Sentences with phrase «underlying cultural factors»

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We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.

The exhibition is certain to expand your vocabulary of early abstraction and modernism, the underlaying historical, literary and cultural factors that allowed for this new visual language to cement its position in history and help better understand later innovations by Mark Rothko, Joseph Albers, Chuck Close, Spencer Finch, Richard Serra, Julian Schnabel and others.

He has worked tirelessly and effectively to broaden the understanding of what constitutes viable rural health services, shifting the debate from the conventional narrow focus on doctors and medical services, to one that also encompasses the innate structural factors that underlie health in rural areas, the impact of health workforce issues on access and equity, and the need for service provision models that provide safe and viable services that meet cultural, as well as physical needs.

The importance of considering GxE interactions in understanding the aetiology of complex psychiatric disorders has become more widely acknowledged (Caspi & Moffitt 2006; Canli & Lesch 2007; Munafo et al. 2009), yet the association between specific cultural and genetic factors underlying affective disorders across human populations has been largely unexplored until now.

Taken together, these studies underscore the utility of incorporating cultural traits, such as individualism — collectivism, in macro -(e.g. cross-population) and micro-scale (e.g. within - population) models of GxE factors underlying complex affective disorders and the importance of culture — gene coevolutionary theory for understanding typical and atypical human behaviour, more broadly construed.

Cultural, ecological, familial and physiological factors consistently influence fertility behaviours, however, the proximate psychological mechanisms underlying fertility decisions in humans are poorly understood.

This was in part due to underlying social, cultural and legal factors, like the legacy of colonisation and socio - economic disadvantage, but also the processes of the criminal justice system.