News reports of firearm violence focus on access to guns, gang activity, poverty, and racial segregation.
The causes of obesity are complex (lifestyle, physical activity, poverty, food insecurity, genetics and obesogenic chemicals all play a role).
She points to new mental health toolkits in schools, and the fact that the council has become a "child-centred council" with a range of pledges around health, physical activity, poverty and other indicators underpinned by the input of young people themselves.
Our findings indicate that multiple variables predict physical inactivity, particularly access to infrastructure, expenditures on recreational activities, and poverty within disenfranchised segments of the population.
These include climatic changes and global warming, proximity to water bodies, irrigation and dam construction as well as socio-economic factors such as occupational activities and poverty.
By scoping patterns of giving within the city and around Sri Lanka's global diaspora, we're building an understanding of the drivers and impacts of charitable and philanthropic activities on poverty alleviation.
It is evident that there is no single answer for the impact of Islamic microfinance activities on poverty.
The church concentrates much of its political activity on poverty, health care and education; but it also stoutly defends "the sanctity of life", fighting against euthanasia, abortion, the death penalty, cloning and, less aggressively than before, contraception.
"Increased involvement in the underground economy, criminal activity, increased poverty, homelessness and teen pregnancy are the things I worry about if we continue to see more years of high unemployment," said Algernon Austin, a sociologist and director of the race, ethnicity and economy program at the Economic Policy Institute, which studies issues involving low- and middle-income wage earners.
But you can turn that proposition around: violence that removes women from public life and equitable economic activity produces poverty and so yet more violence.
