Sentences with phrase «in socioeconomic disadvantage»

Children living in socioeconomic disadvantage are more likely to experience cognitive delays and emotional problems (Brooks - Gunn and Duncan, 1997), but the underlying causal pathways between disadvantage and developmental outcomes are not clear.

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Further, the M - % DI system was associated with a positive gradient between increasing socioeconomic disadvantage and comprehension of the labelling systems, whereas the TL labels resulted in equitable performance across SES groups.

For lower socioeconomic women and often black women, yes, a marriageable man is one who has a job, but drug use and trafficking, under - or unemployment, the high rates of men in jail and the higher mortality rates for black men in their community put them at marital disadvantage — there are fewer men in their dating pool (And as I addressed previously, strong black women are often seen as being a detriment to black men's masculinity.)

We heard from directors and managers working in districts of every size and socioeconomic makeup, and in schools large and small, disadvantaged and affluent we heard many of the same issues and concerns echoed.

The cohort has a high representation of women from disadvantaged and lower socioeconomic groups, who are of particular interest in the targeting of breastfeeding interventions.29, 30 We can not exclude residual confounding by factors that we were not able to account for within this observational study.

We examined whether mothers were more likely to start and continue to breastfeed if they delivered in a UNICEF UK Baby Friendly accredited maternity unit, in a cohort with a high representation of disadvantaged and lower socioeconomic groups with traditionally low rates of breastfeeding.

This is after taking account other important factors associated with poor child development such as socioeconomic disadvantage, lower maternal age, maternal smoking in pregnancy and fetal growth restriction.

I don't see a common benefit in creating additional hurdles to kids with socioeconomic disadvantage to begin with.

While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teacher performance only to student growth, not raw test scores, so as not to disadvantage teachers whose students hail from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds versus teachers in wealthy districts.

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

In the case of Hispanics in the U.S., low cigarette consumption seems powerful enough to counteract a slew of socioeconomic disadvantages that often result in poor health and early deatIn the case of Hispanics in the U.S., low cigarette consumption seems powerful enough to counteract a slew of socioeconomic disadvantages that often result in poor health and early deatin the U.S., low cigarette consumption seems powerful enough to counteract a slew of socioeconomic disadvantages that often result in poor health and early deatin poor health and early death.

«The fact that economic disadvantage is so often a part of the experience of minorities in the U.S. has made it difficult to estimate the relative effects of race and socioeconomic status on behaviors that impact health,» says Thorpe.

Similarly, disadvantaged students in advantaged schools are more than one year of schooling higher than those in average socioeconomic level schools.»

Disadvantaged students in average socioeconomic level schools, for example, are almost a year of schooling higher than those in disadvantDisadvantaged students in average socioeconomic level schools, for example, are almost a year of schooling higher than those in disadvantageddisadvantaged schools.

[3] I also calculate the percentage of students in all grades who were eligible for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program, an indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage.

The CPS students in the program were primarily from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds and minority groups; about 90 percent were black or Hispanic.

Some schools, especially in low socioeconomic areas, consider themselves «welfare» rather than «academic» schools and believe that the best thing they can do for their disadvantaged clientele is to teach them social and life skills, give them a grounding in the «basics» and make them feel better about themselves.

This indicates that while there are many reasons why school districts and states might want to seek to integrate relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students within the same school, it appears unlikely that a policy goal of reducing the test score gap between students in these groups will be realized through further socioeconomic integration (at least once there gets to be the degree of socioeconomic integration necessary to be part of this study to begin with).

In an «equitable» school system, students» special needs and unequal socioeconomic backgrounds are recognised and resources (for example, teaching expertise) are distributed unequally in an attempt to redress disadvantage due to personal and social circumstanceIn an «equitable» school system, students» special needs and unequal socioeconomic backgrounds are recognised and resources (for example, teaching expertise) are distributed unequally in an attempt to redress disadvantage due to personal and social circumstancein an attempt to redress disadvantage due to personal and social circumstances.

As shown in Figure 1, we find that students with socioeconomic disadvantages tend to have less of a growth mindset.

You wrote: «In an «equitable» school system, students» special needs and unequal socioeconomic backgrounds are recognised and resources (for example, teaching expertise) are distributed unequally in an attempt to redress disadvantage due to personal and social circumstanceIn an «equitable» school system, students» special needs and unequal socioeconomic backgrounds are recognised and resources (for example, teaching expertise) are distributed unequally in an attempt to redress disadvantage due to personal and social circumstancein an attempt to redress disadvantage due to personal and social circumstances.

Although between - school differences in student performance are closely associated with socioeconomic status in all OECD countries, some countries have been more successful than others in reducing the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage.

This standardization of early schooling happens most vigorously in places of socioeconomic disadvantage.

... the difference between advantaged students and disadvantaged students (those in the lowest quartile of socioeconomic background) is even larger: 90 score points on average across the OECD and 87 score points in Australia.

The PISA data indicate that the observed variation in the distribution of student characteristics across countries does not place the United States at a disadvantage in international assessments compared with other highly developed countries; students with high levels of socioeconomic status had an educational advantage over their low SES counterparts across all 20 countries, even after considering the differences in the percentage of students who are immigrants, from less - advantaged homes, non-native language speakers, and other factors.

Persistent gaps in education and health associated with socioeconomic disadvantage impose enormous burdens on individuals, communities, and societies worldwide.

While the overall U.S. performance fell far behind top performers, such as Singapore, Japan, and Canada, the United States made the biggest improvement in equity from 2006 to 2015, increasing its percentage of «resilient students» — defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status — by 12 percentage points, as shown in the below image from the report.

Specifically, the United States had the largest increase — 12 percentage points — in the percentage of «resilient» students, defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status.

At any point over at least the last 50 years, a synthesis of available empirical evidence would have suggested, quite unambiguously, that students having difficulty at school, especially those disadvantaged by their socioeconomic backgrounds, learn more when they are working in heterogeneous rather than in homogeneous ability groups (e.g., Oakes, 1985; Yonezawa, Wells, and Serna, 2002).

Major depression is common in people over the age of 50, particularly in those at socioeconomic disadvantage, or with poor physical health and previous depressive symptoms

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

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.

In the Indigenous cohort, maternal age at birth (< 20 years: OR = 1.45, 95 % CI 1.30 to 1.60), socioeconomic status (most disadvantaged 10 %: OR = 1.44, 95 % CI 1.24 to 1.67) and parity (three or more siblings: OR = 1.85, 95 % CI 1.64 to 2.08) were associated with increased odds of poor attendance.

Second, as the severity of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage, maltreatment, and social isolation increased, the number of age - related - disease risks at age 32 years also increased; that is, each adverse childhood experience independently predicted a greater number of age - related - disease risks at age 32 years in a dose - response fashion (Table 3, panel 2).

First, low SES in childhood is a recognized risk factor for age - related disease, such as cardiovascular disease.24 Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage predicts age - related - disease risks, such as elevated inflammation levels and the clustering of metabolic risk markers in adulthood.25 - 27 In contrast, the effect of low childhood SES on later depression risk is debated.28 Second, retrospective investigations and some prospective studies have shown that childhood maltreatment could contribute to age - related - disease riskin childhood is a recognized risk factor for age - related disease, such as cardiovascular disease.24 Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage predicts age - related - disease risks, such as elevated inflammation levels and the clustering of metabolic risk markers in adulthood.25 - 27 In contrast, the effect of low childhood SES on later depression risk is debated.28 Second, retrospective investigations and some prospective studies have shown that childhood maltreatment could contribute to age - related - disease riskin adulthood.25 - 27 In contrast, the effect of low childhood SES on later depression risk is debated.28 Second, retrospective investigations and some prospective studies have shown that childhood maltreatment could contribute to age - related - disease riskIn contrast, the effect of low childhood SES on later depression risk is debated.28 Second, retrospective investigations and some prospective studies have shown that childhood maltreatment could contribute to age - related - disease risks.

Children who had experienced socioeconomic disadvantage (incidence rate ratio, 1.89; 95 % confidence interval, 1.36 - 2.62), maltreatment (1.81; 1.38 - 2.38), or social isolation (1.87; 1.38 - 2.51) had elevated age - related - disease risks in adulthood.

This longitudinal - prospective study suggests that children experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage, maltreatment, or social isolation are more likely to present risk factors for age - related disease in adulthood, such as depression, inflammation, and the clustering of metabolic risk factors.

While early parenthood can pose many challenges for anyone, it is particularly problematic for early and chronic female offenders, who face increased risks of pregnancy complications, socioeconomic disadvantage, relationship violence, and compromised parenting skills.41 Several studies have linked a history of maternal conduct disorder with unresponsive parenting.42 Particularly troubling are data suggesting that mothers with a history of aggression or conduct disorder, or both, pass on at least three risk factors to their offspring: antisocial biological fathers (because of assortative mating), prenatal exposure to nicotine, and coercive (hostile) parenting style.43 The most common trajectories followed by female offenders tend to increase the odds that their children will follow in their footsteps.

Longitudinal associations of experiences of adversity and socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood with labour force participation and exit in later adulthood.

While the brain is most malleable in early childhood, it nonetheless retains a substantial degree of plasticity throughout the lifespan, and the extent to which the timing and duration of socioeconomic disadvantage are associated with brain structural differences is virtually unexplored in the neuroscience literature to date.

Associate Professor Barbara Nattabi from the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health in Western Australia said there are many factors behind those figures, including: socioeconomic disadvantage, a younger and more mobile population, and poor health literacy.

In addition, STIs (excepting syphilis and HIV) are not generally lethal and, furthermore, some will argue, STI levels will eventually reduce as socioeconomic disadvantage improves.

The detailed aspects of socioeconomic disadvantage controlled in the study explained much of the difference across groups.

Other factors associated with depression included financial stress and socioeconomic disadvantage, reflected in association between depression and educational qualifications and unemployment.

Treatment Outcome for Low Socioeconomic Status African American Families in Parent - Child Interaction Therapy: A Pilot Study Fernandez, Butler, & Eyberg (2011) Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 33 (1) View Abstract Presents research results on the efficacy of parent - child interaction therapy (PCIT) in 18 socioeconomically disadvantaged African - American families of children with disruptive behaviors.

«While Australia has adopted numerous policies aiming to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait socioeconomic disadvantage, the failure to incorporate self - determination and the right to participate in these is alarming,» she said.

For many students, the disadvantages that accompany low socioeconomic status (SES) result in their academic achievement not matching that of their higher - SES peers.

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 insocioeconomic 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 inSocioeconomic 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 area.57

It specifically examines socioeconomic (SES) differences in skills within a low SES community in order to investigate the role of relative disadvantage on children's development.

Predictors of treatment outcome in parent training: Mother insularity and socioeconomic disadvantage