Sentences with phrase «health behaviours account»

Health behaviours account for 30 % of influences and the physical environment for 10 %, with socioeconomic factors having the largest impact on health at 40 %.

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«Even when adjusted to take into account socioeconomic factors and health behaviours (physical activity, tobacco, alcohol, nutrition) in adulthood, associations remained very significant, especially among women, who were often less susceptible to benefit from social mobility.»

Antisocial behaviour accounts for 30 - 40 % of referrals to child mental health services.6 Most referrals meet general clinical diagnostic guidelines for conduct disorder from ICD - 10 (international classification of diseases, 10th revision), which require at least one type of antisocial behaviour to be marked and persistent.

We explore whether inequalities in child health and health behaviours linked to family adversity are reduced when we account for variation in parenting behaviour.

In order to find out whether parenting skills explain some of the relationship between family adversity and health outcomes and behaviours, we examined whether the strength of association between adversity and health was reduced when parenting skills were taken into account.

In multivariate analysis that took account of other family and maternal characteristics, the MCS study found that two measures of family organisation (regular bed and mealtimes) were the only parenting behaviours predicting poor general health.

The second is to investigate the extent to which variation in parenting practices may help to account for inequalities in child health and health behaviours associated with family adversity.

Differences in parenting accounted for some, but not all, inequalities in child health and health behaviours that are linked to family adversity.

Figure 5 - B Associations between family adversity and poor child health behaviours, before and after taking account of parenting

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.