Sentences with phrase «childhood living conditions»

Thus, the data set includes information on childhood living conditions for an entire century of Swedes.

The data set contains indicators on childhood living conditions for an entire century of Swedes, born 1892 — 1991.

To describe long - time change in childhood living conditions, and compare effects of parental divorce for birth cohorts wide apart, data must cover a long time - period, include identical measures over time, and samples must be drawn in an identical way (Amato 2001).

Not exact matches

Young children with vitamin A deficiency also have impaired immune systems, a condition which increases the risk of death from certain common childhood infections and claims the lives of 670,000 children each year who live in less developed countries.

4) Not only does breastfeeding offer health benefits while a child is actively being nursed, but studies show that it also provides long - term health benefits such as reduced chances of asthma, childhood leukemia, diabetes, gastroenteritis, otitis media (ear infections), LRTIs (pneumonia, bronchitis, etc), necrotizing enterocolitis, obesity, and other potentially life - altering or fatal conditions.

If such conditions and life events, known as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), are not attended to the developing brain can suffer actual damage.

Within the gift is a unique immunological mix designed just for that baby, and also with continued feeding comes protection against many childhood illness and chronic conditions in later life.

SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), Asthma, Childhood Leukemia, Diabetes, Gastroenteritis, Otitis Media (ear infections), LRTIs (pneumonia, bronchitis, etc), Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Obesity, and other potentially life - altering or fatal conditions...

Although findings are mixed regarding associations between breastfeeding and the development of asthma and atopic disease in childhood, exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life has multiple known benefits and remains the recommendation of ACOG for all women who do not have physical or medical conditions that prohibit breastfeeding.

In this short book, Tough takes a closer look at children who live in adverse conditions from early childhood through high school.

In addition, analyses on three conditions — cognitive ability, childhood obesity and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)-- indicate that modest improvements in breastfeeding rates could save millions of pounds and, in the case of SIDS, children's lives.

«Our findings related to the NS subtype may suggest that the recurrent infections to which children living in overcrowded conditions are likely to have been exposed stimulate their immune systems and hence protect them against developing this type of cancer later in their childhood and early adult life.

Published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, the research estimated that 3,418 babies suffered conditions linked to brain injury at or soon after birth in 2015, which equates to an overall incidence rate of 5.14 per 1,000 live births.

A «critical window» of brain plasticity explains why certain eye conditions such as lazy eye can be corrected during early childhood but not later in life.

Bone growth in the womb and in early infancy is linked to overall bone strength later in life, and weaker bones in infancy and childhood may predispose to conditions such as osteoporosis in older age.

What influences childhood development and what sets up the antecedent of disease and conditions later in life is still very much an open set of questions.

Asthma is the most common childhood medical condition, with rates 50 percent higher in families below the poverty line, who often live in run - down homes, than among kids in wealthier households.

Lee is particularly interested in brain development in youth with Down Syndrome, the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability (occurring in 1 in 700 live births), because there is surprisingly little known about childhood brain development in this condition.

The consequences are depicted in a new documentary, Fed Up, which follows a group of families battling to lead healthier lives — and reveals why the conventional wisdom of «exercise and eat right» is not ringing true for millions of people struggling with diabetes, childhood obesity and other serious conditions.

However, most of us are not really at fault, as the perceptual conditioning we receive and inherit mostly occurs during childhood and is carried for the rest of our lives.

While one person may progress through all three stages quite quickly, and develop a serious condition in childhood, another may go through the first two stages more slowly, and be diagnosed with a disease later in life.

So many adults spend their lives trying to undo the conditioning and programming they managed to download throughout their childhood.

Pediatric Naturopath Naturopathic pediatric care includes helping parents give their children the healthiest possible start in life, providing treatment to a myriad of childhood ailments and cure them before they can turn into chronic conditions.

His rigorous conditioning and perseverance as a track star, as well as his childhood of being bullied and ridiculed by his peers for being Italian, gave him the fortitude to go the distance during his days in World War II as an Air Force bombardier whose plane is shot down, forcing him and fellow soldiers to have to survive in a life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for weeks.

Early Childhood Education programs also offer psycho - social support to children suffering abuse, neglect and those traumatized by harsh living conditions or exposed to violence at home and community.

Inspired by the harsh landscape and living conditions of Colonia Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico City where houses were built on inhospitable land in ad hoc improvisations according to personal needs and economic resources, Cruzvillegas assembles sculptures and installations from found objects and disparate materials.

Life Stand Still Here is, in Soldi's words, «a tool to process personal trauma, immigration, childhood, recurring dreams, spirituality, and the human condition.»

It affirmed that health inequities are unacceptable, and noted that they arise from the societal conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, including early childhood development, education, economic status, employment and decent work, housing environment, and effective prevention and treatment of health problems.

In comparing the birth cohorts from 1958 and 1970 we investigate whether differences in the relationship between indicators of childhood disadvantage and development and adult health outcomes for these two cohorts are evidential, given the changes in health policy and provision and in social, demographic and economic conditions in Britain over the life course of these two birth cohorts.

Strong gradients of association between childhood socioeconomic conditions and adult health have been consistently observed in a number of British, and other, populations at various stages within their life course, with outcomes considered including all - cause mortality, general health measures and specific causes of mortality and morbidity.1 — 10 This study continues to provide clear evidence for association between childhood socioeconomic deprivation and adult general health and mental well - being, even considered within a broad context of child well - being including other aspects of family background, health and development.

Approximately 37 % of all children live in poverty for some period during their childhood.16 Children who are born into poverty and live persistently in poor conditions are at greatest risk of adverse outcomes.

Interventions targeting modifiable risk factors (eg, smoking, inactivity, and poor diet) in adult life have only limited efficacy in preventing age - related disease.3, 4 Because of the increasing recognition that preventable risk exposures in early life may contribute to pathophysiological processes leading to age - related disease, 5,6 the science of aging has turned to a life - course perspective.7, 8 Capitalizing on this perspective, this study tested the contribution of adverse psychosocial experiences in childhood to 3 adult conditions that are known to predict age - related diseases: depression, inflammation, and the clustering of metabolic risk markers, hereinafter referred to as age - related - disease risks.

A standard chronic conditions checklist assessed life - threatening physical illnesses in childhood.56

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

The most recent follow - up study reported associations between duration of breastfeeding and childhood cognitive ability and academic achievement extending from 8 to 18 years in a New Zealand cohort of 1000 children.19 This study found that these effects were significant after controlling for measures of social and family history, including maternal age, education, SES, marital status, smoking during pregnancy, family living conditions, and family income, and measures of perinatal factors, including gender, birth weight, child's estimated gestational age, and birth order in the family.

If such conditions and life events, known as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), are not attended to the developing brain can suffer actual damage.

The presence of adverse childhood experiences can lead to risky health behaviors, chronic health conditions, and low life potential or early death.

As we tracked the course of love found and lost in childhood, found and lost again as adults, our work became ever more clearly guided by one overarching principle: authentic connection — intimacy — is our natural state as human beings, the state we begin life in, the state we function best in, the condition we most crave, despite our wounds and defenses.

Specifically, the ACE Study model relies strongly on the idea that adverse childhood experiences create a burden of psychological stress that changes behavior, cognitions, emotions, and physical functions in ways that promote subsequent health problems and illness.22 Among the hypothesized pathways, adverse childhood experiences lead to depression and posttraumatic stress disorder, which in turn can lead to substance abuse, sleep disorders, inactivity, immunosuppression, inflammatory responses, and inconsistent health care use, possibly leading to other medical conditions later in life.23, 24 Therefore, childhood behavioral and emotional symptoms very likely represent a crucial mediator linking adverse childhood experiences and the longer term health - related problems found in the ACE substudies.

Although an obvious disadvantage is the inability to assess the long - term effects of childhood adversity on the negative life events and health conditions posited in the ACE Study model, examining more short - term effects in childhood is consistent with the logic of the model.

These results accord with previous research which has also often shown little importance of these childhood circumstances for adult living conditions.

Substantial evidence has documented the importance of a child's experiences in the first years of life, linking adverse experiences in childhood to later conditions in life, such as depression, health problems, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and delinquency [1 — 4].

In the parents of children with ASD group the inclusion criteria for the primary caregivers were as follows: (a) their child had a medical diagnosis of Asperger syndrome or childhood autism according to ICD - 10 [55] criteria; (b) their child had no intellectual disability; c) their child lived at home with them; (d) their child was between 5 and 17 years old; (e) their child attended a mainstream or inclusive school; (f) no concomitant conditions in children with ASD; (g) no developmental disorders or serious health problems in other children in the family; (h) the parents were partners and living together; (i) both of them completed the questionnaires; (j) both of them were biological parents of the child.