These initiatives develop young people ’ s capacity to engage in positive behaviors that nurture their own well-being, set personal goals and live successfully as self-sufficient adults.

These aims were " the promotion of the industrial skills, general knowledge, health, and well-being of young men and women " and also for " instruction suitable for persons intending to emigrate ".

The initiative seeks to develop young people for leadership roles by engaging them in environmental cleanup and conservation projects, empower volunteers to rebuild the environmental and social well-being of our communities, and improve local living conditions for both citizens and wildlife.

Many commentators regard the emphasis in the media and in the fashion industry on thinness and on an ideal female body shape and size as being psychologically detrimental to the well-being of many young women, and on their self-image which also gives rise to excessive dieting and / or exercise, and to eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa.

It would provide Mennonite young people an opportunity to express appreciation for the material blessings, religious and other national liberties and to contribute to the well-being of the nation.

It was constituted under the City of London Parochial Charities Act ( 1883 ), with the objective of " the promotion of the industrial skill, general knowledge, health and well-being of young men and women belonging to the poorer classes ".

Since 1987, the Award has recognized individuals who have contributed in a meaningful way to the well-being of young people.

IBFAN aims to improve the health and well-being of babies and young children, their mothers and their families through the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal infant feeding practices.

The Centre seeks to improve the health and well-being of young people aged 12 – 24 in NSW, Australia.

Here the young are pushed by their parents into careers and marriages they may not want, in an effort to hold community and family together, albeit at the expense of the happiness and well-being of the kids.

As principal, Sister Carlotta's goal was to " educate the whole child ... by guiding young people toward intellectual attainment and social, physical, and spiritual well-being.

The master has become the victim of this dread disease ; the clerks, a young man whose energies were devoted to the well-being of the union, has been added to the victims ; the matron, too, is dead ; and the respected, and esteemed physician has fallen before the ravages of pestilence, in his constant attendance on the diseased inmates.

Maurice Richardson in the 13 June 1943 issue of The Observer set the tone thus: " An atmosphere of perpetual, after-breakfast well-being ; sherry parties in a country town where nobody is quite what he seems ; difficult slouching daughters with carefully concealed coltish charm ; crazy spinsters, of course ; and adulterous solicitors.

Today Environmental health is more related to nutrition, preventive medicine, aging well and other concerns specific to the human body's well-being.

Environmental health could also deal with nutrition, preventive medicine, aging, and other concerns specific to human well-being.

* Wellness ( alternative medicine ) is used to mean a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being.

In alternative medicine, it is believed that the spiritual aspect should also be taken into account when assessing a person's overall well-being.

Ear candling, also called ear coning or thermal-auricular therapy, is an alternative medicine practice claimed to improve general health and well-being by lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.

Ear candling, also called ear coning or thermal-auricular therapy, is an alternative medicine practice claimed to improve general health and well-being by lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.

It values all the professions, not just medicine, for their contributions in optimizing the well-being and independence of older people.

In medicine ( oncology and other fields ), performance status is an attempt to quantify cancer patients ' general well-being and activities of daily life.

Around 1820 he tried to find a medicine to improve appetite and digestive well-being of the soldiers.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

In providing for these inner individual functions, religion undertakes in behalf of individual peace of mind and well-being services for which there is no other institution.

Studies suggest that gratitude goes hand-in-hand with kindness and is also very important for our well-being.

Still, the notion of altruism is modified in such a world-view, since the belief is that such a practice promotes our own happiness: " The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes " ( Dalai Lama ).

Oord defines altruism as acting for the other's good, and he agrees with feminists who note that sometimes love requires acting for one's own good when the other's demands undermine overall well-being.

It approved the state's blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended to serve " to provide a uniform day of rest for all citizens " on a secular basis and to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest.

Further levels of editing have also been proposed, including: a late 8th century edition pointing to Hezekiah of Judah as the model for kingship ; an earlier 8th century version with a similar message but identifying Jehu of Israel as the ideal king ; and an even earlier version promoting the House of David as the key to national well-being.

In Revelation 21-23, as in the closing visions of Ezekiel, the prophet is transported to a high mountain, where a heavenly messenger measures the symmetrical new Jerusalem, complete with high walls and twelve gates, the dwelling-place of God, producing a state of perfect well-being for his people.

Some opponents charge that Chiang's efforts in developing Taiwan were mostly to make the island a strong base from which to one day return to mainland China, and that Chiang had little regard for the long-term prosperity and well-being of the Taiwanese people.

Many important forest functions have no markets, and hence, no economic value that is readily apparent to the forests ' owners or the communities that rely on forests for their well-being.

Egoism and altruism both contrast with ethical utilitarianism, which holds that a moral agent should treat one's self ( also known as the subject ) with no higher regard than one has for others ( as egoism does, by elevating self-interests and " the self " to a status not granted to others ), but that one also should not ( as altruism does ) sacrifice one's own interests to help others ' interests, so long as one's own interests ( i. e. one's own desires or well-being ) are substantially equivalent to the others ' interests and well-being.

Individualism allows for others ' interest and well-being to be disregarded or not, as long as what is chosen is efficacious in satisfying the self-interest of the agent.

In contrast, Rand saw ethics as a necessity for human survival and well-being, and argued that the " social " implications of morality, including natural rights, were simply a subset of the wider field of ethics.

Populations and species migration, for example, are sensitive indicators of ecosystem services that sustain and contribute natural capital toward the well-being of humanity.

Definitions of evil vary, as does the analysis of its root motives and causes ; however, evil is commonly associated with conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, discrimination designed to harm others, humiliation of people designed to diminish their psychological well-being and dignity, destructiveness, motives of causing pain or suffering for selfish or malicious intentions, and acts of unnecessary or indiscriminate violence.

However, these studies failed to account for the impact of ethnic and cultural diversity and third-world immigration in its impact on purported social well-being and income distribution.

According to him, aphobia supersedes the individual's instinctive fear for selfish survival and well-being, when more evolutionarily important subjects than that individual's own life are in danger.

The theory argues that the net result will be an increase in income and ultimately wealth and well-being for everyone in the free-trade area.

To regularize slavery, in 1685 Louis XIV enacted the Code Noir, which accorded certain human rights to slaves and responsibilities to the master, who was obliged to feed, clothe, and provide for the general well-being of their slaves.

Egoism and altruism both contrast with ethical utilitarianism, which holds that a moral agent should treat one's self ( also known as the subject ) with no higher regard than one has for others ( as egoism does, by elevating self-interests and " the self " to a status not granted to others ), but that one also should not ( as altruism does ) sacrifice one's own interests to help others ' interests, so long as one's own interests ( i. e. one's own desires or well-being ) are substantially-equivalent to the others ' interests and well-being.