Sentences with phrase «area demographics study»

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Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differestudy design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differeStudy is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Research in this area spans several disciplines, from the biochemical study of basic mechanisms of alcohol metabolism, to the neuroscience of dependency, to demographic and clinical studies on at - risk populations.

Thus, the study population included all out - of - hospital cardiac arrests from 11 counties in North Carolina (Camden, Catawba, Durham, Mecklenburg, Pasquotank, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Transylvania, Wake, and Warren), covering a total population of approximately 2.7 million inhabitants (30 % of the state's total population), with demographics varying from urban to rural areas served by 11 EMS agencies.

One additional noteworthy aspect of this yoga study was that it was done in a rural area of Western Wisconsin; there have only been a handful of studies addressing yoga practice in rural demographics.

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Moderator analyses were performed using a random effects model that focused on the three main areas of scaffold characteristics (including the mechanism, functions, delivery forms, mode, and number of scaffolds; how to promote self - regulated learning by scaffolds); demographics of the selected studies (including sample groups, sample size, learning domain, research settings, and types of computer - based learning environments); and research methodological features (including research methods, types of research design, types of organization for treatment, and duration of treatment).

A 2004 study in Atlanta showed that men in more suburban, purely residential neighborhoods were on average 10 pounds heavier than the same demographic who lived in more urban, mixed - use areas.

[21] These studies showed that after a certain point, increasing the size of a geographic area does not significantly decrease the percentage of unique records (i.e., those that could be identified if sampled), but that the point of diminishing returns is dependent on the number and type of demographic variables on which matching might occur.

Despite the negative effect maternal depression can have on children, earlier studies in this area have focused on smaller samples typically collected within 1 site or community.3, 8,20 The purpose of this multisite, cross-sectional study of 5820 children who attended a Head Start program and their families was to describe key aspects of the family environment and demographic factors related to maternal depressive symptoms in a diverse national sample of low - income families whose children attended Head Start as preschoolers and were attending kindergarten at the time of the interview.

Market feasibility studies currently consider the characteristics of not only the senior and adult child - influencer demographic cohorts of a primary market area, but also its labor market characteristics.