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In Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal, concerns about immigration, chronic unemployment, high taxes, and deteriorating public services have fuelled this trend.
While immigration and globalization are often blamed, the real culprits are chronic slow growth and technological innovation.
During the 2014 soccer World Cup in Brazil, a country with a chronic shortage of hotel rooms, more than 100,000 people used home-sharing Web sites to find accommodation.
For most French, the traditional parties have come to symbolize a lack of transparency, chronic unethical behavior, and a focus on internal party fights at the expense of the national interest.
While it is true that international powers have their own troubles – from Europe’s concerns about Russia’s new foreign policy to China’s territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas – it is in their interest to take an active role in addressing chronic instability in the Middle East.
In the 1980’s, Scandinavian countries stood for chronic budget deficits, high inflation, and repeated devaluations.
Ukraine and BeyondGENEVA – The Ukraine crisis has evolved from acute to chronic.
When an agricultural research unit called the World Agroforestry Center discovered that a certain tree could help African farmers grow more food, they introduced a new and valuable approach to overcoming Africa's chronic food crisis.
Political and economic reforms over the past decade were supposed to lead the country out of chronic economic crisis.
A chronic budget deficit was brought under control, infrastructure upgraded, and the banking sector strengthened.
Not wedded to central bankers’ obsolete doctrines, he has made a commitment to reverse Japan’s chronic deflation, setting an inflation target of 2%.
American democracy’s emphasis on short time horizons is costly, with tax cuts and increased welfare benefits giving rise to chronic fiscal deficits, with future generations forced to foot the bill for years of excessive consumption.
Because America’s economy is so large, and the dollar so central to global finance, chronic US budget deficits mean huge global repercussions.
This basic formula also forms the foundation of efforts to prevent diabetes, as well as most chronic diseases.
Dealing with the global epidemic of chronic diseases requires us to address this 80%, and doing so cannot be left to traditional health-care organizations alone.
Ultimately, the battle against chronic disease will be won or lost at home.
Unfortunately, gold bugs seem surprisingly – or perhaps willfully – ignorant of the chronic financial crises and deep recessions of that era.
Several related factors underlie the region’s chronic instability.
If Europe, for its part, fails to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century, it will face chronic economic stagnation, rising social tension, and political instability.
Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger – perhaps 100 million more than two years ago.
But evolution has failed to keep pace with biomedical and technological advances, allowing chronic pain (pain that persists beyond an acute injury or condition) to become a disease in itself.
It is difficult to overestimate chronic pain’s societal impact.
According to the US Institute of Medicine, one in three people suffer from chronic pain – more than from heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined.
In the United States alone, chronic pain is estimated to cost more than $600 billion annually.
An example of chronic nociceptive pain is arthritis.
In an era of instant access, people often expect immediate relief from symptoms, which is difficult to achieve when it comes to chronic pain.
Procedures, operations, and prescription opioid use aimed at curbing chronic pain have increased dramatically over the last decade, driving up health-care costs, while failing to stem the increase in the prevalence of pain or the number of disability claims.
What can be done to improve management and treatment of chronic pain?
For starters, health-care providers and individuals should view chronic pain more as a “syndrome” than a symptom – one that may not be “curable.”
Likewise, for chronic non-cancer pain, there is virtually no evidence to support the long-term use of high doses of opioids, which often do more harm than good.
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