Sentences with phrase «than population problems»

In recent decades «environmentalists» have increasingly emphasized climate issues rather than population problems.

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Much of the problem, Miller explained, is that Americans are already shouldering more than their fair share of pharmaceutical companies» costs: While the U.S, accounts for only 4.6 % of the total world population, it makes up about 40 % of the world's drug spending, and the bulk of pharma companies» profits, he said.

China's size, population, and lack of regulations have made fake food an even more pervasive problem than in any other country.

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

That people were essentially a problem, even a pollutant, rather than a resource; that social, political, economic, and ecological catastrophe was right around the corner, unless drastic steps were taken to stabilize and then reverse world population trends - these were the themes, familiar to even the most casual student of the American anti-natalist lobby, that set the agenda for Budapest and Mexico City.

But the point is that in addition to the obvious pressures of population growth, strategies of development that ignore existing injustice in patterns of wealth distribution enlarge the problems of severe poverty rather than mitigating them.

I think God may act to destroy whole populations in order to contain the demonic problem (personal view; The problem of demons is much more greater and serious than we would like to admit, and I say this at the risk of being branded an alarmist).

The program director for World Vision's work in South Sudan, Perry Mansfield, said: «When we get distracted by language and trying to define a problem in abstract percentages we can forget that every night more people than the population of the city of Los Angeles go to sleep hungry.»

The Catholic sex - abuse stories emerging every day suggest that Catholics have a much bigger problem with child molestation than other denominations and the general population.

Nevertheless, Houston experienced a severe housing problem with half a million people paying more for housing than they could afford, a large homeless population and long waiting lists for public housing.

I respect those who truly have health problems when they eat foods with gluten (namely people with celiac disease... which happens to be less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, and those with legit sensitivities to gluten).

Venous disease is a common health problem in the U.S., affecting more than 50 percent of the entire population.

Issues like chronic pain, insomnia, stomach problems, and fatigue are less problematic for stable fathers than for other male subsets of the population.

Referrals to craniofacial centers for evaluation of deformational plagiocephaly and brachycephaly are increasing.8 This increase in deformations has been temporally linked to the Back to Sleep program advanced by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1992 that advises the avoidance of the prone sleeping position as a method of reducing the rates of sudden infant death syndrome.10,, 12,13 There is a delay in early gross motor milestones in children forced to sleep supine but these delays seem transient and have not been linked as yet to any longer term problems.14 Children who are encouraged to sleep on their backs and develop abnormal head shapes as a result are a different population than children who spontaneously restricted their movement in bed for one reason or another.

Part of the problem, of course, is that many of the militias are hailed by local populations as thuwwar, or freedom fighters, and are often trusted far more than the bureaucracy, still blemished by its use as a repressive tool under Qaddafi.

The problem is caused by the ageing population, which means that healthcare costs are rising faster than inflation.

With a real debt of 6,800 billion, and that ignores bailing out the 50 % of the population with less than 5,000 in savings, its the real problem in the UK, caused by reckless spending and false accounting.

«In sectors where there is a problem, every medium and large employer that has more than 25 % foreign workers — double the average share of migrants in the population — should have to notify Jobcentre Plus.»

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

- People with mental health problems are more likely to have poor physical health, dying, on average, 10 years earlier than the rest of the population.

«We asked this population directly why they had thoughts of suicide and death, and what we found contradicted past study findings — the vast majority of participants said factors other than depression including illness, disability, pain, financial concerns, family problems and bereavement are driving these thoughts,» said Dr. Kennedy.

People with the rare AB blood type, present in less than 10 percent of the population, have a higher than usual risk of cognitive problems as they age.

But because more than 40 percent of the Earth's population lives about 60 miles from the coastline, the authors write that taking advantage of offshore groundwater could help dampen looming water scarcity problems likely to be compounded by sea - level rise and drought.

The problem drove bald eagles, our national symbol, not to mention peregrine falcons and other bird populations, to the brink of extinction, with populations plummeting more than 80 percent.

Nonetheless, the overall success rate in the high - risk population is over 88 percent, which the study authors consider high, although complications such as implant explantation and flap problems occur more frequently in the high - risk group than in lower - risk patients.

«When we get distracted by language and trying to define a problem in abstract percentages we can forget that every night more people than the population of the city of Los Angeles go to sleep hungry,» WorldVision's South Sudan Program Director Perry Mansfield said in a statement.

Lasting neurological conditions, including epilepsy, learning disabilities and movement problems were more common than expected for children from the general population, the study found.

With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, urban sprawl is a growing problem — particularly in North America, where single - family homes and two - car garages are common.

In a recent analysis, people with epilepsy were seven-fold more likely to have reported experiencing discrimination due to health problems than the general population.

In the cases, just this last couple of elections, where stem cell politics, for example, has been played out in the electoral process, stem cell research is [has] done better than the winning candidates for offices; and I think, apart from that, I think that we do have a serious problem in general education of the sciences and that accounts for the reluctance of a large segment of the population to accept the principles of evolution and think that there is still a debate about it, which there isn't — and that's a problem we need to solve, — but I still think there is an incredible constituency for science in this country.

Just one in 20 people worldwide (4 · 3 %) had no health problems in 2013, with a third of the world's population (2 · 3 billion individuals) experiencing more than five ailments, according to a major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2013, published in The Lancet.

«Over 95 % of the world's population has health problems, with over a third having more than five ailments.»

The incidence of this problem can reach more than 60 percent in obese and type - 2 diabetic populations.

This is a particular problem for African or African American populations, which are more genetically diverse than other groups.

Another study found that divers are at risk for back problems at a younger age than the general population.

Spending on the two programs for 2013 to 2023 is projected to increase at an average rate of 3.7 percent per year, which is slower than the projected growth for private health insurance, despite that Medicare and Medicaid generally serve populations with more illness and health problems.

Gastrointestinal problems in autism are more common than in the general population but are not present in every autistic person.

Why It Matters: With a population of more than 16 million, Beijing is one of the largest cities in the world, with an air quality problem to match.

Although the researchers did find a connection between BPA levels and sperm problems in men who were exposed to BPA only in the general environment (rather than the workplace), it's possible that the study population differs from the U.S. population in key ways.

While insomnia is the most common sleep problem in the U.S. (affecting an estimated 35 % of the population), it's estimated that less than 5 % of those cases can be considered paradoxical.

«Fat is more important than weight,» says Peter Katzmarzyk, associate executive director for population science at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La. «Excessive fatness is the definition of obesity, not excessive weight — and having too much fat can cause serious health problems.»

There is another problem: animal and bird populations were much greater then than they are now, so that keeping these creatures out of gardens and fields would have been a full - time job.

Contrary to the sedentary or relatively less physically active population, too few calories often tends to be more of a problem than too many calories when training for endurance events or well above - average or extreme levels of physical activity into our life.

It is widely known that low acidity of your stomach and over growth of the bad bacteria compared to the good is a problem for more than 90 percent of the population.

Chronic wounds such as foot ulcers are a common problem for patients with diabetes and are the cause of more than 80 percent of leg amputations in this population.

In 1843, Polish physician Felix Boczkowski discovered that men working in the salt mines at Wieliczka suffered fewer respiratory problems than the general population.

And more than 90 percent of American soy crops are GM.5 Since the introduction of GM foods in 1996, we've had an upsurge in low birth weight babies, infertility, and other problems in the U.S. population, and animal studies thus far have shown devastating effects from consuming GM soy.

[17] This is a big problem for internal validity because we are left with the result that parents who refused participation in the Abecedarian program were less willing or able to commit to a long - term early childhood intervention for their children than the overall population of families who were recruited into the study.

They've identified the problem, and a 44 percent drop - out rate is definitely a problem, and acknowledge the softer spots such as male drop - outs and a high school population that is older than the norm.

Another battle far larger than the intra-publishing panty raids that bring out our wags and fops is this problem of a major population sector that not only doesn't like paying for content but is also very good at avoiding it.