It is known that child health and
health behaviours vary according to socio - economic characteristics, with more disadvantaged groups experiencing poorer health.
Not exact matches
The findings demonstrate that mechanisms by which breastfeeding affect
health are extremely
varied, and this variation implies that different metrics of breastfeeding
behaviour must be utilised to truly understand the relationships of interest.
Feline experts in veterinary medicine,
behaviour and
health here at International Cat Care have put together a feeding plan for cats (the «Five - a-Day Felix» plan) which involves making a few simple changes to the way owners feed their cats: namely feeding cats little and often, using puzzle feeders,
varying the location in which a cat is fed, and feeding both during the day and the night.
Adolescents»
behaviour may
vary from one context to another, or from one interaction partner to another, and informants» reports may be affected by their own perspectives.13 Because there is no gold standard for psychiatric disorders, and reports from different informants tend to correlate only moderately, using information from multiple informants seems the best strategy to chart mental
health.14 Among other things, adherence to this first principle is expressed in the use of child (Youth Self - report; YSR), and parent (Child Behavior Checklist; CBCL) questionnaires on child / adolescent mental
health, which are part of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), 15,16 and the use of a teacher - report (Teacher Checklist of Psychopathology), which was developed for TRAILS on the basis of the Achenbach Teachers Report Form.17 It is also expressed in the use of peer nominations to assess adolescents» social status at school.
There was an overall increase in poor
behaviour with increasing adversity for these three
behaviours - that is, children with greater levels of adversity tended to report poorer
health behaviour - although the pattern of poor
health behaviours in relation to family adversity
varied according to the
behaviour.
This report explored whether parenting
behaviours also
varied according to family circumstances, and if so whether differences in parenting offer an explanation for social inequalities in
health.
GUS research findings to date have accumulated evidence of socio - economic inequalities in child
health and
health behaviours, together with some evidence that parenting
varies by socio - economic status, for example in relation to diet and exercise at sweep 3 (Marryat et al. 2009).