Such harmful cost shifting includes (1) converting the program to a block grant; (2) setting a cap on overall federal spending that inevitably results in reducing federal Medicaid spending over time; and (3) rolling back protections that currently ensure health coverage is not diminished.
The harmful effects of shift work on the health and work life balance of employees are well known.
In Ethiopia, CARE is working with whole communities and married adolescent girls to understand and shift harmful social norms around early marriage.
We show that maximizing the modal shift is harmful for both cost and carbon emissions and that there is a carbon optimal level of modal shift.
The current model for energy production, based on the intense use of fossil fuels, is both unsustainable and environmentally harmful and consequently, a shift is needed in the direction of integrating the renewable energy sources into the energy balance.
The concept of an optimal CO2 concentration is essential as most physiological systems are saturable and it is therefore reasonable that an effective upper limit of CO2, a point beyond which advantages shift towards harmful effects, exists.
To break this harmful habit, China needs to fundamentally shift its agricultural production and investment behavior.
Targeted prophylaxis against the microbes capable of virulence shifts could break the harmful feedback loop between deteriorating health and the "mutiny" of the microbiome.
"Many members of society participate in reinforcing harmful social norms; hence, shifting those norms requires the full participation of everyone, male and female, old and young," said the UNFPA report, adding that the development sector has "a tendency to accept gender inequality as a given rather than attempt to address it incrementally through programmes".
Rather than talking about anti-corruption efforts in terms of risk mitigation and reacting to harmful practices, we are shifting the conversation towards emphasizing anti-corruption's potential to create economic value.
