Sentences with phrase «risks affecting its population»

Now, a researcher at the University of Missouri has applied the Public Health Index (PHI) model, a tool he designed that has been adopted by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, to help the Brazilian government identify and prioritize health risks affecting its population.

Not exact matches

However, these odds don't factor in a person's individual behaviors, age, sex, location, or other things that can affect risks — they're averages of the entire US population.

Uber notes that about 20 % of the population is affected by the flu each year, and getting a vaccine reduces the risk of someone else being infected by 50 % -60 %.

Despite food allergies affecting only a small proportion of the population, risk management and mandatory product labelling for the key food allergens are critical food safety matters for businesses in the food industry.

Experts are saying older men shouldn't worry about their higher risk of fathering a child with bipolar disorder (men 45 + are 25x more likely than a man in his 20s to father a child with bipolar disorder) because it's such a rare disease but recent studies show it's not rare at all and affects 4 - 5 % of the population.

To examine whether improved room ventilation by use of a fan or an open window affects the risk of SIDS, we analyzed data from a population - based case - control study of risk factors for SIDS that included detailed information on sleep environment.

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

All of these subgroup analyses investigate potential sources of heterogeneity, as differences in the type of intervention, risk profile of the population or setting may affect the treatment effects.

However, if, as we showed, the scent is sufficient to continue population decline, then even if the predators move on to other prey, and their scent disappears, this is unimportant for the survival of the population that is at risk whose numbers and reproductive ability have been critically affected by the passing smell of death.»

The SCARB1 mutation affects 43 percent of the population, and within this group the carriers for the rs10846744 variant have a 45 percent increased risk of heart attack — likely due to low LAG3 protein in their plasma.

Some physicians argue that although tiny blood pressure drops will not have a big effect on individuals — they will not really affect your risk of having a heart attack — they may end up saving lives at the population level, in part because a small percentage of the population, including some African - Americans and elderly individuals, seem to be hypersensitive to salt.

Researchers assess the risk of species extinction with conservation models that combine factors that drive down populations — including habitat loss, hunting and overfishing — with the probability of chance disasters affecting the group.

That trend is problematic considering that African - Americans — the most at - risk population for multiple myeloma — have different genetics that can affect how this type of cancer progresses and what kind of targeted therapies are most effective, said Zarko Manojlovic, lead author of the study.

A variety of studies, many using long - term medical records from large populations, have found that certain experiences affect future descendants» health risks.

Countries with large volumes of travellers arriving from Zika virus - affected areas of the Americas and large populations at risk include India (67422 travellers arriving per year; 1.2 billion residents in potential Zika transmission areas), China (238415 travellers; 242 million residents), Indonesia (13865 travellers; 197 million residents), the Philippines (35635 travellers; 70 million residents), and Thailand (29241 travellers; 59 million residents).

Many countries across Africa and Asia - Pacific may be vulnerable to Zika virus outbreaks, with India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh expected to be at greatest risk of Zika virus transmission due to a combination of high travel volumes from Zika affected areas in the Americas, local presence of mosquitos capable of transmitting Zika virus, suitable climatic conditions, large populations and / or limited health resources, according to a new modelling study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

This work defines an element, often missing from health policy discussions, in improving outcomes for this important population and underscores the importance of social factors in affecting health outcomes both for people at risk of becoming infected with HIV and for those living with HIV or AIDS, said the researchers.

Also, the Army's EIS «did not adequately document or characterize individual risk of exposure or infection, nor did it consider potential exposures to workers and others on the base itself or how the spread of a pathogen would be affected by population size and density,» according to a press release NAS issued about the study.

The results showed that normal physical fitness, even up to 20 % below the population average, is sufficient to have a preventive effect on five of the eight risk factors affecting people with cardiovascular disease — abdominal circumference, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and excess weight.

«Respiratory illnesses are complex, with multiple genetic, environmental and behavioural risk factors that vary across regions and affect particular populations in different ways.»

Kidney stones, crystals that develop in the kidneys or the tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the bladder, affect 10 percent of the U.S. population, and men run a four times greater risk than women of developing them.

I also understand that this book is meant for the general population so it might've been too much for him to go into how APO E genotypes affect cholesterol levels and other risk factors especially in the setting of high saturated fat consumption OR new tests like the measurement of blood Lathosterol and Campesterol and how they relate to elevated LDLs... but for folks that have been into this for a while like myself, a section on this stuff would've been nice.

The ongoing epidemic of Ebola in West Africa has raised several questions about how the disease affects the animal population, and in particular, the risk to household pets.

The use of the Hardy - Weinberg law to determine the average carrier risk of the population (based on the percentage of proven affected dogs) is not valid.

In the same way that inbreeding among human populations can increase the frequency of normally rare genes that cause diseases, the selective breeding that created the hundreds of modern dog breeds has put purebred dogs at risk for a large number of health problems, affecting both body and behavior.

For each disorder, healthy controls seen at the hospital during that same time period were matched for age, weight, and sex to each affected dog to determine risk of disease presentation in the purebred group as compared to that of the mixed - breed population.

«Marine mammals of Hudson Bay may be facing emerging risks that affect their health and population size.

His specific research interests include: processes that cause population abundances to fluctuate over time; predicting the extinction risk of rare species; patterns of individual growth in fluctuating environments and how they affect population growth rates; and the effects of current - driven dispersal on marine fish species.

Those prior complaints relied on projections of future sea - level rise to estimate the damages they seek from the energy companies — a risk unlikely to affect a population located a mile above sea level.

Specific populations, such as those less economically developed or in lower - lying regions will be at a very high risk of impact and hundreds of millions of people will potentially be adversely affected by events like coastal flooding, saltwater infiltration into agricultural lands, and sea level rise.

One of the problems with the EPA's Endangerment TSD is the nearly complete disregard of observed trends in a wide array of measures which by and large show that despite decades of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. population does not seem to have been adversely affected by any vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts that may have arisen (to the extent that any at all have actually occurred as the result of any human - induced climate changes).

Global changes are thought to affect most Arctic species, yet some populations are more at risk.

Predicted to grow by 2.23 residents by 2020, an increase of close to 20 % of its population, the risks of flooding and typhoons affecting Manila threaten millions.

These risks are three-fold: the increased number of events like floods and cyclones; droughts in some parts of the country and in long - term effects of coastal erosion affecting a large portion of the population.

Risk reduction in population affected through different adaptation options.

This work relies on the new flood risk assessment framework proposed by Alfieri et al. (2015b) to illustrate the benefits of adaptation in reducing expected damages and population affected by river floods in Europe under 4 °C global warming by the end of the century.

Hampton Roads is the second-most affected by sea - level rise in the nation, and has the second - largest population center at risk from sea - level rise.

The risks associated with fracking go beyond the point of production; if the benefit in natural gas use comes through its consumption, the advantage is lost through the rest of its lifecycle — especially when mistakes, accidents, poor regulation, and poor maintenance allow massive leaks to affect local populations and the global atmosphere.

A new report, Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis focuses on the U.S. security risks that might arise when climate - related events — including droughts, heat waves, and storms — exceed the capacity of affected populations to cope.

We should not risk iron fertilization on the scale needed to affect global CO2 levels or animal populations.

Foreclosures, population changes and more can affect how home insurers assess risk.

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.

They say that being Indigenous «doesn't place someone at special risk of HIV per se»: it is the inequalities in health and the social determinants of health that profoundly affect Indigenous people and place them in special and urgent need of being recognised as a «key population».

This study sought to determine whether use of cannabis in adolescence increases the risk for psychotic outcomes by affecting the incidence and persistence of subclinical expression of psychosis in the general population (that is, expression of psychosis below the level required for a clinical diagnosis).

Depressive symptomatology, a risk factor for major depression and a wide range of negative behavioral and physical health outcomes, is elevated during pregnancy and the postpartum period and disproportionately affects low - income and minority populations (2 — 5).