Sentences with phrase «among migrant populations»

She said that the smoking stigma for women is significantly less in the U.S., so when gender differences in smoking between the native and foreign - born are compared, gender gaps tend to be much larger among migrant populations living in the U.S.

While commending the Nigerian Military for doing their best to halt threats to citizens as exemplified by Boko Haram, IPOB, Avengers and other groups complicit in crimes against humanity, Global Amnesty Watch sees Amnesty International as constantly demonizing nations that are battling terrorism and setting the ground for killers to embed themselves among migrant populations to spread to these other peaceful countries.

Not exact matches

The same principle of nonrandom selection is responsible for part of the non-Christian presence in the U.S.. For example, the population of India is about 12 percent Muslim, but because of both «push» factors in India and «pull» factors (especially economic opportunities) in the U.S., the proportion of Muslims among Indian Americans is probably higher than that for the same reasons — push and pull factors — Jews are greatly over represented among migrants from the former Soviet Union.

As Lucinda Platt and others have shown, Britishness is especially common among migrants and minority ethnic populations — and in particular those from South Asian and / or Muslim groups — who are far more likely to identify as British than their white British neighbours are.

So a team of researchers from the Karolinska Institutet and UCL carried out a study to determine the risk of schizophrenia and other non-affective psychotic disorders among refugees, compared to non-refugee migrants, and the general Swedish population.

He suggests that the lower excess risk among migrants may be because Canada's ethnically diverse general population, against whom immigrants were compared, may also include some groups that tend to experience higher rates of schizophrenia.

«Perhaps the most striking finding from the study is that rates of psychosis were not elevated consistently among nonrefugee first - generation migrants relative to the general population,» writes Dr. Kirkbride.

«The major differences in the incidence of cancers among different countries, between the sexes, among population groups within each country, and between migrant and native populations, as well as time trends, point to environmental factors as explaining such variances.»

Under Colbert's leadership, FEN has adapted the Escuela Nueva model to urban settings (1987) and for migrant, displaced populations in emergency situations (2001) and just recently was ranked 42nd by The Global Journal among the Top 100 Best NGOs worldwide.