high-risk environment

collocation in English

meanings of high-riskand environment

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high-risk
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˌhaɪˈrɪsk/ us /ˌhaɪˈrɪsk/
involving a greater than usual amount ...
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environment
noun
uk /ɪnˈvaɪ.rə.mənt/ us /ɪnˈvaɪ.rə.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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Examples of high-risk environment

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Thus, they are better prepared for the high-riskenvironment that they are likely to face as they continue to develop.
Emotion-specific socialization of children adapting to a high-riskenvironment has not been examined.
Vast numbers of farming households live in an exceptionally high-riskenvironment in which basic survival is a day-to-day uncertainty.
Furthermore, they are more often subjected to higher risk procedures and spend more time hospitalized in a high-riskenvironment.
Low-risk environments may offset the expression of vulnerability, while high-risk environments increase the probability of maladaptation.
Hence, they are better prepared to successfully navigate the sometimes negative, hostile context of peer relations often encountered in high-risk environments.
That is, most of the high-risk environments of interest to developmentalists and clinicians, such as maltreatment or severe poverty, are, in the majority of cases, continuous.
Rat pups reared in high-risk environments where normal maternal behaviors are compromised have more reactive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical responses, and are therefore more fearful and wary.
The practitioners are developmental specialists who create relationships with youth, teachers, and families in high-risk environments and serve triage functions to existing community and health care institutions.
Resilience research attempts to provide more information on the individual differences in children's responses to high-risk environments and experiences.
On the other hand, it may reflect a decline in manufacturing industry that has resulted in fewer people working in high-risk environments.
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Our governments must indeed give priority to high-risk environments.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is also vital to include measures targeting high-risk environments, such as prisons.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In these high-risk environments, the participants do not have the ability to abstain or enter into a faithful monogamous relationship.
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