Sentences with phrase «by social disparities»

That document and the N.C.L.R. study both show that Hispanics currently lag far behind whites in both educational attainment and income, and that Hispanic children are especially affected by social disparities.

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The report Thursday by the Shanghai Express newspaper on statistics from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences did not give an official explanation for the disparity, but cited unnamed experts who blamed it in part on pro-abortion atti - tudes that value boys over girls.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wSocial inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wsocial inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wsocial goods depends on wealth.

According to a 2013 study released by the Sutton Trust, a charity in the United Kingdom that promotes social mobility through education, the disparity is particularly acute at top universities.

«A greater tendency toward unethicality by winners is likely to impede social mobility and equality, exacerbating disparities in society rather than alleviating them.

It appears in flashes: the family's economic troubles (and the toll it takes on their relationships), the tensions created by wealth disparity, the widespread social and psychological problems produced by such conditions.

Inspired by the idealism of that decade, she believes education is the key to resolving economic and social disparities.

Thus, for example, disparities in suspension rates by race are seen as prima facie evidence of discrimination rather than symptoms of social ills that strike some groups in America harder than others.

By strengthening relationships, developing social and emotional skills, using restorative interventions, and increasing cultural awareness, we aim to create a positive climate for learning and address the root causes of suspensions and discipline disparities, leading to greater student engagement and success in school.

USC education professor Morgan Polikoff also acknowledged that growing performance disparities could be caused by social factors.

In works by Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman, for example, deconstructed and appropriated images displayed the disparity between individual agency and expectations that stemmed from the social construction of femininity.

Directing support to artists across social difference in economic disparities, while recognizing and enabling creative self - determination, is the call launched by Post Black Folk Art in America, and these commitments will require the same exploratory spirit that energized audience encounters with black folk art in the first place.

«Many artists thrived here because they weren't interested in the big city ethos,» claims Genius co-curator Erica Dalya Massaquoi, «but robust artistic practice is now at risk in the rapidly changing cityscape marked by political, ideological, economic, and social disparities.»

The artist Hélio Oiticica once called Brazil «the country that simply doesn't exist» — meaning, one presumes, that there was no single essence that could lend his nation a unified identity.In the decades since those words were written, Brazil has become increasingly fragmented, as social cohesion has been sundered by widening disparities in opportunity.

Taylor marks the disparity between social classes from one gallery to the next by installing in each space a distinct terrain.

Earlier in 1990s, he propounded many important suggestions that had been adopted by the central government, for example, establishing tax share distribution system between central and local government (1993), reducing the disparities of regional development (1994), prohibiting the army of engaging in commerce (1994), creating jobs as most priority goal of economic development (1997), balance between social development and economic development (2000), new conception of development based on people - centred (2000,2004).

There is evidence that marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities, tend to experience poorer health outcomes, and widespread agreement that disparity in health outcomes is largely due to the social determinants of health, which are the poorer economic and social conditions experienced by them: Robin L. Nobleman, Are Health Problems Legal Problems in Disguise?

Relative to children with no ACEs, children who experienced ACEs had increased odds of having below - average academic skills including poor literacy skills, as well as attention problems, social problems, and aggression, placing them at significant risk for poor school achievement, which is associated with poor health.23 Our study adds to the growing literature on adverse outcomes associated with ACEs3 — 9,24 — 28 by pointing to ACEs during early childhood as a risk factor for child academic and behavioral problems that have implications for education and health trajectories, as well as achievement gaps and health disparities.

About the Zoma Foundation: Early childhood development is a focus of the Zoma Foundation and drives our commitment to reducing social - emotional and executive functioning disparity by age 5 in the greater Denver metro area.

We also know that the health disparities and inequities experienced by Aboriginal peoples are rooted in racism and marginalization, dislocation, and social exclusion.