Sentences with phrase «societal level»

The study also found that prolonged breastfeeding had an impact on individual and societal levels by increasing the odds of improving educational attainment and even their earning potential.

On a wider societal level too, migrants also struggle to be accepted by a country that has less of a modern history of immigration compared to northern European countries like the U.K. or Germany, a country which sees migrants as a way to solving a demographic time - bomb in Europe: an ageing population.

«Understanding these emotions could open the doors to increasing empathy and compassion in personal relationships and on a broader societal level.»

Although these results are obviously important to the average pet dog owner, the researchers also look at their results from a more societal level and conclude «The beneficial effects of gonadectomy [neutering] are underpinned by the need to reduce the number of unwanted companion animals.

However, research examining risk and protective factors for SV perpetration at the community and societal levels remains very limited.

Future prevention intervention efforts aiming to reduce problem behaviors and improve school adjustment among these children should target multiple factors at individual, community, and societal levels such as enhancing the children's future expectation, increasing the social support from family, school, and community, and reducing HIV - related stigma against children and families affected by HIV.

On a societal level, anthropologists use «resilience» to describe a society's ability to weather major shocks.

Dreams have the power to change the world, at both an individual and societal level.

Moreover, it may not be out - of - bounds to suppose that donors also emphasize evangelism because they think spiritual revival among individuals will eventually help influence positive reforms at the societal level.

On a societal level, there are few mass engagements today that do as much to unite diverse folks in common cause.

As you might have guessed, I'm fascinated by how a culture and language affects interpretation at a societal level.

This is a matter of race, but it's not simply a matter of African American versus Caucasian, Caucasian versus Hispanic American, Hispanic American versus African American; this is a matter of the human race and sin's impact on humanity at an individual and societal level.

As cultures and circumstances change, roles tend to change along with them — both at the societal level and the individual level.

How would one deal with this conflict on a personal and societal level?

The problem is that while the imitation model may be useful and perhaps even accurate in particular individual situations, it is totally inadequate as a model for policy - formulation on a societal level.

These things are problematic to focus on, since they are deeply personal, yet on a societal level they make very little difference — meaning that they can alienate someone very quick, yet, even their perfect application (lifelong marriages between men and women only) would not cure our social ills — what about wars, starvation, national debt, environmental decay, cheating banks, resource depletion, peak oil etc. etc?

Therefore, at the societal level it is important to support individuals in following the recommendations above, through sustained implementation of evidence based and population based policies that make regular physical activity and healthier dietary choices available, affordable and easily accessible to everyone, particularly to the poorest individuals.

«As a societal level, you get whole groups of children who aren't doing as well in school, kids who don't achieve,» Griffiths says.

Research, advances in technology and infrastructure, and inter-generational trends and patterns inform parenting on a societal level.

Concerted and co-ordinated action at national, local and societal level is required to change the environment in the UK and enable mothers to breastfeed; in health services, in the community and in the home.

If you look at how advanced we have become in such a short evolutionary time, you should see that this type of parenting — you know, where you have a secure attachment to your child by being responsive — helps us thrive both at the individual and societal level.

«Something that works for someone on an individual level can be disturbing on a societal level,» says Coontz, author of several books on marriage and family, most recently A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.

So I want to restate the question if I can: It's not just about government employees, Gov. Cuomo, what do you intend to do on sexual assault and the problem of harassment and victimization on a societal level?»

Horne hopes the findings will promote greater gender equality on a societal level and help life partners be more aware of the many factors that shape domestic life.

«The consequences of obesity, at a personal and a societal level, are staggering,» says Susan Yanovksi, co-director of obesity research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

«We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.

While this approach works well in most cases, it is necessary to view regulatory oversight of opioid medications differently from that of other drugs, because these medications can have a number of consequences not only at the individual level but also at the household and societal levels.

«People don't like to think that older people have sex — but we need to challenge this conception at a societal level and look at what impact sexual activity can have on those aged 50 and over, beyond the known effects on sexual health and general wellbeing.»

Many adults have a difficult time losing weight and keeping it off, and if the body is predisposed to putting on the pounds, fighting obesity on both individual and societal levels will be even more challenging.

«Reducing exposure to phthalates and other hormone - disrupting chemicals is something that needs to be addressed at a societal level through consumer advocacy and regulation, and education of health care providers.»

Like all transformative advances, they need to be carefully planned for on a societal level.

«It needs to be more of a change in mindset in a societal level,» Benson told Rewire.

On a societal level, we take responsibility for the fact that the diagnostic labels we have accepted, and pharmacological interventions we have embraced, are harming children and that we have NO RIGHT TO ASK CHILDREN TO BEAR THOSE HARMS (my emphasis).

Justin Faerman is a visionary change agent, entrepreneur and healer dedicated to evolving global consciousness, bridging science and spirituality and spreading enlightened ideas on both an individual and societal level.

It is the lack of awareness at the individual level, societal level and medical level in regards to the utilization of food as medicine that has resulted in the epidemic of chronic disease.

Their children will fit at all societal levels.

In addition to the physical health scourge being fuelled by the easily accessible and often anonymous sex the internet and dating apps provide, Dr Rosevear said the impacts are being felt just as acutely at a societal level.

Americans May Know More than You Think about Science Science, 8/9/16» «We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.

The different levels are seen as interconnected and mutually reinforcing, e.g. when empowerment on individual level occurs, this will have effect on the group and societal level.

Encouraging girls to go into STEM fields must happen at a societal level rather than just an individual one.

The societal level deals with the permissiveness of the political and social climate, the societal norms and the public discourse on what is possible and impossible for women to do, how women should behave etc (8)(9).

«Adolescents know that parents and people at school can not solve broader, economic problems at a societal level,» write the researchers.

Because memorable events are further magnified by coverage in the media, the bias is compounded on the societal level.