“…This paper traces the Motion’s history during the 1980s, showing that it was shaped by both the socio-political conditions of Greece in the post-dictatorship period, a time of intense politicization, and by the legacy of mental patient activism in the Western world during the 1970s and 1980s. It argues that, although the Motion had a limited long-term impact, it represented the mental patient movement in Greece as it furthered the latter’s main features, most importantly its twofold endeavor to change not only the mental health system and the attitudes towards mental illness, but also society.…”
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“…Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common blinding disease in the western world that is linked to the loss of fenestration in the choriocapillaris that sustains the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptors in the back of the eye. …”
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“…A growing concern in the Western world is obesity, which results from incorrect lifestyles and comprises an extensive array of co-morbidities. …”
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“…It was rare in the western world until a recent outbreak among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Europe and North America. …”
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“…Breast cancer is the commonest cancer among women in the western world, accounting for up to 30% of all cancers in women. …”
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“…As the population in the Western world is rapidly aging, the remote monitoring solutions integrated into the living environment of seniors have the potential to reduce the care burden helping them to self-manage problems associated with old age. …”
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“…Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed malignant neoplasm in men in the Western world. Localized low-risk PCa has an excellent prognosis thanks to effective local treatments; however, despite the incorporation of new therapeutic strategies, metastatic PCa remains incurable mainly due to disease heterogeneity and the development of resistance to therapy. …”
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“…Bacteriophage therapy was halted in the Western world due to inconclusive results in early experiments and the concurrent discovery of antibiotics. …”
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“…Considering that behavior analysis was born in the western world, any dissemination efforts to formerly colonized African countries will perpetuate the power dynamic conceived from colonial “helping” practices. …”
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“…However, the accessibility to online platforms, suitable devices, and connections are not equal across the globe thus raising the question of whether the opinion of the public in the South Asian region where the technology is not comparatively higher as in the western world would be the same as that to the global perspective. …”
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“…Over the last decade, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has overtaken alcohol as the leading cause of cirrhosis in the Western world. There remains to be a licensed pharmacological treatment for NAFLD. …”
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“…Increasing incidence together with a continued lack of targeted treatment options will cause PDAC to be the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the western world by 2030. Obesity belongs to the predominant risk factors for pancreatic cancer. …”
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“…In the history of the Western world, there has always been an association between good and beautiful. …”
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“…Lignans are non-flavonoid polyphenols present in a wide range of foods frequently consumed in the Western world, such as seeds, vegetables and fruits, and beverages such as coffee, tea and wine. …”
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“…Macroalgae are a new food source in the Western world. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of harvest months and food processing on cultivated Saccharina latissima (S. latissima) from Quebec. …”
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“…Obesity is a chronic health problem associated with severe complications and with an increasing prevalence in the Western world. Body-fat composition and distribution are closely associated with obesity, but the human body’s composition is a sexually dimorphic trait, as differences between the two sexes are evident even from fetal life. …”
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“…Since the late 1970s, however, the Western world has experienced new reconfigurations in the crime control field, one of which is the transformation of Western criminological thought. …”
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“…Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is the most common nonischemic mitral regurgitation etiology and mitral abnormality requiring surgery in the Western world. There is an increasing awareness that pathological findings in MVP are not confined to the valve tissue; rather, it is a complex disease, involving the mitral valve apparatus, cardiac hemodynamics, and cardiac structure. …”
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“…Endometrial cancer is the fifth most common female cancer worldwide and the third leading female cancer in the Western world. The marked surge in endometrial cancer incidence is alarming. …”
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“…Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the western world, with squamous cell carcinoma being one of the most common histological subtypes. …”
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