.10, 11 It is estimated that approximately 40 million children around the world suffer from maltreatment, and recent population based research suggests that approximately 125/1, 000 American children are victims of maltreatment.12, 13

About 5 percent of children and adolescents in the general population suffer from depression at any given point in time.

Here, we evaluated a selected population of children / adolescents suffering from migraine without aura together with their mothers.

(1) Our data are derived from children / adolescents (and mothers) referred to our tertiary Headache Center and may not be representative of the whole pediatric population suffering from migraine without aura; (2) The psychological tools employed in our study (TAS - 20, ASQ, SAFA - A, D, and S) have a self - report nature; although, they have been considered valid for psychological screening, they are not suitable for a formal diagnosis of psychiatric disorder; moreover, ASQ, as a self - report questionnaire, may not be able to elicit stress and danger situations, which are indispensable to activate the attachment system; (3) In future studies, it would be important to further explore not only the role of maternal attachment and alexithymia but also the role of maternal migraine features on their children's migraine severity, attachment style, and psychological profile.

(MCT)-- The incidence of depression has skyrocketed in children and adults since World War II; depression affects about 10 percent of the population in the United States, and the World Health Organization predicts that by 2030, more people will suffer from depression than any other medical condition.