Northern Ireland: political violence and self-reported physical symptoms in a community sample.
In order to investigate the possible relationship between physical health and political violence in Northern Ireland a random sample of residents of four electoral areas (two with relatively high violence and two with relatively low violence) was interviewed at home. Each person was asked to rate their health in terms of common physical symptoms, to indicate their use of family doctor and hospital services, and to rate the level of political violence in their neighbourhood. Analysis of covariance (with a measure of psychological well-being, a measure of trait neuroticism plus age and socioeconomic status as covariates) revealed that women reported more physical symptoms than did men, people in the 'high' violence areas reported more symptoms than didto confirm your subscription shortly. There was a problem processing your signup; please try again later Twitter

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Flipboard In March, the carcass of a 15-foot, 1,100-pound whale washed onto a beach in Compostela Valley in the Philippines. The mammal had ingested 88 pounds of plastic, which experts say led to starvation, dehydration and its ultimate demise. Only a few days later, a pregnant whale was found dead off the coast of Sardinia, Italy. It had 49 pounds of plastic in its belly.

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