Sentence examples for conditions of affluence from inspiring English sources

Conditions of affluence and the presence of cheap raw materials encourage human beings' tendency to simply discard used materials.

This juxtaposition of what might be termed "new" and "old" risk factors strongly suggests that health policy in developing countries must increasingly address risks such as tobacco and blood pressure that have often mistakenly been labelled, and treated, as conditions of affluence.

Why would this be, he wondered, when heart disease was supposed to be a condition of affluence — of sedentary lifestyles and too much rich food?

Thus, the association between development indicators and the health transition is different at the national and local levels, and we cannot consider NCDs to be solely conditions of national affluence (21).

Overall in 2005, only a fifth of deaths attributable to "illnesses of affluence" (chronic conditions) actually took place in the most affluent nations.

Every household has a legal requirement to complete the census form, which contained 25 questions, the content ranging from age and sex of occupants to indicators of affluence such as adult employment and housing conditions.

There are signs of affluence everywhere.

These are the anxieties of affluence.

The simplest signs of affluence can seem obscene in public.

They have a daughter and enjoy a life of affluence.

In the south, the sea is of affluence.