Sentences with phrase «vulnerable populations from»

The present work provides macro-scale evidence for how cultural values play an adaptive role in buffering genetically vulnerable populations from a potentially heightened epidemiological prevalence of mental health disorders.

(05/03/2012) On Saturday, May 5th vulnerable populations from the United States to Bangladesh will «connect the dots» between devastating extreme weather and climate change in a global day of action organized by 350.org.

Unless climate policies take people into account, they will fail to mitigate climate change or to shield vulnerable populations from the potentially disastrous impacts.

Post alluded to Cuomo's post-Election Day promises to shield vulnerable populations from the policies of President - elect Donald Trump, and the swelling rumors that he will seek the White House himself in 2020.

Removing the most vulnerable populations from a very dangerous environment — kids, women and mentally ill people — is a key part, but there are other factors to be considered as well.

All Democrats have a responsibility to work together so our state can enact real ethics reforms, safeguard voter rights, address crushing income inequality and protect vulnerable populations from the hostility of the incoming federal administration.»

Not exact matches

VICTORIA — The Christy Clark government is failing to protect an increasingly vulnerable senior population from the effects of the affordability crisis, say the New Democrats.

Defending the honor of the poor by insisting they are just like the rest of the population shores up liberalism at its most vulnerable point, namely, its inability to explain why people who don't benefit from the welfare state should acquiesce in the taxes that pay for it.

We believe that the gains from increased farm productivity and income will be amplified and produce longer - term benefits if the health and nutrition of a population, especially of vulnerable communities, are enhanced.

In a study of former NFL players, Guskiewicz found that suffering multiple concussions can make athletes more vulnerable to depression later in life and, last year, data revealed that retired NFL players suffered from higher rates of dementia and Alzheimer's than the general population.

It is the most vulnerable populations that are most affected by more - violent and less - predictable natural disasters resulting from climate change.

Shedd Aquarium, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo and the 226 other member organizations of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), have launched a new effort focused on saving the world's most vulnerable species from extinction and restoring them to healthy populations in the wild.

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Protecting Infants in Emergencies in the Developed World.

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Protecting Infants in Emergencies in the... Read More

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, specialist health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Infant and Young... Read More

• Redirecting a portion of mental hygiene funding from State - operated services to community - based programs to improve the quality of care for this vulnerable population.

The conference is responding to an ongoing push from direct care workers and a coalition of organizations that provide support to the state's vulnerable population.

PRESS RELEASE FROM SENATOR DAVID CARLUCCI With residents and agencies now fearing the potential fallout over possible budget cuts to our most vulnerable populations, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Westchester) today announced a grassroots call to action to convince Governor Cuomo to join with state legislators in fully restoring the proposed 6 % cuts to the Office for -LSB-...]

«From capital funding for our college campuses to supportive housing for the most vulnerable populations, this legislative package addresses critical needs that will have a meaningful impact in every corner of the state.

The borough president will use the speech to discuss a wide variety of topics, including the need to protect the city's vulnerable populations — namely immigrants — from Trump and the ongoing development of the borough's waterfront, according to officials from Diaz's office.

For instance, if storms start to occur during a vulnerable time in the shrimp life cycle — such as prior to mating — this could prevent the shrimp population from bouncing back after the annual fishing season.

From the 1970s to 1990s, the population dropped by 80 percent, and similar to other exploited species the fish have started to aggregate in smaller regions of the sea, making them more vulnerable to fishing pressure.

All of these changes drove mammoth populations down and reduced their geographic range, MacDonald says, making them «very vulnerable to even slight increases in hunting pressure from humans.»

This means that at a population level, an increased risk of psychosis from cannabis use is low, and those vulnerable to developing serious mental health problems is relatively rare.

One of the members, senior project coordinator Jim Sipes of the Atlanta office of EDAW, a landscape architecture and planning firm, exploited existing data to model which low - lying regions are most at risk from storm surges and flooding and where the most vulnerable populations are concentrated.

The study — which integrates new maps from the Environmental Protection Agency that more precisely estimate where people live now and where future population growth is expected — predicts that under potential population growth and development projections, more than 60 million Americans may be vulnerable to a 100 - year flood by 2050.

But the new research indicates that the western populations are vulnerable to pressure from all Atlantic bluefin tuna fisheries.

In fact, additional analysis by WCS and international colleagues has shown that smaller populations of Amur tigers are more vulnerable than larger populations to extinction from distemper.

These particles pose health risks to populations, especially to the medically vulnerable, By infusing CATS data directly into aerosol models, data from CATS can make a difference in tracking and responding to impacts of similar events in the future.

«Vaccines should not be viewed as a silver bullet that can subdue cholera in Haiti but wider use of them, such as in campaigns targeting particularly vulnerable populations, can play a meaningful role in protecting people from illness and death.»

An international team of researchers have shown that vulnerable coral populations in the eastern tropical Pacific have been completely isolated from the rest of the Pacific Ocean for at least the past two decades.

Using empirical data from this monitoring and from ongoing field studies the convention would support, scientists could more thoroughly assess surveys» cumulative long - term impacts on marine life and identify areas where seismic activities should be prohibited or temporarily limited to protect important habitats or vulnerable populations.

In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) from endangered to vulnerable, on the basis of a 2011 — 14 population survey by the Chinese government that reported 1,864 adult pandas, up from 1,596 in the early 2000s.

Early herds were vulnerable to disease, droughts and storms, disasters that would have forced pastoralists to replenish herds from wild populations better adapted to harsh local conditions.

Prior research shows that students from vulnerable populations are most frequently victimized.

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.

The East Coast and Gulf Coast would feel the largest impacts from depleted ecosystems, because they have denser populations and are more vulnerable to sea - level rise and storm surge.

This approach represents a departure from traditional vaccine designs, which have been developed and tested against HIV in vulnerable populations since the mid-1980s without success.

Since its recent reform, SNAP - Ed is becoming more efficient, reaching more vulnerable populations who are disproportionately suffering from poor health.

Hammer, who came to the United States from Guatemala as a child, «has studied how the cities and regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea - level rise also have large Hispanic populations — something she learned firsthand growing up in South Florida,» according to a White House statement.

However, high rates of multidrug - resistant (MDR) TB and TB affecting vulnerable populations, such as the homeless, drug and alcohol abusers and migrants from countries with high numbers of cases TB continue to challenge TB elimination.

But new research shows the cuddly bird and the powerful feline share an unfortunate fate: Though their numbers have stabilized or are even rising, some populations are suffering from profound genetic isolation or loss of genetic diversity — enough in some cases to leave them deeply vulnerable to new diseases and other threats.

«We studied asymptomatic individuals with a low risk of cardiovascular events at baseline and used noninvasive imaging to predict the risk of an event downstream,» said David A. Bluemke, M.D, Ph.D., from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. «This is the first population - based prospective study to determine if vulnerable plaque features by MRI add to the risk of a cardiovascular event beyond the traditional risk factors.»

For this reason, UNESCO provided funding to bring 30 representatives to the workshop from countries in Africa, Asia and South America whose populations are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

That is, the arrival of toads removes some genetic traits from the predator population (genes that make predators vulnerable to toads) but other traits (e.g., genes that tell the predator not to eat toads) are not affected.

This option from Bambu is made from an earth - friendly bamboo and organic cotton mix, and every purchase goes toward research on how to protect one of the world's most vulnerable populations, the honeybee.

«And even the researchers considered a wide range of factors, such as diet, exercise, alcohol consumption, smoking, body mass and marital status, it's still possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as - yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death» — says Susan Fisher, Ph.D., chair of community and preventive medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in Rochester, New York.

All along the banks of the Zambezi, vulnerable populations are being moved to resettlement sites, where they are safe from the floods but no longer have access to their farms and livelihoods.

• Students tend to learn less from online courses than they do from equivalent courses with at least some face - to - face content — especially those from vulnerable populations.

The high school, which serves children from all of New York City's five boroughs, has a very distinct and vulnerable population of students.