The impact of the malaria burden on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals is enormous, and its control is a potential contribution towards significant progress (1).
As the region with the lowest per-capita income, the South has always lagged the rest of the country in educational achievement, burdened by its former reliance on low-skill jobs and the residue of segregated school systems.
In addition, prior studies indicate that a considerable burden of poor school achievement among African children is attributable to hearing or middle ear problems [ 21, 22].
Conversely, the amount of concomitant medication ("pill burden"), blood pressure target achievement and patients' antihypertensive treatment in period 6 influenced HRQoL when assessed by the EQ-5D but not when assessed by the MINICHAL.
Despite the great advances in the control of lead over the past several decades, the effects of county lead burden upon the academic achievement of 3rd and 8th graders in 57 New York State counties are clearly visible in the results of 2010 academic testing.
Historically burdened with low school achievement rates, these children attend school depending on the seasonal nature of their household chores.
In other words, Battier was suggesting that the burden of a potentially historic achievement in the waning days of the grinding regular season should not carry too great a risk of becoming too emotionally or physically draining.
In putting its mind to this objective, and its achievement, Lifting The Burden asked two questions: "What makes headache services good?" and "How is it known whether a particular headache service is good, or needs to be improved?" In reality, defining quality of care is less easy than it might seem.
Ben's bored by his burden, snaring grades and notable achievements to gain acceptance to the best colleges, so he feels he's entitled to participate in the kinds of extracurricular activities that would look out of place on a school transcript.
Golf — with its lavish disregard for time and money — is a symbol of the two men's bourgeois achievement (and of their burden, which is to assume the attitudes and the leisure activities of the white man).
