It's not: "Should Crestor be given to reduce inflammation?" It should be: "What is the cause of chronic inflammation, and what can be done to address these causes?" We and others have shown in peer-reviewed research that lifestyle factors like poor nutrition, lack of exercise, chronic emotional stress and social isolation are underlying causes of chronic inflammation.
Both in the US and in Britain the idea of defensible space was very popular because it provided a simple solution: rather than engaging with complex social relations as the underlying causes of crime, SBD promoted the idea that environmental design was the biggest influence on behaviour.
We need to understand the processes that control the aging of social groups and the underlying causes of the vulnerability of people living in LMICs, and especially the differential vulnerability of specific groups.
Just as the foundation staff in Little Rock were working on areas addressed by the SDGs but didn't know it, so many of our leaders fail to recognise the underlying causes of social unrest.
If future improvements in life expectancy are to be matched with compression of morbidity [19], then policy makers must tackle the underlying causes behind social inequalities across the life course as well as implementing effective interventions for current older people.
The project addresses the underlying causes of social exclusion, responds to the needs of the most vulnerable target groups and is well aligned with the national policies and strategies.
Advocacy, Communications, Monitoring and Evaluation and Analysis UNICEF Ghana's work on social policy and equity aims to reduce child poverty by tackling the underlying causes of economic and social exclusion.
The results of this study underscore the universality of the inequality phenomenon and emphasize the importance of ensuring that public health policy tackles the underlying causes behind such social differences.
We must scale up a set of proven nutrition interventions and design programmes that attack the underlying causes of malnutrition in agriculture, social welfare, education, women's empowerment, water, sanitation and hygiene.
Interviews conducted by the authors with transport infrastructure experts have shown a need for specific expertise particularly on the causal connections between risks for infrastructure systems and the underlying causes in the natural and social systems.
