Sentences with phrase «health of disadvantaged children»

«For years in public health we have been working on immunizations and other medical interventions to set the course for the health of disadvantaged children, and we have turned the tide,» says the study's lead author Allison Barlow, MPH, PhD, associate director of the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Not exact matches

Several reviews have concluded that home visiting can be an effective strategy to improve the health and developmental outcomes of children from socially disadvantaged families.2 - 4 However, effects have not been found consistently and some studies have reported no impact.

Concern for the health and well - being of young children, particularly children from low ‑ income, socially disadvantaged families, has resulted in the exploration of alternative approaches to delivering services to young families.

Policy - makers and planners can greatly assist the improved nutritional health of women and children by supporting the development of evidence - based dietary guidelines and effective prevention and intervention services, especially for socio - economically disadvantaged families.

Education and health The «pupil premium» was one of the areas of agreement David Cameron flagged up in his initial speech offering talks with the Lib Dems last Friday, and under it schools will receive extra funding for teaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

«We can predict this quite well, beginning at age 3 by assessing a child's history of disadvantage, and particularly their brain health,» Caspi said.

«By improving the health and well - being of socially disadvantaged women you may help to improve the health and well - being of their children and therefore society overall.»

Vast inequities within and between countries mean that the poorest, most disadvantaged women, children, and adolescents often miss out on life - saving health services and experience serious violations of their human rights.

«Given the limited accessibility of traditional mental health services for children — particularly for children from minority and economically disadvantaged backgrounds — school - based mental health services are a tremendous vehicle for overcoming barriers to mental health care and meaningfully expanding the reach of supports and services for so many children in need.

Dr Rebecca Lacey, Research Associate in the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and lead author of the study, said: «Our study suggests that it is not parental divorce or separation per se which increases the risk of later inflammation but that it is other social disadvantages, such as how well the child does in education, which are triggered by having experienced parental divorce which are important.»

This family of artisans streamlines their profits back into their communities through donations to an organization that grants health care and schooling to disadvantaged Brazilian children.

Each year from July 2016, around $ 10 million is available to integrate early childhood, maternal and child health, and family support services with schools in a selected number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities experiencing disadvantage.

This «schooling without learning» is a wasted opportunity, the report argues — widening social gaps for already disadvantaged children, for whom the promise of education was meant to offer much greater access to good jobs, higher wages, better health, and lifelong security.

The challenge before us is to understand why and how disadvantaged environments lead to impaired learning, poor health, and maladaptive behavior, and to use that knowledge to increase the probability of more positive outcomes for all children.

The overarching goal of this effort is to leverage new knowledge in the service of generating and testing innovative intervention models to produce substantially greater impacts on learning, behavior, and health outcomes than existing programs and policies, particularly for the most disadvantaged children and families.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

The Forum declared that Education for All must take account of the needs of the poor and the disadvantaged, including working children, remote rural dwellers and nomads, ethnic and linguistic minorities, children, young people and adults affected by HIV and AIDS, hunger and poor health, and those with disabilities or special needs.

The idea that disadvantaged children struggle to learn because of poor executive brain function involving memory, thinking flexibility, and behavioral issues related to autism and other attention disorders has long been lamented by social workers and health advocates.

«There are also serious concerns that removing local authorities from the planning of education across an area could further disadvantage children who are already vulnerable because they have special educational needs, mental health problems or are at risk of missing education,» it said.

However, the approach they take is to holistically address the manifold disadvantages low - income children face: hunger, physical and mental health issues, and lack of safe spaces to play and learn while not in school.

The idea that disadvantaged children struggle to learn because of poor executive brain function involving memory, thinking flexibility, and behavioral issues related to autism and other attention disorders has long been lamented by social workers and health advocates.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

Professor Heckman has proven that investing in the early childhood development of disadvantaged children will produce great returns to individuals and society in better education, health, economic and social outcomes — not only saving taxpayers money but increasing our nation's economic productivity.

The relationship between body mass index and health - related quality of life in urban disadvantaged children.

There are other ways in which children may be disadvantaged, for example as a result of a disability, literacy difficulties, ill health, poverty etc..

These new findings on health intensify the already high value of quality early childhood development for disadvantaged children — and should be put to use to shape more effective state and national policies.

Look to build a scaffolding of support around disadvantaged children: parental education, nutrition, early learning and early health.

The primary goal of this study is to integrate measures of childhood family disadvantage — socioeconomic deprivation, family disruption, housing tenure and parental interest in education — and measures of child development — birth weight, health, cognition and behaviour — such that the relative indications of each net of the others may be explored.

This study aims to identify modifiable (potentially amenable to change through policy) community - level factors that influence children's health and developmental outcomes in the 25 areas of high and low disadvantage across Australia.

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful expechildren were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful expechildren.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful expeChildren's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiHealth demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experihealth outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experihealth.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

In 1986, Olds et al published the results of a rigorous trial showing that nurse home visitation extending from pregnancy to the child's second birthday can produce positive effects on maternal and child health among disadvantaged families.1, 2 The study was conducted in a semirural area and involved predominantly white women.

It's clear that he hasn't taken the advice of his special Aboriginal Advisory Committee, because if he had, at least one of the members, Professor Ngiare Brown, a highly respected expert in Aboriginal child health with many years experience of working as a doctor in remote locations, would have most definitely advised him that these budgetary measures would increase the disadvantage gap well into the next generation and beyond.

Although the results from the present study may not be conclusive on whether children who participate in ECE have better learning outcomes due to lack of robust longitudinal support, it is undeniable that stimulation of child characteristics that are targeted to reduce educational inequalities at school entry between advantaged and disadvantaged children represents a critical foundation in reducing the economic, health, and social burdens associated with poverty.

Several reviews have concluded that home visiting can be an effective strategy to improve the health and developmental outcomes of children from socially disadvantaged families.2 - 4 However, effects have not been found consistently and some studies have reported no impact.

While children from CALD communities can have high levels of resilience and resourcefulness, recent research shows that they also face disadvantage in health, education and access to social opportunities (1).

Parenting skills and a variety of family risk factors are influenced by the effects of disadvantage, meaning that Indigenous children are more likely to miss out on the crucial early childhood development opportunities that are required for positive social, educational, health and employment outcomes later in life.

Families who completed the follow - up questionnaires were representative of the baseline sample with respect to sex and temperament of children, maternal education and mental health, and household income and index of disadvantage score.

These developments accentuate the need to monitor the well - being of the most disadvantaged children, but income inequality also has far - reaching consequences for society, harming educational attainment, key health outcomes and even economic growth.

Association between children's experience of socioeconomic disadvantage and adult health: a life - course study

WAVE Trust has been working in partnership with the Department of Health (DH) in order to identify the conditions required for successful implementation of a preventive and integrated approach to early child development and disadvantage.

The children of teen parents are more likely than children of older mothers to have health and cognitive disadvantages, to be abused, neglected, and / or placed in foster care.

Children's health is the foundation of their overall development, and ensuring that they are born healthy is the first step toward increasing the life chances of disadvantaged cChildren's health is the foundation of their overall development, and ensuring that they are born healthy is the first step toward increasing the life chances of disadvantaged childrenchildren.

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11

• to describe the lives of children in Ireland, in order to establish what is typical and normal as well as what is atypical and problematic; • to chart the development of children over time, in order to examine the progress and wellbeing of children at critical periods from birth to adulthood; • to identify the key factors that, independently of others, most help or hinder children's development; • to establish the effects of early childhood experiences on later life; • to map dimensions of variation in children's lives; • to identify the persistent adverse effects that lead to social disadvantage and exclusion, educational difficulties, ill health and deprivation; • to obtain children's views and opinions on their lives; • to provide a bank of data on the whole child; and to provide evidence for the creation of effective and responsive policies and services for children and families; • to provide evidence for the creation of effective and responsive policies and services for children and families.

Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each ahealth workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each ahealth workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each aHealth Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57

The fact that infant and child mortality rates - sensitive indicators of the effects of poverty on health - are low on a world scale might be thought to exonerate poverty as a cause of the health disadvantage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people.

Using more than 35 years of data on the Perry Preschool program, Professor James Heckman has shown that quality early childhood education programs for disadvantaged children can dramatically improve outcomes in education, employment and health.

Disadvantaged children who receive quality early childhood development have much better education, employment, social and health outcomes as adults, the vast majority of research shows.

This form of comprehensive early childhood development provides children and their families with the resources for early nurturing, learning experiences and physical health that lead to future success, breaking the cycle of disadvantage.

Recent research by Professor Heckman and colleagues has shown dramatic long - term health effects of early interventions for disadvantaged children that incorporate early education, nutrition and health.