Cities worldwide are challenged by a high complexity of acute and chronic problems, including challenges related to economic development, social polarisation and segregation as well as climate change and ecological degradation.
Nearly all scholars of America's system of locally run elections acknowledge chronic problems, including administrative incompetence, sloppy registration rolls, unreliable machinery, vote buying, and absentee-ballot fraud.
When I was using luxury skincare and makeup, I was frustrated by chronic skin problems, including hormonal acne.
Five patients' accounts were strongly characterised by traumatic life events or chronic life problems, including physical and sexual abuse in childhood, the death of a parent or sibling in infancy, illness in the family and the experience of HIV.
Survivors suffer chronic health problems including gynaecological problems, 2 gastrointestinal disorders, 2 neurological symptoms, 2 chronic pain 3 and cardiovascular conditions.
The unwillingness to seek support for self-harm was most strongly expressed by patients whose accounts were characterised by traumatic life events (especially in childhood) or chronic life problems (including coping with the consequences of childhood trauma), although not exclusively.
Abdominal fat worsens many chronic health problems, including diabetes and heart disease, whereas subcutaneous fat does not.
But now researchers are reporting that the therapy can be effective against some chronic mental problems, including anxiety and borderline personality disorder.
Disruptions to circadian rhythms interfere with restful sleep and are associated with a number of serious and chronic health problems, including heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
"Mass pleas" of this sort are not unheard of in Louisiana and elsewhere in the country, especially in states with chronic public defender problems, including Pennsylvania, Utah, Michigan and Missouri.
