Sentences with phrase «term health of society»

As consumers begin to vote with their dollars for more innovative products and services that both delight the purchaser and support the long - term health of society, they help create competitive advantage for those brands that best deliver.

Not exact matches

While it's certainly helpful for long - term health to reduce processed foods, grains form the staple foods of many societies and provide key nutrients.

Child maltreatment harms people and society, contributing to costly long — term health problems ranging from heart disease and obesity to depression and anxiety, making this type of prevention study critical.»

On the other hand, the health insurance companies and society - at - large profit from the financial savings of exclusive and long - term breastfeeding.

However, the costs of breastfeeding are mostly borne by the mothers and those for breastfeeding training mostly by the individual health care workers or hospital, while the health insurance companies and society - at - large are profiting from the financial savings from exclusive and long - term breastfeeding.

BFHI has been shown to be very effective in increasing breastfeeding initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration in many countries, as well as improving mother's health care experiences and reducing rates of infant abandonment.12 Given the short and long - term benefits of breastfeeding to the infant, mother and society, implementing BFHI — alongside with the other objectives stated in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding - continues to have an important role to play in health services worldwide.

As part of the revision process of the Health Canada, Canadian Paediatric Society and the Dietitians of Canada, Statement «Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants», Health Canada requested comment from Canadians on its proposed revised policy.

Cycling is thought to have a number of benefits both to the individual, in economic and health terms, and to society generally, particularly as an environmentally friendly means of transport.

Today's studies, presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide new insights into how experience might produce long - term brain changes in behaviors like drug addiction and memory formation.

ASDs can be a major source of stress on the long - term health, and social and financial well - being on affected individuals, their families and society as a whole.

The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), may be useful for individuals considering donation, for living donors wishing to understand their long - term risk, and for clinicians who monitor the long - term health of living donors.

«By analyzing different types of social media, search terms, or even blogs, we are able to capture people's thinking, communication patterns, health, beliefs, prejudices, group behaviors — essentially everything that has ever been studied in social and personality psychology,» says James Pennebaker, president of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), which is kicking off its annual conference today in Austin.

With the focus on wellness in modern society, Levine said she's currently working on new research into people's «health spans» (as opposed to life spans), a term that refers to the length of a person's life that is disease and disability free.

Recently, Dr. Rotimi fulfilled a long - term goal with the launch of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) initiative that began under the umbrella of the African Society of Human Genetics, of which he was the founding president.

examines long - term sequelae resulting from a diagnosis of childhood cancer and its treatment, and health care relating to these late effects.This multi-study initiative is funded by a Canadian Cancer Society program project grant, with additional funding from CCS BC and Yukon Division, and has examined long - term health effects and educational attainment, health care utilization, and quality of follow - up care among disease survivors.

These findings highlight the potential long - term negative consequences of acute social disruption in cognitively advanced species that live in close - knit kin - based societies, and alter our perspective on the health and functioning of populations that have been subjected to anthropogenic disturbance.

While society has a long way to go in terms of honoring that precious time of bonding and healing, there is still a lot you can do to protect your health (and sanity) within modern postpartum circumstances.

Educational inequality starts early, widens throughout school and the effects can last a lifetime in terms of job prospects, health and overall contribution to society.

They also gain an understanding of and are able to challenge what is valued in terms of health and physical activity within their families, social groups, institutions and society, and within other cultures in the broader community.

As this case itself illustrates, it is so much more costly — foremost in lives altered, but also in terms of public money spent — to ignore the most troubled people in our society, and one intention of this book is to change the way this country allocates resources for public mental health care.

He has been instrumental in developing Senior Pet Health Guidelines and is a founder of the International Veterinary Senior Care Society (IVSCS), founder of the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP), developed the most widely used Long - term Medication Monitoring protocols, and was a leading voice in promoting extended - duration vaccination practices for dogs and cats.

Seems a stretch to me... Maybe some young people are just recognizing that for the most part — in the jargon of economics — they've been an externality so far, whether in terms of how society, say, funds Social Security or deals with the planet's long - term health?]

The green movements's primary commitment is to the health of ecosystems and the concomitant health of human societies (in the long term, there's no distinction).

The British Columbia Court of Appeal in Health Sciences Association of British Columbia v Campbell River and North Island Transition Society, 2004 BCCA 260 at para 39, 240 DLR (4th) 479 (Campbell River) said that «a prima facie case of discrimination is made out when a change in a term or condition of employment imposed by an employer results in a serious interference with a substantial parental or family duty or obligation of the employee» (emphasis added).

Thus even considered in more specific diagnostic terms, mental health is a relevant concern for a huge fraction of society.

Given the high prevalence of child maltreatment and the serious consequences in terms of its impact on the lives of the individuals concerned, their families, and society more generally, it is important that we identify effective methods of prevention and intervention, and there are some suggestions that a public health approach is now needed.27 Although there is limited research available in terms of what works to prevent child maltreatment, there have been significant gains over the past 20 years in terms of the development of new approaches.

In terms of supportive public health policy, relationships between children and their carergivers need to be seen as the fundamental building blocks of a healthy society.

This places an enormous burden on individuals, families and society in terms of health services, education, social care and judiciary sectors.

We have to pause here and take stock and take the time to think this through as a society... or we could end up with thousands of giant industrial wind turbines over great swaths of prime agricultural land and beautiful countryside and we don't know enough about what this could mean in terms of human health, agricultural land health, animal health, water table health, wildlife health, property value health, property tax health and so on.