Sentences with phrase «cultural factors affect»

Recent studies have examined how cultural factors affect family and sibling relationships and adjustment to disability, and how siblings participate in the care of children with a variety of chronic illnesses such as asthma, diabetes, and GI disorders.

Dr. Katz would like to see future studies dealing with children's encounters with clinicians following abuse and how cultural factors affect children's responses to abuse.

The institutional dimension of culturally responsive pedagogy emphasizes the need for reform of the cultural factors affecting the organization of schools, school policies and procedures (including allocation of funds and resources), and community involvement.

Not exact matches

Well, research indicates that certain environmental and cultural factors within a company could affect employees» (and an entrepreneur's) sleep, for better or worse.

Choonsung Shin, a Korean technology researcher who has examined problematic smartphone usage in both Korea and the U.S., says cultural differences could affect smartphone addiction rates, but he notes that factors such as a person's age, gender and occupation are also likely to play a role.

This book is a brilliant analysis of the complex issues which affect breastfeeding, and crucially considers cultural factors.

Additional research is needed on the familial and environmental influences, including cultural and transgenerational factors, that affect the development of healthy eating patterns.

While a strong Scottish identity has certainly helped maintain a global community which identifies with Scotland — and helped Scotland pack an impressive cultural punch around the world — it is just one of many factors that may affect its immigration or emigration flows.

They said: «It makes clear that approaches to drugs legislation and enforcement of drugs possession are only one element of a complex set of factors that affect drugs use, including prevention, treatment and wider social and cultural factors.»

Even small projects with other countries contribute important information on how genetic backgrounds and cultural factors such as diet affect cancer development, he adds.

This report closely inspects the cultural, economic, political, and other factors affecting the scientific and technological potential of Brazil, China, India, Japan, Russia, and Singapore, all of which «either have undergone or are undergoing remarkable growth in their S&T capabilities.»

«I have already ensured that the issues surrounding CIHR and its reforms will be considered by the panel, and I look forward to their advice,» wrote Philpott, who also noted that «I expect CIHR to ensure that the very best health research across all pillars [biomedical; clinical; health systems and services; and social cultural, environmental factors that affect the health of populations] is funded according to the highest international standards of research excellence.»

It includes an overview of African Americans» burden of cardiovascular disease; how traditional risk factors and adverse health behaviors affect the disparities between African Americans and whites; a discussion of the genetic and biological factors that might contribute to cardiovascular disease in African Americans; and medical treatments and the social, cultural and environmental factors that influence prevention and disease management in African Americans.

Researchers monitored a range of biological and cultural factors, showing how they affected human wellbeing and the life - supporting properties of the biosphere.

The report focuses on three factors affecting the structure of dating and relationships: demographic projections (including life expectancy, population, ethnography, health), social projections (including marriage rates, alternative relationships, religious / cultural shifts) and technological shifts (rate of technological change, effects on labour market, emerging technologies).

Economic, cultural, and demographic factors are all known to affect those outcomes, as are a panoply of educational policies besides school choice, such as curriculum, testing, staffing, discipline, etc..

A key challenge in drawing lessons from foreign studies is that there are many economic and cultural factors that also affect student achievement, besides the design of the school system itself.

Describe the key dimensions of a positive school culture and climate, and how school and district factors, including safety, discipline, and cultural diversity affect a school's culture and climate.

Several factors will affect the trend including lifestyles and social changes, political events, travel, art, social media, music and cultural and global events.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary.

Dr Marlene Kong, from UNSW's Kirby Institute, told delegates that Aboriginal people were disproportionately affected by social, economic and environmental factors, with some 70 percent of the determinants out of their control, and access a growing issue due to escalating costs of living and time poverty, cultural incompetence and racism.

We do not know the extent to which cultural factors could affect the willingness of respondents to either admit or recall the presence of symptoms during their lifetime or whether the more generic problem of impaired memory recall could affect subgroups of the sample differentially.

She collaborates with Debra Lobato, PhD, and Barbara Kao, PhD, on projects examining factors (including family and cultural variables) affecting sibling functioning, as well as how siblings influence and support family management of childhood disease.

Describe the key dimensions of a positive school culture and climate, and how school and district factors, including safety, discipline, and cultural diversity affect a school's culture and climate.

Bryan strives to view the client from a holistic perspective i.e. he understands that we are all spiritual, physical, social, emotional and vocational beings who are affected and influenced by family, social, economic, cultural and historical factors.

Factors such as physical attractiveness, cultural traits, and disabilities affect the level of peer acceptance, with a child's degr...

Factors such as physical attractiveness, cultural traits, and disabilities affect the level of peer acceptance, with a child's degree of social competence being the best predictor of peer acceptance.

This could explain in part, the incongruence of feeling and acting of the rational animal hindered by external factors, such as, biological, behavioral and cultural indoctrination, that puts him in an abyss of contrasts that affect directly its behavior and its social interaction as well.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary

The major findings of the study were as follows: concerning factors affecting marital adjustment, the husbands were better adjusted when they had fewer children, when they had a more efficient communication with their wives, when they made more efforts to convey Korean Culture to their wives, and when they suffered less stress due to cultural adjustment.