In May, US president Barack Obama said climate-driven drought had aggravated conflict and terror in Nigeria and Syria.
The epic struggle has led to a military coup in Egypt that removed from office the country's first and only democratically elected president, sparked devastating civil wars in Libya and Syria, aggravated conflict in Iraq, and prompted an ill-fated Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen that brought the country to the edge of the abyss.
Some managers were seen to have mistreated staff, shown unreasonable behaviour, discriminated, suddenly changed style, failed to understand and support the staff, violated staff rights, aggravated conflict intensity, discouraged teamwork and ignored nurses' problems.
Furthermore, the widespread use of informal payments within the Greek NHS [ 23], the growing imbalance between the Greek public and private health sector [ 25] as well as the perceived inefficiency and inequity of Greek health care [ 18, 20, 24, 25] result in increased patient dissatisfaction which may aggravate conflicts between patients and residents.
Despite his success, Lu Xun continued to struggle with his increasingly pessimistic view of Chinese society, which was aggravated by conflicts in his personal and professional life.
If it does not, the world's most respected climate science body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said every region of the world will be affected by destructive weather, aggravated resource conflicts and displaced populations.
"Help us to overcome the scourge of hunger, aggravated by conflicts and by the immense wastefulness for which we are often responsible," Pope Francis prayed.
Driven by economic interests, it is not uncommon that local governments violate laws and regulations, which has not only caused anti-demolition protests and aggravated social conflicts but also influenced the policy aim of protecting arable land.
MANILA, Oct. 26 — Clan violence has aggravated the conflict between government forces and Islamic separatists in the southern Philippines, making the decade-long search for peace there even harder, a new study says.
Experts believe the basic structural causes of malnutrition have been aggravated by conflict, high food prices and the global financial crisis which has shaken the mining industry in the west and south-east of the country.
