Sentences with phrase «among children at risk»

Gender differences in behavioral outcomes among children at risk of neglect: Findings from a family - focused prevention intervention.

The developmental plasticity collectively displayed will be important for the conceptualization of a new generation of early interventions among children at risk.

Not exact matches

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

ABOUT BOOKS FOR KIDS The mission of Books for Kids is to promote literacy among all children with a special emphasis on low - income and at - risk preschool - aged children.

Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found significant risk of ACL injury among both genders, particularly in high - risk sports such as soccer, football, basketball and lacrosse.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

Childhood cancer is one of the leading causes of death among children, and while the evidence is still limited, studies are showing that breastfeeding for at least six months can reduce a child's risk.

By facilitating their involvement in parenting programs, these families will have the opportunity to change some of their parenting behaviours and beliefs, which may ultimately buffer children who are at risk of poor developmental outcomes because of genetic vulnerability, low birth weight, low socio - economic status, or cumulative environmental risks, among others.

A key reason behind the recent turnaround in breastfeeding among minority mothers in Illinois and particularly in the metropolitan Chicago area, state and local public health leaders say, is a common - sense peer counselor program launched in WIC (Women, Infants and Children program) clinics, which serve women who are poor and nutritionally «at risk.»

Pregnant women and young children, among others (e.g., adults 65 years of age and older, people with certain medical conditions) are at high risk of developing flu - related complications.

In 2001, 70 % of mothers left the hospital breastfeeding, and 33 % were still breastfeeding at 6 months.25 If we assume that the risk structure has not changed as the overall rates have fallen, then the overall postneonatal mortality rate, a weighted average of the rate among those who were breastfed and those who were not, consists of 70 % of children who are breastfed when they leave the hospital and who have a rate of 2.1 per 1000, and 30 % of children who are not breastfed and have a rate of 2.7.

Estimates of the risk (odds ratio) of getting a «low» WPPSI - R score at age 5 years among children breast fed for less than 3 months compared to children breast fed for six months or more, adjusted for maternal age, education, smoking, and Raven score

Estimates of the risk (odds ratio) of getting a «low» Bayley score at 13 months of age among children breast fed for less than 3 months compared to children who were breast fed for 6 months or more

Odds ratio (OR) was calculated and used as an estimate of the relative risk of getting a low test score among children who had been breast fed less than three months, compared to children who had been breast fed at least six months.

But non-breastfed children in industrialized countries are also at greater risk of dying - a recent study of post-neonatal mortality in the United States found a 25 % increase in mortality among non-breastfed infants.

Among the new proposals in the government's five - year plan to defeat home - grown extremism, Cameron promised to allow parents to have their children's passports cancelled if they feared they were at risk.

In «Long - term Coarse PM Exposure Is Associated with Asthma Among Children in Medicaid,» researchers report that coarse particulate matter, the kind of air pollution created by physical processes such as tire and break wear, agricultural tilling, salt spray and dust created in manufacturing, appears to put children at greater risk for asthma, independent of exposure to fine particulate poChildren in Medicaid,» researchers report that coarse particulate matter, the kind of air pollution created by physical processes such as tire and break wear, agricultural tilling, salt spray and dust created in manufacturing, appears to put children at greater risk for asthma, independent of exposure to fine particulate pochildren at greater risk for asthma, independent of exposure to fine particulate pollution.

For some time now, the impact of environmental stressors during pregnancy on allergy risk among new - born children is a main research topic at Leipzig Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ).

The interplay between malnutrition and malaria is poorly understood, but the risk of death is certainly higher in children with acute malnutrition, at least among those who make it to a hospital, says Larry Slutsker, who directed the malaria and parasitic diseases program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and now runs the malaria program at PATH in Seattle, Washington.

Among the children with confirmed pertussis, those whose first four shots had all been acellular were at 5.6 times higher risk for pertussis than those who had four whole cell shots.

«By looking at the genes of the children who participated in TEDDY, we can now identify who among them is at highest risk for celiac disease, and their parents and health care providers can monitor these children to detect the disease early,» said Beena Akolkar, Ph.D., project scientist for TEDDY at the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

Gallbladder removal and colon surgery were among procedures associated with highest risk of new persistent opioid use, said lead abstract author Calista Harbaugh, M.D., a general surgery resident at the University of Michigan Medical School and pediatric surgery researcher at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the Michigan Opioid Engagement Network.

Getting enough vitamin D during infancy and childhood is associated with a reduced risk of islet autoimmunity among children at increased genetic risk for type 1 diabetes, according to a study published this week in the journal Diabetes.

The intervention was most effective among children who are considered at highest risk for struggling in school — those from low - income backgrounds who are learning English as a second language.

Among children under the age of 5 — the group at the highest risk of severe disease and death from malaria — there were 16 % fewer cases in the villages that received ivermectin at 3 - week intervals.

Knowing why immigrants are at lower risk of having a child with CP offers clues to discovering ways to prevent CP among all Canadians.

Influenza vaccine coverage overall is low among young children and those in need of two doses in a given season are at particular risk, with less than half of those who receive the first dose returning to receive the second needed doses.

«These results indicate that the higher autism risk may be due mainly to the large numbers of multiple births and complications of pregnancy and delivery among children conceived with ART,» said Christine Fountain, assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University and affiliated researcher at Columbia University.

Children under age two may be at heightened risk for abuse and neglect during the six months immediately following a parent's return from deployment in the U.S. Army, and the risk may rise among Army families with soldiers who are deployed more than once.

«We learned from our previous research that there is a continuum of risk for deficits in height and weight among children with food allergies, and kids who are allergic to cow's milk are at heightened risk,» Dr. Robbins adds.

Impairments of motor function among children with a familial risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder at 7 years old in Denmark: an observational cohort study.

A study from Iowa State University researchers has found a statistical inclination towards violence among children who play violent video games, though caution that the results do not automatically mean at - risk children will develop antisocial behaviors.

Among other things his research group has studied the connection between the paternal age at conception and the risk of the child developing schizophrenia.

We generated unadjusted Kaplan - Meier plots for ASD risk over time along with the numbers at risk at discrete periods among children of vaccinated and unvaccinated mothers.

Among various food items, cow's milk and cheese had the highest correlation with incidence and mortality rate of these cancers» Children are at high risk «Among the exposure of humans, especially prepubertal children, to exogenous estrogens, we are particularly concerned with» These xenoestrogens from lactating preganant cattle (the majority of commercial cattle used for milk) significantly raised estrogen levels in male adults and reduced testosterone levels and did even more so in cChildren are at high risk «Among the exposure of humans, especially prepubertal children, to exogenous estrogens, we are particularly concerned with» These xenoestrogens from lactating preganant cattle (the majority of commercial cattle used for milk) significantly raised estrogen levels in male adults and reduced testosterone levels and did even more so in cchildren, to exogenous estrogens, we are particularly concerned with» These xenoestrogens from lactating preganant cattle (the majority of commercial cattle used for milk) significantly raised estrogen levels in male adults and reduced testosterone levels and did even more so in childrenchildren.

Similarly, in North Carolina, local «More at Four Committees» choose providers of state - funded pre-K to at - risk children, according to the state's eligibility guidelines, from among public schools, Head Start programs, community groups, and private providers.

Teachers learn how to be gatekeepers to get an at - risk child in the right hands, and students are taught that they are important elements in preventing suicides among their peers.

Yet hunger among children appears to be on the rise, prompting many food banks to expand distribution to schoolchildren while training teachers to identify students at risk.

School finance topped the poll of key fiscal issues as well, and at - risk youths were also named the first priority among issues related to «children, youth, and families.»

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

Specifically, this project has two key elements: (1) a one - day convening (12/12/14) that forges relationships among stakeholders in Hampden County's early education field with influential leaders and experts from across the nation, where they engage in mutual learning and dialogue around the goal of strengthening individual and organization capacities to advance early learning for all; and (2) a multi-pronged communication strategy, rooted in the convening and designed to provide guidance around the field's most pressing needs, with a particular focus on strengthening the quality of Pre-K for at - risk children, like many of those growing up Hampden County.

Long standing research clearly demonstrates the importance of prenatal care and the effectiveness of prenatal interventions in facilitating healthy pregnancies [224225, 226227228] and improving child outcomes that affect later school readiness [229230231232233] among at - risk women.

i. Lahaderne, «Attitudinal and Intellectual Correlates of Attention: A Study of Four Sixth - grade Classrooms,» Journal of Educational Psychology 59, no. 5 (October 1968), 320 — 324; E. Skinner et al., «What It Takes to Do Well in School and Whether I've Got It: A Process Model of Perceived Control and Children's Engagement and Achievement in School,» Journal of Educational Psychology 82, no. 1 (1990), 22 — 32; J. Finn and D. Rock, «Academic Success among Students at Risk for School Failure,» Journal of Applied Psychology 82, no. 2 (1997), 221 — 234; and J. Bridgeland et al., The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts (Washington, D.C.: Civic Enterprises, LLC, March 2006), https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/documents/thesilentepidemic3-06final.pdf.

* Recent analyses indicate that environmental factors associated with vocabulary development and emergent literacy skills are already present among children as early as 15 months of age.2 By first grade, unfortunately, the repercussions become all too clear: children from high - income families are likely to know about twice as many words as children from low - income families, putting these children at a significantly higher risk for school failure.3

Responding to individual differences among language learners: Children at risk.

The mission of the Books for Kids Foundation is to promote literacy among all children, with a special emphasis on low - income and at - risk preschool - aged children.

The flow of electrical current to the motor that moves a hybrid vehicle at low speeds (and assists the gasoline engine on the highway) produces magnetic fields, which some studies have associated with serious health matters, including a possible risk of leukemia among children.

Among the common sense recommendations to minimize risk to children walking to school were: not to allow those under the age of 10 to walk alone; to only cross at marked crosswalks; and to choose a route with the least number of street crossings.

In the second study conducted at the University of California Los Angeles, researchers looked at the Swedish Family - Cancer Database to gauge the risk for several types of skin cancer among siblings and children of people diagnosed with these diseases.