Sentences with phrase «experience high levels of poverty»

Nevertheless, these informal kinship carers and the children they look after, remain an overlooked group who experience high levels of poverty and disadvantage with little or no statutory support.

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The high levels of childhood abuse, homelessness, drug use and poverty experienced by those involved strongly suggests that survival is the overriding motivating factor.

As I note in this article, people who grow up in poverty experience high levels of stress, and may therefore be at high risk of developing stress - related diseases, atherosclerosis, autoimmune disorders, and cancer.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries.

In addition, the variance of our value - added measure is significantly higher within higher - poverty schools than in lower - poverty schools, even after we control for the experience level and other observable characteristics of teachers within each school, which supports the second prediction.

The first is the quality of teachers: Research shows that the country's best and most experienced teachers are more likely to work in schools with low levels of poverty.49 On the other hand, new and inexperienced teachers disproportionately work in high - poverty school settings.

Larger schools with high - poverty student populations are most likely to experience limited leadership — even when we control for the effects of school level and urbanicity.

These teacher felt that due to the high poverty level in the school, many of the students had few opportunities to experience the world.

Another study of low - performing, high poverty schools, shows that years of teaching experience at the 2nd grade level was associated with higher reading achievement, for up to 20 years.

But in my experience, a modicum of education is possible in almost any situation, and surely we could be providing a much higher quality of education than only 1 in 10 low - income kids graduating from college, and most kids in high poverty schools graduating high school reading on an eighth grade level.

The report, «Double Jeopardy: How Poverty & Third - Grade Reading Skills Influence High School Graduation,» breaks down for the first time the likelihood of graduation by different reading skill levels and poverty experPoverty & Third - Grade Reading Skills Influence High School Graduation,» breaks down for the first time the likelihood of graduation by different reading skill levels and poverty experpoverty experiences.

Families in which the mother developed a persistent limiting health problem were more likely to subsequently have a high level of home chaos, live in income poverty, experience poor maternal mental health and high conflict in the parent - child relationship.

Adolescence is an important decade in a child's development, marking the period of transition from childhood to adulthood.7 Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable group, experiencing a third of all new HIV infections worldwide, 8 high levels of violence, lower school attendance and enrolment than primary schoolchildren, early marriage and higher levels9 of sexual abuse victimisation.10 Furthermore, adolescence is a time where the intergenerational transmission of poverty, violence victimisation and perpetration, gender inequalities and educational disadvantage manifest themselves.9

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

Growing up in an environment that exposes young children to high levels of sustained stress, such as households experiencing poverty or violence, can impair vital early development and have a lasting effect throughout a child's life.

For women of color, a demographic that experiences high poverty levels, these circumstances take on an ever deeper significance.