Sentences with phrase «child health indices»

Maternal mortality is increasingly high, Nigeria has one of the poorest maternal and child health indices in the world with maternal 800-3000 deaths per 100,000 live births, life time risk of dying from pregnancy related complications of 1:8 compared to 1:10 in developing countries (Nigeria Demographic Health Survey 2004).

The goal of the work described in this report was to develop a new child health index that could be reported annually by the National Education Goals Panel for each of the 50 states, as well as for

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It is well known that most indices of child welfare — income, access to health care, physical safety, poverty, self - esteem — have been declining in the United States.

Save the Children has called on FTSE to bring the criteria into line with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of the World Health Assembly and noted the decision to keep Nestlé in the Index has been criticised as in - country assessments identified Code violations (note 3).

Those who remain sceptical that the demonstrated changes in conduct problems translate into important gains in health and quality of life will point to the need for research quantifying the relationship between change in child behaviour scores and health utility in the index child as well as parents, siblings and peers.

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The harmful effects of being overweight have been underestimated, according to a new study that analysed body mass index (BMI), health and mortality data in around 60,000 parents and their children, to establish how obesity actually influences risk of death.

53 % of parents who receive their child's Body Mass Index (BMI) report card do not believe that it accurately categorizes their child as underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese, according to research out today in Health Promotion Practice, a SAGE Publishing journal.

In this study, we wanted to assess the health outcomes of children diagnosed with ADHD, focusing on obesity rates and Body Mass Index,» said lead author Francisco Xavier Castellanos, MD, Brooke and Daniel Neidich Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Child Study Center at NYU Langone.

My colleagues specializing in pediatric health emphasize that a «cranky» child is not necessarily just going through «terrible twos» or a «moody teenager», but may not be ingesting enough glycemic - index optimizing foods throughout the day.

In one study funded by the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, infants (18 months) given supplemental arachidonic acid for 17 weeks demonstrated significant improvements in intelligence, as measured by the Mental Development Index.

In this cohort, the child's diet was evaluated at 10 months and at 2 years, and then every 2 years until age 20 when parameters of physical health including body mass index, were assessed.

Living in these areas was associated with a low Human Development Index score, which measures education, standard of living and health, suggesting that children will have a hard time developing to reach their full potential in the current conditions.

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In its annual analysis of the national «health index,» the Fordham Institute for Innovation in Social Policy determined for the first time this year a «social - health index» for children and youths.

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The relationship between body mass index and health - related quality of life in urban disadvantaged children.

This study examined the strength of association of 8 social risk factors, both individually and as part of a cumulative social risk index, on parent - reported child health status.

In 2007, the Council of Australian Governments endorsed the Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) as a national progress measure of early childhood health and development.16 The AEDI is a population measure of children's development covering five developmental domains: physical health and well - being, social competence, emotional maturity, language and cognitive skills, and communication skills and general knowledge.

Mental health indicators include self - regulation (Difficult Child subscale of the Parenting Stress Index - Short form, see below) and sleep (Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire (BISQ), see below).

The study was powered to detect a change of 0.5 standard deviations (SDs) on one measure of mother — child interaction (the CARE Index) and one measure of maternal mental health (the General Health Questionnaire), allowing for a 25 % loss to follow - up and using 80 % health (the General Health Questionnaire), allowing for a 25 % loss to follow - up and using 80 % Health Questionnaire), allowing for a 25 % loss to follow - up and using 80 % power.

Health - related quality of life was assessed with the parent - completed Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL).24, 25 Parents also completed 36 - item Parenting Stress Index - Short Forms (PSI - SFs) to document change in 3 primary subscales (ie, difficult child, parent — child dysfunctional interaction, parental distress).26

Objective: To examine Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey items by sex and by total scores by sex vs clinical measures of impairment to examine the clinical utility of the ACE survey as an index of trauma in a child and adolescent mental health care setting.

(2) Indexes of child physical health at age 6 years (caregiver overall assessment of child health and reports of illness requiring medical attention).

Overall, the effects of family type and, more specifically, the psychosocial risks indexed by family type on children's health outcomes seem to be generalized rather than specific; however, there was variation in the effects of family type and specific and more proximal risk factors.

Ajdukovic and Ajdukovic's (1993) study of the influence of maternal mental health on children's stress reactions and stress indexes emphasised the emotional and behavioural state of mothers as major mediators between children's traumatic experience and psychological functioning.

Families who completed the follow - up questionnaires were representative of the baseline sample with respect to sex and temperament of children, maternal education and mental health, and household income and index of disadvantage score.

The index of information sheets will help you navigate our online resources to find information for families and educators covering a range of topics relevant to young children's mental health.

The index is completed by the child's teacher, based on a minimum of 1 month's knowledge of the child, and covers five developmental domains: physical health and well - being, social competence, emotional maturity, language and cognitive skills, and communication skills and general knowledge.

At baseline, behavioral signs of stress reactivity in children's peer entry behavior were significantly associated with parent ratings of child internalizing behavior (r = 0.37, P <.001), child dysregulation (r = 0.30, P =.004), and 2 different indices of disruptive behavior during parent - child play interactions (r = 0.45, P <.001; r = 0.35, P =.008).40 The peer entry procedure appears to be stressful in general and to elicit more signs of stress in children with mental health problems.

On Becoming Trauma - Informed: Role of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey in Tertiary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and the Association with Standard Measures of Impairment and Severity Abdul Rahman, MD, FRCPC; Andrea Perri, MSN; Avril Deegan, MSW; Jennifer Kuntz, MSW; David Cawthorpe, MSc, PhD To examine the clinical utility of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey as an index of trauma in a child and adolescent mental health care setting, descriptive, polychoric factor, and regression analyses were employed with cross-sectional ACE surveys (2833) and registration - linked data using past admissions (10,400) from November 2016 to March 2017 related to clinical Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and the Association with Standard Measures of Impairment and Severity Abdul Rahman, MD, FRCPC; Andrea Perri, MSN; Avril Deegan, MSW; Jennifer Kuntz, MSW; David Cawthorpe, MSc, PhD To examine the clinical utility of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey as an index of trauma in a child and adolescent mental health care setting, descriptive, polychoric factor, and regression analyses were employed with cross-sectional ACE surveys (2833) and registration - linked data using past admissions (10,400) from November 2016 to March 2017 related to clinicalHealth Services and the Association with Standard Measures of Impairment and Severity Abdul Rahman, MD, FRCPC; Andrea Perri, MSN; Avril Deegan, MSW; Jennifer Kuntz, MSW; David Cawthorpe, MSc, PhD To examine the clinical utility of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey as an index of trauma in a child and adolescent mental health care setting, descriptive, polychoric factor, and regression analyses were employed with cross-sectional ACE surveys (2833) and registration - linked data using past admissions (10,400) from November 2016 to March 2017 related to clinical child and adolescent mental health care setting, descriptive, polychoric factor, and regression analyses were employed with cross-sectional ACE surveys (2833) and registration - linked data using past admissions (10,400) from November 2016 to March 2017 related to clinicalhealth care setting, descriptive, polychoric factor, and regression analyses were employed with cross-sectional ACE surveys (2833) and registration - linked data using past admissions (10,400) from November 2016 to March 2017 related to clinical data.

The 2012 KIDS COUNT Data Book offers a sophisticated view of child well - being, swapping the report's standard 10 indicator analysis for an index of 16 indicators grouped into four domains: Health, Economic Well - Being, Education, and Family and Community.

Program results to be shared will be based on training data, referral data, enrollment rates, health records, parent child interaction measured by the PICCOLO, child development measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire, family development measured by the life skills progression and parental depression measured by the PHQ - 9 and Parental Stress Index.

The Authoritative Parenting Index: predicting health risk behaviors among children and adolescents.

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The indicators in our child welfare section of the Index of Race & Opportunity, chosen based on their ability to predict future health, success and overall well - being, as well as their proxy power — the indicators strength in representing the general direction and central importance of a variety of similar indicators, are:

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This year's book contains data in each of our five issues areas: health, education, economic stability, child welfare, and juvenile justice as well as population level demographics, an update to our Index of Race and Opportunity, and county - based indicators.

The findings showed that, in general, the higher the family adversity index score, the higher the prevalence of poor child health and health behaviours.

Figures 4 - A and 4 - B show the proportion of children in poor health and with poor health behaviours according to their grouping on the parenting skills index.

Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each ahealth workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each ahealth workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each aHealth Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57

However, the child's physical health (according to body mass index measures and parent reported general health) was not associated with fathers» supportiveness.

Low overall parenting skills as measured by the parenting index were associated with greater risk of a number of poorer health outcomes and health behaviours amongst children.

4.6 Associations between index of parenting skills and child health and health behaviours 4.6.1 Associations between parenting index health and behaviours after controlling for family influences 4.7 Summary

Figure 4 - B Percentage of children with poor health behaviours according to parenting skill index group

In this section, we consider the association between classification on the index of parenting skills (low, average or high) and child health and health behaviours.

Table 4.5 Associations between parenting index and child health and health behaviours after controlling for family influences