Sentences with phrase «primarily affect population»

Health departments also engage in activities that attempt to influence county populations to adopt healthier habits, which primarily affect population health over the longer term.

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«When we produce products that primarily affect a specific population, we want to make sure that information is provided in a way that is sensitive to that population's culture,» says Hurdle.

In Section 2331 of Chapter 113 (A), defines terrorism as activities that: involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; (B) ``... activities that involve violent... or life - threatening acts... that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State and... appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and... (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States...» (10) Subsequently paper will go deeper in counter-terrorism legislation of US.

Several researchers have postulated that SIB is a mechanism used to compensate for inadequate affect regulation in situations perceived as stressful.7, 8 Although primarily derived from clinical populations, the affect - regulation theory helps to explain SIB in community populations as well, since many report it as a method of coping with unwanted negative emotion.9, 10 If so, individuals vulnerable to SIB may also be at heightened risk of suicidality when trauma or psychological distress overwhelms their capacity to cope effectively.

Mental health problems affect around one in five youth in Australia and internationally, 1 with major personal, societal and economic ramifications.2 3 Children's mental health problems are primarily externalising (eg, oppositional defiance, aggression) and internalising (eg, anxiety, depression) problems.1 Up to 50 % of preschool behaviour problems persist through childhood if left untreated, then into adolescence and adulthood.4 Approaches to improving children's mental health in the population would ideally involve effective prevention in addition to clinical treatment of severe problems.5 6 Behavioural parenting programmes have the strongest evidence of efficacy to date for treating children's established behaviour problems.2 7, — , 10 Although effective, parenting programmes to treat children's established behaviour problems are cost - and time - intensive, and require an available workforce trained in evidence - based treatments.