This implies that societal factors acting through the life course also should be addressed when studying diabetes causation and ethnic differences in its prevalence [ 4].
Between the atrocities in Charleston and the points raised in The Atlantic, it felt as if conflicting societal pressures were acting upon me; race needed to be addressed this semester, but when it was, it couldn't be done in a way that prevented students from airing tendentious thoughts.
In this work, we are particularly focusing the interventions that might have a Public Health dimension, exerting a societal impact by acting on the eco-epidemiology of AbR rather than on the prevention of AbR in the individual patient.
"Transitions" are radical societal changes in thinking, acting, and organizing that take several decades.
31 Thirdly, societal pressures might be acting.
As Stucker and colleagues argue, greater health gains will be achieved by acting on societal determinants and would 'improve longevity and quality of life much more than giving people access to all the best medications in the world' (27).
17 18 Furthermore, the concepts of disease, illness and need are culturally defined to a great extent, and are influenced by societal and contextual factors acting over and above individual characteristics.
Rather than acting on the societal message that cars are no longer seen as fashion accessories, General Motors, by focusing on surface, is trying to entice young consumers into just that.
The rule 'society's ability of reflexivity' aims to consider the impact on others of acting in a societal sub-system in order to reduce or prevent conflicts in advance.
See Figure 2. According to the ecological model [ 39], factors acting at the societal level include norms of masculinity linked to male dominance, laws granting men control over women's behaviours, and attitudes that accept men's violence as a way to resolve family conflicts, and provision of inadequate policies and structures to address IPV [ 5, 27, 51, 52].
