Sentences with phrase «girls at greater risk»

There's also often no street lighting, putting women and girls at greater risk of sexual attack if they need to go to the toilet at night.

Early puberty may put girls at greater risk for health problems later in life, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome and cancer.

They observed that «in many parts of the world» these stereotypes leave girls at greater risk of dropping out of school or suffering physical and sexual violence, child marriage, early pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

Not exact matches

Studies of girls as young as eight years old have determined that the influence of friends and peers, physiological and psychological transitions and negative advertising messages may put young women at greater risk.

In fact, they are likely at greater risk of damage — at least that's what we've learned from the standard childhood vaccinations, which negatively affect two to three times more boys than girls.

Girls who physically matured earlier than average, or boys who matured later than average, were at greater risk, just as they are today.

Family history, breech delivery, and being a girl put your baby at greater risk for hip dysplasia.

The researchers in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) study showed that student athletes who participate in girls soccer at schools without access to an athletic trainer are exposed to an 8 times greater injury rate for concussion, a 5.7 times greater risk of recurrent injury, and a 1.73 times greater overall injury rate.

Girls are at a greater risk than boys of being abused by a family member.

«Parents, educators, and clinicians should understand that girls» greater exposure to interpersonal stressors places them at risk for vulnerability to depression and ultimately, depression itself,» says Hamilton.

When Jaffee and colleagues analyzed the data, their results confirmed that girls who developed earlier were at a greater risk of dating abuse.

Richard Whitmire is a longtime education reporter and editorial writer who has chronicled a critical shift in the national education debate: While it was once presumed that girls were falling behind in school, now it appears that boys are at greater risk.

We can conclude that obese children are more likely to experience psychological or psychiatric problems than non-obese children, that girls are at greater risk than boys, and that risk of psychological morbidity increases with age.

Girls who bully are more likely than boys to be rejected by peers, putting them at even greater risk for chronic offending.94

Girls are at much greater risk for developing two types of adjustment problems or disorders: depression and eating problems.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, boys are at greater risk for increases in criminal propensities than girls.

Although girls with CP appear at greater risk than boys for presenting comorbid depression, empirical research on gender differences in these associations is even sparser.